{"id":166,"date":"2008-09-26T21:02:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T21:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2008-09-26T21:06:33","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T21:06:33","slug":"tangents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"tangents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All these disparate things I&#8217;ve been mulling over this year are coming together, which is amazing, but overwhelming. I&#8217;m at this interesting place of not wanting to romanticize or pathologize what makes me tick, so to speak, and I hope I can stay in this place for a while. There is huge potential for learning. There is the real possibility of adaptation. And now I&#8217;m thinking of the tragedy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sandman_(Vertigo)\">Sandman<\/a>. I know none of this sounds very concrete, but it&#8217;s complex and would require so many blog entries and footnotes that I would become sick of myself.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still thinking about David Foster Wallace.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve listened to some audio and watched this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlierose.com\/shows\/1997\/03\/27\/2\/an-interview-with-david-foster-wallace\">interview<\/a> with Charlie Rose. I wish I would have seen him read. I actually wish I could talk to him, silly as that sounds.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Obama kicks McCain&#8217;s ass tonight. I&#8217;m soooo sick of this. Seriously, the idea that John McCain and Sarah Palin could be running our country. What a fucking nightmare. What&#8217;s the difference between Sarah Palin and a moron? Lipstick, right.\u00a0 Except hot morons where lipstick and Palin&#8217;s not really that hot, at least not to me. And the moron math gets all screwy when you think that Sarah Palin actually said this in an interview with CNBC&#8217;s Kudlow &amp; Co. <em>As for that VP talk all the time, I&#8217;ll tell you, I still can&#8217;t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All these disparate things I&#8217;ve been mulling over this year are coming together, which is amazing, but overwhelming. I&#8217;m at this interesting place of not wanting to romanticize or pathologize what makes me tick, so to speak, and I hope I can stay in this place for a while. There is huge potential for learning. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}