{"id":3198,"date":"2009-01-07T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2009-01-06T18:58:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T23:58:24","slug":"throw-me-a-bone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/throw-me-a-bone","title":{"rendered":"Throw me a bone"},"content":{"rendered":"

After giving me the double kick in the nuts of closing down both the New York Sun and my favorite Thai restaurant in NYC last year, the universe offers up a handy made-for-Gil-Roth moment<\/a>: the My Year of Flops writer<\/a> reviews With Nails<\/a>\"\", the film diaries of Richard E. Grant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Plus, the makers of the awesome Q Tonic<\/a> were so happy that I offered some feedback on their product that they just sent me a 4-pack of the stuff!<\/p>\n

It seems the cosmos has made a New Year’s resolution to be nicer to me! (I promise I’ll get around to reading The Wah-Wah Diaries<\/a>\"\".)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After giving me the double kick in the nuts of closing down both the New York Sun and my favorite Thai restaurant in NYC last year, the universe offers up a handy made-for-Gil-Roth moment: the My Year of Flops writer reviews With Nails, the film diaries of Richard E. Grant. Plus, the makers of the … <\/p>\n

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We knew going in that it'd be a pricey meal; after all, the restaurant is in the shadow of Masa, the most expensive dinner in NYC (which has a $200 fee if you don't cancel your reservation\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Adventures in Gin"","block_context":{"text":"Adventures in Gin","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/adventures-in-gin"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2918,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-111708","url_meta":{"origin":3198,"position":1},"title":"What It Is: 11\/17\/08","author":"Gil","date":"November 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"What I'm reading: You Know Me, Al, by Ring Lardner. A pal gave this to me for my birthday a few years ago. I haven't read it, but I noticed that it's available on Manybooks for my Kindle, so I loaded it up for this trip. 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