{"id":1384,"date":"2007-03-16T04:50:47","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T09:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-mar-16-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-03-16T04:50:47","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T09:50:47","slug":"unrequired-reading-mar-16-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-mar-16-2007","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Mar. 16, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some links I came across but didn&#8217;t have time to write about.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>City Journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/rev2007-03-09hs.html\" target=\"_blank\">reviews a biography<\/a> of Pistol Pete Maravich.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Taki Theodoracopulos on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takimag.com\/site\/article\/andy_and_me\/\" target=\"_blank\">20th anniversary of Andy Warhol&#8217;s death<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Join the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/index.php?\/site\/article\/2956\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yid Army<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/pf.php?id=49501\" target=\"_blank\">modernist architecture fail<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/index.php?name=News&amp;sid=1681\" target=\"_blank\">five worst comedies ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.designobserver.com\/archives\/023287.html\" target=\"_blank\">Art Director Ken<\/a> is even better than, um, <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/wtf_inc\/4081822.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alternative Lifestyle Ken<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>I refuse to believe that <a href=\"http:\/\/gofugyourself.typepad.com\/go_fug_yourself\/2007\/03\/rock_me_amafugg.html\" target=\"_blank\">this is Tom Hulce<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some links I came across but didn&#8217;t have time to write about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,22,2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-basketball","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-mk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17208,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-616-ken-krimstein","url_meta":{"origin":1384,"position":0},"title":"Episode 616 &#8211; Ken Krimstein","author":"Gil","date":"December 10, 2024","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 616: Ken Krimstein \"Prague was to Einstein as the apple was to Newton. 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