{"id":507,"date":"2010-08-04T00:30:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T21:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=507"},"modified":"2010-08-04T00:30:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T21:30:10","slug":"collect-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/04\/collect-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Collect\u00a0call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stewart Lee on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/2010\/aug\/01\/stewart-lee-collecting-comics-stand-up\">the collector of mass-reproduced objects in a digital age<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;And all this stuff, in the digital age, is literally worthless financially, and losing any value it had daily. There&#8217;s nothing here a burglar would even bother with. I&#8217;m aware I&#8217;m a social relic [&#8230;] like a character in a dystopian science-fiction novel, holed up in a cave full of cultural artefacts, waiting for the young Jenny Agutter to arrive in a tinfoil miniskirt, fleeing a poisonous cloud on the surface, to check out my stash and ask me: &#8220;Who exactly was the Quicksilver Messenger Service? Who was this Virginia Woolf? What kind of man was Jonah Hex?&#8221; &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I was a collector of modest means, what would I be investing in today?<\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;Golden era&#8221; 1990-2000 computer games, in mint boxed format.<\/p>\n<p>* Various hand-made &#8216;pop surrealist&#8217;, Lovecraftiana and steampunk hand-made crafts items.  Fine contemporary clockwork and electric automata.<\/p>\n<p>* Hand-written private diaries.<\/p>\n<p>* I&#8217;d be commissioning new comic-books from young talent and retaining the original artwork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stewart Lee on the collector of mass-reproduced objects in a digital age&#8230; &#8220;And all this stuff, in the digital age, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/04\/collect-call\/\">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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","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=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}