{"id":4867,"date":"2010-01-15T06:17:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T11:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2010-01-15T06:18:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T11:18:46","slug":"unrequired-reading-jan-15-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-jan-15-2010","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Jan. 15, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeahyeah: “Make with the links, Gil!” Fine. Just click “more”!<\/p>\n

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Said it before and I’ll say it again: it’s the quiet ones you gotta watch out for<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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My brother & I used to listen to Art Rust, Jr. on the radio all the time as kids. He knew something about every boxing match ever. R.I.P., proto-sports radio host<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We also ate Spaghetti-Os a lot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I’m really loving that Dave Rawlings Machine album. I’m glad other people are, too<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Alan Thicke: more interesting than you’d expect<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Die Hard as architectural treatise<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nThis article on how VW is going to be the Car Giant To Watch<\/a> starts off with an awesome correction. Other correction I’d like to add: VW is not going to succeed. Oh, the plan to double your car sales in 3 years sounds great, but just implies that VW’s starting from the bottom.<\/p>\n

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Oh, just Christoph Niemann being Christoph Niemann<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Tsotomu Yamaguchi, you’re the bomb<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Superman: forever young<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeahyeah: “Make with the links, Gil!” Fine. 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