I try not to read blogs (unless you count a few online journals of friends of mine), because (like MUSHes and newsgroups) they would take up every moment of my time if I let them, but sometimes I can't resist. And sometimes when I do peek at them, I come across some pretty cool stuff.<\/p>\n
Case in point: Charlie Stross is not only an excellent sf writer, he's also a blogger. A recent posting discusses a new art form called Dictionaraoke<\/a>, in which musicians take the instrumental tracks of pop songs and add, in place of a human singer, recordings of the words as pronounced in various online dictionaries. The results are mixed, but I ditto Stross's recommendation of their rendition of the Buggles' \"Video Killed the Radio Star<\/a>\"—I don't like this version as much as I like the original, but I like it a lot more than the version that appeared in The Wedding Singer<\/cite> (no, I didn't see the movie, but I've heard the song). I also kinda like the version of John Denver's \"Take Me Home, Country Road<\/a>\" with an \"All Your Base Are Belong to Us\" vocal overlay.<\/p>\n Stross also features an interesting commentary on the possible future of the U.S.<\/a> Among other things. Like a bunch of his published fiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I try not to read blogs (unless you count a few online journals of friends of mine), because (like MUSHes…<\/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-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","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=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}