{"id":4918,"date":"2010-02-12T06:57:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T11:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4918"},"modified":"2010-02-12T06:58:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T11:58:43","slug":"unrequired-reading-feb-12-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-feb-12-2010","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Feb. 12, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a non-special un-Valentine’s edition of Unrequired Reading! Just click “more”!<\/p>\n

Funny\/bizarre interview with Matt Labash<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Newly released 9\/11 photos<\/a>: because you can always be sadder.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Unless you’re Roy Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Finally, someone chills out about Twitter and the “death of the book” already<\/a>!<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I’m going with a Ulysses<\/em> in which you meander around a virtual Dublin and try to score with Molly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Kinda beautiful montage of the movies of the decade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Lousy fractals<\/a>! Now I’ve got The Soup Dragons playing in my head. Grr.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I had a very different idea of what a Brazilian Blow Out would be like<\/a>, but this is good, too.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

“The Toyota Decontenting”<\/a> doesn’t sound like a Robert Ludlum title, sadly.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Whatcha doon? Just hangin’<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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