{"id":426,"date":"2004-12-14T21:00:37","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T02:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=426"},"modified":"2005-12-08T17:52:16","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T22:52:16","slug":"update-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/update-5","title":{"rendered":"Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My workload&#8217;s reached the level of near-impossbility, so blogging&#8217;s going to be pretty light.<\/p>\n<p>Two observations, while I take a break this evening:<\/p>\n<p>A) Prince sure was a blistering guitarist back in the &#8217;80s. Showtime West is playing the concert flick for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/6300987590\/voyantpublishing\" target=\"_blank\">Sign o&#8217; the Times<\/a>, so I got to see the live version of <em>I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man<\/em> for the first time in around 17 years. I can&#8217;t believe this flick isn&#8217;t on DVD, since I actually am capable of watching concert movies at home (all-time fave: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B000021Y7X\/voyantpublishing\" target=\"_blank\">Stop Making Sense<\/a>, current fave: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00004YZGT\/voyantpublishing\" target=\"_blank\">Everything Everything<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>B) Embarrassingly enough, I buy groceries at a place that sells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tofurky.com\/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My workload&#8217;s reached the level of near-impossbility, so blogging&#8217;s going to be pretty light. Two observations, while I take a break this evening: A) Prince sure was a blistering guitarist back in the &#8217;80s. Showtime West is playing the concert flick for Sign o&#8217; the Times, so I got to see the live version of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/update-5\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-6S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":718,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/get-your-flick-on","url_meta":{"origin":426,"position":0},"title":"Get Your Flick On","author":"Gil","date":"November 23, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Figured out Flickr this morning, and posted a bunch of pix from that Madrid trip. 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