{"id":717,"date":"2004-09-06T11:55:46","date_gmt":"2004-09-06T16:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2004\/09\/06\/717\/"},"modified":"2004-09-06T11:55:46","modified_gmt":"2004-09-06T16:55:46","slug":"717","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2004\/09\/06\/717\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernhumorauthority.com\/\" title=\"&quot;Like an Andalusian housepet, we focus our scalpel's edge on the blinding white line left by pop culture's lune-litten cloud.&quot;  These people are insane.\">Modern Humor Authority<\/a> posted a second issue, which I guess  means they really do intend to have a web presence.  It&#8217;s still weird to me to think that Kris Straub <a href=\"http:\/\/checkerboardnightmare.com\/d\/20020327.html\" title=\"&quot;Oh.  But where does the scheme come in?&quot; &quot;I can't just TELL you.&quot;\">didn&#8217;t invent<\/a> MHA and its frontman&#8211;or rather, that they&#8217;re based on a real human and his magazine, instead of Scott McCloud and his <i><span title=\"French for &quot;wanger.&quot;\">ouevre.<\/span><\/i>  But that&#8217;s the way it is.<\/p>\n<p>MHA itself is pretty obviously ripe for ridicule (read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernhumorauthority.com\/critique.shtml\" title=\"&quot;Selling more than just my art on the streets of Prague, making geegaws and cheap forks in a Glaswegian sweatshop. The lime factories of Provence where I lost good friends; and the remembrance of fingers bleeding as I drew at gunpoint for a devil-worshipper in Oslo.&quot;\">AppleGeeks review<\/a> and see for yourself), but they seem to tolerate it well, since they knew about the Checkerboard Nightmare parody and still stayed in contact with Kris.  That&#8217;s the impression I got, anyway.  It kind of makes me want to put together some kind of parody ezine, like a massive satire of <i>all<\/i> review publications, but I don&#8217;t know.  That kind of thing is getting a little played out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Modern Humor Authority posted a second issue, which I guess means they really do intend to have a web presence. It&#8217;s still weird to me to think that Kris Straub didn&#8217;t invent MHA and its frontman&#8211;or rather, that they&#8217;re based on a real human and his magazine, instead of Scott McCloud and his ouevre. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discoveries","category-kristofer-straub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}