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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; Humor</title>
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		<title>The World Was Too Much With Them All</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading Susan Orlean&#8216;s Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend. Aside from the heart (and I mean heart) of the main story itself, after something like ten years of borderline-obsessive research Orlean managed to weave into the book dozens of little stray details about the lives and personalities of the many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who, What, When, Where, Why, How, and Whether to Ask (or Not)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/who-what-when-where-why-how-and-whether-to-ask-or-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: Many Questions No Answers, by Norwegian artist Trine Meyer Vogsland (acrylic on watercolor paper; 24x32cm)] From whiskey river: LXXII If all rivers are sweet where does the sea get its salt? How do the seasons know they must change their shirt? Why so slowly in winter and later with such a rapid shudder? And how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleepwaking, Blindsighted, and a Little Bit of Movies in the Night</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/05/sleepwaking-blindsighted-and-a-little-bit-of-movies-in-the-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[writing prompts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Video: one of the best cinematic commentaries on ignoring (and paying attention to) the wrong things turned 71 the other day. Above, its trailer -- complete with telephone commentary not actually in the film... and not showing its title character for even a single second.] From whiskey river: Solar On a gray day, when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Counter-Intuition Replied&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/and-counter-intuition-replied/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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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>Laughing, Refreshed, in Its Face</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/laughing-refreshed-in-its-face/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/laughing-refreshed-in-its-face/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Video: scene from The Princess Bride -- the Man in Black faces off against his cleverest adversary, Vizzini the nearly-inconceivable Sicilian. You can find a transcript (among other Vizzini-isms) at this IMDB page.] From whiskey river: To get through this life and see it realistically poses a problem. There is a dark, evil, hopeless side to life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conversations, Sacred and Profane</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/03/conversations-sacred-and-profane/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/03/conversations-sacred-and-profane/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ilchi Lee]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steambath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Titian]]></category>

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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>Real-Life Dialogue: Vita Brevis Edition</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/03/real-life-dialogue-vita-brevis-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/03/real-life-dialogue-vita-brevis-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tortures of the calendar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[The scene: North Florida, USA, the interior of a car -- not their own -- currently occupied by a human couple and a micro-canine. It is around 6:00 pm: He and She, with The Pooch, are on their way home from work. They left work early today in order to rent a car (this one) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Hayes Carll, &#8220;Another Like You&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/02/midweek-music-break-hayes-carll-another-like-you/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/02/midweek-music-break-hayes-carll-another-like-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to all the new(ish) music I&#8217;ve been listening to over the last couple years, I&#8217;ve found myself a fan of a genre I didn&#8217;t even know existed. It&#8217;s sort of a loose super-genre, actually: Americana or &#8220;roots music,&#8221; incorporating elements of bluegrass, folk, country/western, blues, rock&#8230; The instrumentation and arrangement lean acoustic-wards, and often [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/the-kindness-of-every-split-second/#comments</comments>
		<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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