{"id":5167,"date":"2010-04-01T05:37:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T09:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5167"},"modified":"2010-04-01T05:43:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T09:43:08","slug":"happy-chipday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/happy-chipday","title":{"rendered":"Happy Chipday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nApril may or may not be the cruellest month, but at least it kicks off with the birthday of my pal Chip Delany! Happy birthday, old boy! I still marvel over the fact that you thought I’d be a good publisher of your work. I took it as a compliment at the time, but now I think it was more an indictment of the publishing industry.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s a neat article<\/a> about Chip’s masterpiece, Dhalgren<\/a>\"\", from this week’s New York Magazine<\/em>! Enjoy! And read Dhalgren<\/em> somedarntime! It’s worth the effort!<\/p>\n

Photo of “the creole Santa Claus” (even though he’s not creole) by Andreas Laszlo Konrath<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April may or may not be the cruellest month, but at least it kicks off with the birthday of my pal Chip Delany! Happy birthday, old boy! I still marvel over the fact that you thought I’d be a good publisher of your work. I took it as a compliment at the time, but now … <\/p>\n

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