{"id":749,"date":"2006-03-14T20:46:04","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T01:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/?p=749"},"modified":"2008-01-01T20:16:17","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T01:16:17","slug":"i-dont-like-sock-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/?p=749","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t like sock monkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a fan of sock monkeys and I wasn&#8217;t all that thrilled with &#8220;Dickie&#8221; the sock monkey in Penn Jillette&#8217;s (yes from Penn &amp; Teller) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312328052\/qid=1142386792\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1\/103-9565913-6951814?s=books&amp;v=glance&amp;n=283155\" target=\"_blank\">Sock<\/a>.  What a weird book.  Weird isn&#8217;t generally a bad thing and it was probably the weird that made this worth reading.  I mean sock monkeys.  NYC police diver.  Gay hairdresser.  Serial Killer.  Lots of dead people.  And Proust.  If that isn&#8217;t a weird combination then I don&#8217;t know what is.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"technoratitag\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/sock\" rel=\"tag\">sock<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/pennjillette\" rel=\"tag\">pennjillette<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/fiction\" rel=\"tag\">fiction<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/mystery\" rel=\"tag\">mystery<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/proust\" rel=\"tag\">proust<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a fan of sock monkeys and I wasn&#8217;t all that thrilled with &#8220;Dickie&#8221; the sock monkey in Penn Jillette&#8217;s (yes from Penn &amp; Teller) Sock. What a weird book. Weird isn&#8217;t generally a bad thing and it was probably the weird that made this worth reading. I mean sock monkeys. NYC police diver. 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