* * *<\/p>\n
Kelly Oxford: too damned good looking to be taken seriously? (or humorously?)<\/a><\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n New York: too damned many employees to count<\/a>? (Seriously:\u00c2\u00a0Make it your end-of-summer project to\u00c2\u00a0read The Power Broker<\/a> * * *<\/p>\n ESPN: too damned subservient to LeBron James<\/a>?<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Jamie Moyer: too old to feel pain<\/a>?<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Pale Fire: too damned good of a poem to be trapped in a great novel<\/a>?<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Bicycles: too damned traumatic for one girl to handle<\/a>?<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Reality TV: too damned intrusive and stealing a piece of your soul<\/a>?<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Young Jeff Bezos: too damned clever to be kind<\/a>?<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Alan Moore: too damned sick of superheroes to keep away from spoken word albums<\/a>?<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Penn and Teller: too damned innovative to play in New York<\/a>?<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Great magazine articles:\u00c2\u00a0too damned many of them for me to read<\/a>? (I think I’ve only read four of these; I’d have put Ron Rosenbaum’s\u00c2\u00a0The Devil in Long Island<\/a> on it, too.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just because I’m on a mini-vacation, it doesn’t mean that Unrequired Reading gets to take a week off!<\/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":[632,32,19],"tags":[1094,407,1093,1091,1092,158,277,86],"class_list":["post-5472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-sports","category-urban-issues","tag-alan-moore","tag-jamie-moyer","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-jon-hamm","tag-kelly-oxford","tag-lebron-james","tag-robert-moses","tag-ron-rosenbaum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1qg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5711,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-october-29-2010","url_meta":{"origin":5472,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading; October 29, 2010","author":"Gil","date":"October 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Special occasionally extra-spooky Halloween links for you, dear readers! 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