{"id":1937,"date":"2010-01-14T22:52:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T06:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2010-01-14T23:03:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T07:03:36","slug":"in-which-scrolling-through-google-reader-gives-me-a-mild-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2010\/01\/14\/in-which-scrolling-through-google-reader-gives-me-a-mild-heart-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"In which scrolling through Google Reader gives me a mild heart attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rian Johnson is posting like twenty pictures a day to the just-created <a href=\"http:\/\/brickmovie.tumblr.com\/\">Brick tumblr<\/a>, for some reason.  Happily, today he included <a href=\"http:\/\/brickmovie.tumblr.com\/post\/334762290\/artwork-by-brendan\">this DVD-cover fan art<\/a> that I did back in 2005.  I always meant to clean that up and redo it; I had a couple other ideas for doing similar treatments of different scenes, but I don&#8217;t remember what they were now.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about Brick a lot the last couple of days, actually, because it&#8217;s occurred to me that I have pretty simple tastes in terms of plot.  Give me any of the following and I will squeal with delight (double points for setting it in high school):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emotionally crippled badass tries to get to the bottom of things (Brick, Neuromancer, Veronica Mars)<\/li>\n<li>Young woman comes into her own and learns how dangerous she can be (Howl&#8217;s Moving Castle, The Privilege of the Sword, Bone, everything by Robin McKinley)<\/li>\n<li>Tenuous network of friends and lovers collapses under the simple pressure of human desire (Lovebot Conquers All, Battlestar Galactica, Magic for Beginners)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, of course, the latter is why I love Scott Pilgrim.  Take away the video-game trappings and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultraculture.co.uk\/1802-that-scott-pilgrim-photo-from-yesterday.htm\" title=\"COME ON!\">fight scenes<\/a> and the hipster music references and the fourth-wall humor and&#8230;  okay, don&#8217;t take any of those, they&#8217;re great.  But the real reason I have such an aching priapism for those comics (which I didn&#8217;t pick up until 2008!  GAH) is the way O&#8217;Malley spends so much care and attention setting up what we in the Indie RPG Club call a relationship map.  He gets you to like everybody in it, gives them each their own petty little wants, and then lets them tear each other apart.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I would know anything about what that&#8217;s like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rian Johnson is posting like twenty pictures a day to the just-created Brick tumblr, for some reason. Happily, today he included this DVD-cover fan art that I did back in 2005. I always meant to clean that up and redo it; I had a couple other ideas for doing similar treatments of different scenes, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,21,14,118,13,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angst","category-brick","category-conspirators","category-fame","category-nostalgia","category-obsessions","category-toons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}