{"id":87614046,"date":"2006-04-24T23:02:56","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T07:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614046"},"modified":"2006-04-24T23:02:56","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T07:02:56","slug":"for-those-with-fear-who-need-a-sidekick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614046","title":{"rendered":"For those with Fear, who need a sidekick."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was for a friend, and was a comment on their blog elsewhere, but since I had fun writing it, I&#8217;m posting it here, too:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always liked the line from one of the incarnations of Black Adder:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have no fear.  I stuff icecubes down the SHIRT of fear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think what you really need is one of those dancehall reggae guys to ramp you up before you head out for the day. He can say a whole bunch of really amazing shit that doesn&#8217;t make any sense (but sounds cool anyway) and then ends with &#8220;HEAR DISS!&#8221; right before you go out and do your thing.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and tell your fear it&#8217;s surrounded. If\/when the shit starts flying, and fear looks like it&#8217;s gonna maybe win at the end of the movie *anyway*, I&#8217;ll be the TomWaits\/KrisKristopherson character: holding a detonator in my teeth while tossing you two freshly loaded &#8217;45s (silvered, of course, to go with your adamantium nails, don&#8217;t you know), and grinning like a damn fool.<\/p>\n<p>I also suggest watching Trinity&#8217;s opening of the Matrix over and over and over again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Just &#8217;cause &#8220;FUCK YEAH!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was for a friend, and was a comment on their blog elsewhere, but since I had fun writing it, I&#8217;m posting it here, too: I&#8217;ve always liked the line from one of the incarnations of Black Adder: &#8220;I have no fear. I stuff icecubes down the SHIRT of fear.&#8221; I think what you really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87614046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614046","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=87614046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}