{"id":3431,"date":"2007-06-13T21:50:40","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T04:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2007-06-13T21:50:40","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T04:50:40","slug":"mad-tausig-vs-the-interplanetary-puzzling-peace-patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2007\/06\/13\/mad-tausig-vs-the-interplanetary-puzzling-peace-patrol\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Tausig Vs the Interplanetary Puzzling Peace Patrol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tausig-Interplanetary-Puzzling-Peace-Patrol\/dp\/0974131946'><img src='\/images\/tausig.jpg' align='right'><\/a>Hey, great news! My pal <a href='http:\/\/goopymart.com\/'>Goopymart<\/a>&#8211;the guy with whom I collaborated on <a href='http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/archives\/galleries\/files_are_not_for_sharing'>Files Are Not For Sharing<\/a>&#8211;just illustrated a new book:  <a href='http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tausig-Interplanetary-Puzzling-Peace-Patrol\/dp\/0974131946'>Mad Tausig Vs the Interplanetary Puzzling Peace Patrol<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, two (count &#8217;em:  two) of my friends were involved in the creation of this book, as another buddy of mine, <a href='http:\/\/www.digi-digi.net\/'>Darkpony<\/a> is a co-author.  Sweet.<\/p>\n<p>The book is full of puzzles for kids:  crosswords, anagrams, cryptograms&#8230;even some newer kinds like Sudoku, and a bunch of original kinds too.  A little advanced for Squiggle, but the sort of book I would have loved when I was nine or ten (as a devotee of both GAMES magazine and science-fiction).  Readers work to unravel riddles and stop the Mad Tausig (holder of the world record for &#8220;Most Evil Inventor&#8221;) from hatching his master plot.  And, of course, Goopy&#8217;s drawing are hilariously absurd, as always.<\/p>\n<p>Fun stuff.  Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, great news! My pal Goopymart&#8211;the guy with whom I collaborated on Files Are Not For Sharing&#8211;just illustrated a new book: Mad Tausig Vs the Interplanetary Puzzling Peace Patrol. Actually, two (count &#8217;em: two) of my friends were involved in the creation of this book, as another buddy of mine, Darkpony is a co-author. Sweet. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}