{"id":5772,"date":"2010-11-29T08:28:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T12:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5772"},"modified":"2010-11-29T08:28:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T12:28:28","slug":"what-it-is-112910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-112910","title":{"rendered":"What It Is: 11\/29\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading:<\/em> The Odyssey<\/a>\"\", some goofy Johnny Ryan<\/a> comics, and a ton of magazines I needed to catch up on, like Monocle<\/a>, New York<\/a>, Fantastic Man<\/a>, GQ<\/a>, Esquire<\/a>, and Interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What I’m listening to:<\/em> Barking<\/a>\"\", The Lady Killer<\/a>\"\", High Violet<\/a>\"\", This is Happening<\/a>\"\", and Ain’t Nobody Worryin’<\/a>\"\".<\/p>\n

What I’m watching:<\/em> The Promise<\/a>, Alice in Wonderland<\/a>, Moon<\/a>, About a Boy<\/a>, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus<\/a>, and some more of season 1 of In Treatment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What I’m drinking:<\/em> G&T with Ethereal gin<\/a>, from a little distillery up in the Berkshires.<\/p>\n

What Rufus & Otis are up to:<\/em> Being cute for our Thanksgiving guests, going on a colder hike at Wawayanda. I’d share the specs with you, but I updated the GPS app on my iPhone and now it doesn’t work correctly. Yay. Thanks, Motion-X<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Where I’m going:<\/em> I’ll be in Puerto Rico next Sunday-Tuesday for a mini-biz trip. It’ll be my first JetBlue trip, and my first flight from Newburgh Airport, up near Herriman. Continental’s rates were absolutely exorbitant, esp. since I was booking late, so I’m going to break with my rule of not flying direct on this trip. I have a 6 a.m. flight back home on Tuesday (via Orlando), but I don’t think I’m capable of staying up all night and rolling straight into the airport, as I once did.<\/p>\n

What I’m happy about:<\/em> Getting some errands done during my week off, managing to get $500 in trade-in value for my 1st-generation MacBook Air from Tekserve<\/a> in NYC, and spending a little while comic-shopping with my pal Mark. Also, I was happy to have a long conversation about men’s fashion with a clerk at the Club Monaco store in SoHo. It sounds superficial, I know, but it was nice to chat with someone who took one look at me and recognized that I didn’t dress by accident.<\/p>\n

What I’m sad about:<\/em> Some punk-ass kids smashed my mailbox over the weekend, prompting me to buy and install a new “vandal-proof” one.<\/p>\n

What I’m worried about:<\/em> That my inability to get into LCD Soundsystem is a sign that I’m an old fart.<\/p>\n

What I’m pondering:<\/em> A good quote about my heart for the website of my wife’s pal Nicole’s blog<\/a>. I’m thinking of coming up with something from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading: The Odyssey, some goofy Johnny Ryan comics, and a ton of magazines I needed to catch up on, like Monocle, New York, Fantastic Man, GQ, Esquire, and Interview. What I’m listening to: Barking, The Lady Killer, High Violet, This is Happening, and Ain’t Nobody Worryin’. What I’m watching: The Promise, Alice in … <\/p>\n

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