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		<title>Turkey Day minus the turkey, minus the day, too</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I came home tonight from my final dinner in Japan this trip with the Morita family that can only be described as exquisite, with flavors and textures arranged not only within each course, but helped...<br/>
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		<title>The Torture Chamber (but we like it like that)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 08:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dojo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Okinawa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Most sane people who write about martial arts understand the inherent problems in talking about fighting systems. The most obvious challenge comes from attempting to translate the purely physical...<br/>
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		<title>Come on up to the house, or: How I came back to Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seth</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[You can&#8217;t go home again. Home again, home again, jiggity-jig. There&#8217;s no place like home. Home sweet home. Home is where the heart is. Strangely, unexpectedly, and arranged only seconds...<br/>
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		<title>Pi Day Accordion (20100314)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[On a Sunday morning stroll to procure dim sum, beer, and books by Messrs. Sturgeon, Ellison, and Bradbury, the FMA and I encountered this elderly Chinese accordion player faithfully belting out...<br/>
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		<title>Why Children Turn to Alcohol (20100304-08)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seth</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It is hard to find a sane person who doesn&#8217;t mark the progress of time through either nostalgia or birthdays. Nostalgia, of course, is the wistful longing for some long-since-mutated...<br/>
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		<title>Ahthur on Ahnuld (20100227)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Arthur Seidelman has been directed more films, plays, and TV shows than you realize. He was also the first person to direct Arnold Schwarzenegger, although he swears he didn&#8217;t have a hand in...<br/>
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		<title>Burn it down (20100103)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Doggie Diner]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For 21 years, a small group of San Franciscans have gathered on Ocean Beach to symbolically expurgate the previous year&#8217;s woe by collecting discarded Christmas trees from around the city and...<br/>
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		<title>Car 798: The Last Photo of 2009 (20091230)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Car 798 of Duboce Yard first came to my attention during the holiday season of 2008. I bike past the yard every day on my way home from work, as many San Franciscans do. If you&#8217;re heading west,...<br/>
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		<title>Selling Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seth</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It seems only fitting to announce the opening of my Etsy store in the dying hours of the last day of the decade. The augur of a blue moon wouldn&#8217;t be one to take lightly, if I actually gave two...<br/>
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		<title>The Deal with the Neil (20090719)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I remember the first book I bought that was written by Neil Gaiman. I was browsing the shelves at The Funny Papers, a comic book shop in the Outer Richmond in S.F. Way out on Geary, surrounded by...<br/>
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