{"id":1664,"date":"2007-09-14T06:16:24","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T11:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-sep-14-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-09-14T06:16:24","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T11:16:24","slug":"unrequired-reading-sep-14-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-sep-14-2007","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Sep. 14, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy new year, my Jewish readers! Have a good Ramadan, my Muslim readers! I offer up links for all!<\/p>\n

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Agent Zero on the Glove, and Relationships 101<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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My college had the worst architecture I’ve ever seen on a campus. Friedrich von Blowhard isn’t thrilled with U of Washington’s buildings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

The French know how to cheat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Terrorists need logos, too<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Take care of knee-flab early, or you may face a whopping bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *Subtraction<\/em> write abouts elevators and design<\/a> at the NYTimes<\/em> building. When I was a kid, I enjoyed playing Elevator Action<\/a>. The Maoist-grafittoed sequel that came out in the mid-’90s<\/a> was pretty crazy.<\/p>\n

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Go, ape<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy new year, my Jewish readers! Have a good Ramadan, my Muslim readers! 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Tim Sullivan: no longer an Anthony Kiedis fan. * * * My second favorite blogger named Gil opines on the nature of shark attacks. * * * Dita von Teese, talking about elegant fetishism and more. * * *\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Architecture"","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0195156331","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1119,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequited-reading","url_meta":{"origin":1664,"position":2},"title":"Unrequited reading","author":"Gil","date":"September 21, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Sorry to be writing less frequently, dear readers. I'm in the midst of a work-crunch of monumental proportions. Gotta finish a giant issue of the magazine by next Wednesday, then help put on our annual conference & exhibition Thursday and Friday, then get on a plane Saturday for a chemical\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Architecture"","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1506,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/emerald-architecture","url_meta":{"origin":1664,"position":3},"title":"Emerald Architecture","author":"Gil","date":"May 16, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Haven't posted one of these in a while: a slideshow by Witold Rybczynski about the architecture in Seattle! (here's my slideshow about Seattle, including a bunch of architecture pix. And here's my wife's slideshow, from the same trip to Seattle!)","rel":"","context":"In "Architecture"","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1682,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-oct-5-2007","url_meta":{"origin":1664,"position":4},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Oct. 5, 2007","author":"Gil","date":"October 5, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We're heading home from Milan this morning, dear readers! Wish us a safe trip and enjoy this week's links! Why do European financiers always misread U.S. markets? * * * I discovered the Morgan Library a few months ago on a walk in NYC and want to check it out\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Architecture"","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1836,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-dec-28-2007","url_meta":{"origin":1664,"position":5},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Dec. 28, 2007","author":"Gil","date":"December 28, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I lied, dear readers! Here's a fresh passel of links to see you through the New Year's weekend! It seems that British historians -- legal and otherwise -- have some trouble putting Cromwell and the commonwealth in context. Okay, maybe that sounds like a dull topic, but I found this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Architecture"","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}