{"id":6286,"date":"2011-03-28T18:30:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T22:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6286"},"modified":"2011-03-28T22:46:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T02:46:50","slug":"monday-various-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6286","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-india-elephant-dung-20110303,0,6032801,full.story\">Indian entrepreneur turns pachyderm poop into paper<\/a>. Yeah, I think I&#8217;ll probably stick to my Moleskines. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/rogerebert\" title=\"@rogerebert\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Gosh, Mark Twain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2011\/03\/vilest-book-that-exists-in-print.html\">really didn&#8217;t like<\/a> Ambrose Bierce&#8217;s  <i>Nuggets and Dust Panned Out in California<\/i>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;for every laugh that is in his book there are five blushes, ten shudders and a vomit. The laugh is too expensive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Call me crazy, though, but now I sort of want to read it.<\/li>\n<li>Why is Warren Beatty <i>so<\/i> determined to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/warren-beatty-wins-dick-tracy-hearing-still-underg,53691\/?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=feeds&#038;utm_source=channel_film\">hold on to the rights to <i>Dick Tracy<\/i><\/a>, even if he&#8217;s never going to do anything with them?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/brokensecrets.com\/2011\/03\/07\/blue-eyes-are-not-actually-blue\/#\">Blue eyes are not actually blue<\/a>? A little weirded out by the idea what I actually have are transparent eyes. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, Ray Bradbury: prune salesman. No, seriously [<a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/theinferior4\/\" title=\"theinferior4+1\">via<\/a>]:\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A5NxG_rr5aU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian entrepreneur turns pachyderm poop into paper. Yeah, I think I&#8217;ll probably stick to my Moleskines. [via] Gosh, Mark Twain really didn&#8217;t like Ambrose Bierce&#8217;s Nuggets and Dust Panned Out in California: &#8230;for every laugh that is in his book there are five blushes, ten shudders and a vomit. The laugh is too expensive. Call &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6286\">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":[40,71,146,83,109,14,38,10,142,39,111],"class_list":["post-6286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-advertising","tag-bradbury","tag-consumerism","tag-legal","tag-letters","tag-movies","tag-science","tag-various","tag-video","tag-weird","tag-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286"}],"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=6286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}