{"id":4524,"date":"2009-10-09T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4524"},"modified":"2009-10-08T19:27:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T23:27:25","slug":"unrequired-reading-oct-9-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-oct-9-2009","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Oct. 9, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been another wipeout of a week for me, dear readers. But I’ve got one of my 20-year high school reunions coming up this weekend, so I’m trying to enhealthify. Not that you care. You’re just here to see the latest collection of links that I think you sortamaybe should read. So just click “more”!<\/p>\n

I’m kinda interested in this conversation between Andrew Sullivan and Ta-Nehisi Coates about conservatism, change, and oppression<\/a>, and Coates’ follow-up post about it. This is one of those times I’m reminded that my first-gen status as a Jew in America \u00e2\u20ac\u201d with parents who were children in Europe during the war \u00e2\u20ac\u201d has left me with some peculiar perspectives on those aforementioned topics.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of funny black people: Who Got My Natural Comb<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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Is this going to be the All-Jew \/ All-Black<\/a> installment of Unrequired Reading?<\/p>\n

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Nope! Here’s a beautiful set of photos of the wild terrain of NYC<\/a>, by, um, Joel Meyerowitz. . .<\/p>\n

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What’s in a cup of coffee<\/a>? You mean, besides my very heart and soul?<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

You boob<\/a>!<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

The Older Sang and the C<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n“We goin’ to Sizzler, we goin’ to Sizzler. . .”<\/a> (Remind me to tell you the story of the Fried Shrimp Massacree sometime)<\/p>\n

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Speaking of food fetishes<\/a> (NSFW).<\/p>\n

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They’ll probably do the same thing to my office if I have a heart attack and die on the job<\/a>. However, this will not be out of reverence but because of the booby-traps I’ve set up. Oh, I can’t wait for the day they play “Uninterruptible Power Supply . . . or IED?”<\/p>\n

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I. Am. So. Pissed. Off.<\/a> (Now I’m going to have to hit a Clippers game when I’m in L.A. next month instead. Grr. . .)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been another wipeout of a week for me, dear readers. But I’ve got one of my 20-year high school reunions coming up this weekend, so I’m trying to enhealthify. Not that you care. You’re just here to see the latest collection of links that I think you sortamaybe should read. 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It's a blast! * * * The new Abstract City\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "literature"","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5413,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-july-2-2010","url_meta":{"origin":4524,"position":3},"title":"Unrequired Reading: July 2, 2010","author":"Gil","date":"July 2, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I not only managed to wrap the Top Companies ish by the deadline, I also managed to get you a full dose of Unrequired Reading this week! Now get to reading! Now that I'm done with the big issue, I can get back to writing here on VM! 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