{"id":1787,"date":"2007-11-23T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-nov-23-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-11-23T07:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T12:56:00","slug":"unrequired-reading-nov-23-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-nov-23-2007","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Nov. 23, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time for some post-Thanksgiving links, dear readers! Happy Black Friday! Go buy me stuff<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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The NYTimes reviews its new building<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Good thing they didn’t get Frank Gehry to design it<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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I’m sad that my personal fave<\/a> was nowhere near gaudy enough to win placement on the Seven Wonders of the Totalitarian World<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Why Amazon’s Kindle e-reader inherently sucks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I don’t blame Richard Dreyfus for bailing on his family at the end of Close Encounters<\/a>. If I lived in Muncie, I’d probably look for an out, too…<\/p>\n

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Follow the mail<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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My wife’s favorite T-shirt<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time for some post-Thanksgiving links, dear readers! Happy Black Friday! 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