{"id":596,"date":"2007-05-03T22:02:56","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T22:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2007\/05\/03\/hiatus\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:25:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:25:04","slug":"hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2007\/05\/03\/hiatus\/","title":{"rendered":"hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[<\/strong>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/\/\/images\/weblogs\/action_eat.gif\" alt=\"Eating kolaches like a madman\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" border=\"0\" \/> <strong>Currently:<\/strong> Eating kolaches like a madman&nbsp;<strong>]<\/strong><br \/>it&#8217;s been a while since i&#8217;ve blogged. since my last entry i&#8217;ve had a computer die and had a break in internet service. it&#8217;s been a little like being dead.<\/p>\n<p>speaking of dead, i would like to note the passing of mr. vonnegut. i always thought of him as one the best of us, a cheesy sci-fi writer who convinced the world that everything he wrote was a metaphor. i remember arguing with my entire high-school lit class that slaughter house five was a science fiction novel. the teacher was particularly condescending when she said that the time travel was just a delusion.  my co-worker johnny motard refuted that neatly when he said &quot;if the time travel&#8217;s not real then the book&#8217;s no fun at all.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>i had one other vivid moment related to vonnegut. i was standing in line at the 7-11, with a pair of big bite hotdogs (two for a dollar), and there was a flatscreen monitor above the cash register facing out toward the customers. it was a crass tactic to feed consumers more advertising. in the lull between a nike commercial and an advertisement for big bite hotdogs, the flatscreen went black, and in tiny, white print displayed the following text:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Be careful who you pretend to be. 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