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	<title>Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little: All Blog Activity</title>
	<description>Quick reference to all recent blog entries by Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little</description>
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		<title>actually writing blog :: Into the Slush: June 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, whilst scribbling today's date in my Morning Pages notebook, I suddenly realized that June in fact only has 30 days in it and not, say, the 42 or so I must have assumed. Plenty of time to get a story ready for its first submission! Or, y'know . . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nicolejleboeuf.com/journal/index.php?criteria=date&amp;value=20090630174138</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:41:38 -0500</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: On Music That Does What It's Probably Supposed To Do</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Homesick", by Kings of Convenience. I never remember it between hearings. Then it'll play unexpectedly on the stereo in a cafe or tea house, and my reaction is always the same: "Goodness, that sounds like Simon & Garfunkle. Wait--this is that song, isn't. . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2009/06/on-music-that-does-what-its-probably.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:55:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>actually writing blog :: On Residual Income Schemes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[W00t! My first eleven cents from eHow.com! Go me!  ...that's all.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nicolejleboeuf.com/journal/index.php?criteria=date&amp;value=20090629151440</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:14:40 -0500</pubDate> 
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		<title>Metroblogging Denver :: Sita Comes to Denver to Sing the Blues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you, like Roger Ebert, have heard about the intensely indie oddball feature-length animation Sita Sings the Blues, then you don&#8217;t need me to tell you what &#8220;the greatest breakup story ever told&#8221; is all about or why it&#8217;s such a phenomenon.
And if you&#8217;ve been sighing over the unfortunate copyright circumstances that make this film [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://denver.metblogs.com/2009/06/26/sita-comes-to-denver-to-sing-the-blues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:27:14 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>actually writing blog :: On Desired Bookburnings In Wisconsin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently there's this elderly group of self-described Christians in West Bend, Wisconsin, who feel that the presence of non-anti-homosexual literature in their local library ("Baby Be-Bop, a young adult novel in which a boy, struggling with his homosexua . . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nicolejleboeuf.com/journal/index.php?criteria=date&amp;value=20090617210057</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:00:57 -0500</pubDate> 
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		<title>actually writing blog :: Null Update: &quot;Oh, Nevermind.&quot;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back to normal now, with a side-order of "WTF?!". Null has no broken ribs and was probably never blind in the first place. All we know for sure is, he had a scary respiratory attack which responded well to oxygen therapy.  Apparently the vet at Alpine disc . . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nicolejleboeuf.com/journal/index.php?criteria=date&amp;value=20090616121959</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:19:59 -0500</pubDate> 
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		<title>actually writing blog :: Null Update, Day 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because Twitter sucks as a medium for Getting The Whole Story.  Day 1, by the way, was spent in barely holding ourselves together. So this is Day 2. And here's the story. It has nothing to do with writing, by the way, except possibly why it may be hard to . . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nicolejleboeuf.com/journal/index.php?criteria=date&amp;value=20090615095348</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:53:48 -0500</pubDate> 
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		<title>actually writing blog :: Writing As Work, Writing As Play</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Went to my usual bimonthly writing group Wednesday, and, as sometimes happens when there's no manuscript for critique in a given classtime, the conversation turned from commenting on each other's in-class writing to sharing with each other our writing proc . . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nicolejleboeuf.com/journal/index.php?criteria=date&amp;value=20090612165123</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:51:23 -0500</pubDate> 
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		<title>Metroblogging Denver :: Thursdays with Abbondanza (week 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursdays are CSA Pick-up Days! Abbondanza Organic Seeds &#38; Produce is a local CSA, or &#8220;Community Supported Agriculture&#8221; farm. CSA membership fees in the winter and spring help support the farm, and members pick up a share of the produce each week during harvest.
That&#8217;s CSA 101. And this is CSA Week 2!
