{"id":716,"date":"2007-03-23T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/what-lunacy-is-this\/"},"modified":"2007-03-23T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T13:23:00","slug":"what-lunacy-is-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/what-lunacy-is-this\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT LUNACY IS THIS??!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/report.asp?NewsID=1086412\">Munnabhai and Circuit to be comic book franchise.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Freaking idiots. Doesn&#8217;t the term &#8220;over-exposure&#8221; mean anything? I am trying to figure out if the comics will be in English, and if so, will they give Circuit an Irish brogue. Local flavour and all that. You do not get a Mumbaiyya accent in ENGLISH, you numbskulls. ( Am I perturbed? Do I sound perturbed? I am not perturbed, no sir.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/columnist\/arnold\/article\/0,9565,1600432,00.html\">Andrew Arnold&#8217;s Time.Comix column comes to an end<\/a>. Goddamn, I loved reading the guy&#8217;s recommendations, and he was one of the truly balanced reviewers who knew not only how to review a graphic novel, but also which graphic novels deserve to be talked about. Andrew, without your column, I don&#8217;t think I would have ever bought Persepolis, or picked up Buddha when it was first released in India with a 600-plus price-tag. I might <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/2005\/100books\/0,24459,graphic_novels,00.html\">not have agreed<\/a> with all of his views, but I certainly respected them.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, all his past columns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/columnist\/arnold\/\">lie archived on Time.com<\/a>, but&#8230;damn it, I will miss the regular articles. I will miss ticking out the entries in the Best of the Year write-ups, the ones I have read. I hope Andrew Arnold contintues to write about graphic novels <i>somewhere<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Munnabhai and Circuit to be comic book franchise. Freaking idiots. Doesn&#8217;t the term &#8220;over-exposure&#8221; mean anything? I am trying to figure out if the comics will be in English, and if so, will they give Circuit an Irish brogue. Local flavour and all that. You do not get a Mumbaiyya accent in ENGLISH, you numbskulls. [&hellip;]<\/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-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","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=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}