{"id":5345,"date":"2010-05-28T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5345"},"modified":"2010-05-28T05:34:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T09:34:25","slug":"unrequired-reading-may-28-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-may-28-2010","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: May 28, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Memorial Day weekend, dear readers! Let’s kick off the long weekend with some Unrequired Reading!<\/p>\n

Polari: one queer anti-language<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Threesus Christ<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Go read this Random Roles interview of Danny Trejo<\/a> by Nathan Rabin! It’s a blast!<\/p>\n

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The new Abstract City post by Christoph Niemann<\/a> is sort of a dull one, but hey.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Here’s an excerpt from Christopher Hitchens’ memoirs<\/a>, centered on his relationship with Martin Amis. Thomas Pynchon makes a cameo. Off-screen, of course.<\/p>\n

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Maori heads home from France<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This is too long. My brain hurts<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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This Ta-Nehisi Coates post\u00c2\u00a0about Robert E. Lee and “confederate history month”<\/a> is over a month old, but I just got around to reading it and dug it a lot.<\/p>\n

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“Union Square is like a shopping mall with an unusual number of trees that you’re forced to visit anytime you want to go to Brooklyn.”<\/a> Also, you have to shout, “Death to Israel!” or everyone will know you’re not an NYU student.<\/p>\n

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You drop the bomb on me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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