{"id":5740,"date":"2011-07-19T16:38:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T16:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/07\/19\/an-incomplete-list-of-pop-cult\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T16:38:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T16:38:17","slug":"an-incomplete-list-of-pop-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/07\/19\/an-incomplete-list-of-pop-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"An Incomplete List of Pop-Culture References in How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been going through the manuscript for the book making up a list of glossary words (a frighteningly long list), and also noting miscellaneous pop-cultural references&#8211; quotes, direct mentions, paraphrases, etc. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve missed a few&#8211; many of them occur in section titles, which my eyes tend to slide right over as I read (in the previous book, one section was titled &#8220;Clever Section Title Here&#8221; until distressingly late in the process)&#8211; but for your amusement, here&#8217;s what I have at the moment, in approximately  the order in which they appear in the book:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><cite>Star Wars<\/cite><\/li>\n<li><cite>The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai<\/cite><\/li>\n<li>George Carlin<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Music Man<\/cite><\/li>\n<li><cite>Pardon the Interruption<\/cite><\/li>\n<li>Groucho Marx<\/li>\n<li>Lewis Carroll<\/li>\n<li>Tom Waits and\/or Norah Jones<\/li>\n<li>William Butler Yeats<\/li>\n<li>The Rolling Stones<\/li<\n\n\n<li>Crystal Gayle<\/li>\n<li>Sherlock Holmes<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Triplets of Belleville<\/cite><\/li>\n<li><cite>The Princess Bride<\/cite><\/li>\n<li>The Eagles<\/li>\n<li>Trent Reznor and\/or Johnny Cash<\/li>\n<li>Neil Young<\/li>\n<li>They Might Be Giants<\/li>\n<li>Terry Pratchett<\/li>\n<li>Elvis Costello<\/li>\n<li><cite>Sesame Street<\/cite><\/li>\n<li>Peter, Paul, and Mary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I suppose this list might provide some sort of insight into my psyche, but I&#8217;m not sure what beyond the fact that I have too many snippets of pop-song lyrics occupying neurons that might otherwise be used for something productive. I probably ought to offer some sort of prize to whoever can correctly identify all of these, but since nobody else has the full manuscript yet, I won&#8217;t bother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been going through the manuscript for the book making up a list of glossary words (a frighteningly long list), and also noting miscellaneous pop-cultural references&#8211; quotes, direct mentions, paraphrases, etc. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve missed a few&#8211; many of them occur in section titles, which my eyes tend to slide right over as I read&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/07\/19\/an-incomplete-list-of-pop-cult\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Incomplete List of Pop-Culture References in How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,18,142,35,15,7,37,68,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-books","category-how-to-teach","category-movies","category-music","category-physics","category-pop_culture","category-progress_report","category-television","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}