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		<title>The &#8220;Thud&#8221; of Adult Cool</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cartoons & Animation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once, when I was teaching, I had this fabulous idea for a series of lessons. I just knew it would be a hit with the kids. I just knew I&#8217;d love teaching it. It would dazzle my peers. And quite possibly I&#8217;d get written up in the local paper &#8212; in a, y&#8217;know, good way. I [...]]]></description>
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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>&#8220;Sometimes I Tie a Hair to a Piece of Lint and I Drag It Around&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marcel the Shell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some things are just too entertaining and&#8230; unclassifiable not to pass around. Hence: &#8220;Marcel the Shell with Shoes On.&#8221; [Hat tip to Eileen of Speak Coffee to Me, temporarily coming out of... well, you know.]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Monday Bounce</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/monday-bounce/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/monday-bounce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bobby McFerrin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DJ Dain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel Kamakawiwo'ole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Mraz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mashups]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=7878</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pretty sure I posted a link to this on Facebook and/or Twitter a couple months ago, when I first encountered it. For some reason it&#8217;s found its way back into my head today, and has been positively ringing there for the last several hours. When a song will simply not leave me alone, my [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[Mark Stivers]]></category>
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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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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>BlogIt</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/blogit/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/blogit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[neurosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wondermark]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=7875</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year around now, a large chunk of blogosphere real estate is turned over to posts, tweets, Facebook status updates, and Flickr albums about a gathering called BlogHer. As the conference title suggests, the focus in on women who blog &#8212; it&#8217;s apparently attended by a number of guys, as well &#8212; and for the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Book Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/book-review-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-by-stieg-larsson/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/book-review-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-by-stieg-larsson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My review of this book is now up over at The Book Book. So is another reviewer&#8217;s, as of yesterday &#8212; and we&#8217;re just following on the heels of the first, from a year ago. Clearly a book that draws reviewers like flies! I liked the book very much although (as you can see from [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>What Takes You Back?</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/what-takes-you-back/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/what-takes-you-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Perfect Moments]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Granta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nostalgia]]></category>
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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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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hits and Misses</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/hits-and-misses/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/hits-and-misses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complicated here, during the last week. Not bad, just&#8230; complicated. Thought I&#8217;d sort of summarize a couple of points of potential interest, but first, a question for regular visitors: Have you had problems accessing RAMH recently? One of your number has reported getting repeated &#8220;the connection was reset by the server&#8221; errors. It&#8217;s prevented her [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>You Spoke from Midnight</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/07/outlasting/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/07/outlasting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[whiskey river Fridays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arctic moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[D.H. Lawrence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E.C. Pielou]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Edgar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Famous]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From whiskey river: Moonrise And who has seen the moon, who has not seen Her rise from out the chamber of the deep, Flushed and grand and naked, as from the chamber Of finished bridegroom, seen her rise and throw Confession of delight upon the wave, Littering the waves with her own superscription Of bliss, [...]]]></description>
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