{"id":121,"date":"2003-09-12T04:55:59","date_gmt":"2003-09-12T09:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/2001-a-groovy-odyssey-man\/"},"modified":"2003-09-12T04:55:59","modified_gmt":"2003-09-12T09:55:59","slug":"2001-a-groovy-odyssey-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/2001-a-groovy-odyssey-man\/","title":{"rendered":"2001:  a groovy odyssey, man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>again,  i&#8217;m taking some liberties with the original concept of the &#8220;business model of the hour, &#8221; but since i never actually POSTED the concept, you&#8217;ll never know the difference&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>today&#8217;s installment is a movie pitch.<\/p>\n<p>some of you will remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0032138\/\">wizard of oz<\/a>, that wonderfully midwestern all-melanin-deficient story of a girls&#8217; adventures in oz&#8230; and some years later (almost 40!), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0078504\/\">the wiz<\/a> came to the silver screen to broaden our perspective on the wonderful story of monetary policy.  (monetary policy?  i thought it was about a scarecrow!)<\/p>\n<p>now, between these two films, another film was produced.  it was called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0062622\/\">2001:  a space odyssey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>anyway, flash-forward to the 21st century.  it&#8217;s time to put some soul into 2001.<\/p>\n<p>i propose re-making 2001 with a new, cool cast.  and i propose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isaachayes.com\/\">isaac hayes<\/a> as hal and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgeclinton.com\/\">george clinton<\/a> as dave bowman.  i think the rest of the cast will fall into place naturally after that.<\/p>\n<p>you <strong>know<\/strong> you&#8217;re dying to hear george say &#8220;open the pod bay doors, hal&#8221; and isaac say &#8220;i&#8217;m sorry dave, i&#8217;m afraid i can&#8217;t do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>so, all you big hollywood-types that are cruising my blog &#8211; get your funk out, and let&#8217;s greenlight this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>again, i&#8217;m taking some liberties with the original concept of the &#8220;business model of the hour, &#8221; but since i never actually POSTED the concept, you&#8217;ll never know the difference&#8230; today&#8217;s installment is a movie pitch. some of you will remember wizard of oz, that wonderfully midwestern all-melanin-deficient story of a girls&#8217; adventures in oz&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}