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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; Books as Books</title>
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		<title>Unbanning Books Month</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/09/unbanning-books-month/</link>
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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>I&#8217;ll Take a Used Copy, Please</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/07/ill-take-a-used-copy-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Partial amazon.com screen capture, July 9, 2010] Funny thing is, for some books &#8212; not all of them &#8220;great&#8221; ones, either &#8212; I might actually hesitate before deciding to go the cheap route, even with a price spread as broad as this. (I&#8217;m talking about you, you thick-page, large-format &#8220;children&#8217;s&#8221; book on natural history whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buh-Bye, Book-Buying Guilt!</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/06/buh-bye-book-buying-guilt/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/06/buh-bye-book-buying-guilt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[My Kindle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Missus has a refrigerator magnet which features a head-and-shoulders hand-tinted photo of a wealthy, hoity-toity society-matron sort of woman; the text alongside says, &#8220;&#8216;Frugal&#8217; is such an ugly word.&#8221; (Ha!) Like many people, I suppose, I have great ambivalence about acquiring ever more Stuff. Examined closely, expressions like Wow, that would be so cool! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Touch and Enter</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/touch-and-enter/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/touch-and-enter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 19:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Catch-22]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[catchphrases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Douglas Adams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=7574</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a comment on yesterday&#8217;s Towel Day post, Marta said: The miracle of the towel! The man who realized this was a man to be reckoned with indeed. That got me thinking: how cool it would be to come up with a&#8230; a something &#8212; an in-joke, an idea, a catchphrase, a little fictional detail, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things vs. Other Things</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/04/things-vs-other-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Internet, Sorry I&#8217;ve been so&#8230; so&#8230; casual about our relationship over the last few days. No, the dog hasn&#8217;t eaten my posts here and my comments elsewhere. The dog &#8212; specifically, The Pooch &#8212; has in fact eaten damned little of anything at all. She&#8217;s recovering from surgery on both back knees, to correct [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Earnout!</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/01/earnout/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/01/earnout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=6547</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From my tech-writing agent, in an email message yesterday: Did you want us to send you a check for the payment due, or did you want an electronic funds transfer to your bank acct? It took 7½ years, but my last tech book finally brought in more for the publisher than the size of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hoppin&#8217; Kudos</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/01/hoppin-kudos/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/01/hoppin-kudos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Photography]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marta Pelrine-Bacon]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=6470</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I know I&#8217;m at risk of exhausting your patience with all the recent round of congratulations, thanks, trophy-giving, and so on. I just want to point you in the direction of one more nice little feather in the cap of an RAMH regular. It&#8217;s especially nice to be able to do so via a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>If I Were a Betting Man&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/12/if-i-were-a-betting-man/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/12/if-i-were-a-betting-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=6385</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;which I&#8217;m not, I&#8217;d say that the author of this book currently advertised on eBay will see none of the proceeds: Ha! And there are 5 available, even! Hahahahaha&#8230;! Omigod, thank you. I needed a good laugh.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>When Good Things Happen to Good Book Bloggers</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/12/when-good-things-happen-to-good-book-bloggers/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/12/when-good-things-happen-to-good-book-bloggers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You probably already know the movie A Christmas Story, released in 1983 and based on the stories (and featuring the voiceover narration) of Jean Shepherd. And if you&#8217;ve been hanging around here for a while, you may also know of my own childhood Christmas memories &#8212; and if so, you&#8217;ll know I share what seems [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>So Your Book Just Sits There, Inert?</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/11/so-your-book-just-sits-there-inert/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/11/so-your-book-just-sits-there-inert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(hat tip to Janet Reid)]]></description>
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