{"id":5423,"date":"2010-07-09T06:10:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T10:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5423"},"modified":"2010-07-09T06:11:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T10:11:25","slug":"unrequired-reading-july-9-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-july-9-2010","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: July 9, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe next week’s Unrequired Reading will be an hour-long special on ESPN, but for now, all you get is this silly-ass blog.<\/p>\n

Here’s a neat essay by John Crowley about Herman Hesse, the Glass Bead Game, and the nature of competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Speaking of which: be a man<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

If Tyler Brul\u00c3\u00a9 didn’t exist<\/a>, William Gibson would have had to invent him.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Atheist in Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

David Byrne dreams a montage-city<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Please: no lunch box jokes about The Launch Box<\/a>. (Boring!)<\/em><\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

HE: I’d like to listen to some Underworld.<\/p>\n

SHE: I’m having a brain seizure! Stop playing that music!<\/a><\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Chris Ware on book design and Penguin spines<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I would have a frequent shopper card here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I don’t understand why everyone is so interested in this Errol Morris essay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

And in honor of the release of the new Big Boi record<\/a>\"\", here’s a little OutKast for you:<\/p>\n

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Maybe next week’s Unrequired Reading will be an hour-long special on ESPN, but for now, all you get is this silly-ass blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,4,40,17,20,5,19],"tags":[1076,713,1074,1075,1072,171,1073,405],"class_list":["post-5423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-literature","category-music","category-politics-explicit","category-religion","category-travel","category-urban-issues","tag-big-boi","tag-chris-ware","tag-david-byrne","tag-errol-morris","tag-herman-hesse","tag-john-crowley","tag-julia-gillard","tag-tyler-brule"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1pt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5118,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-march-19-2010","url_meta":{"origin":5423,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: March 19, 2010","author":"Gil","date":"March 19, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I know I left those Unrequired Reading links around here somewhere . . . 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