{"id":2337,"date":"2008-08-29T05:45:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T09:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2337"},"modified":"2008-08-29T05:43:35","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T09:43:35","slug":"unrequired-reading-aug-29-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-aug-29-2008","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Aug. 29, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long weekend, dear American readers! Better fill it up with lots of oddball links! Just click more!<\/p>\n

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How do you really<\/em> feel, about Jay Mariotti’s departure<\/a>, Mr. Ebert?<\/p>\n

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Rupert Murdoch cares not for your silly books<\/a>! (seriously, book publishing is such<\/em> a minuscule contributor to News Corp.’s bottom line)<\/p>\n

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Speaking of stupidity in publishing, you’re stupid<\/a>. No one in book publishing is saying, “We need to act more like Nick Denton.”<\/p>\n

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Let me get this straight: we’re supposed to feel sad for architects whose main job was designing impossible structures<\/a> that were suited for YES album covers? Continue with your batshit-crazy pity-party, Mr. Ouroussoff.<\/p>\n

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Michael Blowhard has a pretty neat post about retirement<\/a>, as well as the process of counting down the days.<\/p>\n

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And speaking of work<\/a>. . .<\/p>\n

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Just another reason the New York Sun<\/em> is my favorite NYC-area local area paper: time for a retrospective on J.M.W. Turner and Ruskin<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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People giving the Dynamic Tower static<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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My pen is — oh, never mind. Here’s a blast from the past: I, Pencil<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Whoops! Constitution<\/a>! (naturally, no mention of Gitmo in Obama’s acceptance speech last night)<\/p>\n

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Today’s the 3rd anniversary of the flood of New Orleans. Nicole Gelinas has an article on the progress that’s been made<\/a>. Here’s one of my sadder pictures from our trip down there six weeks after the storm:
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and my rambles from that trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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