{"id":5204,"date":"2010-04-12T04:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5204"},"modified":"2010-04-12T05:25:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T09:25:50","slug":"what-it-is-41210","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-41210","title":{"rendered":"What It Is: 4\/12\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I’m reading:<\/em> I finished Indignation<\/a>\"\" last week, and returned to The Philosophy of Andy Warhol<\/a>\"\". Picked up a bunch of comics collections on Saturday<\/a>, so I’ll make time for those.<\/p>\n

What I’m listening to:<\/em> Static & Silence<\/a>\"\", by Sundays.<\/p>\n

What I’m watching:<\/em> The Men Who Stare at Goats<\/a>, The September Issue<\/a>, the last round of the Masters, and Treme<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What I’m drinking:<\/em> Funnily\/weirdly enough, I didn’t have a drink from the beginning of Passover to the Friday after it ended, an 11-day span. This weekend, I broke out the Citadelle<\/a> and Q-Tonic.<\/p>\n

What Rufus & Otis are up to:<\/em> Their first Sunday greyhound hike since mid-January! And, boy, was it a long one: 5+ miles, a chunk of which was plagued by gnats, another chunk of which was sodden and muddy. And then there were the car-sized ticks. And don’t get me started on the C.H.U.D.s . . .<\/p>\n

Where I’m going:<\/em> Tonight, I’m heading out to the Nets’s final home game of the season. Since they’re moving to Newark after this season (and eventually to the land-grab arena in Brooklyn), this’ll be their final game at the Meadowlands. I thought it’d be a good way to honor the memory of my pal Sang, with whom I went to many a Nets game, both when they were losers and when Jason Kidd transformed into the best team in the east. To that end, Sang’s pal Chuck is going to come along, even though he’s not a basketball fan. I’ll letcha know how it goes. These links will be dead in a few days, but here are the NYPost<\/em>‘s articles (1<\/a> and 2<\/a>) on the (ignominious) history of the arena off 16W.<\/p>\n

What I’m happy about:<\/em> That on the way out of the MoCCA festival, I got to bump into Gahan Wilson<\/a>. I shook his hand and said, “I just want to thank you for so many decades of wonderful cartooning<\/a>\"\".” He beamed and said, “Thank you, young man! You’re very kind!”<\/p>\n

What I’m sad about:<\/em> The only person to call me “young man” lately is 80 years old.<\/p>\n

What I’m worried about:<\/em> Having to learn another niche of the pharma biz so I can write an article on it this week.<\/p>\n

What I’m pondering:<\/em> If basset hounds are really this sad:<\/p>\n

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What I’m reading: I finished Indignation last week, and returned to The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. Picked up a bunch of comics collections on Saturday, so I’ll make time for those. What I’m listening to: Static & Silence, by Sundays. What I’m watching: The Men Who Stare at Goats, The September Issue, the last round … <\/p>\n

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