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		<title>Mysterious Ways</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I caught a nasty bug, which may or may not have been avoided had I been nicer to my immune system that week. We were forced to go back to Pittsburgh, and I was forced into bed for about one straight-laced forever. No wedding! No wedding cake! No wedding dances! No wedding stories! No wedding hook-ups! The heavenly missed opportunity hung heavy in my mind.]]></description>
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		<title>If You Liked School, You’ll Love Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book is more for the Welsh monks rather than novices, and you should ignore anything on the cover of the book (a silly lesson we all seem to have to re-learn periodically), because, yeah, it will get you pumped up for a Welsh Odyssey, but this ain't it. If you've never read Welsh, pick up Crime or, of course, Trainspotting, and come back later. You might be disappointed when you get to School, but you'll love the work it took to get there.]]></description>
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		<title>Ivy League</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more I wander abandoned factory yards, the bowels of parking garages and the miniature jungle on the hillside behind my house, the more said self-preservation eased off. Sure, hurtling down a hillside in the middle of the night is made easier with some dutch courage, but not so much courage as to preclude a brief moment of hesitation, especially when faced with army-crawling through the underbrush. I swear there is a good reason for said crawling. Honest.]]></description>
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		<title>On Real Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can have the most gorgeous painting in the world hanging on the wall, but if the frame is made of fresh steaming shit, no one is gonna want to be anywhere near it, and that's what the trip left me with.]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions of a Novice Bicyclist, pt. 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Endress</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Of course, two days out of the shop, I landed myself in a pothole, threw both wheels out of true and blew out my back tire. The learning curve on city riding is pretty sharp. I was nervous at first, but a month later, I'm more concerned with the fastest routes around town and buying new brakes. Because I apparently enjoy going fast. On a bike. Who would have guessed? ]]></description>
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		<title>Review of “Why We Hate Us”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Endress</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, I'm an optimist, and that's why this book on the decline of community and assumed societal values struck me as so much plaintive bitching, especially coming from a Boomer. I mean, really. Why the fuck are you bitching? This society evolved to present on your myopic, self-aggrandizing watch.]]></description>
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		<title>Settling a Bet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 18:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Endress</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About three years ago, staggering drunk at 8am on the Fourth of July, I called my mother to wish her a happy Fourth, unwittingly waking her up  to remind her of my somewhat hedonistic and unorthodox lifestyle. Dazed by the sun and a long night that had yet to end, I boldly informed her that I was going to join Mensa. To get chicks.]]></description>
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		<title>#27</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 19:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Endress</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, after our neighbor called the cops on me for shouting a fairly innocuous and decidedly isolated "Now, gahdammit!", Bliss and I had got to talking about how much the neighborhood is changing, I think we both realized that we are perpetually bored by the activities that held our rapt attention only a few years ago. A snippet of lyric from "Fairies Wear Boots" ("Coz smokin and drinkin is all that you do") has been floating in my head for weeks. It does, upon cursory examination, seem to have been a constant in my brief adult life.]]></description>
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		<title>Opportunity Cost/Benefits</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Endress</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opportunity, or, as I am fond of saying, Opportronity, abounds in this land of milk and honey, as any student of PT Barnum will tell you. In equal amounts is a rampant self-defeatism. People with very tiny dreams allow themselves and, subsequently, their dreams to be crushed in equally tiny ways. I remember a conversation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giant Drag-Swan Song EP</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Endress</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While a four-song EP is more like table scraps than the full release we've all been waiting on (it's in the works, according to Hardy), it's definitely better than nothing. Hopefully this is just the appetizer for a main course in the near future, and not a true swan song.]]></description>
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