{"id":3534,"date":"2009-03-06T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3534"},"modified":"2009-03-06T09:06:52","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T14:06:52","slug":"unrequired-reading-march-6-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-march-6-2009","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: March 6, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Always with the links! Just click “more”!<\/p>\n

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Mr. Moz, meet Mr. Larkin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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David Simon could’ve stretched that 5th season of The Wire quite a ways<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Cristiano Ronaldo’s nuts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Don’t go back to gradville<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

The game of Risk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The My Year of Flops<\/em> entry you’ve been waiting for: The Love Guru<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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I have long said, “I have worse dentition than Willem Dafoe,” but NYmag’s Daily Intel takes it to a new level<\/a>. (The comments-discussion on the merits of “ugly hot” is priceless.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Te-Nahisi Coates agrees with my contention that the Terry Schiavo case had a seismic impact on the way Americans see the GOP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The commencement speaker at my alma mater? Shakes the Clown<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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