{"id":1162,"date":"2003-05-04T05:57:37","date_gmt":"2003-05-04T19:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/04\/renew-renew-renew\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T08:06:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T16:06:22","slug":"renew-renew-renew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/04\/renew-renew-renew\/","title":{"rendered":"Renew! Renew! Renew!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14724,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00004VVNB\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260313025508\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00004VVNB\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00004VVNB\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 06:37:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 06:37:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14725,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/x2-movie.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20091022022237\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.x2-movie.com:80\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 02:53:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 06:37:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 06:37:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m still here and kicking around, so it seems I didn&#8217;t go up in a fiery explosion in the ritual of Carousel. Frankly, I&#8217;m relieved &#8212; I&#8217;ve always said I wanted to go out with a bang, but not <em>that<\/em> literally.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, for those who I may have entirely lost with my birthday post, I highly suggest you check out the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00004VVNB\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Logan's Run\">Logan&#8217;s Run<\/a>. Classic sci-fi.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, overall a good day yesterday. Wandered around town for a bit with Prairie, and went down to see <a href=\"http:\/\/x2-movie.com\/\" title=\"X2\">X-Men 2<\/a> midway through the day. Very, very cool &#8212; I&#8217;ve never been a huge comic person, but I&#8217;ve read enough about the X-Men over the years to be <em>very<\/em> impressed with how they&#8217;re handling the movies. Accessible and fun action-adventure flicks for the masses, with a lot of intelligent nods to the fans and creative ties to established comic book canon while creating a new storyline. All in all, lots of fun.<\/p>\n<p>Spent the evening hanging out with Chad and Prairie at the Bad JuJu Lounge and bouncing around at the Vogue. I&#8217;d tried to get ahold of Rick and Candice too, but never reached them. Was a little bit of a bummer, but the three of us had fun. I just got a call from Rick, though &#8212; he&#8217;s collecting Chad and heading this way, and we&#8217;re going to go find something to do for the afternoon. Woohoo! Off to go play&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m still here and kicking around, so it seems I didn&#8217;t go up in a fiery explosion in the ritual of Carousel. Frankly, I&#8217;m relieved \u2014 I&#8217;ve always said I wanted to go out with a bang, but not that literally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2037],"tags":[13,1843,2300],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-tv-and-films","tag-life","tag-logans-run","tag-x-men-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}