{"id":3609,"date":"2009-03-13T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2009-03-12T21:32:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T01:32:56","slug":"unrequired-reading-march-13-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-march-13-2009","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: March 13, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ooh! Another Friday the 13th load of Unrequired Reading! Spooky!<\/p>\n

Two music links: an iconic record store shuts down<\/a>, and how do you design album covers in the MP3 era<\/a>?<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Now that Molly Hatchett album cover<\/a> was A-W-E-S-O-M-E.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

We’ll always have Paris<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Patrick Chewing:<\/a> The more I watch this, the less I understand why I find it so funny.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Ricky Gervais & Elmo, on the other hand, is straight-up hilarity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Back to the Future<\/em> week at Eightiesologist!<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. The intro<\/a>!<\/li>\n
  2. The hit single<\/a>!<\/li>\n
  3. The sequel<\/a>!<\/li>\n
  4. The sequel’s sequel<\/a>!<\/li>\n
  5. The ride<\/a>!?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    * * *<\/p>\n

    It’s good to be the king<\/span> deposed prime minister<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Ooh! Another Friday the 13th load of Unrequired Reading! Spooky!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[597,598,596,599,343],"class_list":["post-3609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-back-to-the-future","tag-eightiesologist","tag-frank-frazetta","tag-patrick-ewing","tag-ricky-gervais"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-Wd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2918,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-111708","url_meta":{"origin":3609,"position":0},"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. 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Go, Jon Wilhite! * * * Neil Patrick Harris: OMNIMAN! * *\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "baseball"","block_context":{"text":"baseball","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/baseball"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1614,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-aug-3-2007","url_meta":{"origin":3609,"position":4},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Aug. 3, 2007","author":"Gil","date":"August 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Links a-plenty to ease you into the weekend, dear readers! Enjoy! 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