{"id":1348,"date":"2007-05-20T16:34:42","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T03:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1348"},"modified":"2007-05-29T15:54:29","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T02:54:29","slug":"1348","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1348","title":{"rendered":"In that vice-like grip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/business.guardian.co.uk\/story\/0,,2082749,00.html\">reality and the knowledge economy in Britain<\/a> <small>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/untothislast.net\/weblog\/archives\/cat_link.html\">Deb<\/a>]<\/small><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/Articles\/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13593\">Stanley Fish: &#8220;Why we built the ivory tower&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Heavenly Burlesque<\/em> review: 6.5 out of 10. Very funny. Some sweet skills in evidence, particularly with the hula hoops, acrobatics and the shopping trolley of desire. But it was way too short, only about an hour long ($0.45\/minute) and the &#8216;afterparty&#8217; deserves those scare quotes and featured Batucada Sound Machine. BSM are a &#8216;band&#8217; with too much percussion and two few skills and are about as burlesque as Radiohead. Kathy and I left to avoid having to kill ourselves, but not before having our photos taken by a woman with nice eyes for <em>Capital Times<\/em>. Keep your eyes peeled, if we make it, we&#8217;ll be the wiggly and colour-coordinated ones. <\/p>\n<p><small style=\"color:red\">UPDATE<\/small>: I&#8217;m informed I wrongly identified the post-HB band: It wasn&#8217;t Batucada Sound Machine. So I hope they can forgive me for that. Apparently it was The Beat Squad. Anyway, I didn&#8217;t like them, though others at the function did. BSM, I apologise for tarnishing your good name. Please send me a CD so that I can confirm that you do not, in fact, suck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>reality and the knowledge economy in Britain [via Deb] Stanley Fish: &#8220;Why we built the ivory tower&#8221; Heavenly Burlesque review: 6.5 out of 10. Very funny. Some sweet skills in evidence, particularly with the hula hoops, acrobatics and the shopping trolley of desire. But it was way too short, only about an hour long ($0.45\/minute) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}