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		<title>Midweek Music Break: David Byrne and Brian Eno, &#8220;Home&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/midweek-music-break-david-byrne-and-brian-eno-home/</link>
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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>Who, What, When, Where, Why, How, and Whether to Ask (or Not)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/who-what-when-where-why-how-and-whether-to-ask-or-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rainer Maria Rilke]]></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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		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chard deNiord]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizen Kane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Wiencek]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Centolella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing prompts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=10724</guid>
		<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>Midweek Music Break: Water Liars, &#8220;Dog Eaten&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/midweek-music-break-water-liars-dog-eaten/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/midweek-music-break-water-liars-dog-eaten/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 16:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Midweek Music Break]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Hannah]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=10182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Image(s): Water Liars. You'd never imagine that a couple of guys who look like this would write, play, and sing so sweetly, would you?] I don&#8217;t know how the duo who call themselves Water Liars came up with that name. I do know, however, that it&#8217;s the title of the first story in a collection by [...]]]></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[routine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trips]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=10689</guid>
		<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[Yes]]></category>
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		<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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		<title>Midweek Music Break: The Band, &#8220;Rockin&#8217; Chair&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/midweek-music-break-the-band-rockin-chair/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/midweek-music-break-the-band-rockin-chair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Levon Helm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Manuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Band]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=10654</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[The Band (circa 1969), left to right: Richard Manuel, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Robbie Robertson] I&#8216;ve posted about The Band exactly once, and barely then &#8212; tacking &#8220;All La Glory&#8221; onto the end of a whiskey river Friday post in December, 2008. I&#8217;ve not been ignoring them offline; in fact, as with (to take [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</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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		<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>Midweek Music Break: Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, with Warren Haynes, &#8220;I&#8217;d Rather Go Blind&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/midweek-music-break-susan-tedeschi-and-derek-trucks-with-warren-haynes-id-rather-go-blind/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/midweek-music-break-susan-tedeschi-and-derek-trucks-with-warren-haynes-id-rather-go-blind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Video from In Performance at the White House: Red, Hot, and Blues] [Original lyrics, by Etta James] I first encountered the name Derek Trucks within a few years after I&#8217;d moved down here. Some kid was doing a show at a club in town &#8212; an amazing blues guitarist, said the newspaper preview, and only [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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