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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; Looking Backward</title>
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		<title>Perfect Moments: The Author&#8217;s Book, to Its Author</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Backward]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[and now: to read it for pleasure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Ed. Note: minor identifying details of this recently discovered letter have been obscured, to preserve the anonymity of the parties involved.] Dear J_____, So, you have finally finished me. I suppose I should offer not only thanks but congratulations to you &#8212; if so, then, sure: Congratulations! But I also can&#8217;t help thinking that maybe we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Bix Beiderbecke, &#8220;I&#8217;m Coming, Virginia&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Midweek Music Break]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bix Beiderbecke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hoagy Carmichael]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jazz cornetist Leon &#8220;Bix&#8221; Beiderbecke&#8217;s life sketched out the template for generations of stereotypical pop-music biographies to come: self-taught musician comes out of the suburbs of Nowheresville, remakes his chosen genre &#8212; wowing the pros &#8212; while laboring in the  chains of commercialism, and dies, in mysterious, seedy circumstances, before the age of 30&#8230; leaving behind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: &#8220;The Swingin&#8217; Shepherd Blues&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[earworms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[just when you thought you'd forgotten...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moe Koffman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Cole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swingin' Shepherd Blues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alto saxophonist and flautist Moe Koffman had been kicking around the Canadian and US jazz world for years by the time &#8212; in 1957 &#8212; he composed a number for the jazz flute he originally called &#8220;Blues à la Canadiana.&#8221; His producer suggested a title change; ever since, it&#8217;s been known as &#8220;The Swingin&#8217; Shepherd Blues.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catless</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/10/catless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Looking Backward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature & Pets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruminations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Missus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I don't know anything sadder than certain autumn evenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah. That, alas &#8212; for the first time in twenty years. We&#8217;d known the day was coming, known it for months now. A sad realization, to be sure. But not the same sort of sadness as to find it suddenly so&#8230; Katie lived longer than the other two indoor cats we had &#8212; somewhere around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Moments: Two Beautiful Women, a Certain Amount of Booze, and Maybe I&#8217;ve Got a Story&#8230;!</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/10/perfect-moments-two-beautiful-women-a-certain-amount-of-booze-and-maybe-ive-got-a-story/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/10/perfect-moments-two-beautiful-women-a-certain-amount-of-booze-and-maybe-ive-got-a-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Perfect Moments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruminations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seems to Fit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Style and Craft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Missus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to keep going]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[why write]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writer's workshop]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the mid-1990s, boy, was I ever confused, perplexed, and probably (by many measures) in need of adjustment. Especially about my writing. Here&#8217;s what my quote-unquote oeuvre consisted of then: A non-fiction Op Ed memoir(ish) piece in a regional edition of the New York Times. A published mystery. (Depending on who I was talking to at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Moments: &#8220;I Shot &#8216;im, Paw.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/perfect-moments-i-shot-im-paw/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/perfect-moments-i-shot-im-paw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hearing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nature & Pets]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[raccoons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[when humans and animals collide]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The house in which The Missus and I live now is over twenty years old, as is our immediate neighborhood. But the area in general has only recently started to get built up. Real honest-to-gods wildlife, not yet squeezed out by housing and new roads, can still be spotted here and there &#8212; foxes, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real-Life Dialogue: Wardrobe Culling Edition</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/real-life-dialogue-wardrobe-culling-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/real-life-dialogue-wardrobe-culling-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Looking Backward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real-Life Dialogue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Missus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cleanliness/godliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domesticity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[The scene: a suburban home in North Florida, USA. He has stayed home from work on this day to prepare a guest bedroom for painting. In this guest bedroom is a closet, and in the closet are His clothes. All of them. Woven shirts, knit shirts, jeans, suits, ties, socks, underwear, shoes... It's not a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Switched-On Bach</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/midweek-music-break-switched-on-bach/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/midweek-music-break-switched-on-bach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Backward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Midweek Music Break]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[classical music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electronic music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J.S. Bach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Switched-On Bach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walter Carlos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wendy Carlos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If not for 1968&#8242;s Switched-On Bach, I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d ever have paid much attention to classical music. I don&#8217;t know why I bought the album, unless in fascination with the sheer weirdness of the concept. As far as I knew then, no one within shouting distance of my life listened to classical music. I didn&#8217;t read [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Jazzy Joni</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/midweek-music-break-jazzy-joni/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/midweek-music-break-jazzy-joni/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Backward]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atlantic City Pop Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[folk music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jazz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joni Mitchell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Joni Mitchell, or so I thought around the time I first heard of her, epitomized the sweet-and-fragile visuals of hippie-folk culture. (With her long straight blonde hair, oh-so-slender frame and a voice to match, with her acoustic guitar and simple attire, she seemed a Mary Travers wannabe &#8212; maybe her gawky delicate second or third cousin, who [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, the Erstwhile &#8220;Music&#8221; Television</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/happy-birthday-the-erstwhile-music-television/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/happy-birthday-the-erstwhile-music-television/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Backward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Television]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MoonRat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MTV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pat Benatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Buggles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MTV turned 30 years old at a minute past midnight today. After a voiceover saying,&#8221;Ladies and gentlemen: rock and roll!&#8221; and some promotional pieces, they overturned the music business with their very first video: The Buggles, and &#8220;Video Killed the Radio Star.&#8221; Lyrics: Video Killed the Radio Star (The Buggles) I heard you on the [...]]]></description>
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