{"id":1919,"date":"2006-09-02T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2006\/09\/02\/and-now-its-time-to-go-to-eye-of-newt\/"},"modified":"2006-09-02T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T20:18:00","slug":"and-now-its-time-to-go-to-eye-of-newt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2006\/09\/02\/and-now-its-time-to-go-to-eye-of-newt\/","title":{"rendered":"and now it&#8217;s time to go to Eye of Newt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foxtongue\/232355232\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/80\/232355232_5bf55b0b5e_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foxtongue\/232355232\/\"><\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/foxtongue\/\">Foxtongue<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>There is a boy asleep in my bed. He has dirty fingernails and one of the prettiest smiles in all the world. Kier, I&#8217;ve written about him before, called him an angel sitting by the side of the street. He had a purple hat then and spoke french to me. This time he was trying and failing to light a cigarette. Bandages on his face, knuckles scraped free of skin, he was sitting torn on someone&#8217;s front step. &#8220;How&#8217;re you?&#8221; &#8220;Terrible, you?&#8221; That smile, bruised, but like light. The matches were being blown out one by one by the wind. When I pulled out my lighter and lit it for him, our hands cupping the flame, I felt like I had stepped into the sort of film I found romantic as a child. Henry and June, Delicatessan, something with a heavy handed denial of pathos, quirky with a decent twist of Anias Nin. <\/p>\n<p>It makes me uncomfortable that part of me finds him maddening, as if I could somehow swallow him whole as a muse, transform his flesh into shadow and stich it to my own, so I could be an artist too. I&#8217;ve never understood it and it has always made me wary. He&#8217;s one of the few people I can&#8217;t stare down. I&#8217;ve known him awhile now, but I see him rarely. Divinity is dangerous. <\/p>\n<p>And speaking of disturbing things, <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1PwpcUawjK0\">this<\/a> wins this week&#8217;s Most Awesome Video award<\/b>. I&#8217;ve been passing it around on my messenger, so you may have already encountered it on your friend&#8217; page, but if not, it&#8217;s well worth the momentary horror.<\/p>\n<p>Also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loadingreadyrun.com\/\">Zombiewalk footage is now available<\/a>, as are <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foxtongue\/sets\/72157594265882581\/\">my Zombie photos<\/a><\/b>.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally uploaded by Foxtongue. There is a boy asleep in my bed. He has dirty fingernails and one of the prettiest smiles in all the world. Kier, I&#8217;ve written about him before, called him an angel sitting by the side of the street. He had a purple hat then and spoke french to me. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2006\/09\/02\/and-now-its-time-to-go-to-eye-of-newt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;and now it&#8217;s time to go to Eye of Newt&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}