(What happened to Week [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://denver.metblogs.com/2009/06/11/abbo-wk2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:26:08 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Metroblogging Denver :: Things to do this weekend: Attend a &quot;Hands On Social Media&quot; event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Direct from email, here&#8217;s an event announcement especially for women in the Denver/Boulder area:
Microsoft Office and Office Live are partnering with social media platform, Kirtsy, to organize and host a series of free training sessions for women who are looking for an introductory crash course in social media and tech. The sessions will take place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://denver.metblogs.com/2009/06/10/things-to-do-this-weekend-attend-a-hands-on-social-media-event/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:20:58 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>actually writing blog :: Errata</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of course I meant the Natchez, not the Creole Queen. It's the Natchez has the steam-powered calliope on top.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nicolejleboeuf.com/journal/index.php?criteria=date&amp;value=20090605100120</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:01:20 -0500</pubDate> 
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		<title>actually writing blog :: The Daily Story Idea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to do this in college, every morning:The exercise I set myself was to write something which filled exactly one page in WordPerfect and had a beginning, middle, and an end. Then I'd revise it just enough to meet the arbitrary length requirement. Most . . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nicolejleboeuf.com/journal/index.php?criteria=date&amp;value=20090602225807</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:58:07 -0500</pubDate> 
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		<title>actually writing blog :: Real-world Applications Of &quot;The Artist's Way&quot;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I may have mentioned the loveliness that is Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way... oh, maybe a hundred times by now. As it happens, I finished my most recent journey through the 12-week course described there just last month. And on May 4, I began adhering to . . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nicolejleboeuf.com/journal/index.php?criteria=date&amp;value=20090601225350</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:53:50 -0500</pubDate> 
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		<title>actually writing blog :: &quot;N.O. Woman Tells of 60 Years of Visions&quot;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bares Her Life Secret To Members Of Dr. John Fletcher's Psychology Class. Says She Has Communicated With Spirits Of Other World Since She Was Five Years Old. Relates Her Shades Of Roosevelt, Gen. Grant, Mark Twain, Robert Ingersoll and Others Visited Her. . . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nicolejleboeuf.com/journal/index.php?criteria=date&amp;value=20090528160138</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 16:01:38 -0500</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: Open Letter to Starwood Properties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Starwood,So I understand who your target audience at the W is. I do see how this is a population calculated to appreciate that you blew your budget on tempting incidentals and on cutsy alliterative branding, and didn't save much for things like free . . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2009/05/open-letter-to-starwood-properties.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 05:06:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: I have my bike pump back SQUEEEEE!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I got ready to leave my hotel room to seek breakfast. I gathered up my bookbag, my bike tool bag, my helmet, and my AOPA visor cap. And I tried to gather up my bike pump, but could not find it. I had been bringing it up with me rather than le. . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-have-my-bike-pump-back-squeeeee.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 06:08:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Metroblogging Denver :: The Amtrak Pioneer Line: Back From The Dead?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Squee #1 - Amtrak are considering reviving the Pioneer line which used to run between Denver and Seattle (discontinued 1997). Imagine that - Denver Union Station actually serving more than one long distance train route! Wouldn&#8217;t that be something? Just four years ago, I heard no common knowledge beyond &#8220;Rail travel is dying, enjoy it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://denver.metblogs.com/2009/05/19/the-amtrak-pioneer-line-back-from-the-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 05:14:35 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Metroblogging Denver :: FYI: How To Reach The Baggage Department at Union Station</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since it took me for-freakin&#8217;-ever to actually get ahold of this number, but I am not under the impression that it&#8217;s, like, a secret or anything, I present:
Denver Union Station: Amtrak Baggage Department: (303) 629-6477
This number reaches a Real Live Person - as long as someone&#8217;s in the office, of course. Courtesy note! The best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://denver.metblogs.com/2009/05/16/fyi-how-to-reach-the-baggage-department-at-union-station/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 03:03:51 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Metroblogging Denver :: And We Did It All For The Smart Grid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you probably know, Boulder will be the first Smart Grid city in the U.S.
As you possibly did not know, &#8217;cause I certainly didn&#8217;t know until just now a minute ago when the robo-call came in, portions of Northeast Boulder will experience an interruption of service tomorrow, Thursday May 14th, starting around 12:30 PM.
How Northeast? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://denver.metblogs.com/2009/05/13/and-we-did-it-all-for-the-smart-grid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 20:21:04 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Metroblogging Denver :: Love Heals, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quoth I, &#8220;The only thing that boggles my mind is this: Why does the web site employ a trademark symbol? LOVE™? Does this site have an additional, acronymical meaning for the word? Will we find out more when the marketing campaign enters its next phase? Will there be a next phase?&#8221;
The answer? Yes, there is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://denver.metblogs.com/2009/05/12/love-heals-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 00:16:54 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: Trains Are All Laid-Back And Stuff, Exhibit #157</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exhibit #157 evincing the laid-back-ness of train stations as compared to airports in our Post 9/11 World:"Once again, ladies and gentlemen, will all visitors please detrain. We are about to depart."Exhibits #107-110 are the absence of metal-detector arch. . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2009/04/trains-are-all-laid-back-and-stuff.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:29:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Metroblogging Denver :: So I Hear That Love Heals…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I haven&#8217;t much to say about the current Blizzard Blown Out Of Siberia that the Front Range is currently suffering from, nor about the torrential downpours I hear that Boulder is getting. I&#8217;m not actually there at the moment. I boarded a train Monday night for New Orleans via Chicago. At the present moment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://denver.metblogs.com/2009/04/18/so-i-hear-that-love-heals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:54:18 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Metroblogging Denver :: Things To Do, April 11: &quot;Ink&quot; Fan Appreciation Event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know, I know, I&#8217;m turning into a one-note blogger here. But how cool is this? How often do you get to see a local, independent film do so well, thanks almost entirely to a monstrous neighborhood buzz, that its run is extended three weeks past its original closing date?
