{"id":3633,"date":"2009-03-16T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2009-03-23T19:12:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T23:12:12","slug":"what-it-is-31609","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-31609","title":{"rendered":"What It Is: 3\/16\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading:<\/em> I finished reading Montaigne’s Essays<\/a>\"\" last week, and also finished Liar’s Poker<\/a>\"\". I read The Lemur<\/a>\"\", by Benjamin Black, on Sunday, and will soon get back to Cultural Amnesia<\/a>\"\".<\/p>\n

What I’m listening to:<\/em> A whole ton of The Who, and some Lloyd Cole.<\/p>\n

What I’m watching:<\/em> Iron Man<\/a>\"\" (boo!), In Bruges<\/a>\"\" (wow!), and Synecdoche, New York<\/a>\"\" (I think I’m getting it a little more).<\/p>\n

What I’m drinking:<\/em> Bluecoat gin & Q Tonic<\/p>\n

What Rufus is up to:<\/em> Getting freaked out by the noise of the trains in Ramsey. He may have been bummed that we didn’t take him to the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Morristown with all the other greyhounds<\/a>, but I think the noises there would’ve freaked him out worse than the Ramsey train.<\/p>\n

Where I’m going:<\/em> NYC for Interphex<\/a>! (with a side trip to the Waldorf to meet some people at DCAT<\/a>)<\/p>\n

What I’m happy about:<\/em> What part of “I finished reading Montaigne’s Essays<\/em> last week” didn’t you understand?<\/p>\n

What I’m sad about:<\/em> Being away from Rufus for a few days, but he’s staying with our greyhound-owning friends who took care of him for us last December, so he’ll be fine.<\/p>\n

What I’m pondering:<\/em> What sorta world we’d be living in if In Bruges<\/em> made $582 million in worldwide ticket sales and Iron Man<\/em> made only $33 million, instead of the other way around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading: I finished reading Montaigne’s Essays last week, and also finished Liar’s Poker. I read The Lemur, by Benjamin Black, on Sunday, and will soon get back to Cultural Amnesia. What I’m listening to: A whole ton of The Who, and some Lloyd Cole. What I’m watching: Iron Man (boo!), In Bruges (wow!), … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “What It Is: 3\/16\/09”<\/span><\/a><\/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":[61],"tags":[601,600],"class_list":["post-3633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-rufus-and-or-otis","tag-in-bruges","tag-iron-man"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-WB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4746,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/blogbreak","url_meta":{"origin":3633,"position":0},"title":"Blogbreak!","author":"Gil","date":"December 22, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm taking this week off! I just finished our 430-page year-end issue, so I'm taking a break from everydarnthing! No Unrequired Reading, no wacky literary recommendations, no etc., etc., amen! Come back next week for my big-ol' decade-end post and a special New Year's edition of Unrequired Reading! And have\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2056,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-may-16-2008","url_meta":{"origin":3633,"position":1},"title":"Unrequired Reading: May 16, 2008","author":"Gil","date":"May 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"yeahyeah: make with the Friday-into-the-weekend reading. . . Sinistar scared the living crap out of me. * * * If you only invent one thing in your life, it may as well be this. * * * At least Shane Black survived the '90s and went on to write and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Architecture"","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":637,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/whatcha-readin","url_meta":{"origin":3633,"position":2},"title":"Whatcha readin’?","author":"Gil","date":"August 4, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a summer reading list (PDF) of NYC-types and other smartypants. The official VM fiancee was happy to find that Harold Bloom adores one of her favorite books, John Crowley's Little, Big. My book this week is Madame Bovary, as mentioned a few days ago. On the blogroll to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "literature"","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1223,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-dec-1-2006","url_meta":{"origin":3633,"position":3},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Dec. 1, 2006","author":"Gil","date":"December 1, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Since I moved this blog up to a new version of the WordPress platform, I can do some neat stuff, like putting the rest of this post inside that \"more\" section, so it doesn't take up so much space. The guys at Design Observer posted their holiday reading list. It\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Architecture"","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1264,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/eco-chamber","url_meta":{"origin":3633,"position":4},"title":"Eco Chamber","author":"Gil","date":"December 27, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I finished the Berlin Noir trilogy on Christmas morning. They're fantastic novels, and I recommend them highly. I don't read many mystery novels, but these were amazing (and are highly recommended by Ron Rosenbaum), and I devoured the 830 pages from Thursday to Monday. I'll hit my local library next\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Budapest"","block_context":{"text":"Budapest","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/travel\/budapest"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0060955228","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3071,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-121508","url_meta":{"origin":3633,"position":5},"title":"What It Is: 12\/15\/08","author":"Gil","date":"December 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3633"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3661,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions\/3661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}