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		<title>Five Good Books I Read This Year</title>
		<link>http://looceefir.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/five-good-books-i-read-this-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without any ordering.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I&#8217;ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace
I started and haven&#8217;t finished Infinite Jest. I will. This book gave me a lot this year. So did David Foster Wallace. Rigorous, humble, light. This is a good book. It tells you lots of things about cruises, tennis, David Lynch, state fairs, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=looceefir.wordpress.com&blog=5236060&post=312&subd=looceefir&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Went to See Slavoj Zizek Talk Tonight</title>
		<link>http://looceefir.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/i-went-to-see-slavoj-zizek-talk-tonight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or, &#8220;Skate Philosophy&#8221;. This is a subtle joke. Or maybe not so subtle now that I have highlighted it.
I went to see Zizek speak at the RSA tonight.

I met L at Charing Cross. He had his skateboard. We walked to the RSA. We talked about work. I met R outside. She had her hood up. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=looceefir.wordpress.com&blog=5236060&post=310&subd=looceefir&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Lecturing and Teaching</title>
		<link>http://looceefir.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/on-lecturing-and-teaching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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I think the secret is to have notes in front of you but to make it seem as if you are speaking from memory. I am getting better at this. It is good to speak slowly, to let your mind spool an autocue in your head. I actually had AD LIB in the column of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=looceefir.wordpress.com&blog=5236060&post=307&subd=looceefir&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liveblogging Die Hard 4.0 and a lecture on the American Revolution</title>
		<link>http://looceefir.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/liveblogging-die-hard-4-0-and-a-lecture-on-the-american-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This guy is talking about the oppressive nature of the media. A truck controlled by some people with computers crashes into Bruce Willis and the guy. They change the traffic lights. Does this mean he is right? Are we supposed to distrust the media now? What kind of ideology is it advocating? What image of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=looceefir.wordpress.com&blog=5236060&post=304&subd=looceefir&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Random-article-at-Wikipedia event</title>
		<link>http://looceefir.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/random-article-at-wikipedia-event/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Chris East.
I used &#8216;Egon&#8217; as my point of departure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury,_Vermont
Salisbury is a town in Vermont. I don&#8217;t like that there is a comma in that URL above. I read last week that URLs are going to start being in more languages than English soon. I&#8217;m not sure if this is going to start something strange [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=looceefir.wordpress.com&blog=5236060&post=302&subd=looceefir&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Schopenhauer and compassion</title>
		<link>http://looceefir.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/schopenhauer-and-compassion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I listened to the In Our Time podcast on Schopenhauer on my cycle to Goldsmiths today. I enjoyed it. I did not know much about him before. They talked about human endeavour fluctuating between boredom and desire. They mentioned the pain associated with both of these. They said he thought compassion was a way out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=looceefir.wordpress.com&blog=5236060&post=300&subd=looceefir&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading McSweeney&#8217;s 32, Part I</title>
		<link>http://looceefir.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/reading-mcsweeneys-32-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some notes/comments/quotes/etc.
Each story in this is set in 2024. The editorial says that this is designed to give a more realistic focus to what can be seen at times as science fiction. To connect it closer to us. Fifteen years in the future. This sounds both sensible and patronising.

With cover illustration from the incredibly awesome [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=looceefir.wordpress.com&blog=5236060&post=297&subd=looceefir&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>McSweeney&#8217;s in the UK</title>
		<link>http://looceefir.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/mcsweeneys-in-the-uk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Penguin aren&#8217;t going to publish the McSweeney&#8217;s quarterly in the UK anymore.
This makes sense for a number of reasons, not least because, as Joe Pickering (Penguin publicist) says on Twitter, no-one was buying them.
Here are some more comments from Joe, and thoughts and other stuff that have occurred to me.

Joe suggests it as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=looceefir.wordpress.com&blog=5236060&post=293&subd=looceefir&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rolling Henry Louis Gates Jr. Style.</title>
		<link>http://looceefir.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/rolling-henry-louis-gates-jr-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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Reposted from my Tumblr, because I went to the effort of typing this up and it keeps blowing my mind with how well-argued and everything it is.
Henry Louis Gates Jr: Hello?
The Enlightenment: Yes? 
HLG Jr: Is that the Enlightenment?
TE: Yes, yes it is. What can I do for you?

Why was the *creative* writing of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=looceefir.wordpress.com&blog=5236060&post=290&subd=looceefir&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Some People Are Reading</title>
		<link>http://looceefir.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/what-some-people-are-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are you reading right now?


Walter Abish: Eclipse Fever
Uwem Akpan: Say You&#8217;re One of Them
Dante Alighieri: The Inferno
Martin Amis: London Fields
Steven Amsterdam: Things We Didn&#8217;t See Coming
Nick Antosca: Fires
Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins: Mechanism of Meaning
Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition
Rick Atkinson: In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat
Paul Auster: Moon Palace
Charles Avery: The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=looceefir.wordpress.com&blog=5236060&post=287&subd=looceefir&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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