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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; The Online World</title>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Israel Kamakawiwo'ole]]></category>
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		<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>BlogIt</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/blogit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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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>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[arctic moon]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=7854</guid>
		<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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		<title>When Media Collide (to Quite Amusing Effect)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/07/when-media-collide-to-quite-amusing-effect/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/07/when-media-collide-to-quite-amusing-effect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(With apologies to site visitors who might be unfamiliar with one or the other work&#8230;) [via the reliable, insanely good taste of literary agent Janet Reid]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Remotely Running After My Hat</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/06/remotely-running-after-my-hat/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/06/remotely-running-after-my-hat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image of 18th-century dowser from Wikipedia... Wonder if it's sized to fit?] I&#8217;m going to be computerless much of this week. Which presents me with a convenient dilemma &#8212; to wit, how to do a whiskey river Friday post? You may be thinking: How, exactly, will this be &#8220;convenient&#8221;? Sounds rather like a pain, in [...]]]></description>
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