Denver is showing all kinds of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://denver.metblogs.com/2009/04/10/things-to-do-april-11-ink-fan-appreciation-event/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:42:23 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Metroblogging Denver :: Quick Update: &quot;Ink&quot; Held Over Through April 9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t seen this marvelous film yet, you still have a chance! It will be running through April 2nd 9th. (Thanks to worldnamer for the correction!)
Click here to reserve your tickets!
Also, if you are so moved, consider becoming a member of the Denver Film Society. You get better ticket prices that way, and your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://denver.metblogs.com/2009/03/31/quick-update-ink-held-over-through-april-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:36:59 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: Americans! Beware of FOREIGN ELECTRICITY!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Radio Shack gets major props for having in stock, all the time, so I can waltz in 4 days before a cross-Atlantic flight and buy them, 85W Voltage Converters and Foreign Travel Outlet Adapters. Granted, it would be nice if the outlet adapters came by the s. . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2009/03/americans-beware-of-foreign-electricity.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:13:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: These Jeans Are Cleeeeeeeean!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bright spring green latex paint splotches on deep black jeans. Unsightly! And this happened last week. Says eHow, "We hope you were wearing work clothes when you were doing that painting job ... because latex paint is almost impossible to get out of cloth. . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2009/03/these-jeans-are-cleeeeeeeean.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:34:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: What? Of course it was awesome!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thoroughly concur with Joe Hill.Also, on the subject of how appropriate the movie is for kids, I'm reading comments all over the blogosphere along the lines of "I took my 3-year-old. She was mesmerized! She wants to see it again!"John and I saw the 10:0. . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2009/02/what-of-course-it-was-awesome.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:50:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: Two Sides To Every Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Going to see Coraline tonight. Have avoided most reviews, but cannot resist some links presented at Neil Gaiman's blog. Compare and contrast:While watching this movie I couldn’t help thinking it’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers for kids. I wouldn’t . . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2009/02/two-sides-to-every-story.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:18:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: So this is the GOOD alternate universe, right?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Proposed: That during the Bush administration, comedians were often doing a better job at news than the news reporters were, cf. The Onion, The Daily Show/Jon Stewart.Observed: That on the first day of the Obama administration, CNN is calling on comedians. . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2009/01/so-this-is-good-alternate-universe.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:56:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: Upon rewatching Beauty And The Beast (Perlman/Hamilton, not Disney) for the first time in years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I did the LJ icon thing (which I don't), I'd make me an icon right now. It would feature, off-center on a black background, a scary pic of Vincent going all snarly and I KILL YOU NOW RAWR. And the caption would read:CAN RIP YOUR THROAT OUTDOESN'T NEED . . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2008/12/upon-rewatching-beauty-and-beast.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:06:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: Like A Kid At Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[because i have new Doctor Who downloaded to hard drive like RIGHT NOW and we're all gonna watch it tomorrow SQUEEEEEE*ahem*That will be all.]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2008/12/like-kid-at-christmas.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:04:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: Among the New Orleans Saints records: Most Up-To-Date Web Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An unofficial title, of course, but, seriously, I haven't come across any other NFL franchise web site that keeps its site quite as updated on game day. You watch. The "Game Day" page updates with score and key plays throughout the game (typically running. . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2008/12/among-new-orleans-saints-records-most.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:40:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: Bestest STAR WARS Pastiche Evar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Had occasion to reread the Making Light thread with the timely fruitcake recipe. Why? Because there's fruitcake in the oven right now (but not that recipe). Found this. Aren't you glad I did?]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2008/11/bestest-star-wars-pastiche-evar.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:51:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: Peacocks in North Boulder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Really.Round about the corner of Vinca and Upland.Peacocks. In North Boulder. Yesterday afternoon. Just... peacockin' around.Huh.]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2008/11/peacocks-in-north-boulder.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:38:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: Another Reason To Play YPP!PuzzlePirates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because when it comes to the inherent problems of DRM and making money on software, Three Rings Design have a clue.The cheddary 'Free to Play' is not just a cheesy marketing slogan, but a shift in assumptions; it costs approaching nothing to give away som. . