{"id":1779,"date":"2009-02-03T19:17:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T19:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/03\/random_wonderfu\/"},"modified":"2009-02-03T19:17:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T19:17:28","slug":"random_wonderfu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/03\/random_wonderfu\/","title":{"rendered":"Random wonderful things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019ve been bedridden for days,<\/strong> so my already active trawling of the web has really gone off the charts. Here are a few gems that I feel compelled to share:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacesick.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/i-can-read-movies-series.html\" >The &#8220;I Can Read Movies&#8221; Series<\/a>: these imaginary paperback novelizations of hit movies are so beautiful and mid-century perfect they bring a tear to my eye.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blambot.com\/grammar.shtml\" >Comics Grammar &amp; Tradition<\/a>: I moan about some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/archives\/2006\/01\/typovillains.html\">typographic conventions<\/a> in comics, but I can at least acknowledge that many of them are at least reliable conventions. Here&#8217;s a good guide to what they are.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beta.paulsboutique.beastieboys.com\"><i>Paul&#8217;s Boutique<\/i>, remastered<\/a>: The Beastie Boys finally re-release one of my <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul%27s_Boutique\" >all-time favorite records<\/a>, one that completely blew me away from the first instant I heard it. The <a href=\"http:\/\/beta.paulsboutique.beastieboys.com\" >accompanying site<\/a> is Flash-heavy, but filled with good stuff, including a free commentary track of the B-Boys telling stories about the tracks as the entire record plays.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/feb\/02\/skydiving-soldier-instructor-heart-attack\" >Chip Steele, R.I.P.<\/a>: Chip Steele has been a bit of legend to me for a long-time, ever since my pal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/fishheadned\/\" >Dave<\/a> went sky-diving with him. If you&#8217;re going to jump from a plane, you want a man named Chip Steele strapped to your back! Unfortunately, Steele had a fatal mid-air heart attack while giving a lesson to a young Army private, soon after uttering these now-immortal words: &#8220;Welcome to my world.&#8221; Pvt. Pharr then landed himself safely, but was unable to revive Steele. If I have ever heard a good premise for a bro-mantic action movie, this is it.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been bedridden for days, so my already active trawling of the web has really gone off the charts. Here are a few gems that I feel compelled to share: The &#8220;I Can Read Movies&#8221; Series: these imaginary paperback novelizations of hit movies are so beautiful and mid-century perfect they bring a tear to my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/03\/random_wonderfu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Random wonderful things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracomics","category-ultracultural","category-ultranerdy","category-ultrarandom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","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=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}