{"id":543,"date":"2009-03-17T14:53:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T22:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2019-12-01T14:44:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T22:44:26","slug":"nikki-heat-oh-come-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Heat? Oh, come on!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been kinda enjoying <em>Castle<\/em>. Early days yet, only two episodes, but fun and waaay pretty. Then it was revealed in last night&#8217;s episode that Mal&#8217;s, I mean Rick&#8217;s, new series character, inspired by the delectable Detective Beckett, is named Nikki Heat. Now, even in a made-up universe of banter and poker games with Steve Cannell, I gotta believe a bestselling novelist who is taken semiseriously by not unintelligent readers such as the aforementioned Detective Beckett would not be so lame to as give that name to a character based on someone he seemingly admires. Stripper? Check. Videogame vixen? Check. Contestant on &#8220;Rock of Love?&#8221; Double check. Detective in a series of dark novels? Bit wrong-footed, I think, unless it&#8217;s a deliberate move to rile Beckett. But boy, is everyone pretty! So, fun overall.<\/p>\n<p>On another note, <em>Loins of Punjab Presents<\/em> opens this week at our local art- and cult-film palace. Described as <em>Monsoon Wedding<\/em> meets <em>Best of Show<\/em>, it&#8217;s a spoof of an <em>American Idol<\/em> clone for aspiring\u00a0 South Asian American singers, who perform Bollywood-style extravaganzas and engage in backstage intrigue. Could be terrific.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, check out this hilariously eviscerating restaurant review from London&#8217;s <em>Sunday Times<\/em>, in which A.A. Gill channels the righteous scorn of Swift and the masterly invective of\u00a0 Mencken to indict an entire culture of empty chic consumerism: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/life_and_style\/food_and_drink\/eating_out\/a_a_gill\/article5880725.ece\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/life_and_style\/f<wbr \/>ood_and_drink\/eating_out\/a_a_gill\/articl<wbr \/>e5880725.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been kinda enjoying Castle. Early days yet, only two episodes, but fun and waaay pretty. Then it was revealed in last night&#8217;s episode that Mal&#8217;s, I mean Rick&#8217;s, new series character, inspired by the delectable Detective Beckett, is named Nikki Heat. Now, even in a made-up universe of banter and poker games with Steve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}