{"id":2414,"date":"2009-10-01T15:43:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T20:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2015-01-07T13:56:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:56:20","slug":"then-as-farce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=2414","title":{"rendered":"Arab Face, Second As Farce"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thx to the ever-vigilant Ted Swedenburg<\/a> for bringing to my attn the latest episode in the surreal and surprisingly sustained saga of “Arab Money<\/a>” (click the non-HD version to stay here) —<\/p>\n

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Video Games<\/a> | GTA IV: Ballad of Gay Tony<\/a> | Yusuf Amir Trailer<\/a><\/div>\n
XBox 360<\/a> | Playstation 3<\/a> | Nintendo Wii<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\nSo there you have it, folks — an Arab(-American?) thug unironically, but awkwardly, singing Busta’s hook. Pretty much exactly how Bus-a-bus imagined it, no doubt. Virtual reality. Or something.<\/p>\n

The big question, for my I-talian Money<\/a>, is whether it could ever best this monstrosity<\/a> when it comes to hyperreal arabesque hip-hop imperialism? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thx to the ever-vigilant Ted Swedenburg for bringing to my attn the latest episode in the surreal and surprisingly sustained saga of “Arab Money” (click the non-HD version to stay here) — Video Games | GTA IV: Ballad of Gay Tony | Yusuf Amir Trailer XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii So there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[219,404,419,140,409,173,407,285],"class_list":["post-2414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arab","tag-hip-hop","tag-middleeast","tag-orientalism","tag-politricks","tag-us","tag-video","tag-videogames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8337,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions\/8337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}