{"id":1857,"date":"2008-01-21T10:30:16","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T15:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T10:30:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T15:30:16","slug":"what-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is","title":{"rendered":"What it is"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading:<\/em> John Crowley’s The Solitudes<\/a> (first in his 4-book Aegypt<\/a> cycle) and Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha<\/a> series<\/p>\n

What I’m listening to:<\/em> Angela McCluskey’s The Things We Do<\/a><\/p>\n

What I’m watching:<\/em> the first season of The Wire<\/a><\/p>\n

What I’m drinking:<\/em> Miller’s<\/a> gin<\/p>\n

What I’m happy about:<\/em> the Giants reached the Super Bowl<\/p>\n

<\/a>What I’m sad about:<\/em> the Giants will likely get destroyed in the Super Bowl<\/a>, similar to their 2000 experience against Baltimore, which Jay Mohr characterized as “like when a white high school team from the suburbs faces a black inner-city school”<\/p>\n

What I’m pondering:<\/em> how to finish writing a post about Charles Schulz that really doesn’t support my initial thesis (that is, how Schulz and Andy Warhol exemplify certain trends in postwar American views of celebrity and art)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading: John Crowley’s The Solitudes (first in his 4-book Aegypt cycle) and Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha series What I’m listening to: Angela McCluskey’s The Things We Do What I’m watching: the first season of The Wire What I’m drinking: Miller’s gin What I’m happy about: the Giants reached the Super Bowl What I’m sad … <\/p>\n

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