{"id":10271,"date":"2013-06-26T08:59:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T13:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=10271"},"modified":"2013-06-26T08:59:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T13:59:15","slug":"random-notes-june-26-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=10271","title":{"rendered":"Random notes: June 26, 2013."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Matheson obits: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/26\/books\/richard-matheson-writer-of-haunted-science-fiction-and-horror-dies-at-87.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;_r=0\">NYT<\/a><\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=10972\">Lawrence<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-richard-matheson-20130626,0,4156459.story\">LAT<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theater.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/26\/theater\/dialing-up-a-hit-influence-over-musical-is-in-the-crowds-hands.html?ref=todayspaper\">Please refrain from tasting the knob.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Note that the musical in question, &#8220;Somewhere in Time&#8221; is based on the movie, which in turn was based on a novel, &#8220;Bid Time Return&#8221;, by Richard Matheson. I&#8217;m not linking to Amazon, but you should be able to find the novel easily: the cheaper editions are listed under &#8220;Somewhere in Time&#8221;, and the editions carrying the original title are pricy.)<\/p>\n<p>You know what NYC needs? Strict pen control. And perhaps strict costume control, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/26\/nyregion\/in-times-square-a-clash-of-panhandlers.html?ref=todayspaper\">Busking being serious business in Midtown, long-simmering tensions between the box man and one of his rivals erupted into violence on Friday night, when the box man was said to have stabbed a competing panhandler, Wayne Semancik, five times in the head and chest with a pen.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/26\/nyregion\/in-times-square-a-clash-of-panhandlers.html?ref=todayspaper\">&#8230;a photograph in The Daily News showed the police interviewing Alien and Predator as witnesses after the episode.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/crime\/weed-guy-stabs-beer-guy-times-square-article-1.1379660\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.1379659.1371879390!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/landscape_635\/times-square-stabbing.jpg\" width=\"381\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Hotlinked: click on the photo to read the <strong>Daily News<\/strong> article.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Matheson obits: NYT. Lawrence. LAT. Please refrain from tasting the knob. (Note that the musical in question, &#8220;Somewhere in Time&#8221; is based on the movie, which in turn was based on a novel, &#8220;Bid Time Return&#8221;, by Richard Matheson. I&#8217;m not linking to Amazon, but you should be able to find the novel easily: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,23,16,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-clippings","category-law","category-obits","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10273,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10271\/revisions\/10273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}