{"id":648,"date":"2016-11-07T15:12:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T21:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2016-11-07T15:12:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T21:12:12","slug":"update-for-1162016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/07\/update-for-1162016\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 11\/6\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Project updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NaNoWriMo<\/strong> &#8211; After trying this for a few days, it&#8217;s clear that 50,000 words isn&#8217;t going to work for me, since it would take two to three hours a day, and I can only work on my projects for about an hour at the best of times, so I&#8217;m setting a goal of 15,000 words. I&#8217;ve written about 2,200 words, and I&#8217;ve posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/wiki\/Topics_Overview\">what I have so far<\/a>, part of my project map, which I started writing a few months ago.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ulcerative colitis<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;m posting this from the hospital with an IV delivering my first Remicade treatment, which will take a couple of hours. I&#8217;ll have another one in two weeks, another six weeks after that, and then every eight weeks. To be honest it feels a little silly to go through so much rigamarole for this condition, but maybe I&#8217;ll feel differently if it actually works.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Media<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Books<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; I&#8217;m about halfway through <em>&#8216;Salem&#8217;s Lot<\/em>, and I like it as much as I did <em>The Shining<\/em>. When I was growing up, I was afraid and suspicious of all horror writers because I assumed they reveled in evil, but now I see that those who are like Stephen King use their story&#8217;s horrific situation as an extreme test, as my boss put it, to reveal aspects of human nature. After this book, the next few in my <em>Dark Tower<\/em> project are <em>The Stand<\/em>, &#8220;The Mist,&#8221; and then the first <em>Dark Tower<\/em> book, though I&#8217;ll probably listen to other things in between. I&#8217;m grateful to the producers of the <em>Dark Tower<\/em> movie for moving its release from February to the summer so I have more time to catch up. \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>TV<\/strong><\/em>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Marble Hornets<\/em> &#8211; I finished <em>Marble Hornets<\/em>, and despite some awkward acting at times (along with some that&#8217;s great) and some boring scenes of exploring ruined buildings, I loved it and found myself wanting to watch it just for the atmosphere. I love it even more after staying up way too late to binge watch Night Mind&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLUtMdfebeaoct9in4XxsuxUx6aVsrkce-\">analysis<\/a>, which revealed a lot more than I caught when I watched, and I will definitely be studying their storytelling techniques. I was a little chagrined but also intrigued to learn that some of the MH story <a href=\"http:\/\/ferretbrain.com\/articles\/article-1089\">played out in real life<\/a> among its creators&#8211;a cautionary tale, but it won&#8217;t keep me from following their future work.<\/li>\n<li><em>Alan Resnick<\/em> &#8211; My next stops in my journey through Night Mind&#8217;s videos were two works by comedian and performance artist Alan Resnick&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=haLhzoYSyfw&amp;list=PLGUcOrs__IKoeYi8zpCOgZ3fj8eWV_sVW\">alantutorial<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2gMjJNGg9Z8\"><em>Unedited Footage of a Bear<\/em><\/a>, both of which are brilliant, but especially alantutorial, which starts out hilarious and becomes more disturbing as the series progresses, though the paranormal elements I vaguely expected never showed up, which reminds me that the real world can be horrific enough.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project updates NaNoWriMo &#8211; After trying this for a few days, it&#8217;s clear that 50,000 words isn&#8217;t going to work for me, since it would take two to three hours a day, and I can only work on my projects &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/07\/update-for-1162016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,111,105,54,115,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-health","category-project-updates","category-projects","category-tv","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}