yeahyeah: make with the Friday-into-the-weekend reading. . .<\/p>\n
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Sinistar scared the living crap out of me<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n If you only invent one thing in your life, it may as well be this<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n At least Shane Black survived the ’90s and went on to write and direct Kiss Kiss Bang Bang<\/a>, which I adore. Joe Eszterhas, on the other hand, made this<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n I never actually saw any of Rauschenberg’s art, so I checked some out on a slideshow in the NYT’s obit<\/a> on him. I wasn’t very impressed; guess I’m just a philistine. Jack Shafer isn’t very impressed with the fawning obits<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n People who build glass staircases<\/a> shouldn’t throw theoretical jargon.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Keith Law recently finished reading Anthony Powell’s 12-volume Dance to the Music of Time<\/a>, and writes about it<\/a> as part of his “I’m going to read every book from the Time 100 list of best novels since 1923<\/a>” project. (I think; his next book is by Zola, who died 20+ years before 1923.) Looking over that Time<\/em> list quickly, it looks like I’ve read 33 or 34 of their picks, and can guarandamntee you that a whole lot of them ought’nt to be on that list.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Mr. Comics Reporter<\/a>, Tom Spurgeon, offers up the greatest comic character of all time<\/a>. There’s no room for debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" yeahyeah: make with the Friday-into-the-weekend reading. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,22,26,46,4],"tags":[152,149,147,148],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-comics","category-design","category-literature","tag-anthony-powell","tag-joe-eszterhas","tag-robert-rauschenberg","tag-shane-black"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-xa","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1680,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/no-sleep-til-milan","url_meta":{"origin":2056,"position":0},"title":"No sleep ’til Milan","author":"Gil","date":"September 30, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Someday, I'm gonna be able to sleep on a transatlantic flight. 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