{"id":261,"date":"2008-03-19T09:55:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T13:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=261"},"modified":"2008-03-19T10:53:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T14:53:49","slug":"monsters-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Monsters Brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spike.com\/presents\/hulk\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Hulkin\u2019 Abomination\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/screen2_720p.jpg\" title=\"Hulkin\u2019 Abomination\" alt=\"Hulkin\u2019 Abomination\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Assuming I&#8217;m correctly looking at this still from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spike.com\/presents\/hulk\"  target=\"_blank\">trailer<\/a> for the upcoming <em>The Incredible Hulk<\/em> (Edward Norton), the green goliath and his nemesis, The Abomination (Tim Roth), will certainly finish what Michael Bloomberg, re-zoning, and gentrification have only begun: The complete destruction of Harlem&#8217;s 125th St.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a slightly clearer look at a certain theater&#8217;s legendary marquee, from a few frames earlier, below, just in case you actually can&#8217;t believe that Hulk brought all this hell up in Harlem:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/screen4_720p.jpg\" title=\"Hulkin\u2019 Abomination 2\" alt=\"Hulkin\u2019 Abomination 2\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Northern Manhattanites transported from Toronto, however\u2014especially male ones\u2014are going to have their brains looped sideways by this shot:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/zanzibar.jpg\"  title=\"Abomination says he\u2019ll get a lapdance later\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/zanzibar.jpg\" title=\"Abomination says he\u2019ll get a lapdance later\" alt=\"Abomination says he\u2019ll get a lapdance later\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not only is that <em>not<\/em> a NYPD police car, but&#8230;<em>Zanzibar<\/em>? As <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/blogs\/toronto\/archive\/2008\/03\/13\/spot-the-t-o-landmark-in-the-new-incredible-hulk-trailer.aspx\"  target=\"_blank\">this National Post clip<\/a> notes, Zanzibar is a strip club on Toronto&#8217;s Yonge street. Apparently, the transposition of Canadian movie skylines for US metropolitan ones continues unabated. But, please, Canada: If you badly want to send something to Harlem, send <em>Vancouver<\/em>. The last thing Black Main Street really needs is strippers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assuming I&#8217;m correctly looking at this still from a trailer for the upcoming The Incredible Hulk (Edward Norton), the green goliath and his nemesis, The Abomination (Tim Roth), will certainly finish what Michael Bloomberg, re-zoning, and gentrification have only begun: The complete destruction of Harlem&#8217;s 125th St. Here&#8217;s a slightly clearer look at a certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}