{"id":2134,"date":"2008-07-18T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2008-07-17T21:58:14","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T01:58:14","slug":"unrequired-reading-july-18-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-july-18-2008","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: July 18, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have come back to tell you all . . . it’s time for links!<\/p>\n

Courtesy of longtime (almost 5 years!?) VM pal Tina B.: it looks like someone else has been paying attention to the visages that go through the Drew Friedmanizer at the Wall Street Journal<\/a>! During an economic downswing, they seem a little less happy. . .<\/p>\n

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I’m not ashamed to say that I spent $3.99 for an iTunes season pass of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog<\/a>. (With a neat business model<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

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Well, maybe Belfast isn’t doing as well<\/a> as I thought. . .<\/p>\n

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Ken Salazar’s argument for cautious capitalism on shale oil<\/a> seems pretty weak to me.<\/p>\n

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Why Derek Jeter sucks<\/a>. (Rufus is still a big fan<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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Gah! Zombie plague in Newark<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Camille Paglia’s taste in music: even worse than mine<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have come back to tell you all . . . it’s time for links!<\/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":[59,17,20,58,19],"tags":[230,217,228,229],"class_list":["post-2134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belfast","category-politics-explicit","category-religion","category-the-drew-friedmanizer","category-urban-issues","tag-cory-booker","tag-derek-jeter","tag-joss-whedon","tag-ken-salazar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-yq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1760,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/when-you-stare-into-the-drew-friedmanizer","url_meta":{"origin":2134,"position":0},"title":"When you stare into the Drew Friedmanizer…","author":"Gil","date":"November 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":". . . sometimes the Drew Friedmanizer blinks.","rel":"","context":"In "The Drew Friedmanizer"","block_context":{"text":"The Drew Friedmanizer","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/the-drew-friedmanizer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/imus.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1600,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/just-another-victim-of-the-drew-friedmanizer","url_meta":{"origin":2134,"position":1},"title":"Just another victim of the Drew Friedmanizer","author":"Gil","date":"July 25, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The good news? 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