{"id":102,"date":"2000-02-13T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-02-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/02\/13\/teeny_tiny_town\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T15:48:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:48:04","slug":"teeny_tiny_town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/02\/13\/teeny_tiny_town\/","title":{"rendered":"Teeny Tiny Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s a big city, but also a tiny town.<\/strong> I haven&#8217;t felt coincidence closing in on me like this since I lived in Boston. It&#8217;s been quite a weekend for kookiness in that regard. At least one of those wacky coincidences was fortunate, but I\u2019m gonna keep my mouth shut and my fingers crossed about that one. I believe in the &#8220;jinx effect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I figured I might find myself a little embarrassed after posting the &#8220;Cute Web Boys&#8221; list, but strangely enough it hit me from left field, rather than from the li&#8217;l cutie I expected to bring it on. I guess this is all part and parcel of being a big dork.<\/p>\n<p>Not much going on, otherwise. Saw <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scream3.com\">Scream 3<\/a><\/i>, which was mostly OK. I had forgotten, though, how much I love <a href=\"http:\/\/thicksauce.com\/parkerposey\">Parker Posey<\/a>. she is soooooooooo brilliant in her own kooky, scene-stealing way.<\/p>\n<p>The new movie theaters in this town are starting to spiral out of control. They&#8217;re becoming so large and surreal and disorienting. We saw the movie at the new Loews &#8220;E Walk&#8221; megaplex in the &#8220;New&#8221; Times square. Talk about the fucking mall-ification of New York! This was like an indoor version of the Universal studios Theme Park or something. The scale is just big, like you&#8217;re an ant in someone&#8217;s house, not big and grand and breathtaking, like Grand Central Station. It&#8217;s really icky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a big city, but also a tiny town. I haven&#8217;t felt coincidence closing in on me like this since I lived in Boston. It&#8217;s been quite a weekend for kookiness in that regard. At least one of those wacky coincidences was fortunate, but I\u2019m gonna keep my mouth shut and my fingers crossed about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/02\/13\/teeny_tiny_town\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teeny Tiny Town&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77378,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/77378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}