{"id":4097,"date":"2009-06-19T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4097"},"modified":"2009-06-19T05:54:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T09:54:45","slug":"unrequired-reading-june-19-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-june-19-2009","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: June 19, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hot off the presses! Or my RSS reader. Whatever. Just click “more”!<\/p>\n

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In Europe, 200 miles is a long distance. In America, 200 years is a long time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The High Line and the nightmare of Olmstead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The answer’s pretty simple: Ryan Reynolds has no interior life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

At my day job, where I edit a magazine about pharmaceutical outsourcing, I always tell contributing writers, “Please do not write, ‘Communication is key to a win-win relationship.'” (no, really<\/a>.) That said, when you’re outsourcing a multi-billion project, maybe you need to keep a line on your providers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

In Russia, building ugly you<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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To reiterate the point from last week’s edition: crunk is dead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I’ve actually read two books by Cormac McCarthy (eh), so he doesn’t qualify as an 0-fer. This short interview with Harold Bloom<\/a> piques my interest in McCarthy’s Blood Meridian<\/a>\"\". Maybe I’ll try that this summer.<\/p>\n

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I saw Quick Change for the first time a few months ago, and was sad that I hadn’t seen it earlier. “Flores! Flores para los muertos!”<\/a> (Two AV Club links in a row!)<\/p>\n

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Suh-WING, battabattabatta!<\/p>\n

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