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		<title>The &#8220;Thud&#8221; of Adult Cool</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once, when I was teaching, I had this fabulous idea for a series of lessons. I just knew it would be a hit with the kids. I just knew I&#8217;d love teaching it. It would dazzle my peers. And quite possibly I&#8217;d get written up in the local paper &#8212; in a, y&#8217;know, good way. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sky-Blessed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: 'Untitled, Hateruma-jima, Okinawa, 1971,' by Shomei Tomatsu] From whiskey river: How to Grow Clouds It takes a lot of work: it is necessary to weed very carefully, to toss out muck and small stones by hand, to kneel on the earth, bend over, dig about in the soil, water profusely, collect caterpillars, exterminate aphids, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unbanning Books Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miriam Forster, of the charmingly monikered Dancing with Dragons is Hard on Your Shoes blog, has issued a challenge to writers (and readers!). It springs from an annual event sponsored by the American Library Association, called Banned Books Week. From the ALA site: Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real-Life Dialogue (Awkward Moments Edition)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/real-life-dialogue-awkward-moments-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The scene opens in the waiting room of Super Mega Giant medical center in a mid-sized city in northern Florida, USA. He is a middle-aged male, and has been for some time. This report includes two Shes: A, a medical assistant; and J, a nurse practitioner.] A: Mr. He? He: Right here. A: Very good, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BlogIt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year around now, a large chunk of blogosphere real estate is turned over to posts, tweets, Facebook status updates, and Flickr albums about a gathering called BlogHer. As the conference title suggests, the focus in on women who blog &#8212; it&#8217;s apparently attended by a number of guys, as well &#8212; and for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surprised by What You Want</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Video above: "Rio," by Hey Marseilles. Lyrics at the foot of this post.] From whiskey river: I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis ball, eternally, and the one thing I want in the world is a tennis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think You Know What&#8217;s Coming?</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/think-you-know-whats-coming/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/think-you-know-whats-coming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From whiskey river: If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next &#8212; if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions &#8212; you&#8217;d be doomed. You&#8217;d be as ruined as God. You&#8217;d be a stone. You&#8217;d never eat or drink or laugh or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Takes You Back?</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/what-takes-you-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Granta magazine kicked off a new collective-memory project called &#8220;Nostos Algos.&#8221; From a publicity release which just made its way to my Inbox: The word &#8216;nostalgia&#8217; comes from the Greek words nostos (&#8216;a homecoming&#8217;) and algos (&#8216;pain, grief, distress&#8217;). We have all known the desire to return to another place or time, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hits and Misses</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/hits-and-misses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complicated here, during the last week. Not bad, just&#8230; complicated. Thought I&#8217;d sort of summarize a couple of points of potential interest, but first, a question for regular visitors: Have you had problems accessing RAMH recently? One of your number has reported getting repeated &#8220;the connection was reset by the server&#8221; errors. It&#8217;s prevented her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: War, by Sebastian Junger</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/book-review-war-by-sebastian-junger/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/book-review-war-by-sebastian-junger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Habitués of Running After My Hat know, I think, that I resist the intrusion of politics into my posts here. And although I&#8217;ve never been tested on this, I&#8217;m pretty sure that&#8217;s one area in which I would likely resort to editing (or outright banning) comments of certain kinds. If you&#8217;re after debate, even of [...]]]></description>
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