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2008/09/another-reason-to-play-ypppuzzlepirates.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:40:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: How Not To Use Your &quot;Fry Daddy Jr.&quot; (TM)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember: Before plugging in your Fry Daddy Jr., always remove the black plastic storage lid!The stupid of it is, my first instinct was to write to the company. "I just plugged it in, like normal, and the black hard-plastic rim melted! It's not supposed t. . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-not-to-use-your-fry-daddy-jr-tm.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:31:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: It's Official: I'm Old (clue #456)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's not that I was listening to the local Oldies station that was my clue. It was that the local Oldies station was playing songs by Blondie and Eddie Money.I suppose the Eddie Money song gets a pass, since it directly references The Ronnettes' 1963 hit . . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2008/07/its-official-im-old-clue-456.html</link>
		<guid>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2008/07/its-official-im-old-clue-456.html</guid>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:20:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: &quot;But you're supposed to be polite to everyone!&quot;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am putting the work-a-day world on notice: Starting now, I am no longer going to answer the question, "Oooh, that smells good! What are you eating?" with anything more specific than "Food." Because what I decided to put in my body today is not a subject. . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2008/06/but-youre-supposed-to-be-polite-to.html</link>
		<guid>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2008/06/but-youre-supposed-to-be-polite-to.html</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:01:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: Beware the Fringe Beast!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because sometimes you just have to take photos of your cat. There are laws.]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2008/06/beware-fringe-beast.html</link>
		<guid>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2008/06/beware-fringe-beast.html</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:58:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: Luck Be A Playah Tonight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shorter Frank Sinatra: "Ladylike behavior means acting like I own you."Lady Luck's response: "Waiddaminit. You thought we were on a what? Excuse me while I laugh myself sick over there by that guy at the roulette wheel."]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2008/05/luck-be-playah-tonight.html</link>
		<guid>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2008/05/luck-be-playah-tonight.html</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 23:24:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: i *heart* making light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exhibit A:It is one thing to call a blog-comments-troll a fruitcake. It is a thing of an entirely other and more elegant order to give the troll a fruitcake recipe.Exhibit B:After two threads about Ron Paul devolved into abortion debates (this is vaguely . . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2007/11/i-heart-making-light.html</link>
		<guid>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2007/11/i-heart-making-light.html</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:42:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: A Modicum Of Research Needed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Heroes screenwriters:Your touching montage of flooded-out homes superimposed over a melancholy facial expression fell a little flat after having the owner of that melancholy facial expression say, "Half the folks in this county are still living in FE. . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2007/10/modicum-of-research-needed.html</link>
		<guid>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2007/10/modicum-of-research-needed.html</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:15:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: Cake doing  the Jim Carroll Band. Maybe.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Compare and contrast:Cake's "Short Skirt/Long Jacket," 2001I want a girl with a mind like a diamondI want a girl who knows what's bestI want a girl with shoes that cutAnd eyes that burn like cigarettesI want a girl with the right allocationsWho's fast and. . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2007/10/cake-doing-jim-carroll-band-maybe.html</link>
		<guid>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2007/10/cake-doing-jim-carroll-band-maybe.html</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:15:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: The Oceanmasters Tell It Like It Is</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overheard while workin' me pirate's hindquarters off at a distillin' joint:Hephaestus broadcasts, "We are aware of the problem with lag on Viridian at the moment."Hephaestus broadcasts, "It is under investigation."Hephaestus broadcasts, "We are confident . . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2007/08/oceanmasters-tell-it-like-it-is.html</link>
		<guid>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2007/08/oceanmasters-tell-it-like-it-is.html</guid>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:36:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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		<title>Oooh, Shiny! :: While On The Subject Of Yummy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boulder's got this restaurant called Antica Roma. Antica Roma's got this entrée called "Noce e Zucca." In English, that's "perfect creamy fattening divine goodness involving walnuts and butternut squash and various moaning noises." (Stick that in your ph. . . .]]></description>
		<link>http://shiiiiny.blogspot.com/2007/08/while-on-subject-of-yummy.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:29:00 +0000</pubDate> 
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