{"id":3726,"date":"2009-04-03T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2009-04-03T06:21:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T10:21:36","slug":"unrequired-reading-apr-3-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-apr-3-2009","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Apr. 3, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Links a-plenty! Just click “more”. You know you want to!<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Blow it out yer ass<\/a>, Lenin.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Nabokov keeps revealing mysteries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

A man who once let the music industry change his name to John Cougar decries the death of the music industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Ron Rosenbaum on Shakespeare’s portrait: back in his wheelhouse<\/a>. (Even if he missed the opportunity to compare that glossary segment with Pale Fire<\/em>. . .)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

“I was going to make a biography of Hank Williams, but I’m going to make a prequel to The Thing<\/a> instead!” (To continue laughing at the NYTimes’ coverage of Hollywood, please read this one<\/a>, too.)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Shh! Don’t tell anyone you’re regulating cigarettes<\/a>!<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

New Orleans: proud to swim home<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

“Look, everybody! I’m an asshole<\/a>!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Links a-plenty! Just click “more”. 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