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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; Writing</title>
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		<title>Sky-Blessed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: 'Untitled, Hateruma-jima, Okinawa, 1971,' by Shomei Tomatsu] From whiskey river: How to Grow Clouds It takes a lot of work: it is necessary to weed very carefully, to toss out muck and small stones by hand, to kneel on the earth, bend over, dig about in the soil, water profusely, collect caterpillars, exterminate aphids, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Unbanning Books Month</title>
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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>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/sometime-i-tie-a-piece-of-lint-to-a-hair-and-i-drag-it-around/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cartoons & Animation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marcel the Shell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Speak Coffee to Me]]></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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		<title>What You&#8217;ll Never Know</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/what-youll-never-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[whiskey river Fridays]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This utterly breaks with the whiskey river Fridays tradition here. But the most recent post there seems to demand passing around among ourselves. From whiskey river: I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real-Life Dialogue (Awkward Moments Edition)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/real-life-dialogue-awkward-moments-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/real-life-dialogue-awkward-moments-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The scene opens in the waiting room of Super Mega Giant medical center in a mid-sized city in northern Florida, USA. He is a middle-aged male, and has been for some time. This report includes two Shes: A, a medical assistant; and J, a nurse practitioner.] A: Mr. He? He: Right here. A: Very good, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get to Know What Real Is</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/get-to-know-what-real-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From whiskey river (italicized portion): People don&#8217;t realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature... I think a person finally emerges from all this nonsense when he becomes aware that his life has a much larger meaning he has been ignoring &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Object of My Affectation</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/the-object-of-my-affectation/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/the-object-of-my-affectation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Alfalfa, of the Our Gang comedies, sings of his love for sweet little round-faced, soft-focus Darla. And yes, I know: the song title doesn't have that extra syllable in it. :)] Whom, exactly, do you try to impress? Note that I&#8217;m not asking about classes or groups of people. Most of us would like to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Right Looking</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/right-looking/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/right-looking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Gamon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image of Fay Ray, by William Wegman (1988), found here, as well as elsewhere on the Web (e.g., Style Me to the Moon)] From whiskey river: My Hand See how the past is not finished here in the present it is awake the whole time never waiting it is my hand now but not what [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</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>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/super-powers-for-the-rest-of-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=7876</guid>
		<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>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[neurosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wondermark]]></category>

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		<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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