{"id":230,"date":"2007-04-11T23:02:18","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T03:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/11\/lustlab-ad-of-the-week-412\/"},"modified":"2007-04-12T02:24:10","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T06:24:10","slug":"lustlab-ad-of-the-week-412","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/11\/lustlab-ad-of-the-week-412\/","title":{"rendered":"Lustlab Ad of the Week: 4\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This ad introduced me to a new term: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosplay.com\/\">cosplay<\/a>.&#8221; That&#8217;s &#8220;costumes&#8221; + &#8220;play&#8221; &#8211; its devotees enjoy dressing up like anime or video game characters, or maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/images.cosplay.com\/gallery.php?cat=60894&#038;member=1\">unicorn princesses<\/a>. The Japanese text in the balloon, if I got it right, says &#8220;May I have a tissue?&#8221; or &#8220;Tissue?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sailoruranuslorez.jpg\" id=\"image229\" src=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/sailoruranuslorez.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLustlab Ad of the Week\u201d is a comic adaptation of one of the week\u2019s kinky personal ads in Seattle alt-weekly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/\">The Stranger<\/a>, and I post them here every Wednesday. See it on their site <a href=\"http:\/\/thestranger.selectalternatives.com\/gyrobase\/adult\">here<\/a>. The \u201cLustlab Ad of the Week\u201d book collection is scheduled to be released with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/\">Fantagraphics<\/a> in early 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ad introduced me to a new term: &#8220;cosplay.&#8221; That&#8217;s &#8220;costumes&#8221; + &#8220;play&#8221; &#8211; its devotees enjoy dressing up like anime or video game characters, or maybe unicorn princesses. The Japanese text in the balloon, if I got it right, says &#8220;May I have a tissue?&#8221; or &#8220;Tissue?&#8221; \u201cLustlab Ad of the Week\u201d is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/11\/lustlab-ad-of-the-week-412\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lustlab Ad of the Week: 4\/12&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}