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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; In the Blood</title>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: David Byrne and Brian Eno, &#8220;Home&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several of Running After My Hat&#8216;s regular commenthood are overhauling what &#8220;home&#8221; means to them: Nance &#8211; and Mr. Mature, of course &#8212; are caught up in readying their house for a (dearly longed-for) sale. Marta &#8212; amongst writing a flash-fiction story every day this month, and competitive skating, and teaching, and the gods know what else [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newest Nodule on the Family Tree</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 17:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[In the Blood]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[not-quite-Mother's Day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her Mom (looking more worried than I think I&#8217;ve ever seen her), her Dad (looking more stunned into tenderness than I&#8217;ve ever imagined seeing him), and grand-niecelet Madison (looking oblivious), 2012-05-12 (two days after her birthday). &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Who, What, When, Where, Why, How, and Whether to Ask (or Not)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[whiskey river Fridays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arjuna Ardagh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Mann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Billy Collins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dorothy Parker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elspeth Huxley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Googlewhacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pablo Neruda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[questions and answers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quora.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rainer Maria Rilke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trine Meyer Vogsland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: Many Questions No Answers, by Norwegian artist Trine Meyer Vogsland (acrylic on watercolor paper; 24x32cm)] From whiskey river: LXXII If all rivers are sweet where does the sea get its salt? How do the seasons know they must change their shirt? Why so slowly in winter and later with such a rapid shudder? And how [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Cowboy Junkies, &#8220;Angels in the Wilderness&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/midweek-music-break-cowboy-junkies-angels-in-the-wilderness/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/midweek-music-break-cowboy-junkies-angels-in-the-wilderness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 16:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Backward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Midweek Music Break]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[alternative rock]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Trinity Session]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=10773</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Image: Cowboy Junkies (from top: Alan Anton, bass; Margo Timmins, vocals; Peter Timmins, drums; and Michael Timmins, guitar)] Cowboy Junkies was the first band I ever listened two who&#8217;d been dubbed &#8220;alt&#8221;-anything. (It may have been alt-country, but I&#8217;m pretty sure it was plain old alternative rock.) This made me feel all, y&#8217;know, not quite dangerous, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleepwaking, Blindsighted, and a Little Bit of Movies in the Night</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/sleepwaking-blindsighted-and-a-little-bit-of-movies-in-the-night/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/sleepwaking-blindsighted-and-a-little-bit-of-movies-in-the-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[A.R. Ammons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anne Lamott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chard deNiord]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizen Kane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Wiencek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McSweeney's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nin Andrews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Centolella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing prompts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Video: one of the best cinematic commentaries on ignoring (and paying attention to) the wrong things turned 71 the other day. Above, its trailer -- complete with telephone commentary not actually in the film... and not showing its title character for even a single second.] From whiskey river: Solar On a gray day, when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Return to Whatever &#8220;Normalcy&#8221; Is</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/a-return-to-whatever-normalcy-is/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/a-return-to-whatever-normalcy-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[routine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We got back last night from a blitz of a trip to Miami, having driven down there, stayed two fast nights, and then driven back (the latter by way of Sarosota, which made the return a twelve-hour marathon). So I&#8217;m still reeling a little.* This caps off a crazy month-long period of household repairs and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Counter-Intuition Replied&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/and-counter-intuition-replied/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/and-counter-intuition-replied/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Missus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lucia Perillo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Miami]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urszula Koziol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wendell Berry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Stafford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yupno]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=10674</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Video: studio version of "I've Seen All Good People," by Yes] From whiskey river: Not a few, but everyone, makes art. There is no art beyond the sensibility of the people confronting it: art is an interaction between object and beholder. The idea of a human being forced to concede the superiority of a work [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Intersections Close By, Milestones Passed</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/intersections-close-by-milestones-passed/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/intersections-close-by-milestones-passed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alain de Botton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anniversaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buckminster Fuller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C.K. Williams]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Queen Elizabeth 2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rita Dove]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: the cruise ship Queen Elizabeth 2 and the New York City skyline at night (January, 2011)] From whiskey river: Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laughing, Refreshed, in Its Face</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/laughing-refreshed-in-its-face/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/laughing-refreshed-in-its-face/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Wagoner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Video: scene from The Princess Bride -- the Man in Black faces off against his cleverest adversary, Vizzini the nearly-inconceivable Sicilian. You can find a transcript (among other Vizzini-isms) at this IMDB page.] From whiskey river: To get through this life and see it realistically poses a problem. There is a dark, evil, hopeless side to life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: The Ramsey Lewis Trio, &#8220;The &#8216;In&#8217; Crowd&#8221; and &#8220;Wade in the Water&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/midweek-music-break-the-ramsey-lewis-trio-the-in-crowd-and-wade-in-the-water/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/midweek-music-break-the-ramsey-lewis-trio-the-in-crowd-and-wade-in-the-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: Ramsey Lewis, by Kagan McLeod. (Original here, at McLeod's blog of "music-themed ink drawings" called Oooh, and I Like It.) McLeod says in the comments there that he drew this "straight to ink," without benefit of pencil sketch; both this technique and the drawing per se, I think, parallel the experience of listening to [...]]]></description>
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