{"id":5546,"date":"2010-08-19T07:26:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T11:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5546"},"modified":"2010-08-19T07:26:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T11:26:35","slug":"when-youre-a-bear-youre-a-bear-all-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/when-youre-a-bear-youre-a-bear-all-the-way","title":{"rendered":"When You’re a Bear You’re a Bear All the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

I cleaned out the attic and our storage room this weekend, and have uncovered a bazillion photos I need to get around to scanning and writing about. Here’s a pic from around 1999 or 2000 from a birthday diner for Samuel R. Delany.<\/p>\n

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Chip is probably just holding his cane with his right hand, but I prefer to believe that he’s flashing a gang symbol.<\/p>\n

I seem to recall that we got our wires crossed and ended up at the wrong French restaurant, two doors over from the one that we had planned to go to.<\/p>\n

From left to right: me, my girlfriend from back then, Chip’s partner Dennis, Chip, a writer named Richard Gessner, and my pal Sang, who died early this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I cleaned out the attic and our storage room this weekend, and have uncovered a bazillion photos I need to get around to scanning and writing about. Here’s a pic from around 1999 or 2000 from a birthday diner for Samuel R. Delany. Chip is probably just holding his cane with his right hand, but … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “When You’re a Bear You’re a Bear All the Way”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[1118,65],"class_list":["post-5546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chip-delany","tag-samuel-r-delany"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1rs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10264,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-212-samuel-r-delany","url_meta":{"origin":5546,"position":0},"title":"Episode 212 – Samuel R. 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