{"id":5778,"date":"2010-12-03T07:45:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T11:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5778"},"modified":"2010-12-03T08:29:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T12:29:20","slug":"unrequired-reading-december-3-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-december-3-2010","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: December 3, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s our Hanukkah edition of Unrequired Reading! Lots of Jewish posts for you to check out!<\/p>\n

Jewp it up<\/a>!<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Zarkov, tell me more about this man,\u00c2\u00a0Jewdini<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Everyone farts<\/a>. Even Jews.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Jewcheology<\/a>! (with the added bonus of the line, “As Eilat Mazar says with palpable satisfaction, ‘This is the end of Finkelstein’s school.'”)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Jew had to be there<\/a>. (Seriously, this story about the convertito of San Nicandro is mind-blowing.)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Maybe you were expecting Jewmanji! next, but all you get is the quantity of Four Loko it takes to kill someone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Washington, D.C.: Hollywood for ugly people! Also, not a fertile site for the novel<\/a>? (Also, Christopher Hitchens discovered that he’s Jewish, so this counts as part of this week’s theme.)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Keith Richards on . . . early recording technology’s role in the development of jazz and blues<\/a>? He can\u00c2\u00a0think<\/em>? (Okay, he’s not Jewish at all.)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

The most boring day in history<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Also, you might spill your drink<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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After you read this piece on adapting The Great Gatsby<\/a>, you oughtta listen to this Kurt Andersen\/Studio-360 podcast about Fitzgerald and his great novel<\/a>. It’s about 50 minutes long, but there’s plenty of good stuff in it. (Also, maybe Gatsby was Jewish?)<\/p>\n

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And, just because, the video for one of my favorite songs ever:<\/p>\n

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Don’t give me crap about the clothes, hair and art styles.\u00c2\u00a0It was 1987, okay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Apple is replacing the monitor and hinge\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5814,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-dec-24-2010","url_meta":{"origin":5778,"position":4},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Dec. 24, 2010","author":"Gil","date":"December 24, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"No Unrequired Reading for you this week, dear readers! I'm on vacation! I'll have an extra-special edition for you next week, to close out 2010! Okay, okay. Just to give you something, here's the 3-D Yule Log.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5472,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-july-30-2010","url_meta":{"origin":5778,"position":5},"title":"Unrequired Reading: July 30, 2010","author":"Gil","date":"July 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Just because I'm on a mini-vacation, it doesn't mean that Unrequired Reading gets to take a week off! Jon Hamm: too damned good looking to succeed in movies? * * * Kelly Oxford: too damned good looking to be taken seriously? 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