{"id":5023,"date":"2010-02-22T06:07:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T11:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5023"},"modified":"2010-02-22T11:18:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T16:18:01","slug":"what-it-is-21510-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-21510-2","title":{"rendered":"What It Is: 2\/22\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>What I&#8217;m reading:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316013323?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0316013323\">Consider the Lobster<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" ifmzeuhdtswsrlzeuijp ifmzeuhdtswsrlzeuijp\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0316013323\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0375423079?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0375423079\">In The Shadow of No Towers<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" ifmzeuhdtswsrlzeuijp ifmzeuhdtswsrlzeuijp\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0375423079\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>, Art Spiegelman&#8217;s 9\/11 comix.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m listening to:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000W15BCY?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000W15BCY\">Night and Day<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" ifmzeuhdtswsrlzeuijp ifmzeuhdtswsrlzeuijp\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000W15BCY\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>, by Joe Jackson. Started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000U7VTT4?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000U7VTT4\">69 Love Songs<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" ifmzeuhdtswsrlzeuijp ifmzeuhdtswsrlzeuijp\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000U7VTT4\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>, by the Magnetic Fields, but it wasn&#8217;t good car music. I&#8217;ll have to give it a listen at home.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m watching:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0844286\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Brothers Bloom<\/a> (meh), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/the-ricky-gervais-show?cmpid=s5 target=\">The Ricky Gervais Show<\/a> (I almost peed myself with laughter), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/the-life-and-times-of-tim\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Life of Tim<\/a> (I wish I was stoned), the end of Tracy McGrady&#8217;s first game with the Knicks (David Lee is terrible on defense), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1019452\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Serious Man<\/a> (wow; I&#8217;m not quite sure where it&#8217;s going to fit in my Coens pantheon).<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m drinking:<\/em> Miller&#8217;s &amp; Q-Tonic, and Hendrick&#8217;s &amp; Q.<\/p>\n<p><em>What Rufus &amp; Otis are up to:<\/em> Attending a Sunday greyhound meet &amp; greet at the Petco in Kinnelon, NJ. Otis was a little overwhelmed by the scene, and <em>really<\/em> wanted to go after the smaller dogs that customers brought in. Oh, and it was not funny to have a cat adoption event right next to the greyhound group.<\/p>\n<p><em>Where I&#8217;m going:<\/em> No travel. Gotta buckle down to finish the March issue this week.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m happy about:<\/em> Dad reached his 72nd birthday yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m sad about:<\/em> I&#8217;ll never <a href=\"http:\/\/sartoriallyinclined.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/week-with-glenn-obrien.html\" target=\"_blank\">dress anywhere near as well as The Style Guy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m worried about:<\/em> My mid-life crisis will be <a href=\"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2010\/02\/the-mid-life-crisis-of-the-great-commercial-cartoonists.html\" target=\"_blank\">nowhere near as bombastic as Jack Kirby&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>What I&#8217;m pondering:<\/em> Buying a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002OOWC4C?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002OOWC4C\">Bamboo Fun tablet<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" ifmzeuhdtswsrlzeuijp ifmzeuhdtswsrlzeuijp\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002OOWC4C\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> for my desktop computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I&#8217;m reading: Consider the Lobster and In The Shadow of No Towers, Art Spiegelman&#8217;s 9\/11 comix. What I&#8217;m listening to: Night and Day, by Joe Jackson. Started 69 Love Songs, by the Magnetic Fields, but it wasn&#8217;t good car music. I&#8217;ll have to give it a listen at home. What I&#8217;m watching: The Brothers &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-21510-2\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What It Is: 2\/22\/10&#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":[61,26],"tags":[973,551],"class_list":["post-5023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-rufus-and-or-otis","category-comics","tag-glenn-obrien","tag-jack-kirby"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1j1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023","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=5023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5025,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions\/5025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}