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	<description>only worries on Thursdays</description>
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		<title>Pepper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just finished Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper, sobbing at the end, sitting at the kitchen table with a can of beer at 2 am. An amazingly compelling book, and one I found out about by reading The Professor, which was good, though a few of the essays collapsed under the weight of their stylistic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marcpski.com/?p=363</link>
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		<title>And more-azzolla&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finished listening to the Astor Piazzolla 10 CD box set, then went back, put the CDs out of order, and listened to the whole thing again. The lyricism he gets out of a bandoneon is simply incredible, of course, but the second time through, I listened more to the other players, some of whom are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marcpski.com/?p=360</link>
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		<title>Piazzolla&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I get spambots posting to this site fairly regularly, many in Cyrillic, so I&#8217;m not always sure how they are trying to sound conversational&#8230; until yesterday, when one was kind of enough to leave a message in english, too: &#8220;Deeply good post. Blame you.&#8221;  Nice.
I&#8217;m halfway through the 10 CD Astor Piazzolla box set, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marcpski.com/?p=358</link>
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		<title>Commerce!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a new book of poetry set for publication in December, from the Main Street Rag Publishing Co. If the release date is in December, why am I writing this now, in August? Because if 100 people pre-order the book, at a discount, it will be released earlier. I will keep a running tally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marcpski.com/?p=351</link>
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		<title>short-timing it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The magazine Poetry has been timid and robotic for a while now, but the archives are certainly worth looking at:
A Day on the Big Branch
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		<link>http://www.marcpski.com/?p=348</link>
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		<title>Signifying Nothing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Years ago I had a job working for a fat little man who drove a huge, very shiny cadillac. One day I pulled into the lot in my dirty, beat up nissan sentra just as the boss was getting out of his car. He looked at the car, looked me up and down, and said, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marcpski.com/?p=346</link>
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		<title>No, never did.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somehow, I never read Grapes of Wrath before now:
The Western land, nervous under the beginning change. The Western states, nervous as horses before a thunderstorm. The great owners, nervous, sensing a change, knowing nothing of the nature of the change. The great owners, striking at the immediate thing, the widening government, the growing labor unity; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marcpski.com/?p=342</link>
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		<title>Is a map an argument?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read something the other day that has occupied my head ever since: the author was talking about the lukasa, a sacred object that the Luba people use in various rituals and which has a wealth of information encoded in its designs, cognitive cues meant to help the skilled reader tell stories, give advice, render [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marcpski.com/?p=332</link>
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		<title>Ambition&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a good one: &#8220;tradition is based on pride in collective habit, on the conscience that approves the pride, and on the fear that if habit and conscience fail, the result will be social chaos, the fear of which is in turn based on a particularly low assessment of human nature&#8221; (Ami-Scharfstein). I am trying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marcpski.com/?p=330</link>
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		<title>Ok, Time To Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started a novel, and need to spend the next several days in a marathon writing session. I&#8217;m shooting for 10,000 words a day, no idea if that&#8217;s feasible, but what the hell, it&#8217;s a nice round number. The added benefit is that I will get to listen to plenty of CDs, and perhaps get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.marcpski.com/?p=328</link>
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