{"id":6050,"date":"2011-07-09T14:13:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T18:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=6050"},"modified":"2011-07-09T14:13:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T18:13:26","slug":"who-am-i-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/who-am-i-17","title":{"rendered":"Who Am I?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the guy who bought the following books at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strandbooks.com\/\">The Strand<\/a> yesterday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/006270155X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=006270155X\">Style and the Man<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=006270155X\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>: <em>How and Where To Buy Fine Men&#8217;s Clothing<\/em> &#8211; Alan Flusser<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0847835472?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0847835472\">How To Be A Man<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0847835472\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>: <em>A Guide To Style and Behavior For The Modern Gentleman<\/em> &#8211; Glenn O&#8217;Brien<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0099553198?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0099553198\">What&#8217;s It All About?<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0099553198\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>: <em>His Autobiography<\/em> &#8211; Michael Caine<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0805091955?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0805091955\">Talk Show<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0805091955\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>: <em>Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets<\/em> &#8211; Dick Cavett<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0385533063?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0385533063\">The Most Human Human<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0385533063\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>: <em>What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means To Be Alive<\/em> &#8211; Brian Christian<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0691144869?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=virtualmemories-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0691144869\">Poems Under Saturn<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0691144869\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> &#8211; Paul Verlain (tr. Kirchwey)<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I&#8217;m the guy who occasionally undercuts the Kindle revolution a little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the guy who bought the following books at The Strand yesterday: Style and the Man: How and Where To Buy Fine Men&#8217;s Clothing &#8211; Alan Flusser How To Be A Man: A Guide To Style and Behavior For The Modern Gentleman &#8211; Glenn O&#8217;Brien What&#8217;s It All About?: His Autobiography &#8211; Michael Caine Talk &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/who-am-i-17\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who Am I?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1zA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":84,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/28-days-later-mp3-style","url_meta":{"origin":6050,"position":0},"title":"28 Days Later, MP3-Style","author":"Gil","date":"November 15, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that I've downloaded the PC version of iTunes and compiled my MP3 library, I'm really happy to learn that I have FOURTEEN DAYS' worth of music sitting on my desktop machine.What's particularly frightening about that is that I have an equally large stash of music sitting on my laptop.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5989,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/you-sir-are-bad-ass-doggie-style","url_meta":{"origin":6050,"position":1},"title":"You, Sir, Are Bad-Ass: Doggie Style","author":"Gil","date":"May 12, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"My greyhounds get skittish when I stand behind them at the top of the stairs, so I can't imagine strapping one to my chest and making a jump from 30,100 feet: You, sir (and your dog), are bad-ass. 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