{"id":4872,"date":"2010-01-18T07:08:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T12:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4872"},"modified":"2010-01-18T07:11:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T12:11:25","slug":"what-it-is-11810","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-11810","title":{"rendered":"What It Is: 1\/18\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading:<\/em> Cloud Atlas<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

What I’m listening to:<\/em> Welcome to the Pleasuredome<\/a>\"\", Who Are You<\/a>\"\", White City: A Novel<\/a>\"\", and some B.S. Report podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n

What I’m watching:<\/em> In the Loop<\/a>\"\". Are you telling me you haven’t wathed it yet?<\/p>\n

What I’m drinking:<\/em> DH Krahn<\/a> & Q Tonic<\/p>\n

What Rufus & Otis are up to:<\/em> Their first Sunday greyhound hike together.<\/p>\n

Where I’m going:<\/em> Nowhere! So don’t try and get me to go anywhere.<\/p>\n

What I’m happy about:<\/em> Not being in Haiti, I guess.<\/p>\n

What I’m sad about:<\/em> I think I’m going through that seasonal affective disorder. I’ve just sorta generally been down this past week, not just because of my pal Sang’s death. Also, my iPod repair ultimately failed, so I had to order up a new one.<\/p>\n

What I’m worried about:<\/em> That I won’t get round to writing that Books O’ The Decade post, nor the Emerson seminar one. I gotta buckle down. You guys deserve it.<\/p>\n

What I’m pondering:<\/em> Who to cheer for if we end up with a Saints\/Jets Superbowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading: Cloud Atlas What I’m listening to: Welcome to the Pleasuredome, Who Are You, White City: A Novel, and some B.S. Report podcasts What I’m watching: In the Loop. Are you telling me you haven’t wathed it yet? What I’m drinking: DH Krahn & Q Tonic What Rufus & Otis are up to: … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “What It Is: 1\/18\/10”<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1gA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4888,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-2110","url_meta":{"origin":4872,"position":0},"title":"What It Is: 2\/1\/10","author":"Gil","date":"February 1, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"What I'm reading: Finished Cloud Atlas and went through some back issues of Fantastic Man. What I'm listening to: This Is How It Feels, and Pure, by The Golden Palominos. What I'm watching: Monsters, Inc., The Philadelphia Story, and Thief. Also, I watched the first two episodes of Season 1\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0375507256","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4349,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-81709","url_meta":{"origin":4872,"position":1},"title":"What It Is: 8\/17\/09","author":"Gil","date":"August 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"What I'm reading: Moby Dick, The Jew of New York, The Nobody, and Everybody is Stupid Except for Me. What I'm listening to: Arular, by M.I.A., Yes by Pet Shop Boys, and Welcome to the Pleasuredome by Frankie Goes to Hollywood (thanks to their roof-raising performance in that Trevor Horn\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Religion"","block_context":{"text":"Religion","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0199535728","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4860,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-11110","url_meta":{"origin":4872,"position":2},"title":"What It Is: 1\/11\/10","author":"Gil","date":"January 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"What I'm reading: Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell (look! there's proof!). Since I haven't gotten back to my Man Out of Time decade-trospective on books, I thought I'd check out one novel that's regarded as a Tops Of The Decade. Also, Emerson's Divinity School Address for a St. John's Alumni\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Ralph Waldo Emerson\"","block_context":{"text":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/tag\/ralph-waldo-emerson"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0375507256","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3735,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-4609","url_meta":{"origin":4872,"position":3},"title":"What It Is: 4\/6\/09","author":"Gil","date":"April 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"What I'm reading: Franny and Zooey, and Top 10 Season Two. What I'm listening to: Who Are You, some Neko Case. What I'm watching: The final four and the premiere of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, which was scheduled on HBO to take the slot of Eastbound & Down.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"J.D. Salinger\"","block_context":{"text":"J.D. Salinger","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/tag\/jd-salinger"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0316769029","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3942,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-51809","url_meta":{"origin":4872,"position":4},"title":"What It Is: 5\/18\/09","author":"Gil","date":"May 18, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"What I'm reading: Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard, George Sprott: 1894-1975, by Seth, Yoshihiro Tatsumi's Abandon the Old in Tokyo. What I'm listening to: The soundtrack to the Life Aquatic, and a new Mad Mix I'm assembling. What I'm watching: Bottle Shock, some Yankees games, and some game 7s in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis"","block_context":{"text":"Adventures in Rufus and\/or Otis","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/adventures-in-rufus-and-or-otis"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0571169341","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4959,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-21510","url_meta":{"origin":4872,"position":5},"title":"What It Is: 2\/15\/10","author":"Gil","date":"February 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"What I'm reading: Alec: The Years Have Pants, The Troublemakers, and Consider the Lobster. What I'm listening to: You Could Start a Fight in an Empty House, by Angela McCluskey. I'm hoping it'll tide me over till the next Telepopmusik record. What I'm watching: I Love You, Man, In the\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1603090479","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872","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=4872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4873,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions\/4873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}