{"id":944,"date":"2007-06-20T04:38:52","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T10:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/06\/20\/the-stopped-clock-hates-tarantino-twice-a-day\/"},"modified":"2007-06-20T07:15:20","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T13:15:20","slug":"the-stopped-clock-hates-tarantino-twice-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=944","title":{"rendered":"The Stopped Clock Hates Tarantino Twice A Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Wolcott is largely a waste of skin, one of America&#8217;s most loathsome excuses for a cultural critic.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/blogs\/wolcott\/2007\/06\/httpselfstyleds.html\">he&#8217;s oh so right<\/a> about one thing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ON the subject of [Quentin] Tarantino, I consur with Will Self, who wrote in Junk Mail &#8220;Mr. tarantino is essentially a <em>pasticheru<\/em> and an artistic fraud,&#8221;, to which I would add &#8220;and a pimp for geek sadism.&#8221;\u00a0 Indeed, he has in danger of becoming the Charles Graner of cinema, presiding over the festivities with a big thumbs up and a jack-o&#8217;lantern grin&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How <strike>any cultural conservative<\/strike> anyone who is concerned with the future of\u00a0Western culture can accept the case of artistic moral emphysema that is Quentin Tarantino and his mindless glorification of all that is ugly and stupid is well beyond me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Wolcott is largely a waste of skin, one of America&#8217;s most loathsome excuses for a cultural critic. But he&#8217;s oh so right about one thing: ON the subject of [Quentin] Tarantino, I consur with Will Self, who wrote in Junk Mail &#8220;Mr. tarantino is essentially a pasticheru and an artistic fraud,&#8221;, to which I [&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-944","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\/944","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=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}