{"id":1177,"date":"2008-09-04T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2015-08-28T10:50:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T14:50:09","slug":"i-laughed-i-cried-i-horked-therianthropes-and-abominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/09\/04\/i-laughed-i-cried-i-horked-therianthropes-and-abominations\/","title":{"rendered":"I laughed; I cried; I horked. Therianthropes and abominations&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know how I was talking about the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogofstench.livejournal.com\/301243.html\">Old Spice centaur<\/a> recently? Well, apparently, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldspice.com\/doubleimpact\/\">Web site<\/a> for the Double Impact shower gel shows the male model in hybrids with other animals and things [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jhXUIQEfDpA\">YouTube<\/a> video here].<\/p>\n<p>1. Man\/slug. [Why are his pecs heaving like that?]<\/p>\n<p>2. Man\/cannon [aimed right at you, ready to fire balls].<\/p>\n<p>3. Man\/&quot;mighty redwood tree.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>4. Man\/cobra.<\/p>\n<p>5. Man\/octopus.<\/p>\n<p>6. Man\/fishstick.<\/p>\n<p>7. Man\/tap-dancing cowboy.<\/p>\n<p>8. Man\/tank [gun pointed directly at you].<\/p>\n<p>Eurgh. That video made me want to throw up. I love therianthropes, even if they are people combined with <a href=\"http:\/\/blogofstench.livejournal.com\/193103.html\">tentacular things<\/a> or snakes, so I&#8217;m certainly not puking at the combination of humans with non-human animals. I&#8217;m puking at the crappy artistic values of the hybridization and the undiscriminating stupidity of the philosophical concept behind the commercial. Not only are all the non-human parts obviously static and image-doctored, but they are also completely inconsistent, including living things, non-living things, other humans, non-human animals, plants, food and weapons. Pick a class of objects and stick with it, people. Seriously, watching that video gives me a stomach-turning case of thematic whiplash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how I was talking about the Old Spice centaur recently? Well, apparently, the Web site for the Double Impact shower gel shows the male model in hybrids with other animals and things [YouTube video here]. 1. Man\/slug. [Why are his pecs heaving like that?] 2. Man\/cannon [aimed right at you, ready to fire&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/09\/04\/i-laughed-i-cried-i-horked-therianthropes-and-abominations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I laughed; I cried; I horked. Therianthropes and abominations&#8230;<\/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":[681],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-therianthropes-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6049,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions\/6049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}