{"id":87613809,"date":"2004-12-31T20:00:28","date_gmt":"2005-01-01T04:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613809"},"modified":"2004-12-31T20:01:29","modified_gmt":"2005-01-01T04:01:29","slug":"dave-eggers-is-there-anything-he-cant-write-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613809","title":{"rendered":"Dave Eggers – is there anything he can’t write about?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Beetnik<\/a>, I’m reading this little blurble in the New York Times by Dave Eggers, who wrote two books I can honestly say I’m not really sure I understood, but enjoyed the hell out of anyway. The blurb is Sixteen Tons Of Fun<\/a>, and is all about Eric Idle taking the Holy Grail to Broadway.<\/p>\n

No, really. He is. There’s a movie coming about Graham Chapman’s life<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n

Some neat history about the first season of Monty Python’s Flying Circus<\/a>, which I saw for the first time EVER when I was about eight, and was sitting in Erin Fernstrom’s TV room, eating icecream and giggling my fool head off (I’d just got back from a VERY dull week away at the lake, where they ate, seemingly, nothing but salads with sunflower seeds in ’em, and MPFC combined with the icecream was a true godsend).<\/p>\n

But yeah, David Eggers is the guy what cobbled together A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius<\/a>, complete with the “Rules and Suggestions for Enjoyment of This Book” section, which is a fun read in of itself, complete with the illustration of a stapler, just in case you forgot what they looked like.<\/p>\n

You Shall Know Our Velocity<\/a> is also great, about two guys setting off with a schwack of money all over the globe to commemorate their recently deceased friend (brother? can’t remember), and is the one that I had the most trouble following. Not because it’s badly written, but because I kept tripping on the excellent writing, and not paying enough attention to what was going on…<\/p>\n

But yeah, so…<\/p>\n

What was my point? Oh yeah, go read the NYT thing here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Beetnik, I’m reading this little blurble in the New York Times by Dave Eggers, who wrote two books I can honestly say I’m not really sure I understood, but enjoyed the hell out of anyway. The blurb is Sixteen Tons Of Fun, and is all about Eric Idle taking the Holy Grail to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87613809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87613809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87613809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87613809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87613809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}