{"id":247,"date":"2005-12-14T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=247"},"modified":"2010-01-10T16:10:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T16:10:34","slug":"psychology-never-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/12\/psychology-never-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Psychology: Never Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">While procrastinating over finishing a longer article, I&#8217;ve been clearing through some unfinished posts from last year. First, this gem from <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2004\/10\/australias-election-day-outrage.html\">10 October 2004<\/a>:<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<blockquote><p>And anyone who drones on to me about how they&#8217;re going to leave the country better be prepared to meet my wager of $100 that they will still be here a year later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/05\/lets-get-this-over-with.html\">I owe myself $100.<\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">However, I&#8217;m not totally useless at prognostication. <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2004\/10\/filler-by-proxy-v-ten-greatest-albums.html\">Also from October last year<\/a>:<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">I forsee that this blog will perpetually be caught in a boom-bust cycle of updates.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Finally, here are a couple of pictures from an unfinished third instalment reviewing the contents of <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2004\/09\/jumbled-in-yooralla-box-part-2-heat.html\">the Yooralla Box<\/a>. First, a closeup of the front cover of the LP <em>Judy Garland on the Radio<\/em>, showing Judy&#8217;s scary Ellen-Foley-cocaine-black-hole nostrils to full effect.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"AIEEE!!\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/judynose.jpg\" \/><br \/>Next, a prize photo of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barrycrocker.net\/index.htm\">Barry Crocker&#8217;s<\/a> crotch, from his fine LP <em>No Regrets<\/em>. Note the white jacket, belt buckle, and the two guys in the background doing the &#8220;Allen Ginsberg in <em>Subterranean Homesick Blues<\/em>&#8221; schtick. I particularly like the scuffing on the cover around Bazza&#8217;s trouser area &#8211; one passionate owner.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Rub your screen here for good luck!\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/crock.jpg\" \/><br \/>More intriguing: maybe it&#8217;s the magic of long-lost 1970s trouser technology, but Barry does not appear to be a man who has much use for the golden section:<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Can you find the perfect blend?\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/bigcrock01.jpg\" \/><br \/>No wonder he looks pensive, but, non, <em>il ne regrette rien<\/em>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While procrastinating over finishing a longer article, I&#8217;ve been clearing through some unfinished posts from last year. First, this gem from 10 October 2004: And anyone who drones on to me about how they&#8217;re going to leave the country better be prepared to meet my wager of $100 that they will still be here a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3641,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/3641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}