{"id":4883,"date":"2010-01-29T04:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4883"},"modified":"2010-01-28T17:36:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:36:11","slug":"unrequired-reading-jan-29-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-jan-29-2010","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Jan. 29, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeahyeah: first post in a while. I&#8217;m still struggling with my thoughts, writing, etc. I got re-walloped a few days ago by the news that a pal of mine from St. John&#8217;s dropped dead of an aneurysm at 36 last week (she was an undergrad when I was there as an, um, overgrad.) I have ups and downs, but I&#8217;m trying to get back to the regular posts \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Unrequired Reading and What It Is \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and hope to get around to some other stuff.<\/p>\n<p>So just click &#8220;more&#8221; already!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/29\/books\/29salinger.html\">bad day for bananafish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit, I never wondered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popmatters.com\/pm\/post\/119339-martha-davis-20-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\">what Martha Davis was up to<\/a> after The Motels.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/01\/the-best-architecture-of-the-decade\/\" target=\"_blank\">Best architecture of the decade<\/a>! Or not, depending on your tastes!<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>We used to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorpy.com\/node\/7572\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> when I was a kid.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Sun-Ra would totally have vacationed <a href=\"http:\/\/bldgblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/tama-re-or-egypt-of-west.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/201001\/ballard\" target=\"_blank\">Hitchens on J.G. Ballard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Other people take coffee <a href=\"http:\/\/theotherblackstuff.ie\/guides\/tedious-meters\/\" target=\"_blank\">far more seriously than I do<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/22\/AR2010012202602.html\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Harvey Oswald<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/observatory.designobserver.com\/entry.html?entry=12447\" target=\"_blank\">Time bomb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Serpico: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/24\/nyregion\/24serpico.html\" target=\"_blank\">Still Serpico-izing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/ebert\/2010\/01\/smash_his_camera_but_not_immed.html\" target=\"_blank\">Papa Paparazzi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeahyeah: first post in a while. I&#8217;m still struggling with my thoughts, writing, etc. I got re-walloped a few days ago by the news that a pal of mine from St. John&#8217;s dropped dead of an aneurysm at 36 last week (she was an undergrad when I was there as an, um, overgrad.) I have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-jan-29-2010\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unrequired Reading: Jan. 29, 2010&#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":[25,46,4],"tags":[138,372,627,672,956,271,957,285,959,958],"class_list":["post-4883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-design","category-literature","tag-christopher-hitchens","tag-j-edgar-hoover","tag-jd-salinger","tag-jg-ballard","tag-martha-davis","tag-michael-bierut","tag-paul-harvey","tag-roger-ebert","tag-ron-galella","tag-serpico"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1gL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2936,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-nov-21-2008","url_meta":{"origin":4883,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Nov. 21, 2008","author":"Gil","date":"November 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I took yesterday off to recover from my biz-trip to Atlanta. When I got back to my home computer, I discovered a mere 1,600 items in my RSS feed. So here's a new set of links, all freshly pressed for you! Just click more! Huxtable! Lopate! It's on! * *\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2237,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-aug-15-2008","url_meta":{"origin":4883,"position":1},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Aug. 15, 2008","author":"Gil","date":"August 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"It's time for an all-architecture edition of Unrequired Reading! So if you don't care about this stuff, go visit the Unrequired Reading archives instead! Frank Gehry tries to justify his work. * * * Rem Koolhaas tries to justify his work. * * * Is Zaha Hadid's work past the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5082,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-march-12-2010","url_meta":{"origin":4883,"position":2},"title":"Unrequired Reading: March 12, 2010","author":"Gil","date":"March 12, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"It's Unrequired Reading time! You know you wanna check out this week's load o' links! London: the past ain't what it used to be. * * * The hidden thread of Martin Scorsese. * * * I've written before about how NYTimes architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff sucks. Here's a designer's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307273539","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1384,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-mar-16-2007","url_meta":{"origin":4883,"position":3},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Mar. 16, 2007","author":"Gil","date":"March 16, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are some links I came across but didn't have time to write about. City Journal reviews a biography of Pistol Pete Maravich. * * * Taki Theodoracopulos on the 20th anniversary of Andy Warhol's death. * * * Join the Yid Army. * * * Did modernist architecture fail?\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1875,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-feb-1-2008","url_meta":{"origin":4883,"position":4},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Feb. 1, 2008","author":"Gil","date":"February 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I bring so much value, you oughtta pay me for these links! (now click \"more\"!) And speaking of getting paid, the author of Money is earning about $6,000\/hour to teach at U of Manchester. Looks like I need to raise my consultancy fees. * * * Or I could move\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1849,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-jan-11-2008","url_meta":{"origin":4883,"position":5},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Jan. 11, 2008","author":"Gil","date":"January 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"It's my birthday, dear readers! So I'm taking today off to celebrate! Still, you deserve some Unrequired Reading, so here's a neat article detailing the history of the development of the iPhone, because a) it's a really neat story about how the wireless industry works and how Apple has tried\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Adventures in Gin&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Adventures in Gin","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/adventures-in-gin"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883","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=4883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4885,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions\/4885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}