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		<title>Welcome, Rich White Oligarchs!</title>
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Welcome, Rich White Oligarchs! - Daily Show Billboard
Our friend Jayme sent us the link to this, which is apparently right outside the airport in Minneapolis.
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		<link>http://shortstorieslongodds.com/2008/08/27/welcome-rich-white-oligarchs-daily-show-billboard/</link>
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		<title>Tattooing the Stones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think, after several weeks of utter interal silence, I&#8217;m actually starting to get the political writing bug again. I blame Teddy Kennedy and Hillary Clinton for awesome speeches.
And great writing from my former editor about a certain Massachusetts senator doesn&#8217;t hurt, either.
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		<link>http://shortstorieslongodds.com/2008/08/26/tattooing-the-stones/</link>
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		<title>Week 5: Mine to Give</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was in the middle of a serious WiiFit session when the door bell rang. I picked Molly the Corgi up because she is crazy and I walked over to the foyer. We don&#8217;t have windows or a peephole so I couldn&#8217;t see who it was before I opened the door.
Standing there was a man [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shortstorieslongodds.com/2008/08/20/week-5-mine-to-give/</link>
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		<title>Week 4: The Naming of Things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Diana and I started talking about having children about a year and a half ago, and I knew we had moved from the realm of dreamy ponderance and into the area of serious business when the conversation about names came up. Names are secret things, full of power. When you start thinking about a future [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shortstorieslongodds.com/2008/08/08/week-4-the-naming-of-things/</link>
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		<title>Calling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In re: your own life - Sometimes I think you should just go ahead and write the damn fanfic already.
I wrote this a few weeks ago and have no idea what to do with it:
we draw circles
in the sand and stand
inside of them, 
but what we fear comes from below
comes from within;

we draw circles
in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shortstorieslongodds.com/2008/08/06/calling/</link>
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		<title>Week 3: Something&#8217;s Happened</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Written in 2001. This is not strictly non-fiction, but almost everything is true? The geography may also be a little skewed.
I stopped in New London on my way from Boston to New Haven once. If I remember correctly, I could see the whole town from the top of the hill, looking down into the bay. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shortstorieslongodds.com/2008/07/31/week-3-somethings-happened/</link>
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		<title>A Fear Too Lovely To Bear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Art finds a way, despite all of my attempts to stifle it, whether intended or not. For a long time my entire identity revolved around being An Artist, and I was crazy about that feeling of exhilarating creation. I would make art for the sake of doing so, I would make art because it felt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shortstorieslongodds.com/2008/07/29/a-fear-too-lovely-to-bear/</link>
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		<title>Misnomers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just writing a little for some analysis work, and in describing a recent bill for a gas pipeline passed in Alaska, I wrote &#8220;State legislators in Iraq&#8230;&#8221;
You know, Iraq, Alaska, same difference.
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		<link>http://shortstorieslongodds.com/2008/07/24/misnomers/</link>
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		<title>Week 2: New York City and How I Quit the Job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As for the connection between quitting my job and New York City, I think it is buried somewhere within the recesses of situational relevance - right here and now, in the fluid present, I'm in this situation and unhappy with it. In the past and future (if they can be separated as such) I'm in New York City and I'm happy. What's happening here is making me think of what's happening there, right here and now. ]]></description>
		<link>http://shortstorieslongodds.com/2008/07/21/new-york-city-and-how-i-quit-the-job/</link>
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		<title>A Twitter Update Too Far</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1) I&#8217;m going to disable the Twitter Update autoposts thing and just write more. I had a busy week last week, but as I only have my analysis work for London and my thesis to occupy my time now - as opposed to those things plus a full time job - I will have the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shortstorieslongodds.com/2008/07/21/a-twitter-update-too-far/</link>
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