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		<title>Conversations, Sacred and Profane</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: photograph of a massive (115" x 53") jigsaw puzzle, by Clementoni, of Titian's Sacred and Profane Love (also known as Venus and the Bride, but subject to various other interpretations as well). The puzzle contains over 13,000 pieces. I almost used this image instead, for no other reason than (a) the title and (b) its depiction, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Louis Armstrong, &#8220;There&#8217;s a Boat Dat&#8217;s Leavin&#8217; Soon for New York&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Louis Armstrong&#8217;s public persona so often seemed so happy-go-lucky, so ingratiating, that the song “There&#8217;s a Boat Dat&#8217;s Leavin&#8217; Soon for New York&#8221; &#8212; from the Gershwins&#8217; Porgy and Bess &#8212; seems to fit him like a glove. It comes across as a bouncy, jaunty tease. Without the context of the surrounding plot, here&#8217;s what we hear: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Answers in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/02/answers-in-mirror-are-closer-than-they-appear/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/02/answers-in-mirror-are-closer-than-they-appear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: xkcd #936, on password strength. Click image to enlarge; see xkcd itself for the full six panels and the punchline.] From whiskey river: This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal. (Dag Hammarskjöld [source]) &#8230;and: Ch&#8217;ui the draftsman Could draw more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kindness of Every Split-Second</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/the-kindness-of-every-split-second/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: display window of "mini-prints" taken with the Fujifilm Instax camera (originally from the Photojojo store). See note at bottom of post for more.] From whiskey river: You know what I believe? I remember in college I was taking this math class, this really great math class taught by this tiny old woman. She was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a Song: Body and Soul (1)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/whats-in-a-song-body-and-soul-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It starts in silence. By the end, the singer has thrown him- or herself melodramatically, almost operatically on the mercy of a lost love. It&#8217;s drenched in self-pity, but was written for and first performed by a woman once dubbed &#8220;Hollywood&#8217;s first maneater.&#8221; One of its most famous covers includes no vocal at all, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oceanic Complications</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/05/oceanic-complications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 16:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Video: "Ten Things I Have Learned about the Sea," by Lorenzo Fonda. One of whiskey river's posts this week was based on the text in this video. For more information, see the Vimeo page.] From whiskey river: Clam Each one is a small life, but sometimes long, if its place in the universe is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Worlds and Art Forms Overlap: The Icebook*</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/02/where-worlds-and-art-forms-overlap-the-icebook/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/02/where-worlds-and-art-forms-overlap-the-icebook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel somewhat at risk of turning this joint into one of those blogs which serve as dumping grounds for videos, rather than actual words. But some videos just demand circulation, y&#8217;know? This came to me by way of an email message from my great blog-friend, Froog, who just knew it would appeal to me. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a Song: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/11/whats-in-a-song-smoke-gets-in-your-eyes-2/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/11/whats-in-a-song-smoke-gets-in-your-eyes-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 16:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=7928</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Another entry in an occasional series about American songs with long histories. This one follows Part 1, about the history of the composition of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." You can read Part 1, posted last week, here.] [Video clip above assembled from the first film version of Roberta (1935); Irene Dunne sings it here. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s In a Song: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (1)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/10/whats-in-a-song-smoke-gets-in-your-eyes-1/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/10/whats-in-a-song-smoke-gets-in-your-eyes-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[One of a continuing series of posts on American popular songs with long histories. As is usually the case, this one on the history of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" will be was followed in a couple days by Part 2, about some of the cover versions.] Where Were You in &#8217;62? So asked one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enchanté</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/01/enchante/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From whiskey river&#8217;s commonplace book: The whale moves in a sea of sound: shrimps snap, plankton seethes, fish croak, gulp, drum their air-bladders, and are scrutinized by echo-location, a light massage of sound touching the skin. The small, toothed whales use high frequencies: Finely tuned and focused sound-beams, intense salvoes of bouncing clicks, a thousand [...]]]></description>
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