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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; Comics</title>
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		<title>Super Powers for the Rest of Us</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/super-powers-for-the-rest-of-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[['Super Powers,' by Mark Stivers. Click to view the full set of six.] Given a choice, I think the caption below my portrait &#8212; in ten words or less &#8212; would say something like writes brilliant stories one hour at a time*. (My Kryptonite: the Internet.) Yours? _______________ * Edit to add: Just to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Identity Crises</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/identity-crises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 10:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: 'A Little Family History,' by B. Kliban] From whiskey river: Moment A person wakes from sleep and does not know for a time who she is, who he is. This happens in a lifetime once or twice. It has happened to you, no doubt. Some in that moment panic, some sigh with pleasure. How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a Song: Fever (1)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/03/whats-in-a-song-fever-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=6554</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[This is another in an occasional series on popular songs with appeal across the generations. This post will be broken into two parts; Part 2 will appear in a few days is here.] As a kid, I once read a &#8220;funny&#8221; comic-book episode in which aliens landed in mid-20th-century America and reported back to their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After &#8220;The End&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/01/after-the-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=6640</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No, alas &#8212; not here to report anything like the conclusion of Seems to Fit. Just sharing a tidbit from the irrepressible xkcd webcomic. The first three panels of today&#8217;s contribution to the collective wisdom are above; click the image to see the final panel.]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a Song: Begin the Beguine (2)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/08/whats-in-a-song-begin-the-beguine-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=5234</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[This is another in an occasional series on popular songs with long histories. Part 1 -- which focused on the song's composition and lyrics -- appeared on Wednesday.] How many times and by which performers has &#8220;Begin the Beguine&#8221; been covered? It is to laugh. The most comprehensive list I&#8217;ve seen was on the page [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Here (Today)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/03/being-here-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=3747</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From whiskey river (first 3+ lines not included there): from The Ninth Duino Elegy Why, if this interval of being can be spent serenely in the form of a laurel, slightly darker than all other green, with tiny waves on the edges of every leaf (like the smile of a breeze)&#8211;: why then have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Always Pause Before Opening the Door</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/03/always-pause-before-opening-the-door/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/03/always-pause-before-opening-the-door/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do love a punchline &#8212; or a cartoon caption &#8212; which makes me pause for a split-second before making me snort. (Score another for the Bizarro strip.) This one&#8217;s even better than that first split-second made me realize, as I just noticed when uploading it.]]></description>
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		<title>The Blogger as Essayist (and Lens)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/02/the-blogger-as-essayist-and-lens/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/02/the-blogger-as-essayist-and-lens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real post for the day imminent. In the meantime, I think this quotation deserves a post of its own: The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest. He is a fellow who thoroughly enjoys his work, just as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;&#8230; 3&#8230; 2&#8230; 1&#8230; 0&#8230; I Said ZERO, Dammit, ZERO!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/12/3-2-1-0-i-said-zero-dammit-zero/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/12/3-2-1-0-i-said-zero-dammit-zero/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This post's title alludes to this little tidbit of news: 2008 will last a second longer than most years.] The New Year, per usual, calls to mind resolutions about what we hope will come within the next 365ish days. I&#8217;ll get to that in a moment. First, though, I want to note that whatever else [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving a Light On the Reality of Writing</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/12/leaving-a-light-on-the-reality-of-writing/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/12/leaving-a-light-on-the-reality-of-writing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Don't assume the above is the whole story. Click the image to see the complete strip from Shannon Wheeler's "How to Be Happy" series.] Like me, you have probably heard more than once the assertion &#8212; pronounced in a gentle voice, at the end of a radio commercial (for the Motel 6 chain) consisting entirely [...]]]></description>
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