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	<title>The litter in littÃ©rateur.</title>
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	<description>Books, Music, Art, Sports, and the Blog that Saved Kepler's</description>
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		<title>Today in the Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As is the Sunday ritual, I went through the New York Times today and noted the following:


Apparently, the B52s stay at the Bowery Hotel, the same hotel where I stayed during BEA last year. My room won points for being relatively quiet, having an iPod dock, and having MSG, which, by pure coincidence, happened to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change Audi A4 B6 ignition coils yourself</title>
		<link>http://www.gen-o.com/blog/2008/02/10/change-audi-a4-b6-ignition-coils-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		
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If you have a B6 platform Audi A4 like I do, you&#8217;ve probably experienced the failure of an ignition coil while driving. You know the feeling—you suddenly lose power, the car shakes when you accelerate, and the check engine light flashes. This has happened to me three times in the past five months, including one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giants Super Bowl parade</title>
		<link>http://www.gen-o.com/blog/2008/02/10/giants-super-bowl-parade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		
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I made it back to New York last Tuesday morning and caught the end of the Giants Super Bowl victory parade down Broadway. Overheard afterwards on the street was a man asking a police officer, &#8220;Officer, do you know at which bar in the City I can find the cheapest beer?&#8221;
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		<title>My favorite things</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		
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Well, actually, these are Kate and Andy Spade&#8217;s favorite things. I recently discovered the &#8220;Things We Love&#8221; page on KateSpade.info, which contains everything from Moleskine notebooks to the band Architecture in Helsinki to red velvet cake. Of particular interest to me were the French sweets at Laduree and this set of Pantone pens made by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shout Out Louds and Impossible</title>
		<link>http://www.gen-o.com/blog/2008/01/13/shout-out-louds-and-impossible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		
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I have been listening often to &#8220;Impossible&#8221; by Shout Out Louds over the past few weeks. Emotionally, it touches similar territory as David Gray&#8217;s &#8220;Shine,&#8221; though on a different level. Anyhow, the point is that right around the four-minute mark of &#8220;Impossible,&#8221; the song seems to be winding down, but then it returns when you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lorrie Moore on Hillary Clinton</title>
		<link>http://www.gen-o.com/blog/2008/01/13/lorrie-moore-on-hillary-clinton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In this weekend&#8217;s New York Times, one of my favorite writers, Lorrie Moore, dismisses Hillary Clinton&#8217;s appeal as a woman in the 2008 election cycle, asking: &#8220;Does her being a woman make her a special case? Does gender confer meaning on her candidacy? In my opinion, it is a little late in the day to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The amateur athlete</title>
		<link>http://www.gen-o.com/blog/2007/11/11/the-amateur-athlete/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When I interviewed Moneyball author Michael Lewis back in September, he mentioned a piece he was working on, which argued thatt college football players should be paid for they create a product that generates a significant amount of revenue for their universities. Growing up, I had a somewhat romatic notion of the amateur athlete who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sox win!</title>
		<link>http://www.gen-o.com/blog/2007/10/21/sox-win/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Just before midnight on the East Coast, the Red Sox secured their 11th ever World Series victory with a convincing victory over the Cleveland Indians. Didn&#8217;t David Ortiz look cute with his goggles on, ready to celebrate?
With the Yankees sadly eliminated early this year, I&#8217;ve felt free to root for the Red Sox throughout the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Premium Denim and the Great Gatsby</title>
		<link>http://www.gen-o.com/blog/2007/10/21/premium-denim-and-the-great-gatsby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, by chance, I ended up at the Blues Jean Bar in the Marina. They have jeans, jeans, and more jeans. It&#8217;s rather impressive. However, I did a little research and it seems that their prices are over retail, so I doubt I would ever buy anything there. I also don&#8217;t like the fact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekend notes</title>
		<link>http://www.gen-o.com/blog/2007/10/21/weekend-notes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		
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Conversational reading has a fairly sharp piece about one of my favorite literary critics, James Wood.

I don&#8217;t think Wood believes there is much value in metaphors like Flaubert&#8217;s because as a reader he doesn&#8217;t appreciate what use they have in a novel. Wood is comfortable dissecting how an author attaches character traits to realistic people, [...]]]></description>
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