{"id":5184,"date":"2010-04-09T06:40:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T10:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5184"},"modified":"2010-04-09T06:43:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T10:43:11","slug":"unrequired-reading-april-9-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-april-9-2010","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: April 9, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Satisfying my<\/span> your craving for entertaining links, it’s a new installment of Unrequired Reading!<\/p>\n

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This Margaret Atwood post about her experiences using Twitter<\/a> helps prove a point by being horrifically overwritten. Maybe she should’ve stuck to 140-character paragraphs.<\/p>\n

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Similarly, you can gussy up your story in many ways, but the goofy truth is, you were addicted to a video game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Wooray for Wellywood<\/a>! I think they should’ve just kept the dragons up from the premiere of The Return of the King<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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A History of Obama Feigning Interest in Mundane Things<\/a>. I enjoyed the tape of his game of H-O-R-S-E with Clark Kellogg during the Final Four, especially the way the Prez said, “Wap!” when his game-winning shot was in the air.<\/p>\n

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My wife recently asked me what I thought Paul Simon would have done if he hadn’t gone into music. “Sell insurance?” I answered. Apparently, Keith Richards would have become a librarian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Book review variation<\/a> on the B.S. Bingo that made the rounds 10 years ago.<\/p>\n

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Maybe you don’t care, but there must be at least one reader who does: how to shop at outlet malls and which retailers are just selling outlet-specific brands<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Stuart Scott probably believes he can outrun Jacoby Ford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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World officially ends<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I wish that was an April Fools item, and that this Dunkin Donuts re-brand wasn’t<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It’s the annual Washington Post Easter Peeps Diorama contest<\/a>! Go, Peep-cop who showed up to a snowball fight with a firearm!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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