{"id":90,"date":"2004-04-02T12:55:29","date_gmt":"2004-04-02T16:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=90"},"modified":"2004-04-02T12:55:29","modified_gmt":"2004-04-02T16:55:29","slug":"illusions-of-allusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Illusions of allusions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that the majority of the entires I&#8217;ve written recently have related in some way or another to comics.  Strangely, though, I own less than twenty of the things.<\/p>\n<p>I like many of the characters and the stories that these modern dramatists create, but I shun the collecting aspect of the hobby.  I can remember almost all of the operatic sagas of my favorite characters even just hearing them from friends. And, not to cast aspersions on those talented illustrators and writers, my imagination tends to fill in the gaps of my need for heroism.<\/p>\n<p>Which comics could I not live without? I&#8217;m glad you asked. These links were just hanging out with nothing to do and I told them they could be all hover pseudoelemented under this paragraph.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.clickandcarry.com\/detail.cfm?cid=1.791\">The Maxx<\/a>, issues 1-4.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newenglandcomics.com\/cgi-bin\/shop\/search.cgi?user_id=21195&#038;database=tick.csv&#038;template=details.htm&#038;0_option=1&#038;0=NSP01840\">The Tick<\/a>, issues 1-12.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grovel.org.uk\/reviews\/sandma05\/sandma05.htm\">The Sandman: Game of You.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that the majority of the entires I&#8217;ve written recently have related in some way or another to comics. Strangely, though, I own less than twenty of the things. I like many of the characters and the stories that these modern dramatists create, but I shun the collecting aspect of the hobby. I can [&hellip;]<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73iP8-1s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":390,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=390","url_meta":{"origin":90,"position":0},"title":"More Moore, please.","date":"9\/6\/2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I've recently discovered, through my friend Andy, a couple of \"comics\" that I would rate among the greatest books in our modern literature. 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Catwoman, the holy pillar of sexy superheroines, now needs to bare her midriff and show some cleavage to pass the Hollywoody test? Jesus, have you seen Lee Meriweather? That catsuit put a lot of men my age\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ennui&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":341,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=341","url_meta":{"origin":90,"position":4},"title":"Conversations which confuse the Buddha.","date":"6\/28\/2005","format":false,"excerpt":"INTERIOR OFFICE Cast of Characters Co-worker - a new HR intern taken on for the summer. Me - a workhorse known for being sometimes a bear, but recently has been overly kind to everyone to compensate. SCENE 1 Co-worker (jokingly, from behind me): What's your deal, dude? 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