{"id":12116,"date":"2010-04-26T23:06:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T04:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12116"},"modified":"2010-04-05T19:46:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T00:46:31","slug":"taylor-dan-editor-symphony-in-ink-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12116","title":{"rendered":"Taylor, Dan (editor) &#8211; Symphony in Ink #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weirdmuse.ecrater.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/symphony21.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Symphony in Ink #2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here we have an example of my fundamental problem with anthologies in general: even when I like a series of anthologies (granted, this one was only based on reading one issue), there are times when individual issues of it don&#8217;t do a thing for me. This is one of those cases, as I did like the first issue. This one starts off with a story by Lorena Caiazzo, probably the best piece of the book, about a couple of kids trying to figure out what to wear for Halloween. Tom Brinkmann is up next with a piece about Funky Fetish Fashion Dolls, an OK piece about dominatrix action figures. Michael Roden has a poetic piece next, an illustrated ode about flying through dimensions that didn&#8217;t do a thing for me. Finally there&#8217;s Dan&#8217;s story about a cold zombie who hangs around with a hobo for warmth, with predictable consequences. There are also one pagers by Brad Foster, Bill Shut and Thomas Ferranti with faintly amusing shorties. As a whole it&#8217;s OK. If you like enough of these people, as with any anthology, that&#8217;s probably enough for you to check it out. If you don&#8217;t like them or know them already, there&#8217;s not a lot here to make a fan out of anybody else. $2<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/symphony22.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Symphony in Ink #2 Here we have an example of my fundamental problem with anthologies in general: even when I like a series of anthologies (granted, this one was only based on reading one issue), there are times when individual issues of it don&#8217;t do a thing for me. This is one of those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3003,2777,3307,3311,3312,2155,3309,3310],"class_list":["post-12116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-bill-shut","tag-brad-foster","tag-dan-taylor","tag-lorena-caiazzo","tag-michael-roden","tag-symphony-in-ink","tag-thomas-ferranti","tag-tom-brinkman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12131,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12116\/revisions\/12131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}