{"id":5870,"date":"2011-01-22T22:37:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T03:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5870"},"modified":"2011-01-22T22:37:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T03:37:25","slug":"very-well-ill-pause-for-thirty-seconds-while-you-cook-up-your-alibis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5870","title":{"rendered":"“Very well, I’ll pause for thirty seconds while you cook up your alibis.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I had a pretty nice day. I spent a good deal of it reading, finishing both Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers<\/i> and David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp<\/i>, a couple of recent graphic novels I picked up at the local library this morning. I enjoyed them both, although I think I’m perhaps a little glad<\/i> that Spiegelman’s (nevertheless wonderfully drawn) book about fall of the Twin Towers feels just slightly dated. And I did some writing — or maybe I should more accurately call it transcribing, piecing together a story I found in an old notebook, which I’d given up, at least temporarily, for lost. I’m not sure exactly why it stalled out on me the first time — my natural proclivity to let<\/i> stories stall out on me, perhaps — but I like it, and I think I’d like to see where it’s headed.<\/p>\n

After dinner this evening, I watched Green for Danger<\/a>, a delightful British murder mystery from 1946 set in a World War II hospital. Honestly, how can you not<\/i> like a movie with exchanges like this?<\/p>\n

Barnes: I gave nitrous oxide at first, to get him under.<\/p>\n

Cockrill: Oh yes, stuff the dentist gives you, hmmm — commonly known as “laughing gas.”<\/p>\n

Barnes: Used to be — actually the impurities cause the laughs.<\/p>\n

Cockrill: Oh, just the same as in our music halls. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a pretty nice day. I spent a good deal of it reading, finishing both Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers and David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp, a couple of recent graphic novels I picked up at the local library this morning. I enjoyed them both, although I think I’m perhaps a little … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67,16,20,14,28,12],"class_list":["post-5870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-america","tag-books","tag-comics","tag-movies","tag-personal","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}