{"id":1853,"date":"2008-01-18T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-jan-18-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T21:31:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T02:31:45","slug":"unrequired-reading-jan-18-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-jan-18-2008","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Jan. 18, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only the best in Unrequired Reading for you, dear readers! Just click “more”!<\/p>\n


\nLook! Anthony Bourdain’s got his own blog<\/a>! (Plus, here’s a pretty neat interview<\/a> he did with the AV Club.)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

In April, the Superdome will become the SuperVagDome<\/a>. (I guess the new Chinese national stadium<\/a> was booked.)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

As a manlyman antidote to that previous item, here’s a bunch of ballparks getting demolished<\/a>.
\n* * *<\/p>\n

Keith Law inventively drops the smackdown<\/a> on the notion that Jim Rice should get into baseball’s Hall of Fame. (I think it’s a neat read, even for people who aren’t baseball fans.)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Happy anniversary, portly pepperpot<\/a>!
\n* * *<\/p>\n

In closing, I give you the rubber-band minigun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only the best in Unrequired Reading for you, dear readers! 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