{"id":653,"date":"2005-09-13T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=653"},"modified":"2007-03-31T07:04:16","modified_gmt":"2007-03-31T12:04:16","slug":"unreal-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unreal-city","title":{"rendered":"Unreal City"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m insanely busy at work, dear readers, but here’s a short article<\/a> by Bidisha Banerjee discussing aspects of the devastation in New Orleans as they relate to the novel Dhalgren<\/a>, by official VM buddy Samuel R. Delany.<\/p>\n

Oh, and here’s a separate page of commentary<\/a> about the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m insanely busy at work, dear readers, but here’s a short article by Bidisha Banerjee discussing aspects of the devastation in New Orleans as they relate to the novel Dhalgren, by official VM buddy Samuel R. Delany. 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The team is actually a non-profit organization, with 70,000 \"club members\" and a team president who gets elected by them every four years. It's a neat take on how to build\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5178,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/happy-chipday-part-2","url_meta":{"origin":653,"position":2},"title":"Happy Chipday, Part 2","author":"Gil","date":"April 4, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"We took Chip Delany out for a belated birthday brunch today, arranged by our pal Elayne! Here's the 68th birthday boy with his cake! And here's a shot of Chip with the full-page pic from that article in last week's New York Magazine: We had a lovely meal, even if\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "literature"","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1956,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/erin-go-barf-2","url_meta":{"origin":653,"position":3},"title":"Erin Go Barf","author":"Gil","date":"March 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy St. Patrick's Day! In honor of the drunken Irishman in your life, here's an article (with slideshow) about Irish whiskey!","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":679,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/happy-birthday","url_meta":{"origin":653,"position":4},"title":"Happy Birthday!","author":"Gil","date":"October 25, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"According to the wall calendar in my office, Monday was \"UN Day\"! So, to honor that occasion, here's a link to the Word document of the Mehlis report about the Hariri assassination in Lebanon.(This would be the file that includes the \"Track Changes\" fixes by the UN Secretariat's office, in\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":720,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/downdate","url_meta":{"origin":653,"position":5},"title":"Downdate","author":"Gil","date":"November 19, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Got socked with the office head-cold. Grr.Amy & I are about to head down to Philadelphia for a friend's wedding, so I'll suck it up, take some Airborne, and leave you with this quote from Latrell Sprewell's agent, Bob Gist:Anyone who thinks he should play [$1.1 million], that's absurd. 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