{"id":1301,"date":"2011-06-24T13:43:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T17:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2011-06-24T13:43:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T17:43:35","slug":"thrilling-tales-the-attack-of-the-merchandise-of-annihilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/24\/thrilling-tales-the-attack-of-the-merchandise-of-annihilation\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrilling Tales: The Attack of the Merchandise of Annihilation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/retropolis\/retropolis_pf\/retro-future\/Late-Night-at-the-Diner-T-Shirt\/_p_6147709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/diner_t_shirt.jpg\" alt=\"retro future diner\" width=\"400\" height=\"468\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:450px;margin-left:25px;\">\n<p align=\"left\">Along with all  the other things I need to do as I work on these illustrations, at the end of each batch of them I re-render a few in a higher resolution in order to slap them on archival prints, t-shirts, and other gimcracks as <em>Thrilling Tales<\/em> merchandise at my <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/retropolis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Retropolis<\/a> web site.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This time I was more clever than usual, in one way, anyhow: I set up scheduled renderings for about five of the new <em>Clockwork Book<\/em> illustrations &#8211; so that when I got to this point I&#8217;d only need to do the <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/retropolis\/retropolis_pf\/retro-future\/Thrilling-Tales-Steampunk-Airship-T-Shirt\/_p_6151727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/transit\/sec_airship.jpg\" alt=\"Steampunk Airship T-Shirt\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\" border=\"0\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:8px;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\"><\/a>Photoshop work on them. That <em>has<\/em> helped. But these are likely to trickle out over the weeks since I&#8217;m also working away at the new illustrations for Part Two of <em>The Toaster With TWO BRAINS<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">For now, anyway, I&#8217;ve added a couple of T-Shirts &#8211; The <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/retropolis\/retropolis_pf\/retro-future\/Late-Night-at-the-Diner\/_s_439711\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Astro Diner shirt<\/a> shown above, and another shirt with <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/retropolis\/retropolis_pf\/retro-future\/Thrilling-TalesSteampunk-Airship\/_s_439962\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Osgood Finnegan&#8217;s airship<\/a>. In fact there are also <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/retropolis\/retropolis_z\/retropolis_travel_coffee_mugs.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">diner mugs and airship mugs<\/a>, along with a <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/cgi-bin\/retropolis_image_replace2.cgi\/retro_future_posters.bws01-549859028%2Bthrilling-tales-late-night-diner-22x28quot.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poster<\/a> and an <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/retropolis\/prints\/retro_future_prints_late_night_at_the_astro_diner.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archival print<\/a> of <em>Late Night At the Astro Diner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Along the way I&#8217;ve noticed a subtle but annoying problem in one part of the Retropolis store. It&#8217;s not a problem for <em>you<\/em> &#8211; not functionally, anyway &#8211; but the breadcrumbs and sidebars aren&#8217;t doing the magical things they used to do. I have an idea why that is, but I can&#8217;t fix it at the moment.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">But there it is: some new bits of the <em>Thrilling Tales<\/em> on neat things, presented almost neatly. More to follow, if on an erratic schedule.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">\n[tags]thrilling tales, lair of the clockwork book, steampunk, dieselpunk, raygun gothic, gratuitous uses of the suffix &quot;punk&quot;, retro futurism, retro futuristic[\/tags]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with all the other things I need to do as I work on these illustrations, at the end of each batch of them I re-render a few in a higher resolution in order to slap them on archival prints, t-shirts, and other gimcracks as Thrilling Tales merchandise at my Retropolis web site. This time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thrilling-tales","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}