{"id":8219,"date":"2012-02-01T18:30:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T23:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8219"},"modified":"2012-02-01T12:16:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T17:16:38","slug":"wednesday-various-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8219","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/01\/27\/10251568-student-receives-free-cocaine-with-amazon-textbook-order\">tudent receives free cocaine with Amazon textbook order<\/a>. Is this where we&#8217;ve going wrong with our textbook sales? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/DoctorHu\" title=\"@DoctorHu\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/01\/09\/400023\/bcs-taxes-part-1\/\">How College Football Bowls Earn Millions In Profits But Pay Almost Nothing In Taxes<\/a>. Are you ready for some economic disparity?! [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/lookout\/texas-americans-live-wrong-side-border-fence-christmas-183312787.html\">The Texans who live on the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcMexican side\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of the border fence: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTechnically, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in the United States\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li> Roger Ebert on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20111228\/COMMENTARY\/111229973\/-1\/RSS\">why movie revenue is dropping<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>The message I get is that Americans love the movies as much as ever. It&#8217;s the theaters that are losing their charm. Proof: theaters thrive that police their audiences, show a variety of titles and emphasize value-added features. The rest of the industry can&#8217;t depend forever on blockbusters to bail it out. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>And finally, Scott Tobias on why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/accept-the-mystery-notes-on-a-quietly-great-year-f,66874\/?\">2011 was secretly a really good year for movies<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean to be bullying or schoolmarmish about it, only to point out that when great films get pushed to the margins in our technology-rich times, far more than just a handful of self-selecting New Yorkers have a chance to see them. The key is to not let awards-season hype color your perception. We consider 2007 a monumental year because its strongest achievements\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmovies like <i>There Will Be Blood<\/i>, <i>No Country For Old Men<\/i>, and <i>Zodiac<\/i>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhappened to have healthy budgets and the backing of major studios. Compare that to a 2011 where a pleasant-but-disposable trifle like <i>The Artist<\/i> is leading the charge, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s little wonder that perception marks it as a weak year. (<i>The Tree Of Life<\/i> may be the only 2011 film high in both ambition and visibility, and will almost certainly top every critics\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 poll as a result.) But for the adventurous\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand again, you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to venture off the couch to be among them\u00e2\u20ac\u201d2011 was an embarrassment of riches, full of lively, diverse, form-busting visions across all genres and around the world. And the best of them ask something of the viewer, offering rewards in exchange for an active engagement. Just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect all the question marks to turn into exclamation points: To quote some advice to Michael Stuhlbarg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spiritual seeker in <i>A Serious Man<\/i>, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Accept the mystery.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tudent receives free cocaine with Amazon textbook order. Is this where we&#8217;ve going wrong with our textbook sales? [via] How College Football Bowls Earn Millions In Profits But Pay Almost Nothing In Taxes. Are you ready for some economic disparity?! [via] The Texans who live on the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcMexican side\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of the border fence: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTechnically, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8219\">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":[67,16,123,137,60,14,37,6,61,10,39],"class_list":["post-8219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-america","tag-books","tag-drugs","tag-immigration","tag-money","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-sports","tag-various","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219"}],"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=8219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}