{"id":493,"date":"2005-05-01T21:46:55","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T02:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=493"},"modified":"2005-05-02T21:16:13","modified_gmt":"2005-05-03T02:16:13","slug":"did-that-happen-in-the-spirit-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/did-that-happen-in-the-spirit-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Did that happen in the Spirit World?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I was standing geekily against the wall at a writers&#8217; party listening. Two writers were talking. There was an intense discussion about the fate of a character who had had some fantastic experiences that made the Spiderman biography seem uncontrived. Then one asked the other, the other being mystery writer Michael Malone, &#8220;but did that happen in the Spirit World?&#8221;<br \/>\nYes, these were\/are writers of soap operas. And yes part of what they were discussing took place in the Spirit World. A place about which I am woefully uninformed.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.januarymagazine.com\/profiles\/mmalone.html\">Michael Malone<\/a> has a rich Spirit World life as well as lives in other Worlds. One of his soap opera characters, <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/daytime\/onelifetolive\/characters\/61981_1.html\">Marcie Walsh<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/05\/01\/magazine\/01CONSUMED.html?\">&#8220;One Life to Live,&#8221;<\/a> has written a murder mystery (with Malone) called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1401301568\/\">&#8220;The Killing Club.&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nFirst, &#8220;One Life to Live&#8221; isn&#8217;t exactly true as the New York Times Magazine explains, &#8220;she had picked up a rare disease after being thrown into a Dumpster (long story) and given it to her boyfriend, who died.&#8221; But then we learn about &#8220;her new boyfriend (who is actually her old boyfriend&#8217;s soul in a different man &#8212; long story).&#8221;<br \/>\nNo matter, her book has become a plot device as well as a product and I hope a book worthy of joining <a href=\"http:\/\/annex.ncwc.edu\/humanities\/english\/Malone.htm\">Michael Malone<\/a>&#8216;s other wonderful and fun work on my shelf.<br \/>\nToday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/05\/01\/magazine\/01CONSUMED.html?\">NY Times Magazine, quoted in part above, has a good article on the artifice behind the creation of the book\/event\/plot device.<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Bonus connection:<\/strong> Michael Malone&#8217;s home is on property ajoining Saint Matthews Church in Hillsborough. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I was standing geekily against the wall at a writers&#8217; party listening. Two writers were talking. There was an intense discussion about the fate of a character who had had some fantastic experiences that made the Spiderman biography seem uncontrived. Then one asked the other, the other being mystery writer Michael Malone, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","category-literature","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","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=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}