{"id":1534,"date":"2003-10-31T00:52:38","date_gmt":"2003-10-31T08:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/10\/31\/1534.html"},"modified":"2003-10-31T00:52:38","modified_gmt":"2003-10-31T08:52:38","slug":"quick-items-before-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/10\/31\/quick-items-before-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick items before sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some assorted items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mark Morford of SF Gate lambasts Mattel for not going far enough with <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2003\/10\/29\/notes102903.DTL\">Barbie the Hot Pagan Witch<\/a> (thanks to supergee)&#8212;actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.target.com\/gp\/detail.html\/sr=8-1\/qid=1067359718\/ref=sr_8_1\/602-7229345-3156641?asin=B0000BVLNT\">Secret Spells Barbie<\/a>.  And don't forget <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbiecollectibles.com\/showcase\/product.asp?type=&subtype=&product_id=1003255\">Princess of Cambodia Barbie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbiecollectibles.com\/showcase\/product.asp?product_id=1001838&series_id=150063\">Barbie in King Kong<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbiecollectibles.com\/showcase\/product.asp?product_id=150303&series_id=150063\">Star Trek Barbie<\/a>, and kinky <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbiecollectibles.com\/showcase\/product.asp?type=&subtype=&product_id=1003251\">Catwoman Barbie<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>Kids reading the latest Harry Potter book are apparently being struck down by \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2003\/10\/31\/wpott31.xml&sSheet=\/news\/2003\/10\/31\/ixworld.html\">Hogwarts headaches<\/a>.\"  \"The obvious cure&#8212;taking a break from reading&#8212;was rejected by two of the three patients.\"<\/li>\n<li>Nice piece at boston.com on \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/ae\/books\/articles\/2003\/09\/28\/john_sladek_the_high_priest_of_something_else_boston_globe\/\">John Sladek, the high priest of something else<\/a>,\" by James Sallis.  I first encountered Sladek's books in high school, right around the time I was discovering Disch, and I'm not sure I ever fully recovered. (Link via SF Crowsnest.)<\/li>\n<li>Also via SF Crowsnest: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/2003\/News\/09_Tachyon.html\">Norton Awards<\/a> for \"extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason,\" sponsored by Tachyon Publications.  (Not to be confused with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notfrisco.com\/prizes\/\">Norton Prizes<\/a> for websites or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.molossia.org\/nortonawards.html\">Norton Awards<\/a> for micronational excellence.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some assorted items: Mark Morford of SF Gate lambasts Mattel for not going far enough with Barbie the Hot Pagan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}