{"id":1089,"date":"2006-03-08T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2006-03-08T22:32:01","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T03:32:01","slug":"bbc-on-blooker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/bbc-on-blooker\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC on Blooker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Am talking with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/pressoffice\/biographies\/biogs\/radiofivelive\/rhod_sharp.shtml\">Rhod Sharp<\/a> instead of Chris Vallance. I&#8217;m in DC which makes reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/134883\"><em>Dada Alphabet<\/em> subtitled <em>An Absurdist Illustrated Primer<\/em><\/a> extremely appropriate. Rhod asks about Cheeseburger Brown whose book, <a href=\"http:\/\/simonofspace.blogspot.com\/\">Simon of Space<\/a>, didn&#8217;t make the shortlist. I am sad that Cheeseburger and Mimi Smartypants didn&#8217;t make the cut. He is excited by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0007213786\/russelldavies-20\/202-0353301-9219815\">Egg Bacon Chips and Beans<\/a>. We get off track when I mention that the Beans should be replaced by Grits. He is down on grits not having had them properly prepared. I say Grits are polenta before the Italians got hold of them. He&#8217;s only had soupy white grits, poor fellow. Back to Blooker. I mention several food related blooks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twbookmark.com\/books\/71\/031610969X\/\">Julie and Julia<\/a>, EBCandB, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0865715416\/sr=8-1\/qid=1141410222\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/104-3839373-1879108?%5Fencoding=UTF8\">Biodiesel Power<\/a>. He asks if the blooks have been edited. Most have that I&#8217;ve read so far. There are a couple of daunting fatties there tho. Unmemorable chatter and we&#8217;re done. Be back in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am talking with Rhod Sharp instead of Chris Vallance. I&#8217;m in DC which makes reading the Dada Alphabet subtitled An Absurdist Illustrated Primer extremely appropriate. Rhod asks about Cheeseburger Brown whose book, Simon of Space, didn&#8217;t make the shortlist. I am sad that Cheeseburger and Mimi Smartypants didn&#8217;t make the cut. He is excited by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-literature","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}