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	<description>Charlotte Brewster: writer, thinker, coffee drinker...</description>
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		<title>before you keel over&#8211;keilhauer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[friends, writers, computermen:
your back hurts. i know because i&#8217;m you. you sit at the computer all day jerking and twisting, your neck throbbing and aching, and your fingers twitching and spasming. writing means sitting. and sitting means paining and complaining. we weren&#8217;t meant to sit. we were meant to wander nomadically in search of leonard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wordsmithery.com/?p=388</link>
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		<title>found</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i am still suffering from a &#8220;lost&#8221; finale hangover as one of my friends put it. and i am not in this dissatisfied camp. i think &#8220;lost&#8221; is some of the best writing on tv i have ever seen, and you know i can be pretty picky about my tv. 
i still think &#8220;the man [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wordsmithery.com/?p=382</link>
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		<title>on self-loathing:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[it seems to me that so much of the human race&#8217;s trouble comes down to this: self-loathing. 
pain.
the belief that we are unacceptable, unlovable, unteachable, forever imperfect and disconnected.
but we&#8217;re not. 
for a while now i&#8217;ve been trying to zero in on my personal philosophy, the tao of charlotte, so to speak.  i&#8217;ve long [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wordsmithery.com/?p=369</link>
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		<title>salute to salinger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i wanted to post immediately upon hearing of his passing, but i had to pause and try to calm the warring thought-storm.
the thing about great art, great writing, is that it gives you a false sense of intimacy&#8211;as if the words were written for you alone. so, yeah, it feels like a good friend has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wordsmithery.com/?p=344</link>
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		<title>writers on the storm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[rain. it makes one feel so much more writerly than usual.
the music of the tinkling drops on the window transports me to my many jaunts to the u.k., especially the year i spent in nottingham as a student living as the locals do. so many bold memories. some memories fade and become hazy with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wordsmithery.com/?p=322</link>
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		<title>new year. blue moon&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i suppose all of you are out amongst the living in your finest clinking champagne glasses and nuzzling noses with others, hopefully significant.
i am home writing. i know&#8211;how romancing the stone of me.
it&#8217;s a blue moon tonight. did you see it? the man in the moon looked so lonely as i was walking keaton and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wordsmithery.com/?p=311</link>
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		<title>where the child things are</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i&#8217;m going to see where the wild things are tonight. it&#8217;s been a long time since i was this excited to see an adaptation; the trailer makes me teary. 
the memory of the stuff, the wonder, the ferocious desire to explore that is childhood makes me eager to see the translation, but i do have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wordsmithery.com/?p=292</link>
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		<title>the best thing about the vampire diaries?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[the soundtrack.
seriously. 
i realize that vamp stories are suffering from receding plotline; combo bastardizations a la dracutwangelight are all that seem left, but can a girl get an original bite up in this molar?
and if i see one more teen drama where even the parents and aunts and uncles all look 18, i&#8217;m gonna go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wordsmithery.com/?p=265</link>
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		<title>John Hughes&#8217; Words Speak for Themselves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sixteen Candles
The Breakfast Club
Weird Science
Pretty in Pink
Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off
Some Kind of Wonderful
Planes, Trains &#038; Automobiles
She&#8217;s Having a Baby
The Great Outdoors
Uncle Buck
National Lampoon&#8217;s Christmas Vacation
Just Visiting
Mr. Mom
National Lampoon&#8217;s Vacation
A great voice has been silenced. The likes of John Hughes will never be seen again. His work is still THE bar as far as I&#8217;m concerned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wordsmithery.com/?p=248</link>
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		<title>Spammerificus Exitus!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[did my spell work? let&#8217;s ask hermione&#8230;
have you spammers gotten the message???
or do i need to ask more nicely or perhaps not so nicely? i can do fierce. if the wand didn&#8217;t work, i wave my finger in your general direction.
i&#8217;m tired. i delete you. you return in another dress. i delete you. you return [...]]]></description>
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