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		<title>New Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New blog: Multo (Ghost). It&#8217;s for things that don&#8217;t really fit in Ephemera. Hopefully, I can keep that one going a bit more regularly than this one. I will still post here, from time to time.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exiw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4087792&amp;post=147&amp;subd=exiw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How To Justify A Private Library</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excerpt from Umberto Eco&#8217;s essay from 1990 (collected in How to Travel with a Salmon and other essays). Yes, this really is our library.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exiw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4087792&amp;post=137&amp;subd=exiw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Concentration</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[bouldering]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I walked west, into the sun, straight up to the rock formations that sat on top of the hill. The lichen encrusting their cracked and layered sides somehow gave them the look of granite, and weathering, and great age, although I suspect they aren&#8217;t that old at all. Nor are they as hard as granite; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exiw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4087792&amp;post=128&amp;subd=exiw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Endurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mt. Davidson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving home, under the first bright blue sky that I&#8217;ve seen in three days, I notice That Tree: the one that clings to the bare exposed north face of Mt. Davidson. It leans far, far forward off the rock shelf that it clings to. All of its skinny branches lean farther forward still. Seeing it, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exiw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4087792&amp;post=123&amp;subd=exiw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dominican Hospital</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nzumel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I notice his feet, shiny and plump, too plump; distended from all the fluids that drip into his system from the tree of IV bags beside him — his &#8220;dancing partner,&#8221; he calls it. The smooth pink skin contrasts against his yellow untrimmed toenails. But his voice is stronger than it was last week. He [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exiw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4087792&amp;post=119&amp;subd=exiw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Novels for the Short Attention Span</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nzumel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always preferred short form reading — short stories, essays, magazine articles — to the novel. I like to blame this on my busy life; my downtime comes in short intervals, spaced far apart, which prevents me from really swimming in the long, leisurely stream of a novel-length narrative. But let&#8217;s be honest: it&#8217;s my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exiw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4087792&amp;post=114&amp;subd=exiw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Legend</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 02:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nzumel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This happened to a girl my mom knew when she was my age. Well, my mom didn&#8217;t actually know her, but my mom&#8217;s best friend&#8217;s second cousin went to school with this girl. It was back in the eighties, when they were all in high school. This girl, she was just an ordinary girl, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exiw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4087792&amp;post=108&amp;subd=exiw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Savasana</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nzumel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[corpse pose]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the night before David&#8217;s birthday, as she did every day after work, Alice popped &#8220;Kathy Smith&#8217;s Lean Mean Workout&#8221; into the DVD player, then planked and squatted and crunched until even her diaphragm burned. Afterwards, yoga to cool down: Downward Dog, Cobra, Warrior, Tree. She always finished with Savasana — Corpse Pose. As she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exiw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4087792&amp;post=100&amp;subd=exiw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tempo Rubato: Random Thoughts about Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[tempo rubato: &#8220;robbed time&#8221;; an expressive way of performing a rhythm; flexible in tempo Keeping Time In the summer, the fog ambles down the street past my windows, so solid it almost has legs, so thick that I can barely see the eucalyptus and pine trees across the street. I can&#8217;t see the valley spread [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exiw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4087792&amp;post=84&amp;subd=exiw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ode to Social Networks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Invisible Cities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is from Italo Calvino&#8217;s Invisible Cities. The book isn&#8217;t my favorite from among his work, but this piece seems rather apt: In Ersilia, to establish the relationships that sustain the city&#8217;s life, the inhabitants stretch strings from the corners of the houses, white or black or gray or black-and-white according to whether they mark [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exiw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4087792&amp;post=76&amp;subd=exiw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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