{"id":3266,"date":"2009-01-19T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3266"},"modified":"2009-01-18T21:02:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T02:02:45","slug":"what-it-is-11909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-11909","title":{"rendered":"What It Is: 1\/19\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading:<\/em> Re-reading Montaigne’s “On some verses of Virgil” and a few chapters of Cultural Amnesia<\/a>\"\". Clive James just dropped the unmitigated smackdown on Walter Benjamin. (Boy, I really oughtta start watching these<\/a> sometime.)<\/p>\n

What I’m listening to:<\/em> Pretty random stuff on my iTunes, as I think about compiling another Mad Mix.<\/p>\n

What I’m watching:<\/em> The 3rd season of Arrested Development<\/a>\"\", which is godawful. It’s incredible how off-the-rails the show got.<\/p>\n

What I’m drinking:<\/em> Bluecoat & tonic. And some Pacifico Clara.<\/p>\n

What Rufus is up to:<\/em> Entertaining my pal’s 3-year-old daughter, and missing another<\/em> Sunday hike, thanks to the snow.<\/p>\n

Where I’m going:<\/em> Nowhere special. Although I may take today off to celebrate my black heritage, and drive into NYC to catch Synecdoche, New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What I’m happy about:<\/em> My wife has her first commercial photo shoot today! (Also, the Eagles lost in the NFC Championship game. Again. And my wife & I had a great belated birthday dinner at Chef’s Table<\/a> on Saturday.)<\/p>\n

What I’m sad about:<\/em> Will nobody think of the poor birds<\/a>? (Just kidding: awesome job on landing that Airbus in the Hudson, although it would’ve been even more amazing if he could’ve landed on the deck of the Intrepid.)<\/p>\n

What I’m pondering:<\/em> Selling my 15″ Macbook Pro and using this 13″ Macbook Air as my laptop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading: Re-reading Montaigne’s “On some verses of Virgil” and a few chapters of Cultural Amnesia. Clive James just dropped the unmitigated smackdown on Walter Benjamin. (Boy, I really oughtta start watching these sometime.) What I’m listening to: Pretty random stuff on my iTunes, as I think about compiling another Mad Mix. What I’m … <\/p>\n

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