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		<title>&#8220;I Can&#8217;t Market My Art!&#8221; Oh, Yes You Can</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/03/i-cant-market-my-art-oh-yes-you-can/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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In a recent blog post, loyal friend of RAMH Froog dredged up a name I hadn&#8217;t seen or heard for years: &#8220;cartoonist&#8221; Hugh MacLeod.*
I no longer have any idea where I first encountered MacLeod and his interesting work. At the time, though, he was struggling to forge some sort of business from his creative output while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a Song: Fever (2)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/03/whats-in-a-song-fever-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrik “Piano” Maiani]]></category>
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[This is the second of two posts about the popular song "Fever." Part 1 was a couple days ago, here.]
As I mentioned in Part 1 of this &#8220;Fever&#8221; mini-series, the song&#8217;s lyrics and pulsing rhythm (and reputation!) seem to lead immature and/or lazy performers down sexual pathways they haven&#8217;t really earned the privilege  of traveling. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uncomfortable Numbers</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/03/uncomfortable-numbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[pi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tommy Tutone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wislawa Szymborska]]></category>

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From whiskey river:
A Word on Statistics
Out of every hundred people,
those who always know better:
fifty-two.
Unsure of every step:
almost all the rest.
Ready to help,
if it doesn&#8217;t take long:
forty-nine.
Always good,
because they cannot be otherwise:
four &#8212; well, maybe five.
Able to admire without envy:
eighteen.
Led to error
by youth (which passes):
sixty, plus or minus.
Those not to be messed with:
four-and-forty.
Living in constant fear
of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a Song: Fever (1)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/03/whats-in-a-song-fever-1/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/03/whats-in-a-song-fever-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The New Yorker]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[This is another in an occasional series on popular songs with appeal across the generations. This post will be broken into two parts; Part 2 will appear in a few days is here.]
As a kid, I once read a &#8220;funny&#8221; comic-book episode in which aliens landed in mid-20th-century America and reported back to their home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awards Season</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/03/awards-season/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/03/awards-season/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fabulous Sugar Doll Blogger Award]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nail Your Novel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roz Morris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sunshine Award]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Golden Globes: ha!
Tonys, Academy Awards: don&#8217;t make me laugh!
The People&#8217;s Choice: huh? wasn&#8217;t that a 1950s sitcom featuring Jackie Cooper and a talking Basset hound named Cleo?

Hint: yes.


You can have all of them. Roz Morris, of the imperatively named Nail Your Novel blog, has offered Running After My Hat not one but two awards. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Head Waters</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/02/head-waters/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/02/head-waters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Photography]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Al Green]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kobun Chino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lake Itasca]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ovid]]></category>
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From whiskey river:
Have you been to the source of a river? It&#8217;s a very mystic place. You get dizzy when you stay for a while. An especially big river has several sources, and the real source, the farthest point which turns to the major stream, is moist and misty, with some kind of ancient smell, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question? Authority!</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/02/question-authority/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/02/question-authority/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Taylor Mali]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via agent Janet Reid, whose taste in videos (even when she&#8217;s not sure what to call the thing video&#8217;d) is impeccable:

The poem, and I guess the performance, is by the poet (Taylor Mali) himself, although the video was put together by &#8220;student Robert Bruce.&#8221; As Mali&#8217;s site says:
I have no idea who he is (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Margaret Atwood, in a Nutshell</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/02/margaret-atwood-in-a-nutshell/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/02/margaret-atwood-in-a-nutshell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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Last night, The Missus and I attended a combined reading-talk-Q&#38;A session with Margaret Atwood. (For the curious, if you&#8217;re ever in this neck of the woods in (mostly) February, do check out this arts festival.)
The bandwagon of people who believe that those of diminutive physical stature tend to compensate with outsized personalities and ambitions is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Administrivia</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/02/administrivia/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/02/administrivia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Running After My Hat]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve activated a feature here at the site to let you subscribe via email to follow-up comments on a post. To do so, you&#8217;ve actually got to leave a comment yourself &#8212; including (duh) an email address; then check the little box labeled &#8220;Notify me of followup comments&#8230;,&#8221; which appears just above the reCaptcha form.
Background: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What did you do on Sunday, John?&#8221; &#8220;Twiddled my thumbs. You?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/02/what-did-you-do-on-sunday-john-twiddled-my-thumbs-you/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/02/what-did-you-do-on-sunday-john-twiddled-my-thumbs-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Margarita The Bearded Fox]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tanita S. Davis]]></category>

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Chauncey Totman, the children&#8217;s-book author whose name I would least like to share, has done it again in his latest, Margarita, The Bearded Fox. The question for us to ponder, of course, remains (as always with Totman): What is it, exactly?
[Caution: spoiler alert! Do not read the rest of this review if you'd prefer being [...]]]></description>
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