{"id":5324,"date":"2010-05-21T04:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5324"},"modified":"2010-05-21T08:11:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T12:11:58","slug":"unrequired-reading-may-21-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-may-21-2010","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: May 21, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the greatest installment of Unrequired Reading since the previous one!<\/p>\n

Frankly, the story of Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott’s meltdown during the making of Robin Hood<\/a> sounds much more interesting than the movie they ended up making.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Steve Phillips tells us how tough it is to be an MLB GM<\/a>. As one commenter puts it, “It’s like getting a lecture from Susan Smith on parenting.”<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

All Along the Watchtower<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I will never board a plane in Sweden<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

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Malin Akerman and her new makeup artist\u00c2\u00a0(from PAPER Magazine<\/a>).<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Bourgeois Surrender on Cole Porter<\/a>. As it were.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

The Reasonoids celebrate Everybody Draw Mohammad Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I couldn’t come up with any good Yakov Smirnoff-based jokes about how the landscape of Chernobyl inspired a post-apocalyptic videogame<\/a>. Still it’s a neat post.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Miracle Whip<\/a>: now with extra gooey.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

“Leave No Trace<\/a>” sounds like a school for serial killers, but it’s actually some sorta enviro group that Subaru supports. Along with the “niches of academics, tree huggers, and gays and lesbians.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Jeff Daniels, as the politician George Fergus, squares off with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324","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=5324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5329,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions\/5329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}