{"id":23551,"date":"2019-03-07T05:24:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T02:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=23551"},"modified":"2019-03-07T05:24:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T02:24:43","slug":"giraffes-on-horseback-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/03\/07\/giraffes-on-horseback-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"Giraffes on Horseback Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dali worked with Harpo Marx.  That is quite enough to enlarge one&#8217;s mind with endless surrealist possibilities. But there&#8217;s more. They became friends and devised a screenplay for a movie in which man of mundane reality falls in love with a dream-woman from the realm of comical absurdity.  A notebook and treatment was presented to the MGM movie studio, but the studio declined the project.  These materials have now been tracked down, and much research undertaken.  The resulting &#8216;graphic novel re-creation&#8217; of the planned movie will be published, sans the Marx Bros. distinctive physical comedy and syncopated wisecrackery, on 19th March 2019 as <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2EpO1WD\">Giraffes on Horseback Salad<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/gir.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/gir.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"498\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23552\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So far as I know Lovecraft never saw the Marx Bros. movies, though from 1930 to 1935 he could have seen all the classics newly-released at one of the Providence movie-houses: <em>Animal Crackers; Monkey Business; Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera<\/em>, and <em>A Day at the Races<\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p>What would a Dali \/ Lovecraft collaboration have sired?  We can only dream&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dali worked with Harpo Marx. That is quite enough to enlarge one&#8217;s mind with endless surrealist possibilities. But there&#8217;s more. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/03\/07\/giraffes-on-horseback-salad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}