{"id":4430,"date":"2009-08-31T06:16:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T10:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4430"},"modified":"2009-09-20T21:12:32","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T01:12:32","slug":"what-it-is-83109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-83109","title":{"rendered":"What It Is: 8\/31\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading:<\/em> Moby Dick<\/a>\"\", The Jew of New York<\/a>\"\", and The Muppet Show: Meet the Muppets<\/a>\"\", by Roger Langridge.<\/p>\n

What I’m listening to:<\/em> The Flat Earth<\/a>\"\", by Thomas Dolby, and the soundtrack to Stop Making Sense<\/a>\"\".<\/p>\n

What I’m watching:<\/em> A documentary on Faubourg Trem\u00c3\u00a9<\/a>, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist<\/a>, and The Last Dragon<\/a>. With Bruce Leroy.<\/p>\n

What I’m drinking:<\/em> Plymouth & Q Tonic.<\/p>\n

What Rufus is up to:<\/em> Meeting a 14-month-old Newfoundland who was almost twice as large as him.<\/p>\n

Where I’m going:<\/em> Nowhere in particular, holiday weekend be darned!<\/p>\n

What I’m happy about:<\/em> I found the Pilot G-2 0.5mm retractable<\/a>, a replacement pen for the occasionally-exploding Pilot Precise 0.5mm pens that were my standard. I’m happy to report that gel ink makes the rolling-ball pen flow pretty smoothly. One of the problems I have with writing longhand is that most pens tend to scrape and, well, move too slowly on the paper to keep up. Yes, I have problems.<\/p>\n

What I’m sad about:<\/em> Chef Central<\/a> has apparently stopped making my favorite coffee, so I have to start trying out new whole bean options.<\/p>\n

What I’m worried about:<\/em> Having to fix my iMac after running Drive Genius 2 on it rendered it unbootable.<\/p>\n

What I’m pondering:<\/em> Taking a week or two off from my regular features and only posting intermittently. In fact, that’s just<\/em> what I’m gonna do. I’ll post some Unrequired Reading at the end of the week, but don’t expect many posts for a little while, okay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading: Moby Dick, The Jew of New York, and The Muppet Show: Meet the Muppets, by Roger Langridge. What I’m listening to: The Flat Earth, by Thomas Dolby, and the soundtrack to Stop Making Sense. What I’m watching: A documentary on Faubourg Trem\u00c3\u00a9, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, and The Last Dragon. With … <\/p>\n

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