{"id":4202,"date":"2009-07-20T07:12:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T11:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4202"},"modified":"2009-07-20T07:12:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T11:12:04","slug":"what-it-is-72009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-72009","title":{"rendered":"What It Is: 7\/20\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading:<\/em> Killshot<\/a>\"\", by Elmore Leonard, and A Drifting Life<\/a>\"\", by Yoshihiro Tatsumi.<\/p>\n

What I’m listening to:<\/em> Neko Case’s Middle Cyclone<\/a>\"\".<\/p>\n

What I’m watching:<\/em> We tried watching Rachel Getting Married<\/a>, on the recommendation of Robert Wilonsky or someone else I occasionally trust, but every single character was so boring and unlikable that we gave up and watched Mamet’s House of Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What I’m drinking:<\/em> Bluepoint Blueberry Ale.<\/p>\n

What Rufus is up to:<\/em> Hiking, jumping in more bodies of water<\/a>, and otherwise just getting used to the summer heat, now that it’s semi-arrived.<\/p>\n

Where I’m going:<\/em> Nowhere in particular, although I keep thinking I should get into the city sometime to visit friends.<\/p>\n

What I’m happy about:<\/em> That problem with the downstairs freezer was a) what I figured (a blown board in the thermostat) and b) easy and relatively cheap to fix (I’ll install the $60 replacement part myself, although we needed an $80 service call last weekend to diagnose it).<\/p>\n

What I’m sad about:<\/em> That my voice is shot because I tried having a conversation in a noisy bar yesterday afternoon. A bunch of greyhound-owners were having a get-together (sans doggies) at a nearby restaurant\/bar, and evidently the live music (Celtic band Irish Whiskey or somesuch) starts playing at four o’clock on a Sunday afternoon<\/em> there. So now I sound like mid-game Phil Jackson.<\/p>\n

What I’m worried about:<\/em> Eh. Not much of anything. Which may be a sign of depression, but I think it’s more just a general easing of tension after a rough two-month span.<\/p>\n

What I’m pondering:<\/em> The question, “What’s the movie of the decade?” I think I’ll post about it later this week, from my rather limited perspective. At present, my problem is that the two that jump to mind came out in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading: Killshot, by Elmore Leonard, and A Drifting Life, by Yoshihiro Tatsumi. What I’m listening to: Neko Case’s Middle Cyclone. What I’m watching: We tried watching Rachel Getting Married, on the recommendation of Robert Wilonsky or someone else I occasionally trust, but every single character was so boring and unlikable that we gave … <\/p>\n

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