{"id":4028,"date":"2009-06-05T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4028"},"modified":"2009-06-04T17:03:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T21:03:14","slug":"unrequired-reading-june-5-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-june-5-2009","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: June 5, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, where did I leave those links? Oh, yeah! Right under the “more” link!<\/p>\n

I can’t think of a good way to write about this post<\/a>, but I’ve been saving it for nearly a month, so here it is.<\/p>\n

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This shit always happens in Harlem<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As my houseguests will attest, my gin & tonics tend to get you blown up. However, here’s another formula for an explosive cocktail<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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That sonofabitch Chocula is spreading rumors again<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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P.J. O’Rourke wonders where the horses went<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Last year, I goofed on the 2012 apocalyptic cult in a profile about Pfizer. This year, Ron Rosenbaum eschews the Lipitor angle and goes after 2012’s jugular<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What we talk about when we talk about publishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“Officials who have seen the design for the Brooklyn arena<\/a> say that while it resembles Conseco Fieldhouse, it also bears a likeness to an ‘airplane hangar.'”<\/p>\n

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Anytime I lament the New Jerseyfication of New York City, I have to remind myself that there are boneheads like James Wolcott<\/a> who want to swing so far in the opposite direction that they idealize murder-culture, while writing for a magazine whose offices are in a nice glass tower that was built to “revitalize” Times Square.<\/p>\n

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Frank Lloyd Wright was a monstrous Legotist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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