{"id":4788,"date":"2010-01-01T09:57:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T14:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2010-01-01T09:58:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T14:58:11","slug":"unrequired-reading-jan-1-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-jan-1-2010","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Jan. 1, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy new year! Here’s some links for you! Just click “more”!<\/p>\n

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It’s the worst gadgets of the decade<\/a>!<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

It’s the worst movie of the decade<\/a>!<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

My boss calls it the Flatrion Building<\/a>: flay-tree-on.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Awesomest convict ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

“Zarkov, tell me more about this man Houdini<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

You’ll shoot yer eye out, kid<\/a>!<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I read this<\/a> before my flight down to Louisiana last week.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Metabolic City<\/a>!<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

And, no matter how rough your past year may have been, no matter what travails you face in 2010, be thankful that you’re not going through what Tony Judt is going through<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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