{"id":5597,"date":"2010-09-17T06:26:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T10:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2010-09-17T06:39:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T10:39:20","slug":"unrequired-reading-sept-17-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-sept-17-2010","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Sept. 17, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t lie to me; I know you’ve been waiting for this collection of links all week!<\/p>\n

Sure, I may be a little harsh in my treatment of storytelling devices in movies, but William Goldman once dropped a bomb on Saving Private Ryan<\/a> (which I’ve never seen and now don’t have to). I’m overreacting, I’m sure, but lazy storytelling isn’t just a pet peeve; it’s a sign of how little we care as a culture.<\/p>\n

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It’d be more awesome if Tom Ford and Posh collaborated<\/em> on a collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This back<\/a>-and-forth<\/a> about Camille Paglia’s take on Lady Gaga reminds me of the most boring aspects of attending Hampshire College.<\/p>\n

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Chicago Cubs FAIL<\/a> (yet again)<\/p>\n

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Samuel Beckett: I can’t go on, I’ll go on (very stylish in my starkness)<\/a><\/p>\n

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. . . with my wife, Morgan Fairchild<\/a> . . .<\/p>\n

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Another things Jews & Muslims have in common: getting banned in New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Figs: I’ll still eat them, despite their Cronenberg-esque genesis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Being the creative director at Maxim<\/em> isn’t as dumb\/easy as you’d think<\/a>. (And Dick Barnett gets bonus points for sharing a name with a sleepy-eyed two-time NYKnick NBA champ.)<\/p>\n

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Speaking of Maxim, here’s Bourgeois Surrender on lusty librarians<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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And, in honor of this evening’s Kol Nidre prayers \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it’s Yom Kippur, don’tchaknow? \u00e2\u20ac\u201d we get Michael Weiss’ explanation of why repenting all the vows you swore in the previous year doesn’t mean what anti-semites want it to mean<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t lie to me; I know you’ve been waiting for this collection of links all week!<\/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":[632,1023,1083,20,32],"tags":[783,1147,1149,927,1146,1148,1097,1150,1151],"class_list":["post-5597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-fashion","category-movies","category-religion","category-sports","tag-bourgeois-surrender","tag-camille-paglia","tag-dick-barnett","tag-lady-gaga","tag-maxim","tag-samuel-beckett","tag-tom-ford","tag-victoria-beckham","tag-william-goldman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1sh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17688,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-650-dan-goldman","url_meta":{"origin":5597,"position":0},"title":"Episode 650 – Dan Goldman","author":"Gil","date":"August 19, 2025","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 650: Dan Goldman \"There was something about mortality and sunshine being intertwined that meant RLP had to be set in south Florida.\" With RED LIGHT PROPERTIES: Unfinished Business (Kinjin Storylab), writer\/cartoonist Dan Goldman brings us a wildly entertaining graphic novel of midlife, the afterlife, and the south\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/dangoldman2025comp.jpg?fit=1200%2C547&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/dangoldman2025comp.jpg?fit=1200%2C547&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/dangoldman2025comp.jpg?fit=1200%2C547&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/dangoldman2025comp.jpg?fit=1200%2C547&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/dangoldman2025comp.jpg?fit=1200%2C547&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5495,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/movie-review-tuesday-maneater-edition","url_meta":{"origin":5597,"position":1},"title":"Movie Review Tuesday: Maneater Edition","author":"Gil","date":"August 3, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I only saw two flicks this week, dear readers. 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