{"id":1624,"date":"2007-08-10T04:30:53","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T09:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-aug-10-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-08-10T04:31:50","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T09:31:50","slug":"unrequired-reading-aug-10-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-aug-10-2007","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Aug. 10, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

The dog days of summer require extra-entertaining links, just to raise us from our doldrums! Good thing I have a bunch for you, dear readers!<\/p>\n

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Are Tish & Snooky<\/a> better or worse names than Boaz & Gil?<\/p>\n

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One of my favorite faux-cialists<\/a> lives in an apartment on the Upper West Side. It’s always cute when she tells me about the need for equality.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a long-ass interview with Joss Whedon<\/a>, which reminds me: I really oughtta get back to watching those Complete Buffy DVDs with my wife.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of my wife, she cannot escape the allure of Food & Wine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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When I read this piece on eco-hypocrisy by celebrities<\/a>, I kept hearing the rant at the end of Denis Leary’s song Asshole<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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VM reader Vince C. sends along news that China’s government will not allow reincarnation without the proper paperwork<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As I tried poking around to come up with a good pun for that last item, I discovered that Tibetan buddhists have a tradition of, um, sculpting with butter<\/a>. Given his cooking practices, my father-in-law would likely make a very large sculpture.<\/p>\n

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My wife recently read Robert Olen Butler’s collection Tabloid Dreams<\/a>, and enjoyed it. Then she discovered that his life is plenty stranger than his fiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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But alcohol mascots are stranger than life<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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