{"id":4236,"date":"2009-07-24T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4236"},"modified":"2009-07-24T05:15:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T09:15:18","slug":"unrequired-reading-july-24-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-july-24-2009","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: July 24, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The All Blacks:<\/a> uniform color, printer’s error, or imperialist racism?<\/p>\n

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Midgets for Coolidge<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Under the High Line<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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They still cheat by sizzling all that butter on your plate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Well, this certainly takes the piss out of Harvard’s Business School<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Boy, do I miss Madeline Kahn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What comics are unfilmable<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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Here’s a pretty good first-person account by a baseball player who cops to using HGH<\/a>. And to looking like William Hung in high school.<\/p>\n

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The 10 oldest cities<\/a>: visit ’em before they’re, um, even older!<\/p>\n

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Battle of the cankles<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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