{"id":5578,"date":"2010-09-10T04:00:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5578"},"modified":"2010-09-09T18:46:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T22:46:56","slug":"unrequired-reading-september-10-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-september-10-2010","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: September 10, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you ready for some linkball?<\/p>\n

In honor of Rosh Hashanah, let’s celebrate RUSH Hashanah<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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More songs about buildings and food<\/del> movies about work<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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WAR! (HUH!) What is it good for<\/a>?<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I had no idea there was a free black town 200 years ago named Timbuctoo, NJ<\/a>. Which still doesn’t\u00c2\u00a0explain where the Jackson-Whites come from.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I’ll drink to that<\/a>!<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Sure wish they’d do\u00c2\u00a0this research for inseams, too<\/a>. I sweartagod, I must be shrinking.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

You’re gonna say I’m paranoid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

No, seriously, you’re fat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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And a retard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Books are undervalued?<\/a> Why, I went into a bookstore just yesterday, but it was because I wanted to get a coffee.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Oh, just watch the merengue-dancing dog:<\/p>\n

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Are you ready for some linkball?<\/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":[34,632,46,1023,40,17],"tags":[657,1066],"class_list":["post-5578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-gin","category-baseball","category-design","category-fashion","category-music","category-politics-explicit","tag-matt-zoller-seitz","tag-rush"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1rY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":357,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm","url_meta":{"origin":5578,"position":0},"title":"Happy New Year!Rosh Hashanah starts\u2026","author":"Gil","date":"September 15, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy New Year!Rosh Hashanah starts tonight: Happy new year to my family, and Jewish friends and readers!","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1669,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/and-obscure-as-that-heaven-of-the-jews","url_meta":{"origin":5578,"position":1},"title":"“And obscure as that heaven of the Jews”","author":"Gil","date":"September 17, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"(There's a slideshow. 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