{"id":2113,"date":"2008-06-27T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2016-04-16T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T14:06:07","slug":"unrequired-reading-june-27-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-june-27-2008","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: June 27, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

You want links? I got links! Just click “More”!<\/p>\n

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Ticks suck<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“Franco-German friction has never been far below the surface.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

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The Nonist: always with the eerily beautiful<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Correction: Judas will be set apart from<\/em> the holy generation, not for<\/em> the holy generation. Please return to your gnostic misreadings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ya gotta have goals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Erika Nanes gauges men by how they relate to used bookstores<\/a>. I’m betting she doesn’t get laid much.<\/p>\n

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Longtime VM pal Tom Spurgeon has a great post on why the X-Men became popular<\/a>. Just like that Thomas Dolby post I linked to a few weeks ago, I imagine that this isn’t a topic of importance to a great many of you, but a topic of great importance to a few of you. (But that was issue #132<\/em> where Wolverine had the great “I’m gonna kill everybody” monologue, not #133,<\/em> you fool!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You want links? I got links! 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