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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Deana Carter, &#8220;Did I Shave My Legs for This?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 14:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Midweek Music Break]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: Deana Carter, circa 1995] A bit of urban folklore which I sort of remember (and sort of don&#8217;t) from years ago, regarding a difference between the sexes: Boys roll; girls fold. The rolling-and-folding in question was (supposedly) of paper programs for events like football games, concerts, and church services. (I may have mixed up the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: David Byrne and Brian Eno, &#8220;Home&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/midweek-music-break-david-byrne-and-brian-eno-home/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/midweek-music-break-david-byrne-and-brian-eno-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several of Running After My Hat&#8216;s regular commenthood are overhauling what &#8220;home&#8221; means to them: Nance &#8211; and Mr. Mature, of course &#8212; are caught up in readying their house for a (dearly longed-for) sale. Marta &#8212; amongst writing a flash-fiction story every day this month, and competitive skating, and teaching, and the gods know what else [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Cowboy Junkies, &#8220;Angels in the Wilderness&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/midweek-music-break-cowboy-junkies-angels-in-the-wilderness/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/midweek-music-break-cowboy-junkies-angels-in-the-wilderness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 16:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Backward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Midweek Music Break]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[alternative rock]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Trinity Session]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: Cowboy Junkies (from top: Alan Anton, bass; Margo Timmins, vocals; Peter Timmins, drums; and Michael Timmins, guitar)] Cowboy Junkies was the first band I ever listened two who&#8217;d been dubbed &#8220;alt&#8221;-anything. (It may have been alt-country, but I&#8217;m pretty sure it was plain old alternative rock.) This made me feel all, y&#8217;know, not quite dangerous, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Water Liars, &#8220;Dog Eaten&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/midweek-music-break-water-liars-dog-eaten/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/midweek-music-break-water-liars-dog-eaten/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 16:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Midweek Music Break]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Hannah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Liars]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=10182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Image(s): Water Liars. You'd never imagine that a couple of guys who look like this would write, play, and sing so sweetly, would you?] I don&#8217;t know how the duo who call themselves Water Liars came up with that name. I do know, however, that it&#8217;s the title of the first story in a collection by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Counter-Intuition Replied&#8230;</title>
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		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/and-counter-intuition-replied/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ruminations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Missus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whiskey river Fridays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distractedness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I've Seen All Good People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intuition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lucia Perillo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Miami]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urszula Koziol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wendell Berry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Stafford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yupno]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Video: studio version of "I've Seen All Good People," by Yes] From whiskey river: Not a few, but everyone, makes art. There is no art beyond the sensibility of the people confronting it: art is an interaction between object and beholder. The idea of a human being forced to concede the superiority of a work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: The Band, &#8220;Rockin&#8217; Chair&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/midweek-music-break-the-band-rockin-chair/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/midweek-music-break-the-band-rockin-chair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Levon Helm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Manuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Band]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[The Band (circa 1969), left to right: Richard Manuel, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Robbie Robertson] I&#8216;ve posted about The Band exactly once, and barely then &#8212; tacking &#8220;All La Glory&#8221; onto the end of a whiskey river Friday post in December, 2008. I&#8217;ve not been ignoring them offline; in fact, as with (to take [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, with Warren Haynes, &#8220;I&#8217;d Rather Go Blind&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/midweek-music-break-susan-tedeschi-and-derek-trucks-with-warren-haynes-id-rather-go-blind/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/midweek-music-break-susan-tedeschi-and-derek-trucks-with-warren-haynes-id-rather-go-blind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Midweek Music Break]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Etta James]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Video from In Performance at the White House: Red, Hot, and Blues] [Original lyrics, by Etta James] I first encountered the name Derek Trucks within a few years after I&#8217;d moved down here. Some kid was doing a show at a club in town &#8212; an amazing blues guitarist, said the newspaper preview, and only [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: The Ramsey Lewis Trio, &#8220;The &#8216;In&#8217; Crowd&#8221; and &#8220;Wade in the Water&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/midweek-music-break-the-ramsey-lewis-trio-the-in-crowd-and-wade-in-the-water/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/midweek-music-break-the-ramsey-lewis-trio-the-in-crowd-and-wade-in-the-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Backward]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cool jazz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kagan McLeod]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ramsey Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The '60s]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: Ramsey Lewis, by Kagan McLeod. (Original here, at McLeod's blog of "music-themed ink drawings" called Oooh, and I Like It.) McLeod says in the comments there that he drew this "straight to ink," without benefit of pencil sketch; both this technique and the drawing per se, I think, parallel the experience of listening to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break Playlist: Windows to the Soul</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/midweek-music-break-playlist-windows-to-the-soul/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/midweek-music-break-playlist-windows-to-the-soul/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Photography]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cicero]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diane Ackerman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Errol Garner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eyes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louis Armstrong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[playlists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shook Twins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stray Cats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Eagles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The O'Kaysions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tommy Dorsey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Van Morrison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vision]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=10416</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Image: girl, dancing, in giant eye costume. Note the hands: one giving "thumbs-up!" sign, one holding a cocktail. I have no idea if this is an advertising image or what; found it at a couple of places, never with any explanation.] (Note: The playlist goes automatically from start to finish, once you click the little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better Fictions, Lesser Truths</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/03/better-fictions-lesser-truths/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/03/better-fictions-lesser-truths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[whiskey river Fridays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[' Vertigo']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alfred Hitchcock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carmen McCrae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith Shearin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filip Dujardin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joan Didion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loren Eiseley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Dunn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[truth and fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: one of various digital collages in the "Fictions" series by Flemish photographer/artist Filip Dujardin. (Click to enlarge.) These buildings and landscapes do not actually exist (although he starts with images of buildings in and around Ghent, Belgium).] From whiskey river: While I was sitting one night with a poet friend watching a great opera [...]]]></description>
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