{"id":7757,"date":"2009-05-21T20:13:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T03:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7757"},"modified":"2009-05-21T20:13:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T03:32:59","slug":"open-thread-stand-by-me-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7757","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: Stand By Me edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Post what you like, about what you like, with who you like, including whatever links you like. (Self-link love is welcome too).<\/p>\n<p>Sorry I haven&#8217;t been blogging much lately &#8212; a combination of a lot of work on the Hereville graphic novel, combined with some non-serious but tedious health problems, have been keeping me away.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>This video is super-cool, featuring a collaboration of a variety of musicians (mostly street musicians, from the looks of it) and some film and sound editors. Thanks to Bean for showing it to me.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cI_0Hyn57Lk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cI_0Hyn57Lk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/hoodedutilitarian.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/golden-age-gallery-horrific-heck.html\">Don Heck once did really cool-looking horror work<\/a>, reminding me a bit of Charles Burns&#8217; work. This may not be interesting to most readers, but when I first got into reading comics Don Heck was the epitome of &#8220;mediocre hack,&#8221; so seeing that his work once had a spark is surprising.<\/p>\n<p>Also, read the &#8220;user reviews&#8221; of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Three-T-Shirt-Available-Various-Sizes\/product-reviews\/B000NZW3IY\">t-shirt on Amazon<\/a>. (Thanks, Mandolin.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post what you like, about what you like, with who you like, including whatever links you like. (Self-link love is welcome too). Sorry I haven&#8217;t been blogging much lately &#8212; a combination of a lot of work on the Hereville &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7757\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}