{"id":5711,"date":"2010-10-29T06:29:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T10:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5711"},"modified":"2010-10-29T06:59:09","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T10:59:09","slug":"unrequired-reading-october-29-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-october-29-2010","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading; October 29, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Special occasionally extra-spooky Halloween links for you, dear readers! Boo!<\/p>\n

If they wear shirts like this one<\/a>, I want to be on Jason Blood’s bowling team (the Unholy Rollers?).<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

The Otherness of Otterness<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Fly, Firebird, fly<\/a>! (before smashing into an overpass)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

The centrist cannot hold<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

The secret history of Rocky & Bullwinkle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I like to believe that my wraithlike build is more attractive than when I was 40 or 50 lbs. heavier, but here are some guys Kelly Oxford liked better when they were fat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

A bathtub for ladies<\/a>, courtesy of Penn Jillette.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Putting the tab in tablet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

My wife will find this quite scary: Greenberg, c’est moi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

And finally, official VM bestest pal Tom Spurgeon offers up comics-related costumes for the rest of us<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Special occasionally extra-spooky Halloween links for you, dear readers! 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