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	<title>Cracked Window</title>
	
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	<description>what passes as light</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
	
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		<title>Hope and Haircuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Observed]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[barbershops]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Maitland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two barbershops, fifty years and three thousand miles apart.
One is where I got my first haircut without a parent in tow. It was in Florida, and I was a young boy new to the South. The father and son proprietors were Alabama crackers. About the only time they spoke more than a few words was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atwitter about Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Twittering]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m twittering about Twitter.
Skeptical is the best description of my initial reaction to using this social media service. I was skeptical about sharing observations, random thoughts, and general announcements of what&#8217;s happening at any given moment in my life &#8212; in only 140 characters. (See examples on the right side of this blog&#8217;s home page.)
But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Epiphanies of Yesterday’s News</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Observed]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Keep Portland Weird]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Music Millenium]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Paulrus Is Dead]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Beatles]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=1212</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some days some things jump out at me. This morning it was signs. I was traveling a familiar route, and three signs looked new to the urban landscape.
&#8220;Keep Portland Weird!&#8221; cried out from the west side of Music Millenium, the only place I buy CDs in person. I knew the store on East Burnside Street [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Meandering</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Boing Boing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Listropolis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MetaFilter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Confession: I like to meander on the web and find things I didn&#8217;t know I wanted to know. I&#8217;m not talking topics important to me, such as U.S. politics, for which I visit favorite blogs and news sites way too often. Meandering to me means wandering to find serendipitous discoveries.
For a long time I&#8217;ve relied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Than a Farmers Market</title>
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		<comments>http://www.michaelbales.com/2008/11/15/more-than-a-farmers-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Observed]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Portland Farmers Market]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Proposition 8]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=1155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A young man played bagpipes while riding a unicycle on one end of the Portland Farmers Market. On the other, protesters decried passage of the anti-gay marriage amendment in California.
In between on the Park Blocks amid the produce and other foods was scene after scene that made my Saturday morning. Maybe the brisk bike ride [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayhem and Sad Ears</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Memories]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Randy Couture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ultimate Fighting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=1139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My fascination with boxing began as a boy. Never the fighting type, I liked the drama. But as youth passed I no longer cared.
Many years later, I missed the rise of the cable-TV phenomenon Ultimate Fighting. Then in 2003, a Willamette Week ad touted a night of brawling. I attended to fulfill a graduate school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signs of the Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=1129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m waiting for numbers. As in how my Portland precinct voted in the presidential election. Only county-by-county totals are available, though I know Barack Obama&#8217;s tally will be staggering. During the campaign, I saw only one John McCain sign in the neighborhood, and it was homemade. Obama signs, including this one in my yard, spread [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Insurance Horrors</title>
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		<comments>http://www.michaelbales.com/2008/11/13/health-insurance-horrors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Outrages]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=1117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not posting to my blog for two days feels a bit like neglecting my toddler. Say, not giving him breakfast or lunch. Resuming with a chorus-of-snores subject &#8212; health insurance &#8212; is almost as neglectful.
But health insurance came to mind today when I read that President-elect Barack Obama is resigning his U.S. Senate seat, effective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edible Schoolwork</title>
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		<comments>http://www.michaelbales.com/2008/11/10/edible-schoolwork/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Observed]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cooking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Oregon Culinary Institute]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=1103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Parents like to display schoolwork the kids bring home. At our house we put it in on the dining table and eat it.
To be precise, Daniel isn&#8217;t our kid. He&#8217;s my nephew and twenty-three. But he&#8217;s living with my wife and me for now. With increasing frequency he&#8217;s bringing home what he prepares at school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pot Room Confinement</title>
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		<comments>http://www.michaelbales.com/2008/11/09/pot-room-confinement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[plants]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pot growing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=1087</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every spring I start filling up the front porch with potted plants. The porch extends the width of our 1920s Craftsman house, so there are long wide ledges begging for greenery. The back deck next to the small goldfish pond gets a few plants too.
I gravitate toward the tropical and cold-sensitive, mostly begonias because of [...]]]></description>
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