{"id":491,"date":"2003-11-07T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-08T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/491"},"modified":"2003-11-07T22:49:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-08T02:49:00","slug":"this-is-where-the-evening-goes-downhill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/491","title":{"rendered":"This Is Where The Evening Goes Downhill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was just too damn cold to go browse at the convention tonight, so I opted instead to stay inside with Wesley and Ed and watch a DVD. <\/p>\n<p>It seemed like a great idea at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Ever seen &#8220;The Lady and the Highwayman&#8221; starring Hugh Grant? Hugh is maybe eighteen, sporting a wicked mullet and a nice teen &#8216;stash. The movie is based on a Barbara Cartland novel. Easily the worst thing I&#8217;ve seen all year. Hilarious. But also very romantic. Sadly, I missed a lot of dialogue, due to Ed alternately crying and hitting me in the leg with a wooden stick. He&#8217;s promised to retaliate with &#8220;The Core&#8221;. Now there&#8217;s an evening where a lot of alcohol will be paying a visit to the scenic locale known as my liver.<\/p>\n<p>Very excited about my inking master class on Sunday. Slightly apprehensive about the howls of derisive laughter sure to ensue as soon as I set ink to paper, but what the hell. Those same fears didn&#8217;t stop me from getting nekkid at 3am on a hot August night and jumping in the fetid Parisienne Seine, screaming &#8220;Bain oui! C&#8217;est comme plonger dans une toilette! Je suis le plus chouette morceau de trash!&#8221;, did they? Then again, maybe they should have&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Never mind. Off to Olivia&#8217;s house to see her new digs and make sure she still looks like I remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was just too damn cold to go browse at the convention tonight, so I opted instead to stay inside with Wesley and Ed and watch a DVD. It seemed like a great idea at the time. Ever seen &#8220;The Lady and the Highwayman&#8221; starring Hugh Grant? Hugh is maybe eighteen, sporting a wicked mullet <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/491\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}