{"id":173127,"date":"2023-07-01T14:31:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T19:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=173127"},"modified":"2023-07-01T23:52:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T04:52:46","slug":"chickens-st-bernards-banjos-and-bagpipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/chickens-st-bernards-banjos-and-bagpipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Chickens, dogs, banjos and bagpipes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alan Arkin died a few days ago. You can find plenty of encomiums to this unique, legendary, etc. artist online<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>. Back in 1958, long before Peter Falk yelled “Serpentine” at him, he wrote a minor classic science fiction story, “People Soup.”<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> You can read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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There’s an exhibition of Komar & Melamid’s art<\/a> in New Jersey. I’d like to see it, but it’s a bit far to pedal. I wrote briefly about the duo here<\/a>. The New Criterion<\/em> article, worth reading though it is, omits one noteworthy project of theirs, a collaboration with composer David Soldier to produce examples of the “most wanted” and “least wanted” pieces of music<\/a>. The “most wanted” song is inevitably drivel that not even Vernon Reid’s guitar can redeem, but people do like drivel, as I constantly rediscover. The “least wanted” song, however, is simultaneously wonderful and horrible and is worth hearing all the way though at least once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alan Arkin died a few days ago. You can find plenty of encomiums to this unique, legendary, etc. artist online. Back in 1958, long before Peter Falk yelled “Serpentine” at him, he wrote a minor classic science fiction story, “People Soup.” You can read it here. *** There’s an exhibition of Komar & Melamid’s art … Continue reading “Chickens, dogs, banjos and bagpipes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[645,13,16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dead-people","category-humor-and-horror","category-music","category-sf-and-beyond"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-J2n","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173127"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173171,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173127\/revisions\/173171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}