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		<title>Listening Diary: Singing Like It&#8217;s Sunday&#8211;Blind Pilot&#8217;s Triumphant &#8220;We Are The Tide&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You could be forgiven for tapping your toes and singing along with the sweet-sounding harmonies on this sophomore effort from Portlandia&#8217;s Blind Pilot. The title track in particular has a silvery sheen to the chorus (such as it is); and doesn&#8217;t &#8220;We Are the Tide&#8221; just sound pleasant and powerful? It is both of those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surethings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6733374&amp;post=175&amp;subd=surethings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Listening Diary: The Immense Heart of The Head and the Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hippies have always gotten a bad rap. Especially following the explosion of punk in the late 1970s, with its nihilistic posturing, the peace and love hippie culture has suffered derision for its supposed sloth, naivete and general drug-addled confusion. Whatever the socio-political merits of hippiedom, its musical heritage is vast and pervasive. Since the late [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surethings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6733374&amp;post=178&amp;subd=surethings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quibbles with 1Q84</title>
		<link>http://surethings.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/quibbles-with-1q84/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Books/Lit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[1Q84]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haruki Murakami]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where does one start with a book by a favorite author? A book that has enjoyed near-universal acclaim and increased the already numerous calls for its author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature? The fact is that Haruki Murakami&#8217;s 1Q84, hailed as his magnum opus, is far from his best work. At 925 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surethings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6733374&amp;post=168&amp;subd=surethings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Buy 101: Creativity Magazine</title>
		<link>http://surethings.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/why-we-buy-101-creativity-magazine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know the hierarchy of advertising journalism, but I&#8217;d think that Creativity would be near the top. A bewildering phantasmagoria of television commercials, photography, agency coverage and design ideas, Creativity is the anti-Adbusters. Though much of the content is limited to subscribers of the print edition (at $99/yr), there are many options to receive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surethings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6733374&amp;post=141&amp;subd=surethings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bogart That Blog: Noir of the Week</title>
		<link>http://surethings.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/bogart-that-blog-noir-of-the-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Brick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Double Indemnity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film noir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noir of the Week]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For anyone who ever took a college film course there is Noir of the Week, a blog dedicated entirely to films noirs, those dark and sometimes brutal films that date roughly from the 1930s to the 1950s. The blog is a great read and a great resource, obviously a labor of love. It&#8217;s a particular [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surethings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6733374&amp;post=135&amp;subd=surethings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Geek-asm inducing netbook: Dell&#8217;s Mini 9 Running MacOSX</title>
		<link>http://surethings.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/geek-asm-inducing-netbook-dells-mini-9-running-macosx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dubiousmerit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gadgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of us waiting for Apple to release a truly compact netbook, this is an unbelievably cool project courtesy of Gizmodo: a $400 Dell Mini 9 hacked into running Mac OSX with virtually no hardware/software/driver glitches. I love my 12&#8243; G4 Powerbook but it is getting a bit long in the tooth, and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surethings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6733374&amp;post=85&amp;subd=surethings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Ruwedel&#8217;s Desolate Western Rails</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dubiousmerit</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Morning News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The West]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was very pleased to see photographer Mark Ruwedel&#8217;s work highlighted over at The Morning News, a smart and pretty web mag. Ruwedel is a large-format photographer who spent 12 years traversing western North America&#8217;s abandoned railway lines of the 19th and 20th centuries. There is a very nice gallery of large photos over at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surethings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6733374&amp;post=133&amp;subd=surethings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hipster Must Die? Adbusters article generates 3000+ comments</title>
		<link>http://surethings.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/the-hipster-must-die-adbusters-article-generates-3000-comments-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Adbusters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hipsters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not an anarchist but I still like to read Adbusters, the sometimes frothing-at-the-mouth &#8220;anti-consumerist&#8221; magazine. It&#8217;s good to keep an eye on the extreme ends of any debate, and Adbusters seems like the extreme left to me. I sympathize with some of the anti-consumer mentality but the occasional &#8220;death to the capitalists&#8221; rants send [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surethings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6733374&amp;post=162&amp;subd=surethings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pulp Friction: Hard Case Crime&#8217;s Retro Cover Art</title>
		<link>http://surethings.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/pulp-friction-hard-case-crimes-retro-cover-art-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dubiousmerit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[detective fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hard Case Crime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid I read whatever I could get my hands on, which meant trips to thrift stores. The books were dirt cheap and I could (and still can!) buy whatever I wanted. Of course, what I often wanted was gritty detective fiction written by Ross Thomas, Ross Macdonald, Mickey Spillane and a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surethings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6733374&amp;post=130&amp;subd=surethings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing TED demo: Siftables&#8211;mini interactive computer blocks</title>
		<link>http://surethings.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/amazing-ted-demo-siftables-mini-interactive-computer-blocks-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[David Merrill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Lab]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have nowhere near the tech savvy to even ponder the implications of &#8220;Siftables&#8221;, alphabet block-sized computers that can sense their relationship with each other. The demo shows the blocks used as math and paint tools, word games (a la Boggle), storytelling tools and music mixers. I&#8217;ve seen earlier videos from MIT&#8217;s Media Lab but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=surethings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6733374&amp;post=129&amp;subd=surethings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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