{"id":555,"date":"2005-04-19T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2005\/04\/a-link-encrusted-post\/"},"modified":"2005-04-19T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-19T19:14:00","slug":"a-link-encrusted-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2005\/04\/a-link-encrusted-post\/","title":{"rendered":"A link-encrusted post"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love Charles Addams<\/a>. He’s one of the few cartoonists with a truly macabre sense of humour – there’s Gary Larson<\/a>, there’s the mindbogglingly brilliant Bunny Suicides<\/a>, there’s Jhonen Vasquez<\/a> with Johnny The Homicidal Maniac – but Addams came much before all of them, and his cartoons can still make you laugh and cringe at the same time. <\/p>\n

Now I had seen Charles Addams’ primarily through Dell paperbacks<\/a> picked up at various second-hand bookshops. While these books were printed on fairly high quality paper, I was always bothered about why the reproduction of those little pen and ink masterpieces was so blurry. At times, you had to squint really<\/i> hard to figure out what the picture was all about. The tones would bleed into each other – the general appearance was that Addams liked his work very dark and hard-to-figure-out-unless-you-looked-carefully types. <\/p>\n

But today, I realised why<\/i> the Dell paperbacks of Addams’s work was that way. It was because they were reprints of oversized hardcover books, which were abso-freakin-lutely gorgeous. The artwork on these books was crisp and required no squinting. <\/p>\n

Now how do I know this, you wonder? Because I picked up a first edition hardcover copy of Charles Addams’s Black Maria<\/i><\/a> today, for only a hundred rupees. <\/p>\n

And I also re-found the soundtrack to Ocean’s Twelve<\/i>. And I bought the complete run of Preacher<\/a> (1-66, and some specials) for $82.10, which includes shipping ( the seller refunded part of the shipping charges to me because he could ship it cheaper), and the remaining run of Swamp Thing Vol 2<\/a> ( issues 45-171), also for 83$. There was a sale on at secondspin.com and I ordered a 3-disc collector’s edition of Dario Argento<\/a>‘s Suspiria<\/a> and a ten-volume collection of Sonny Chiba<\/a> movies for the grand price of 23$. My credit card is moaning rather loudly right now, so I will let it sleep for a while. Six months. No, three. Erm, let’s see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love Charles Addams. He’s one of the few cartoonists with a truly macabre sense of humour – there’s Gary Larson, there’s the mindbogglingly brilliant Bunny Suicides, there’s Jhonen Vasquez with Johnny The Homicidal Maniac – but Addams came much before all of them, and his cartoons can still make you laugh and cringe at […]<\/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":[84,76,81,91],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acquisitions","tag-books-2","tag-comics-2","tag-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}