{"id":4686,"date":"2009-11-23T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4686"},"modified":"2009-11-22T21:06:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T02:06:36","slug":"what-it-is-112309","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-112309","title":{"rendered":"What It Is: 11\/23\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>What I&#8217;m reading:<\/em> Finished up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0306802724?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0306802724\">When The Shooting Stops &#8230; The Cutting Begins: A Film Editor&#8217;s Story<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0306802724\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>. The penultimate chapter \u00e2\u20ac\u201d detailing how <em>Annie Hall<\/em> was salvaged \u00e2\u20ac\u201d was phenomenal. Not sure what my main book will be after that.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m listening to:<\/em> The Cars&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00124DS70?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00124DS70\">Greatest Hits<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00124DS70\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>, Coconut Records&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000WG8D3I?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000WG8D3I\">Nighttiming<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000WG8D3I\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>, and Rush&#8217;s greatest hits collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000W1QWVI?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000W1QWVI\">Spirit of Radio<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000W1QWVI\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000W1TJSQ?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000W1TJSQ\">Signals<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000W1TJSQ\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>. Man, Rush was awesome. Just call me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Rush\/_\/The+Analog+Kid\" target=\"_blank\">The Analog Kid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m watching:<\/em> A little NFL, a little NBA, the last couple of Rachel Zoe Projects (cleaning out the DVR), some Mythbusters (go, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pu3FwgIHsQA\">exploding water heater<\/a> redux!) and Anchorman (decompressing on Sunday night).<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m drinking:<\/em> Hendrick&#8217;s &amp; Q-Tonic.<\/p>\n<p><em>What Rufus is up to:<\/em> Gaining a &#8220;little&#8221; brother, Otis B. Driftwood!<\/p>\n<p><em>Where I&#8217;m going:<\/em> Down to Philadelphia next Friday for my <em>other<\/em> 20th high school reunion.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m happy about:<\/em> That <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002T4GXUG?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002T4GXUG\">In The Loop<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002T4GXUG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> comes out on DVD the day after my birthday in January! Pre-order: accomplished!<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m sad about:<\/em> Letting work, travel, new dog, etc. derail my <a href=\"http:\/\/nanowrimo.org\" target=\"_blank\">National Novel Writing Month<\/a> project. Grr.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m worried about:<\/em> All the acclimating that Otis has to do; he seems much more prey-driven than Rufus was when we got him in March 2008. He also wants to jump over the baby-gate that cordons off our kitchen, which is a real problem.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m pondering:<\/em> Why you never call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I&#8217;m reading: Finished up When The Shooting Stops &#8230; The Cutting Begins: A Film Editor&#8217;s Story. The penultimate chapter \u00e2\u20ac\u201d detailing how Annie Hall was salvaged \u00e2\u20ac\u201d was phenomenal. Not sure what my main book will be after that. What I&#8217;m listening to: The Cars&#8217; Greatest Hits, Coconut Records&#8217; Nighttiming, and Rush&#8217;s greatest hits &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-112309\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What It Is: 11\/23\/09&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-rufus-and-or-otis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1dA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4688,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions\/4688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}