{"id":219,"date":"2004-11-05T12:16:20","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T17:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=219"},"modified":"2004-11-05T12:16:20","modified_gmt":"2004-11-05T17:16:20","slug":"new-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"New direction?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been semi-depressed since the election, for obvious reasons. A showing of Shaun of the Dead<\/i>* and getting into the final stress test for World of Warcraft have both helped, but what helped most were these words from Mitch Hedberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Every McDonald’s ad ends the same way: ‘Prices and participation may vary.’ I want to open a McDonald’s and not participate in *shit.* I want to be a stubborn McDonald’s owner. It’d be like, ‘Cheeseburgers? Nope. We got spaghetti…and blankets.'”<\/p>\n

For a moment there, I was thinking since my brain is a warehouse of tiny comic bits like that (I’ve been called Xerox on occasion), that maybe I should turn this blog into a pile of those things and get them out of my head. I’m waffling on it now. How much different would it be than a music blog? Not much, sez I.<\/p>\n

* – FYI, Shaun of the Dead<\/i> is hilarious, but it is an actual zombie movie, with gore and dramatic deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been semi-depressed since the election, for obvious reasons. A showing of Shaun of the Dead* and getting into the final stress test for World of Warcraft have both helped, but what helped most were these words from Mitch Hedberg: “Every McDonald’s ad ends the same way: ‘Prices and participation may vary.’ I want to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73iP8-3x","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":208,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=208","url_meta":{"origin":219,"position":0},"title":"Stop, stop, stop.","date":"10\/18\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"What's great about Crossfire is that they're grilling Jon Stewart for not asking hard-hitting questions on his comedy show, and then trying to downplay his opinions by saying he's not funny on that \"debate\" show. 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