{"id":3071,"date":"2008-12-15T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3071"},"modified":"2008-12-15T05:45:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T09:45:52","slug":"what-it-is-121508","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-121508","title":{"rendered":"What It Is: 12\/15\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading:<\/em> Judenhass<\/a>, a comic book meditation on the Holocaust by Dave Sim. “Flies on the Ceiling,” the featured story in the first issue of Love & Rockets<\/em> I ever bought. More Montaigne. Also, finished Plutarch’s first two Lives (Theseus & Romulus).<\/p>\n

What I’m listening to:<\/em> A mix I’m trying to put together.<\/p>\n

What I’m watching:<\/em> Weirdly enough, I’ve now seen all 3 Bourne movies, even though I’m uninterested in the franchise. They have an unerring tendency to show up in HD on the rare occasions that I’m home alone and clicking around the channels. I’m happy that Matt Damon is one of the world’s biggest action heroes, for the sheer humor value. I liked all the location shoots, which made it feel like the movies were made to get overseas tax breaks. And we finished the first season of Arrested Development, which was a hoot.<\/p>\n

What I’m drinking:<\/em> Not much of anything. No reason.<\/p>\n

What Rufus is up to:<\/em> Hiking in Wawayanda State Park after an ice storm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Where I’m going:<\/em> No plans, but one of our neighbors is having a holiday party next weekend, so we’ll meander over to that. Oh, and our office holiday party is this Friday. Gotta write some jokes for that.<\/p>\n

What I’m happy about:<\/em> I’ll be done with the big year-end issue by the end of the week.<\/p>\n

What I’m sad about:<\/em> Not getting too much holiday shopping done yet.<\/p>\n

What I’m pondering:<\/em> Whether it was daring of me to upgrade my blog to WordPress 2.7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading: Judenhass, a comic book meditation on the Holocaust by Dave Sim. “Flies on the Ceiling,” the featured story in the first issue of Love & Rockets I ever bought. More Montaigne. Also, finished Plutarch’s first two Lives (Theseus & Romulus). What I’m listening to: A mix I’m trying to put together. What … <\/p>\n

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