{"id":201,"date":"2000-07-18T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-07-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/07\/18\/this_that_other\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T15:55:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T20:55:40","slug":"this_that_other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/07\/18\/this_that_other\/","title":{"rendered":"This, That, Other Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oh god, it\u2019s happening again.<\/strong> I\u2019ll warn you all right now \u2014 you won\u2019t be hearing much from me for a while. This is not a vacation from dealing with the website, this is just a hunch that I\u2019m going to be sitting in my uncomfortable deskchair sweating bullets for a few days while I try to crank out a few projects before deadline. Here\u2019s a few topics for you to mull over and e-mail me about in the meanwhile:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I suspected that <i><a href=\"www.xmenthemovie.com\">X-Men<\/a><\/i> wasn\u2019t really that good a movie, but I was so pleased that didn\u2019t fuck it up as much as they could that I wound up really enjoying it. Plus, they got Wolverine right, which was the most important thing in the movie. How much, though, did you have to choke back YOUR nerdy instincts because of the ways they played fast and loose with the continuity of the comic book? (For example, why were Iceman and Jubilee students at the same time in the movie? Why, the very idea&#8230;!)<\/li>\n<li>New York may not be the best city in the world in everyone&#8217;s eyes, but it has its perks. I was riding the Metro in Washington, D.C., yesterday morning, and everyone just looked so boring. Hardly anyone cute or funky or insane in sight. What fun is that?<\/li>\n<li>Is it the jinx effect that\u2019s making my life so aggravating right now?<\/li>\n<li>I caught about ten minutes of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/city\/\">Sex in the City<\/a><\/i> this weekend, a sequence in which Miranda and her impossibly sexy (because of the dork factor that I love so much) boyfriend and she were talking about the number of sexual partners they had. that\u2019s always a thorny issue to bring up with people you date, isn\u2019t it? I always worry that if I tell I may come across as a total trashcan, or some prude who\u2019s passed up even more opportunities than I took. Not that I worry so much about what people think on this issue, but I have my own conflicted notions about whether or not I\u2019ve been too free-wheeling over the last few years. Sometimes I think I have, but more often than that I just regret all the chances I\u2019ve passed up over the years because I was feeling too prudish or too unattractive or too shy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh god, it\u2019s happening again. I\u2019ll warn you all right now \u2014 you won\u2019t be hearing much from me for a while. This is not a vacation from dealing with the website, this is just a hunch that I\u2019m going to be sitting in my uncomfortable deskchair sweating bullets for a few days while I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/07\/18\/this_that_other\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This, That, Other Things&#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":[13,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracomics","category-ultracultural","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","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=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76889,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/76889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}