{"id":10476,"date":"2007-03-26T18:15:20","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T22:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/03\/26\/10476.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:56:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:56:24","slug":"book-report-what-i-did-on-my-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/03\/26\/book-report-what-i-did-on-my-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: What I did on my Hypergalactic Interstellar Summer Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gentle Readers will remember that the Tohu Bohu Code of Ethics prevent my saying anything much about a book written by a personal friend other than to speculate about the chances that said book will make said friend Rich and Famous, enough to lend me money and not ask me to repay it.\n<p>You know, ethics.\n<p>Anyway, I doubt that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionopolis.com\/index.php?blog=15\">What I did on my Hypergalactic Interstellar Summer Vacation<\/a> will increase Adam Beechen&#8217;s fame and fortune much, particularly as he is now famous for being the head writer on Teen Titans. Also, if you Google for [&#8220;smash hit&#8221; hypergalactic] mostly you get splogs. Could be a Nickelodeon movie, but probably not a big screen dollarfest. Ah, well. My old school buddy has plenty of other irons in the fire, particularly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dccomics.com\/comics\/?cm=7327\">becoming the head writer for Teen Titans<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=beechen+Cassandra\">running from an angry mob<\/a>.\n<p>In other news from the buddies-from-my-teenage-years front, Gentle Reader parodist and necktie-wearer Francis Heaney came in third at the <a href=\"http:\/\/crosswordtournament.com\/\">American Crossword Puzzle Tournament<\/a>, which undoubtedly will lead to exactly as much fame and fortune as you would expect. Actually, when you think about it, Francis has achieved remarkable success at just exactly those things that will never result in his having a ridiculous amount of money. I mean, yes, write a musical and get it produced off-off-Broadway. Write a very funny book and get it published. Make the finals of the Crossword Puzzle tournament. Win the big MIT Puzzle. I mean, yes, it makes Your Humble Blogger&#8217;s accomplishments look like crap, but what about <I>cashing in<\/I>? At least there&#8217;s a good chance that someday there will be a really bad movie made that will make Adam a bunch of money.\n<p>Well, I suppose that having lots of cool accomplishments might someday lead to Francis introducing me to some friend with lucrative selling-out in his future. Kind of a long shot, though.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gentle Readers will remember that the Tohu Bohu Code of Ethics prevent my saying anything much about a book written by a personal friend other than to speculate about the chances that said book will make said friend Rich and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17989,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10476\/revisions\/17989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}