{"id":4959,"date":"2010-02-15T07:30:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T12:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2010-02-15T07:30:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T12:30:16","slug":"what-it-is-21510","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-21510","title":{"rendered":"What It Is: 2\/15\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading:<\/em> Alec: The Years Have Pants<\/a>\"\", The Troublemakers<\/a>\"\", and Consider the Lobster<\/a>\"\".<\/p>\n

What I’m listening to:<\/em> You Could Start a Fight in an Empty House<\/a>\"\", by Angela McCluskey. I’m hoping it’ll tide me over till the next Telepopmusik<\/a> record.<\/p>\n

What I’m watching:<\/em> I Love You, Man<\/a>, In the Loop<\/a> (again, oh, and hey, look! The screenplay is posted on IFC’s site<\/a>!) and some more Sopranos<\/em> episodes.<\/p>\n

What I’m drinking:<\/em> Old Raj<\/a> & Q-Tonic.<\/p>\n

What Rufus & Otis are up to:<\/em> Celebrating Rufus’ 5th birthday on Sunday by, um, playing with some new toys and eating porky-slices.<\/p>\n

Where I’m going:<\/em> Taking my dad out for his 72nd birthday next weekend, but no plans otherwise.<\/p>\n

What I’m happy about:<\/em> All these choices.<\/p>\n

What I’m sad about:<\/em> All these choices.<\/p>\n

What I’m worried about:<\/em> That someday it’ll make sense to me to buy a pair of $425 shoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What I’m pondering:<\/em> How long I’ll keep this new template for my blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 Loop (again, oh, and hey, … <\/p>\n

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What I'm watching: The Conversation, Frost\/Nixon, Funny\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=1603090479","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5023,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-21510-2","url_meta":{"origin":4959,"position":2},"title":"What It Is: 2\/22\/10","author":"Gil","date":"February 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"What I'm reading: Consider the Lobster and In The Shadow of No Towers, Art Spiegelman's 9\/11 comix. What I'm listening to: Night and Day, by Joe Jackson. Started 69 Love Songs, by the Magnetic Fields, but it wasn't good car music. 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