I’m in true batshit-crazy work mode, thanks to a couple of salespeople who don’t know the meaning of the word “deadline,” but that won’t stop me from posting a nice batch on Unrequired Reading for you!<\/p>\n
Only project<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * * * * *<\/p>\n Chip Delany could play his dad<\/a>! (I’m so glad he’s wearing briefs.)<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n I always thought you could identify them by smell<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Does the appendix include her list of desert island discs<\/a>?<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Frank Muytjens (JCrew’s mens’ design uberlord) has sweet digs<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n I could use some Photoshop tips,<\/a> CMYKillah . . . (turn your volume down before clicking this link)<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Deep down, I agree with Danny Boyle’s dad: Shallow Grave was his best movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n But if Trainspotting<\/em> was your fave, then maybe I can interest you in Irvine Welsh’s contribution to Five Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Two words: Clyde Frazier<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Tron Guy reviews Tron: Legacy<\/a>. If only he got to make a cameo.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n I recently bought a suit by this guy<\/a> (half-price on gilt.com<\/a>, cheap ethnic stereotype that I am). I guess I oughtta buy the shotgun case<\/a> sometime . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m in true batshit-crazy work mode, thanks to a couple of salespeople who don’t know the meaning of the word “deadline,” but that won’t stop me from posting a nice batch on Unrequired Reading for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,26,46,1023,1083,20,32],"tags":[1176,977,529,1212,1213,551,65],"class_list":["post-5804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-comics","category-design","category-fashion","category-movies","category-religion","category-sports","tag-billy-reid","tag-clyde-frazier","tag-danny-boyle","tag-frank-muytjens","tag-irvine-welsh","tag-jack-kirby","tag-samuel-r-delany"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1vC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4124,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-june-26-2009","url_meta":{"origin":5804,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: June 26, 2009","author":"Gil","date":"June 26, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"No doubt about it: these links suck. Just click \"more\"! I'm sorry, Kathryn Bigelow. You made Strange Days. Hence, you suck. * * * I'm sorry, Huckabees. You still suck, especially as a followup to Three Kings. * * * Painter of light? You suck as a businessman and as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1286,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-jan-12-2007","url_meta":{"origin":5804,"position":1},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Jan. 12, 2007","author":"Gil","date":"January 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It's time for some post-birthday Unrequired Reading, dear unrequired readers! Christopher Hitchens \"reviews\" Ann Coulter. * * * Idiocracy is out on DVD. * * * An even-handed take on the mystery of how much oil is really remaining in the earth. * * * The zen of Jimmy Buffett.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics (explicit)"","block_context":{"text":"Politics (explicit)","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/politics-explicit"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1384,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-mar-16-2007","url_meta":{"origin":5804,"position":2},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Mar. 16, 2007","author":"Gil","date":"March 16, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are some links I came across but didn't have time to write about. City Journal reviews a biography of Pistol Pete Maravich. * * * Taki Theodoracopulos on the 20th anniversary of Andy Warhol's death. * * * Join the Yid Army. * * * Did modernist architecture fail?\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Architecture"","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3331,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/note-hideous-gridded-paper","url_meta":{"origin":5804,"position":3},"title":"Note hideous gridded paper","author":"Gil","date":"January 29, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I was going to put this Michael Bierut post among the week's Unrequired Reading, but I thought it deserved its own entry. It's all about the notebooks that Bierut has used for the past 26 years. He's up to #85. As anyone who knows me can imagine, I find this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Design"","block_context":{"text":"Design","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/design"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1787,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-nov-23-2007","url_meta":{"origin":5804,"position":4},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Nov. 23, 2007","author":"Gil","date":"November 23, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It's time for some post-Thanksgiving links, dear readers! Happy Black Friday! Go buy me stuff! The NYTimes reviews its new building. * * * Good thing they didn't get Frank Gehry to design it! * * * I'm sad that my personal fave was nowhere near gaudy enough to win\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Architecture"","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1820,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-dec-14-2007","url_meta":{"origin":5804,"position":5},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Dec. 14, 2007","author":"Gil","date":"December 14, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Even the annual slog through the Contract Services Directory won't stop me from delivering my weekly oddball links, dear readers! Enjoy! Under construction: some neat and\/or grotesque buildings! (including that CCTV building that I'm convinced is going to tip over) * * * What does the success of The Deadliest\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Architecture"","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804","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=5804"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5809,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions\/5809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThese Amazon reviews of $6,800 stereo cables<\/a> aren’t quite as funny as their famous Tuscan Milk reviews<\/a>, but are still pretty awesome.<\/p>\n