Just because I’m on a mini-vacation, it doesn’t mean that Unrequired Reading gets to take a week off!
Jon Hamm: too damned good looking to succeed in movies?
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Kelly Oxford: too damned good looking to be taken seriously? (or humorously?)
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New York: too damned many employees to count? (Seriously: Make it your end-of-summer project to read The Power Broker
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ESPN: too damned subservient to LeBron James?
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Jamie Moyer: too old to feel pain?
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Pale Fire: too damned good of a poem to be trapped in a great novel?
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Bicycles: too damned traumatic for one girl to handle?
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Reality TV: too damned intrusive and stealing a piece of your soul?
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Young Jeff Bezos: too damned clever to be kind?
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Alan Moore: too damned sick of superheroes to keep away from spoken word albums?
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Penn and Teller: too damned innovative to play in New York?
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Great magazine articles: too damned many of them for me to read? (I think I’ve only read four of these; I’d have put Ron Rosenbaum’s The Devil in Long Island on it, too.)