{"id":1687,"date":"2007-10-12T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-oct-12-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-10-12T05:03:16","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T10:03:16","slug":"unrequired-reading-oct-12-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-oct-12-2007","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Oct. 12, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

All the oddball links you can handle, dear readers! Just click “more”!<\/p>\n

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Here’s a really neat piece on pictorial space by Eddie Campbell<\/a>, who’s one of the great cartoonists of our time.<\/p>\n

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Soulless New York<\/a>. (and more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Looks like Andy Pettitte shared his ring of Jesus fire with Scott Brosius<\/a>, during that great Yankees run.<\/p>\n

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Libraries that are much more gorgeous than mine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Hollywood’s least plausible scientists<\/a> (I vote for Keanu).<\/p>\n

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Lie Bot, what is the saddest thing?<\/p>\n

The saddest thing is Anders Nilsen’s comics about the death of his fiancee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Quandt family’s history<\/a> helps explain my unwillingness to buy a German car.<\/p>\n

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The Chinese speak in code<\/a>. (but we all do, especially in e-mail<\/a>, so hey)<\/p>\n

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I take great pride in the fact that I’ve never had to assemble a PowerPoint presentation. In that spirit, I present The Gettysburg Address.ppt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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