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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; The Business</title>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Ciara Sidine, &#8220;Take Me Down&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: "Ciara and Conor [Brady], acoustic set, Shadow Road Shining launch at Sugar Club, Dublin, 13 May 2011&#8243; (from her FB page)] The [mostly imaginary] scene: Dublin, Ireland, in the offices of a large publishing firm, sometime in the still young twenty-first century. An experienced, highly respected editor sits looking dreamily out a window of her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writerly Distractions and Neuroses: Fiction and Word Counts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books as Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: "Doodle with Measuring Tape," by Bryan Reyna] I came across an interesting site this morning, called Renaissance Learning (subtitle: &#8220;Advanced Technology for Data-Driven Schools.&#8221; In general, Renaissance Learning is a resource for (as you might guess) teachers and other educators. One area of the site, the Quiz Store, peddles quizzes about specific books. What interests me today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the &#8220;A&#8221; Word</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Missus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hard questions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[what's your book about]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writers and non-writers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: "Left-Hand Rule." For an explanation about something other than the subject of this post, see this page at the University of Maryland's Department of Physics site.] &#8230;or: what It&#8217;s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World has to do with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. (Well, no, not really. The post started out to connect [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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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>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/whats-in-a-song-body-and-soul-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's in a Song]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Body and Soul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gertrude Lawrence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Hylton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johnny Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libby Holman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Three's a Crowd]]></category>

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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>Pottermore</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/06/pottermore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E-Books, E-Reading, E-Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Atlantic: In a much-anticipated press event this morning, J.K. Rowling announced the launch of Pottermore, a new website meant to bring all-things-Harry Potter to the Web. It was revealed in a leaked memo yesterday that a central focus of the site would be an online gaming experience developed by the company Adam &#38; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying Attention to What You Want</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/04/paying-attention-to-what-you-want/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/04/paying-attention-to-what-you-want/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[reasons to write]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[why anyone writes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Seems to Fit: &#8220;For this one time,&#8221; [Bonnie] said aloud, &#8220;I want us each to think about the same question, one question, while we do this. We don&#8217;t have to say anything out loud, and we don&#8217;t have to spend more than ten minutes doing it, I don&#8217;t think&#8212;&#8221; George: &#8220;Wait! Brandy first, question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perspective, Proportion, Sweet Spot</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/02/perspective-proportion-sweet-spot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[whiskey river Fridays]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Bryson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Engineered Biotopes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: "Perspective," a portion of Engineered Biotopes; this was an entry in a 2010 Greek architectural competition called "Piraeus Tower 2010 -- Changing the Face/Façades Reformation." For more on the competition, and this entry in particular, see this page at the Bustler architecture/design site.] From whiskey river: To My Doppelganger You were always the careful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll Take a Used Copy, Please</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/07/ill-take-a-used-copy-please/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/07/ill-take-a-used-copy-please/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books as Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mervyn Peake]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Partial amazon.com screen capture, July 9, 2010] Funny thing is, for some books &#8212; not all of them &#8220;great&#8221; ones, either &#8212; I might actually hesitate before deciding to go the cheap route, even with a price spread as broad as this. (I&#8217;m talking about you, you thick-page, large-format &#8220;children&#8217;s&#8221; book on natural history whose [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Touch and Enter</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/touch-and-enter/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/touch-and-enter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 19:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a comment on yesterday&#8217;s Towel Day post, Marta said: The miracle of the towel! The man who realized this was a man to be reckoned with indeed. That got me thinking: how cool it would be to come up with a&#8230; a something &#8212; an in-joke, an idea, a catchphrase, a little fictional detail, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Be Careful What You Wish For: Signing in the Waldenbooks</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-signing-in-the-waldenbooks/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-signing-in-the-waldenbooks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 22:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Hat tip to Miriam over at Dancing with Dragons Is Hard On Your Shoes.] _______________________________ P.S. And belated auto-congratulations to Running After My Hat for the missed anniversary: the most recent whiskey river Fridays post was #500 here. Is there a cake? How can there not be a cake?!?]]></description>
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