Sorry it’s been such a light week of blogging, dear readers, but work was a bear. It’ll be wrapped up today, and then I can sail into the Memorial Day weekend (sans boat, but you get my drift).<\/p>\n
Here are a bunch of things I would have written about:<\/p>\n
* * *<\/p>\n Now that’s<\/em> creative destruction<\/a>!<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n The nice\/disheartening thing about the Internet is this: if you have an idea, you can be pretty sure that someone else has already written it down. So there’s no need for me to write a little essay about the poor choice of the word “czar” in the American government<\/a>. (It would’ve come off as one of those “airplane food” observations anyway)<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n This trailer<\/a> blew my head open. (One of my coworkers lent me a DVD of a show by the creator, called Paranoia Agent<\/a>. Maybe I’ll check it out this weekend.)<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n One of the Design Observers has a book of essays<\/a> (largely derived from posts he wrote on Design Observer)!<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Milton Friedman causes E.coli<\/a>? Does this mean the phone company killed Kennedy<\/a>?<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Have a great holiday weekend, everybody!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sorry it’s been such a light week of blogging, dear readers, but work was a bear. It’ll be wrapped up today, and then I can sail into the Memorial Day weekend (sans boat, but you get my drift). 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There were plenty of things I could've written about, like these two items:Al Qaeda or Al Capone?What is up with all these\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1570,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/once-more-unto-the-drew-friedman-izer","url_meta":{"origin":1521,"position":4},"title":"Once more unto the Drew Friedman-izer","author":"Gil","date":"June 28, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"PleasepleasePLEASE never let me get written about in the Wall Street Journal:","rel":"","context":"In "The Drew Friedmanizer"","block_context":{"text":"The Drew Friedmanizer","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/the-drew-friedmanizer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5582,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/nothing-but-flowers","url_meta":{"origin":1521,"position":5},"title":"Nothing But Flowers","author":"Gil","date":"September 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"No 9\/11 post from me this year. 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\nThe nexus of Ron Rosenbaum, country music, and cancer<\/a>. (Roseann Cash gets an obligatory nod)<\/p>\n