{"id":6564,"date":"2011-05-09T18:30:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T22:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6564"},"modified":"2011-05-08T20:31:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T00:31:25","slug":"monday-various-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6564","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lucylou.livejournal.com\/593585.html\">The first four <i>Harry Potter<\/i> books condensed<\/a>. Lovely. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/lectio\" title=\"@lectio\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carnivaloftherandom.tumblr.com\/post\/5176156404\/geeks-girls-and-media-misogyny-the-saga-continues\">Geeks, Girls, and Media Misogyny: The Saga Continues<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>I can accept that questioning a actor or actress about their geek bona fides when part of their job involves selling their project to the public, including the geeky public, and especially when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a geeky project may <i>seem<\/i> like a good idea, except for one thing: it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <i>only<\/i> women whose geek cred is called into question, time and again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If nothing else, arguing that sexy women can&#8217;t be geeks seems to be forgetting one simple thing: smart, geeky women <i>are<\/i> sexy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/writersandkitties.tumblr.com\/\">Writers and Kitties<\/a>. Does exactly what it says on the cat food tin. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zefrank.com\/zesblog\/\" title=\"Ze Frank\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>I think what I like most about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/08\/books\/review\/selling-books-by-day-writing-them-by-night.html?_r=3&#038;pagewanted=1\">this article<\/a> from the <i>New York Times<\/i> about booksellers who are also authors is this revelation from author Jonathan Lethem:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have the habit of accumulation,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When I first met my wife, my kitchen cabinets were full of books.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/health-fitness\/news\/what-nutritionists-eat\">seriously <i>Marie Claire<\/i><\/a>? Seriously, &#8220;nutritionists&#8221;? Easily the most ridiculous is the woman who skips lunch and then eats an entire box of macaroons for dessert at night. There&#8217;s a lot of calorie counting going on in almost all of these, but very little healthy eating. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/Jocelyn_\" title=\"@Jocelyn_\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first four Harry Potter books condensed. Lovely. [via] Geeks, Girls, and Media Misogyny: The Saga Continues: I can accept that questioning a actor or actress about their geek bona fides when part of their job involves selling their project to the public, including the geeky public, and especially when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a geeky project may &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6564\">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":[19,16,85,21,126,84,30,9,10,111],"class_list":["post-6564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art","tag-books","tag-cats","tag-food","tag-geeky","tag-gender","tag-photos","tag-pop-culture","tag-various","tag-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6564"}],"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=6564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}