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		<title>Answers in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Midweek Music Break: Pendyrus Male Choir, &#8220;Cwm Rhonnda&#8220;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: the valley of the Rhondda] I&#8217;ve mentioned before that while writing Seems to Fit, I used a variety of musical playlists to put me in the proper frame of mind for a given chapter. The selections on the day&#8217;s playlist were among those which (so I imagined) would be favorites of the character most heavily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kindness of Every Split-Second</title>
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		<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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		<title>Swept Away by (and for) Books</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/swept-away-by-and-for-books/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/swept-away-by-and-for-books/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Old Kentucky Blog recently highlighted two of the films nominated for this year&#8217;s Oscar in the short-animations category. One of them really struck me, and I think it will really strike you as well &#8212; if you are someone who&#8217;s ever had a little jolt of excitement at opening a new book&#8230; or dreamt of adding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Loreena McKennitt, &#8220;Down by the Sally Gardens&#8221;</title>
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		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/midweek-music-break-loreena-mckennitt-down-by-the-sally-gardens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loreena McKennitt seems to love anything which hitches the adjective Celtic to the noun music. She&#8217;s traveled the world to record music both Celtic and Celtic-like, often (even on brand-new songs) using instruments which might have been recognized 2,000 years ago across the whole range of the Celts&#8217; distribution. She&#8217;s certainly traveled farther afield than many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unquiet Large, Quiet Small</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/unquiet-large-quiet-small/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From whiskey river: In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Dominant Legs, &#8220;Make Time for the Boy&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/midweek-music-break-dominant-legs-make-time-for-the-boy/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/midweek-music-break-dominant-legs-make-time-for-the-boy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a group named &#8220;Dominant Legs,&#8221; what in the hell sort of music should we expect? Tina Turner in black leather, maybe? I can&#8217;t say I have a ready answer to the question. But it wouldn&#8217;t have been, for me, something like this: a Lynchian, sweetly blissed-out, dream-dancing, burbling-organ, saxophone-accented, group-sing throwback of a pop song: [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;You Didn&#8217;t Forget the Words, Did You?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/you-didnt-forget-the-words-did-you/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/you-didnt-forget-the-words-did-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Video: a zebra teaches a little girl to scat-sing. Found it at Zooglobble, home of "kids' music worth sharing." Warning: do not visit that site if you are even mildly distractable.] My Dad taught me many things about music, especially jazz, even (I&#8217;m certain) in ways which I have yet to understand or even recognize. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Absorbing and the Absorbed</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/the-absorbing-and-the-absorbed/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/the-absorbing-and-the-absorbed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: a Menger sponge overgrown with vines, found here. Wikipedia explains how to construct a real Menger sponge, noting -- without elaboration -- that the resulting object "simultaneously exhibits an infinite surface area and encloses zero volume."*] From whiskey river: You know when you see something like a marvelous mountain against the blue sky, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Booker T. and the MGs, &#8220;Time Is Tight&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/midweek-music-break-booker-t-and-the-mgs-time-is-tight/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/midweek-music-break-booker-t-and-the-mgs-time-is-tight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people think of music in the 1960s-&#8217;70s, of soul music, they think automatically of the Motown record label. But there was a heck of a lot going on further south then, too, down in Memphis: the home of Stax Records. Originally Satellite Records, the company was forced to change its name in response to a [...]]]></description>
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