{"id":5154,"date":"2010-03-26T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5154"},"modified":"2010-03-25T21:29:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T01:29:12","slug":"unrequired-reading-march-26-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-march-26-2010","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: March 26, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy weekend, dear readers! Have some Unrequired Reading links! Go ahead! I don’t mind!<\/p>\n

Baseball is the only sport I enjoy on the radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I forget: is Rick Jones still alive<\/a>?<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

The Situation goes global<\/a>!<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

As do zombies<\/a>!<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

The WSJ profiles the people who draw those great hedcuts in the WSJ<\/a>! (and, of course, there’s a pic of an artist drawing herself as a hedcut, to get even more meta)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Um, wow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

A comic-book editor explains writing to Stephen King<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I really can’t add anything to the headline “India’s red hot chili grenade<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I did not get to see any of this Los Angeles<\/a> during my trip there last November.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I haven’t read this Frank Deford piece in the new SI<\/a> yet, but I’m pretty sure it’s going to be the best sportswriting I’ve read this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy weekend, dear readers! Have some Unrequired Reading links! Go ahead! 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