{"id":2746,"date":"2008-06-23T05:14:49","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T10:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2008-06-23T07:19:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T12:19:08","slug":"kael-passes-the-baton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2746","title":{"rendered":"Kael Passes The Baton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pauline Kael, the late <em>New Yorker <\/em>movie critic, was the master of the pithy, scathing review.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, from beyond the grave (he says with visions of Frank Marino\/Jimi Hendrix coursing through his head), the reviewing mojo is passed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;to Gary Miller, who gives what could be called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthvmachine.com\/?p=5976\">a &#8220;lukehellish&#8221; review<\/a> to Showtime&#8217;s <em>Californication<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After watching Duchovny\u2019s character Hank Moody fornicate you want to beat him up.  You want to break off one of his molars at the gum line.  You want to sodomize him with a wooden plunger and make him thank you for it.  You want to make him wear wool socks, drag his feat across some berber, and touch a door knob.  Californication had me asking what day it was that God made David Duchovny and why couldn\u2019t he have rested on that day also.  I put it back in the little red envelope after 2 miserable episodes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d never watch it on basic principle (not because of the subject matter so much as I boycott even once-removed Red Hot Chili Peppers references).  But now, I&#8217;ll <em>really <\/em>not watch it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pauline Kael, the late New Yorker movie critic, was the master of the pithy, scathing review. Finally, from beyond the grave (he says with visions of Frank Marino\/Jimi Hendrix coursing through his head), the reviewing mojo is passed&#8230; &#8230;to Gary Miller, who gives what could be called a &#8220;lukehellish&#8221; review to Showtime&#8217;s Californication: After watching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}