{"id":2080,"date":"2008-06-06T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2008-06-04T14:40:30","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T18:40:30","slug":"unrequired-reading-june-6-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-june-6-2008","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: June 6, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My links bring all the boys to the yard.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jessica Helfland laments the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designobserver.com\/archives\/038514.html\" target=\"_blank\">death of makereadies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\/2008\/05\/31\/absolute-maddness\/\" target=\"_blank\">Weapons-grade stupidity<\/a> (and that&#8217;s putting it mildly), on display at El Camino High School.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/content\/feature\/random_roles_jeffrey_tambor\" target=\"_blank\">Heynow<\/a>: an awesome interview with Jeffrey Tambor!<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>I have only drunk at three of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sloshspot.com\/blog\/06-02-2008\/The-10-Oldest-Bars-in-the-United-States-16\" target=\"_blank\">these fine old establishments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Gas prices are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/bwdaily\/dnflash\/content\/may2008\/db20080523_344156.htm\" target=\"_blank\">going up to 13 cents a gallon<\/a>?! Ay, caramba!<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>M. Night Shyamalan: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06012008\/entertainment\/movies\/he_s_not_happening__113421.htm?page=0\" target=\"_blank\">un-happening<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d have named it &#8220;suckstobeyou.com&#8221; but regardless, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2008\/06\/service-lets-yo.html\" target=\"_blank\">this is the greatest web service ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My links bring all the boys to the yard.<\/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":[34],"tags":[179,185],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-gin","tag-jeffrey-tambor","tag-m-night-shyamalan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-xy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12360,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-328-emily-nussbaum","url_meta":{"origin":2080,"position":0},"title":"Episode 328 &#8211; Emily Nussbaum","author":"Gil","date":"July 8, 2019","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 328: Emily Nussbaum \"I come out of the online community and I feel TV criticism specifically is a conversation. 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