{"id":4638,"date":"2009-11-06T07:04:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T12:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4638"},"modified":"2009-11-06T07:08:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T12:08:37","slug":"unrequired-reading-nov-6-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-nov-6-2009","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Nov. 6, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Off to L.A. this weekend, dear readers! I’ll be busy with an online project for work, so there may be no “What It Is” on Monday. Like you care. Anyway, since you’re just here for another installment of my idiosyncratic links, just click “more”!<\/p>\n

Hall & Oates<\/a>: possessed of a more extensive, analytical vocabulary than I expected.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Neat slideshow\/profile of Augustus Saint-Gaudens<\/a>, a sculptor whom I knew nothing about.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

A million-year time-out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

The takeaway? Keep your laptop with you<\/a> if you suspect that Mossad is out to blow up your nuclear site.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Seriously: Israelis + technology = doubleplusgood<\/a> (and not just because they’re Jews)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Speaking of Jews, it seems there’s a secret mission to get the few remaining ones out of Yemen, and over to . . . Monsey, NY<\/a>. I imagine a scene where the local Hasidic Jews turn to each other and say, “I thought we<\/em> were extreme!”<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Could a baguette have been sent back in time<\/a> to wreck the Large Hadron Collider? (That’s a reference to this previous Unrequired Reading item<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Sweet article about a high school girl who worked as a secretary \u00e2\u20ac\u201d oops, “supersecretary”<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d at Warhol’s Factory in the ’60’s.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

What’s left behind when a magazine gets closed down<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

The NYC of Taxi Driver, then and now: parts I<\/a>, II<\/a>, and III<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

And, courtesy of my pal Tina, an editorial about Windows Vs. Mac<\/a> that inspires shitasmia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Off to L.A. this weekend, dear readers! I’ll be busy with an online project for work, so there may be no “What It Is” on Monday. Like you care. 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