{"id":6310,"date":"2011-03-31T18:30:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T22:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6310"},"modified":"2011-03-31T15:51:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T19:51:44","slug":"thursday-various-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6310","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The other night, I was watching <i>Jeopardy<\/i>, as I am wont to do, and was deeply saddened when none of the three contestants knew Terry Gilliam&#8217;s film <i>Time Bandits<\/i>. Now comes the even sadder news that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/time-bandits-may-be-remade-as-a-more-kidfriendly-a,53922\/?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=feeds&#038;utm_source=channel_film\">the film might be re-made<\/a>. Seriously?<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of re-makes, I never thought I&#8217;d say something like this, but <a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2011\/03\/new-full-length-trailer-exposes-mtvs-gritty-sexy-teen-wolf.php\">this trailer for MTV&#8217;s new <i>Teen Wolf<\/i><\/a> makes me miss the Michael J. Fox version. (I was eight when I saw that film in theaters, though, so I already have way too fond feelings for it.) I was more forgiving of this version when I realized it&#8217;s meant to be an on-going television series, rather than a movie, but it seems like such tired, <i>Twilight<\/i>y territory, and surely there were better titles for it.<\/li>\n<li>A helpful reminder that, when the dictionary adds new words, even slang words, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2011\/03\/omg-lol-dictionaries-are-funny.html\">it is not the end of the world<\/a>. (It&#8217;s actually probably a good thing. You know, because that&#8217;s what dictionaries are <i>for<\/i>.) [<a href=\"http:\/\/bookslut.com\/blog\" title=\"Bookslut\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2011\/03\/pictures\/110303-zombie-ants-fungus-new-species-fungi-bugs-science-brazil\/#\/zombie-fungus-infects-insects-mind-control-ant-infected_32848_600x450.jpg\">&#8220;Zombie&#8221; Ants Found With New Mind-Control Fungi<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, because I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve been wondering: just how <i>does<\/i> Aquaman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politedissent.com\/archives\/7150\">build his own x-ray machine<\/a>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other night, I was watching Jeopardy, as I am wont to do, and was deeply saddened when none of the three contestants knew Terry Gilliam&#8217;s film Time Bandits. Now comes the even sadder news that the film might be re-made. Seriously? Speaking of re-makes, I never thought I&#8217;d say something like this, but this &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6310\">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":[20,64,14,38,17,10,39],"class_list":["post-6310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-comics","tag-language","tag-movies","tag-science","tag-tv","tag-various","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310"}],"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=6310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}