{"id":5398,"date":"2010-06-21T04:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5398"},"modified":"2010-06-21T06:59:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T10:59:02","slug":"what-it-is-62110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-62110","title":{"rendered":"What It Is: 6\/21\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading:<\/em> Imperial Bedrooms<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

What I’m listening to:<\/em> Walking Wounded<\/a>\"\", You Could Start a Fight in an Empty Room<\/a>\"\", and High Violet<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

What I’m watching:<\/em> Honeymoon in Vegas<\/a>, Boondocks<\/a>, and the end of the NBA finals. And then I watched these highlights from Ron Artest’s postgame press conference, which is one of the most joyous things I’ve ever seen:<\/p>\n

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(The full-length version is here<\/a>, but I couldn’t get the embed to load properly. Grr.)<\/p>\n

What I’m drinking:<\/em> North Shore #6<\/a> & Q-Tonic<\/p>\n

What Rufus & Otis are up to:<\/em> Discovering a turtle<\/a>, re-enacting Kung-Fu Hustle<\/a>, and lounging around<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Where I’m going:<\/em> Nowhere. Except for a visit or two to my office, I likely won’t leave the house much in the next two weeks, except for dog-walks and lunch-breaks.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_2532\"<\/a>What I’m happy about:<\/em> Taking a break from Saturday’s work and going to the NJ Comics Expo (it was about 15 minutes from my home), where I met some older cartoonists and editors and saw a bazillion comics from my youth, now 50-cent fodder in longboxes. Oh, and I saw the Batmobile<\/a>. I also met Irwin Hasen<\/a>, the guy who created Wildcat<\/a> and co-created Dondi<\/a>, whose solid-black eyes made him the Antichrist of Little Orphan Annie’s world. Mr. Hasen looks about as 91 as he is.<\/p>\n

What I’m sad about:<\/em> How I basically give up the month of June every year. But that’s the job, and it’s preferable to the alternative.<\/p>\n

What I’m worried about:<\/em> Top Companies issue. I’m one profile off-schedule already.<\/p>\n

What I’m pondering:<\/em> Why I downloaded Imperial Bedrooms<\/em> onto my Kindle. I mean, sure, it was only $9.99, but am I really that interested in how Bret Easton Ellis treats middle age for a bunch of rich Angelenos? Maybe I just need some mental decompression for the next week or so, while I’m writing around 2,000 words a day of pharma company profiles.<\/p>\n

Also, I was catching up on past issues of Interview<\/a> this weekend, and it struck me that there’s just about nobody who would be The Great Get nowadays, that interview subject whom no one else could reach. I mean, sure, there’s Thomas Pynchon, but how many people really care about his writing nowadays? So, I guess I’m wondering, is there one interview that you’d hear about and say, “Wow! I can’t believe they got [x] to sit down for an interview!”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading: Imperial Bedrooms What I’m listening to: Walking Wounded, You Could Start a Fight in an Empty Room, and High Violet What I’m watching: Honeymoon in Vegas, Boondocks, and the end of the NBA finals. And then I watched these highlights from Ron Artest’s postgame press conference, which is one of the most … <\/p>\n

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