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		<title>Beyond the line in the elevator</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The screen in the elevator had the verse this week. &#034;In summer, the song sings itself,&#034; attributed to William Carlos Williams. I wrote it down in the notebook I carry everywhere, wherever I was going. There had to be more to the line, and that more had to be a twist. The poem, and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>16, 266 for Mussina</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYT: &#034;Four Yankees home runs overcame a shaky beginning by Mussina, who gave up hits to four of his first five hitters to trail, 3-0. But Mussina allowed only two more hits and no runs the rest of his six-inning stint, retiring his last 14 batters. With his 266th career victory, Mussina (16-7) tied Bob [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone needs a lucky dog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet? Can&#039;t beat it. Especially when the dog who might win the big one for the Cubs finds you, through his owner. Thanks to Beth reading and e-mailing in, I can introduce you to Wrigley and the Cubs.
On opening day for the Cubs at Wrigley field, I turned on the television and I could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Same haircut, all new dramatic stylings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#034;How would you like it?&#034;
&#034;Between medium and short, a little bit more on the short side.&#034;
&#034;Okay, between long and short.&#034;
&#034;Well, yeah, a little bit more on the short side.&#034;
And that&#039;s why my hair is now possibly the shortest it has been since birth. Upon completion: &#034;Short enough?&#034; Yes, short enough.
Responses are positive but numerous. We&#039;re up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ways of making people forget</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was a work day in the personal sense, catching up with a few days let go and preparing to head out of town. As productive as laundry and tub scrubbing could be, neither made for the most fun day. But a book did some difference, and then a Gene Kelly run pitched in.
Midway through things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What your favorite ice cream flavors say about you</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nestle attempts to answer the question, starting with butter pecan and ending with vanilla. If you had to disappear this weekend, let&#039;s hope you got some ice cream or are ready to come up for the week. Either way, past late in the day, the rules say the week must begin.
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		<title>There will be awesome</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally saw Daniel Day-Lewis as Sean Connery meets Magnum P.I. last night and was amazed at how deeply the movie drew me in. It wasn&#039;t what I&#039;d expected, from word of the opening to word of the close. My attention span in my own living room has never been the best, but this one led [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royko revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#039;t seen it, the Sun-Times is reprinting the best of Royko alongside updates of the columns, checking in with the people and issues that were chronicled. The first installment is terrific, and I can&#039;t wait for the next ones. If you&#039;re interested in more, check out One More Time: The Best of Mike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Hank Hill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dream between 5 and 8 a.m. today &#8212; when I woke up to fix a typo I&#039;d made at work yesterday and when I woke up for good &#8211; that managed to combine most of this blog&#039;s summer yet somehow not Mike Mussina:
I was in some kind of small class, playing Pole Position on a full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The stand-up desk experiment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My boss is at the Olympics. His boss is on vacation. The other person in my group is working on the Olympics from another floor of our building, and others are in the same boat. I am in danger of falling into a work vacuum, the soft bigotry of cubicle expectations. Sure, there are places [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The wizard&#039;s predictions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
From San Francisco&#039;s Musee Mechanique last month, jammed with ancient and and not-so-ancient and all-working coin-op machines. I got my fortune card from one of the tellers in the Big boxes.
From experience you must have learned that tact and diplomacy are essential to progress in human relations. Be guided by this knowledge instead of &#034;speaking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting the big blue ball</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even if you&#039;ve heard the story, even if you know the ending, even if you wondered about the story before you took a job in the building, the big blue ball is still impressive.
You still don&#039;t want to touch it. This isn&#039;t the willy-nilly, big-blue-ball-touching, corporate-hilarity happy hour. The finishing powder has long dried, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>94.7 The Globe is dead</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/08/947-the-globe-is-dead.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s still on the air, but it&#039;s dead. The station, without announcement, has moved from quasi-AAA to standard classic rock over course of the last week. DCRTV has noticed the shift, expressed disappointment but not found it as bad as expected. I&#039;ve got different feelings. The search for a new #1 preset has begun. What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quotes of the day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#034;When the house is on fire, it’s better to have a psychotic fireman than no fireman at all.&#034; &#8211;Howard Wolfson, quoted in The Atlantic.
&#034;Had my father really wished that this novel not be released, he would have destroyed it himself.&#034; &#8211;Dimitri Nabokov, on Vladimir&#039;s last work.
(Further reading: Slate&#039;s role in saving the book: 1, 2, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Issac Hayes through YouTube</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#039;s lot of material on the service this week, but a few should top your playlist: a live 1973 cover of Never Can Say Goodbye (remember when I had that same shirt?), Stormy Monday from the same benefit concert (apparently Marvin and others also surface in amazing fashion, where can I find the full thing on the Web?), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on trying on a &#039;80s gray sport coat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man, with my hair up in the air like this, I should be debuting The River at No Nukes. What? Man, that&#039;s a weird thing to think. Stay focused! Deciding what to wear to a bowling alley with a dress code is hard.
Bonnie Raitt: &#034;Too bad the guy&#039;s name wasn&#039;t Melvin or something.&#034; Video from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five-year anniversary today</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sent my first day of work, August 11, 2003: &#034;Like I said on the phone, USAT was a few more steps [removed for job security] than I thought. And there wasn&#039;t that many more people to talk to either. And there were no tours. And I didn&#039;t know anyone. And they have these miles and miles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>98 degrees? Mike turns it up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Season win 15 makes for career win 265. To celebrate, Strategic Failure takes perhaps the Internet&#039;s longest look at Gus Wehyhing, now surpassed on the all-time win list. &#034;He was just the type of player likely to be on Montgomery Burns&#039;s dream softball team from that famous episode of the Simpsons so many years ago&#8230;.&#034; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Shaft</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot Buttered Soul is the reason you buy a stereo. Even if you don&#039;t know the album when you buy that stereo, you make the purchase with the idea this kind of music exists somewhere in the universe.
The Isaac Hayes obits are only going to give the album a few lines, the same as his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How has it taken me three weeks</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/08/how-has-it-taken-me-three-weeks.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; to listen to Blood on the Tracks?
At work, they had fortune cookies one day, and I took three to improve my odds. In order of opening, they were: &#034;Time to break out of that corner, get that rut unstuck.&#034; &#034;Even the toughest of days have bright spots, just do your best.&#034; &#034;This is an extremely [...]]]></description>
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