{"id":5438,"date":"2010-12-20T22:43:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T03:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5438"},"modified":"2010-12-20T22:43:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T03:43:39","slug":"a-vacationary-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5438","title":{"rendered":"A vacationary tale"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I spent the day hanging around the house, in part waiting for a UPS delivery that didn’t show up until almost 8 p.m. And then, when it did show up, I had to do some quick work to keep it hidden, so as not to spoil a Christmas surprise.<\/p>\n

But that’s okay, I had the day off, and it’s unlikely I would have done a whole lot more with it if I wasn’t expecting the delivery. I spent the doing a little reading, refilling the bird feeders in the yard, and watching Exit Through the Gift Shop<\/a>, a fascinating documentary…or art project…or hoax. I think I agree with Roger Ebert<\/a> on the question of the film’s authenticity: if it’s a hoax, it’s a ridiculously elaborate one, even by Banksy<\/a>‘s standards, and to what end?<\/p>\n

Last night, I watched a very different movie, the Canadian horror film Pontypool<\/a>. As I wrote on Twitter directly afterward, the movie takes a weird and very<\/i> unexpected turn maybe midway through, but I liked it a whole lot. It’s quite creepy and perfectly claustrophobic. I’m looking forward to listening to the radio drama<\/a>, which was apparently commissioned at the same time, and maybe the original novel. (Though I’m seeing some suggestion the book is the second<\/i> in a loose trilogy.) The movie was equal parts terrifying, thought-provoking, and strange — all things Canadian to a T.<\/p>\n

But I kid!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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