{"id":5049,"date":"2010-02-26T04:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5049"},"modified":"2010-02-25T20:20:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T01:20:08","slug":"unrequired-reading-feb-26-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-feb-26-2010","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Feb. 26, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a snowbound dose of Unrequired Reading! Click somewhere to continue!<\/p>\n

Ron Rosenbaum gets back in his groove with a paean to the New York Post<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Clyde “fell hard for a house on hilly terrain with four tentacle-like columns that reminded him of a space ship.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Back in college, my pal Mark & I taught a January-term class called Soft Hearts, Hard Liquor,<\/em> focusing on great drinkers who wrote (as opposed to great writers who drank). Wish we had this slideshow<\/a> for the first class.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Alex Balk teaches us how to be happy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Let’s keep trying to understand Synecdoche, NY<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

And let’s keep trying to understand the suburbs without making boring generalizations<\/a>!<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

For a crappy dresser<\/a>, Tiger sure got a lot of action.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

A crime (novel) wave sweeps Stockholm<\/a>! (which was an awesome city; I’d love to go back)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Dr. Strange: All kinds of awesome<\/a>. (And with an oriental sidekick, to boot!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Because I feel awfully lonely on this one.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "basketball"","block_context":{"text":"basketball","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/basketball"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0375703764","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5052,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions\/5052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}