{"id":1955,"date":"2008-03-17T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-31708\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T05:45:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T09:45:10","slug":"what-it-is-31708","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-31708","title":{"rendered":"What it is: 3\/17\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading:<\/em> During the weekend, I finished Love & Sleep<\/a>, Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha<\/a> comic and Darwyn Cooke’s The New Frontier<\/a>. I’m continuing to work on Retired Racing Greyhounds for Dummies<\/a>. I have 6 weeks until the third volume of AEgypt<\/a> gets reissued, but this week’ll get spent pounding out the April issue and designing an advertiser’s supplement, so I doubt there’ll be much book-reading going on.<\/p>\n

What I’m listening to:<\/em> Dummy<\/a>, by Portishead<\/p>\n

What I’m watching:<\/em> 2nd season of The Wire<\/a> (two episodes remaining), No Country for Old Men<\/a>, and Super Bowl XLII Champions: NY Giants<\/a> DVD<\/p>\n

What I’m drinking:<\/em> Tim Horton’s coarse grind<\/a> (French press style), a gift from my pals in Providence<\/p>\n

Where I’m going:<\/em> nowhere this week<\/p>\n

What I’m happy about:<\/em> Rufus is doing much better on the stairs.<\/p>\n

What I’m sad about:<\/em> Closing the crate door on the poor guy when I go to work in the morning, even though lots of people — including veterinarians and greyhound owners — told me not to get upset about doing it.<\/p>\n

What I’m pondering:<\/em> Whether I should get a microchip implanted that will give me an electric shock anytime I go more than 3 days without writing back to e-mails from friends or family. I feel like a heel lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading: During the weekend, I finished Love & Sleep, Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha comic and Darwyn Cooke’s The New Frontier. I’m continuing to work on Retired Racing Greyhounds for Dummies. I have 6 weeks until the third volume of AEgypt gets reissued, but this week’ll get spent pounding out the April issue and designing … <\/p>\n

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