{"id":532,"date":"2006-04-06T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=532"},"modified":"2006-04-06T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T21:52:00","slug":"even-the-simplest-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"Even the Simplest Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Decades from now, some desperate grad student will write a thesis on the new social archetypes which started with the pantheon of characters from 80’s TV ads. You may remember the post on the Noid<\/a> — today we discuss the pink bunny with the drum. He’s entered my conscious thought a few times recently, as follows.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elliott Smith refers to this ever-drumming automaton in his song Rose Parade<\/a>, a depiction of someone too much of a mopey, self-involved coke addict to enjoy a parade. <\/span>
<\/span>
<\/span><\/span>“<\/span><\/span>They asked me to come down and watch the parade
and to march down the street like the duracell bunny<\/span>“.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This morning on NPR, some dude<\/a> — sorry, “listener commentator” — was bitching about the national debt.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Like the Duracell bunny it just keeps on going”.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s the thing: it’s the Energizer <\/span>Bunny<\/a>. I mean, I know Duracell has more name recognition, but come on. It must drive the Energizer marketing people crazy. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s another thing. Apparently, there are <\/span>Duracell bunnies, at least according to Wikipedia<\/a>. These are not, though, the bunnies in question.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Decades from now, some desperate grad student will write a thesis on the new social archetypes which started with the pantheon of characters from 80’s TV ads. You may remember the post on the Noid — today we discuss the pink bunny with the drum. He’s entered my conscious thought a few times recently, as […]<\/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-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}