{"id":1922,"date":"2008-02-26T16:36:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T21:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-official-newspaper-of-gil-roth\/"},"modified":"2008-10-04T12:55:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T16:55:55","slug":"the-official-newspaper-of-gil-roth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-official-newspaper-of-gil-roth","title":{"rendered":"The official newspaper of Gil Roth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, we began receiving the New York Sun<\/a>, I think as an add-on to our Wall Street Journal<\/a> subscription. I’m not entirely sure. I mean, I do know that the owner of our company canceled our office subscription to the New York Times<\/a> a few years ago because he, um, disagreed with its political agenda.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I was reading the Arts+ section of the Sun<\/em> at the lunchtable today when I discovered that the section’s editor is actually . . . my alter ego!<\/p>\n

How else can we explain the page 18 & 19 spread of today’s paper featuring this double-whammy:<\/p>\n

Mysticism in Youth<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Barbara Probst Solomon’s review of the early diaries of Jewish mystic & scholar Gershom Scholem<\/p>\n

With Gasol, Lakers Now Look Unstoppable<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c John Hollinger’s weekly power rankings of the NBA<\/p>\n

Toss in a front-page piece on Louis I. Kahn’s travel sketches<\/a>, and the only conclusion to draw is that my lack of sleep is merely a cover for Tyler Durden-like plot to redefine arts & leisure in my own demented image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, we began receiving the New York Sun, I think as an add-on to our Wall Street Journal subscription. I’m not entirely sure. I mean, I do know that the owner of our company canceled our office subscription to the New York Times a few years ago because he, um, disagreed with its political agenda. … <\/p>\n

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I also hope he's given as much range in his assignments as he was at the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "literature"","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2530,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/under-the-sun","url_meta":{"origin":1922,"position":4},"title":"Under the Sun","author":"Gil","date":"September 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Barring a major investor jumping in during a time of financial panic, it looks like the Official Newspaper of Gil Roth will be shutting down in a week. How's today's Arts+ section looking? Victor Davis Hanson reviews Martin Creveld's The Culture of War: \"he presents himself as a Thucydidean\"! Steven\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":2584,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sunset","url_meta":{"origin":1922,"position":5},"title":"Sunset","author":"Gil","date":"September 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The Official Newspaper of Gil Roth is no more. 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