{"id":4073,"date":"2009-06-15T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2009-06-15T08:32:38","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T12:32:38","slug":"what-it-is-61509","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-61509","title":{"rendered":"What It Is: 6\/15\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading:<\/em> Finished Tatsumi’s Good-Bye<\/a>\"\" collection, and holy crap did he turn dark in 1971-2! Also, started Plutarch’s life of Timoleon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What I’m listening to:<\/em> My iTunes library, on shuffle. I’ve been working at home a lot (keeping an eye on Rufus), so I haven’t been driving much. Hence, not much music.<\/p>\n

What I’m watching:<\/em> Adam’s Rib<\/a>, Solaris<\/a> (Soderbergh, not Tarkovsky), and Hellboy II: The Golden Army<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What I’m drinking:<\/em> Miller’s & Q Tonic, and Bardolino Chiaretto 2007 ros\u00c3\u00a9.<\/p>\n

What Rufus is up to:<\/em> Recovering faster than we could’ve hoped, and back to his full (1- to 1.5-mile) walks! If he gets his endurance up by next weekend, we’ll take him out for a Sunday grey-hike!<\/p>\n

Where I’m going:<\/em> Nowhere. It’s a thrilling life, I tellsya.<\/p>\n

What I’m happy about:<\/em> That my wife, half-watching this trailer on Robert Wilonsky’s<\/a> Ultimate Trailer Show<\/em> (which really should have its own website), perked up after a few seconds and said, “Oh, it’s the other guy from that Peter Riegert<\/a> movie!” Which would be Local Hero<\/a>. Which would be yet another reason why I love her so.<\/p>\n

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Also, we took one look at this movie —<\/p>\n

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— and she said, “It’s your boyfriend, Sam Rockwell!” Oh, and she took care of Rufus for a few hours on Saturday while I went out, ran some errands, and had a little time alone.<\/p>\n

What I’m sad about:<\/em> That Timoleon had to let his friends kill his brother Timophanes. (Seriously: Plutarch’s story of his life<\/a> is just amazing, especially when he gets to the segment about Dionysus the younger’s post-tyrant life in Corinth.)<\/p>\n

What I’m worried about:<\/em> That I’ll go ever stir-crazier, working at home.<\/p>\n

What I’m pondering:<\/em> Whether Mickael Pietrus<\/a> is lying about being French and is actually from Rapa Nui<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading: Finished Tatsumi’s Good-Bye collection, and holy crap did he turn dark in 1971-2! Also, started Plutarch’s life of Timoleon. What I’m listening to: My iTunes library, on shuffle. I’ve been working at home a lot (keeping an eye on Rufus), so I haven’t been driving much. Hence, not much music. What I’m … <\/p>\n

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