It was a long, tedious week at a conference, but at least I got to see some friends and got home in time to get you a fresh dose of Unrequired Reading! Enjoy!<\/p>\n
Air travel sucks<\/a>. My flight out to Portland this week was less full than most of my recent flights, but the redeye flight home was 100% packed.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n If you read only one story about the incredibly messed-up divorce of the owners of the L.A. Dodgers, make it this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Tolstoy’s death: the O.J. chase of its day<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n They’ve done so much work on Ground Zero in the past decade that they’re just now<\/em> discovering a 200+-year-old ship buried in the muck below it<\/a>? I guess it’s progress.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n The Y gets its schwerve on<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n I think his logo should incorporate a raincoat-element<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n I think it looks more like a sculpture by Jeff Koons’ studio<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n The Price Is Wrong, bitch<\/a>!<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Ban the (box office) bomb<\/a>!<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n This week’s installment ends with a couple of tributes to Harvey Pekar, whose importance in the comics pantheon can’t be overstated. The first is by Eric Reynolds<\/a> of Fantagraphics, the second is by Anthony Bourdain<\/a>, and the best-and-last is by Tom Spurgeon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was a long, tedious week at a conference, but at least I got to see some friends and got home in time to get you a fresh dose of Unrequired Reading! 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