{"id":3571,"date":"2011-08-17T21:47:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T20:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2011-08-17T21:47:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T20:47:53","slug":"this-land-is-your-land-oh-wait-not-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=3571","title":{"rendered":"<i>This Land is Your Land,<\/i> Oh, Wait. Not Really."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/6053203663\/\" target=_blank title=\"Glasgow Merchant City D 14 by wishiwerebaking, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6085\/6053203663_06aa90db84_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Glasgow Merchant City D 14\" align=left hspace=10 ><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=Indent>Ah, August. Time of flooded festivals and The Fringe and in George Square it&#8217;s the time of movie-making frenzy. Our usually placid square has been carved up, fenced off, and is a major traffic causer. Why? Two words. Brad. Pitt.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent><a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.stv.tv\/film\/266632-brad-pitt-movie-world-war-z-transforms-glasgow-into-philadelphia\/\" target= _blank>He&#8217;s makin&#8217; a zombie movie.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/6053216159\/\" target=_blank title=\"Glasgow Merchant City D 17 by wishiwerebaking, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6073\/6053216159_931d19eb92_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Glasgow Merchant City D 17\" align=right hspace=10 ><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=Indent>This gets a BIG eye roll around these parts. Last year, in the service of being a judge for a book award, T. had to read one and later complained, &#8220;The whole zombie thing has never to me made sense. How come the zombies never eat each other? And yeah, we&#8217;re omnivores and designed to be that way, but how does a person spontaneously develop a craving for brains, and how does one&#8217;s (undead) digestive system suddenly deal with eating people raw? I mean, seriously. Zombie outbreaks happen, and you never see people rolling around in agony and dying of bowel flux and dehydration. Sorry. That&#8217;s unspeakably gross. But I have trouble suspending disbelief about some things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>Neither could she care less about Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and their six U.N. representative children they&#8217;ve hauled up from London for the month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/6053233049\/\" target=_blank title=\"Glasgow Merchant City D 21 by wishiwerebaking, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6069\/6053233049_776ac69857_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Glasgow Merchant City D 21\" align=left hspace=10 ><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=Indent>However! Should you care, the movie is called <i>World War Z<\/i>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/screenrant.com\/world-war-z-movie-book-differences-discussion-kofi-127543\/\" target= _blank>is apparently nothing like the book (movies never are) which allegedly takes place in Philadelphia<\/a>. Having never been to Philly, we have no idea if it looks the same, but frankly throwing up a few street signs, American traffic lights and scattering yellow cabs and SWAT and police vehicles around a Scottish city doesn&#8217;t exactly make it look American. On the other hand, those things are like adding spices to a dish; they&#8217;re tiny touches that no one will notice but which will make a difference. Unless you&#8217;re from Glasgow, and then George Square will still look a lot like &#8230;George Square.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>It&#8217;s all in good fun, though. Except to the cab drivers, who would like to set the whole bunch of them on fire for snarling up the traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>Ah, well. In four days, <i>none of this will be our problem anyway.<\/i> Woot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, August. Time of flooded festivals and The Fringe and in George Square it&#8217;s the time of movie-making frenzy. Our usually placid square has been carved up, fenced off, and is a major traffic causer. Why? Two words. Brad. Pitt. He&#8217;s makin&#8217; a zombie movie. This gets a BIG eye roll around these parts. 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