{"id":148,"date":"2008-06-17T19:13:10","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T23:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=148"},"modified":"2008-06-17T19:13:10","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T23:13:10","slug":"thrilling-tales-the-toaster-with-two-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/17\/thrilling-tales-the-toaster-with-two-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrilling Tales: The Toaster With TWO BRAINS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;text-indent:0px;margin-bottom:12px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/cgi-bin\/cpshop_posters.cgi?i=retropolis_posters\/bws01.263736213\/-\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/Thrilling_Toaster.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Toaster with TWO BRAINS pulp illustration\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">Here&#8217;s a retro science fiction pulp magazine cover for a magazine that doesn&#8217;t exist, but probably ought to: <em>THRILLING TALES OF THE DOWNRIGHT UNUSUAL<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In this imaginary issue we have that nail-biting page turner &#8220;The Toaster with TWO BRAINS&#8221;, in which our heroes delve deep into the hostile lair of Doctor Rognvald, beneath the volcanoes of Iceland &#8211; only to discover that this evil genius has created the ultimate malevolent kitchen appliance: the Toaster with TWO BRAINS! Is it unstoppable? Immovable? Relentless? Horrifying? Unkillable? You bet it is.\n<\/p><p>\nBecause a toaster with one brain isn&#8217;t terrifying. But two? Talk about the heebie-jeebies!\n<\/p><p>\nIf I were able to explain this&#8230;. I wouldn&#8217;t. You can wonder all you like about infant toaster traumas. I&#8217;m <em>not talking<\/em>. Except to observe, as is my habit, that I cooked this thing up to serve fresh to you, dear reader, as an <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/Retropolis_Prints_Toaster_With_Two_Brains.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">archival print<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/cgi-bin\/cpshop_posters.cgi?i=retropolis_posters\/bws01.263736213\/-\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poster<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.printfection.com\/retro-future\/Toaster-with-TWO-BRAINS-T-Shirt\/_p_2755340\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stylish t-shirt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/cgi-bin\/cpshop_posters.cgi?i=retro_cards\/bws01.276370382\/-\/5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">greeting card<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/cgi-bin\/cpshop_posters.cgi?i=sci_fi_mugs\/bws01.276370379\/-\/3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coffee mug<\/a> &#8211; just the thing for that apocalyptic breakfast that the toaster has in mind <em>for us all.<\/em>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a retro science fiction pulp magazine cover for a magazine that doesn&#8217;t exist, but probably ought to: THRILLING TALES OF THE DOWNRIGHT UNUSUAL. In this imaginary issue we have that nail-biting page turner &#8220;The Toaster with TWO BRAINS&#8221;, in which our heroes delve deep into the hostile lair of Doctor Rognvald, beneath the volcanoes [&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-148","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\/148","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=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}