{"id":1753,"date":"2007-11-02T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-nov-2-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-11-02T05:03:57","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T10:03:57","slug":"unrequired-reading-nov-2-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-nov-2-2007","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Nov. 2, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look out! It’s Dia del Muerte reading!<\/p>\n


\n“You’re about as useful as a one-legged mullet salesman in Key West<\/a>!”<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

6-pack abs, in about an hour<\/a>. No, not an hour a day. Just an hour.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

“Except for Marge — Marge, you tested positive for crack and PCP<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

It’s mandatory that I put in a design post<\/a>, right? (with accompanying slideshow<\/a>, of course)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Stephen Fry: king dork<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

My wife fails to burn the fries<\/a>!<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

An underwater neutrino detector puts BLDG BLOG in mind of H.P. Lovecraft’s From Beyond<\/em><\/a>. (If you’re not tempted to click through, I guess I don’t really know you.)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Speaking of Cthulhu-esque nightmares, welcome to Bergen Mall<\/a>, the only mall I know with its own underworld!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look out! It’s Dia del Muerte reading!<\/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":[46,4,32,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-literature","category-sports","category-sudan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-sh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2150,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-aug-1-2008","url_meta":{"origin":1753,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Aug. 1, 2008","author":"Gil","date":"August 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm recovering from the Bruce show last night. 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Looks like I need to raise my consultancy fees. * * * Or I could move\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":1578,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-july-7-2007","url_meta":{"origin":1753,"position":3},"title":"Unrequired Reading: July 7, 2007","author":"Gil","date":"July 6, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"You know the drill: lots of neat links after \"more\": Like most people, I assumed authoritarian China would overwhelm Hong Kong after the handover. Now I'm starting to think HK's capitalist fervor has infected the rest of the country. Happy 10th anniversary. * * * An Unrequired Reading post without\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Design"","block_context":{"text":"Design","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/design"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1498,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-may-11-2007","url_meta":{"origin":1753,"position":4},"title":"Unrequired Reading: May 11, 2007","author":"Gil","date":"May 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"So many links, so little time. 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Bonfire of the Vanity Fairs. * * * Apple: bad for design? * * * Why do American bazillionaires buy UK fooball clubs? * * * Anne Applebaum, Charles Krauthammer, and Ron Rosenbaum muse about the death of Boris Yeltsin (standard joke: I didn't even know\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\/1753","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=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}