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		<title>The Object of My Affectation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Alfalfa, of the Our Gang comedies, sings of his love for sweet little round-faced, soft-focus Darla. And yes, I know: the song title doesn't have that extra syllable in it. :)] Whom, exactly, do you try to impress? Note that I&#8217;m not asking about classes or groups of people. Most of us would like to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Steam Drill Only Made Nine (Lord, Lord)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my siblings and I were kids, at some point Mom and Dad bought us a huge collection of LPs of music of all sorts &#8212; a passive music-appreciation course, of sorts, for kids in a small town. The entire set arrived in a cardboard box which none of us (but Dad) could lift. Each [...]]]></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>If You Can Believe It (or Even If You Can&#8217;t)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/06/if-you-can-believe-it-or-even-if-you-cant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: backglass from a new(ish) pinball game by Stern, currently available from Premier Amusements] From whiskey river&#8216;s archive (a/k/a the commonplace book): A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. &#8220;Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?&#8221; he asks. &#8220;No,&#8221; replies the colleague, &#8220;but I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>He Would&#8217;ve Been 86 (+ Two Days)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/he-wouldve-been-86-two-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 16:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Twenty-year-old Dad-to-be applies an arc-welding torch to a tank, somewhere in Europe, 1944-45. Handwritten caption on back: It's me again. Actually working. I told you so!] For years, this has been a psychologically complicated few days &#8212; at least for those of us in my family given to psychological complication. In no particular order: Dad&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Water</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/in-the-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 15:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[For information about this photo, called "Weeki Wachee Spring, Florida," see the Note at the bottom of this post.] From whiskey river: Adrift Let my dreams while I&#8217;m wide-awake loose. Let me be drowned, bap­tized, in the light given me. Day comes around, night, fall, win­ter, spring, sum­mer. Leaves over­head, under­foot. Waves arrive, buf­fets from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sorting Through an Old Hive</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/sorting-through-an-old-hive/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/sorting-through-an-old-hive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 18:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some of you on Blogger-based weblogs may know, a fraction of those sites recently had to convert from a particular old technology to a newer one. The owners of affected blogs received a series of email notifications from Blogger tech support, and by now any such sites have been converted over to The New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running After My Hat: The Two-Year, 30-Second Version</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/04/running-after-my-hat-the-two-year-30-second-version/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/04/running-after-my-hat-the-two-year-30-second-version/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to come up with something&#8230; different to do for this blog&#8217;s second anniversary. And then along comes Google, with its wacky &#8220;Search Stories Video Creator&#8221; for YouTube. The Video Creator&#8217;s first page gives you up to six search boxes, into which you enter search terms &#8212; presumably forming some sort of &#8220;story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I Can&#8217;t Market My Art!&#8221; Oh, Yes You Can</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/03/i-cant-market-my-art-oh-yes-you-can/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/03/i-cant-market-my-art-oh-yes-you-can/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent blog post, loyal friend of RAMH Froog dredged up a name I hadn&#8217;t seen or heard for years: &#8220;cartoonist&#8221; Hugh MacLeod.* I no longer have any idea where I first encountered MacLeod and his interesting work. At the time, though, he was struggling to forge some sort of business from his creative output [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real-Life Dialogue</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/02/real-life-dialogue-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The scene: the living room of a rustic but solidly built house in Vermont, with a gorgeous view spread beneath and a Green Mountainside above. It is a summer morning, and the sun is still low but bright and cheerful. The Guest and The Erstwhile Missus are there at the invitation of D&#8212;, a colleague [...]]]></description>
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