{"id":429,"date":"2004-04-02T20:30:25","date_gmt":"2004-04-02T20:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=429"},"modified":"2004-04-02T20:30:25","modified_gmt":"2004-04-02T20:30:25","slug":"broken_engageme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Broken Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m supposed to go to my district convention tomorrow. I should have considered the timing a little further before volunteering because I’m not quite back to full speed yet. It’s funny how I was humming along on all cylinders in Miami and now I feel like simply sitting on my ass all day. Er, I guess I do that anyway, but you know what I mean.
\nDoes the FCC really have nothing better to do than watch soaps and gripe about too many people taking their shirts off<\/a>? Does this fear of a little bare flesh make sense in a world where every newspaper and news broadcast is plastered with images of charred bodies dangling from a bridge? A recent episode of South Park did a hilarious job of deconstructing the sex\/violence dichotomy in American culture. I won’t summarize the plot except to say it’s the one where the kids get their hands on some way cool samurai weapons. The episode also does a great riff on Japanese anime.
\nThink I’ll go see Hellboy tomorrow. Elvis Mitchell in the NYT gave it a glowing review<\/a>, which kind of surprised me. I’ve never read the comic, so I have no fanboy expectations going in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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