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		<title>A Sixth Way of Looking at Walden: Deliberately Seeking Simplicity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walter Harding suggested “Five Ways of Looking at Walden.” Bill McKibben, in his introduction to the Beacon Press edition of Walden, cites two “practical questions…: How much is enough? And How do I know what I want?” (xi). Reading Walden &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/a-sixth-way-of-looking-at-walden-deliberately-seeking-simplicity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=3243&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It is told in sounds in Thoreau&#8217;s Walden</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It is told in sounds,” Joyce says, “in polygluttural, in each auxiliary neutral idiom…and anythongue athall” (Finnegans Wake, 117). “– Is it so exaltated, eximious, extraoldanddairy and excelssiorising? – Amengst menlike trees walking or trees like angels weeping nobirdy aviar &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/it-is-told-in-sounds-in-thoreaus-walden/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=3236&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Epizeuxis, epizeuxis, epizeuxis! in Thoreau&#8217;s Walden</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing is repetition. Listen to the keyboard. Each key produces its own, unique sound, repeating, the sounds given emphasis by the relative strength and position of the fingers, but we recognize the collective effort as someone typing. Suddenly, the sounds &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/epizeuxis-epizeuxis-epizeuxis-in-thoreaus-walden/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=3230&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Directions for Thoreau&#8217;s Walden</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walter Harding was the secretary of the Thoreau Society when he wrote the short article for The Massachusetts Review titled “Five Ways of Looking at Walden.” The article opens with a narrative description of the types of people who read &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/reading-directions-for-thoreaus-walden/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=3218&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mapping a Reading of Thoreau&#8217;s Walden</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We might be tempted, reading Walden, and wanting, for some reason, something more, answers, perhaps, though we might not yet know the questions, to split the difference (and the infinitive) and to quickly Google “Thoreau.” (I just did, and got &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/mapping-a-reading-of-thoreaus-walden/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=3212&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unpacking the Aphorism to Pull Out the Pith</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thoreau valued simplicity and wisdom, yet his writing style is not simple, and the reader must unpack the aphorism to pull out the pith. Anecdote becomes parable, reminding us of Alice and the Duchess: “Tut, tut, child! Everything&#8217;s got a &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/unpacking-the-aphorism-to-pull-out-the-pith/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=3207&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Thoreau On Clothing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thoreau worked a number of jobs around town, some voluntarily, though he had hoped for some recompense, and hoped too for something to be that would both pay and be a good fit. At times, he seems almost to have &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/on-thoreau-on-clothing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=3201&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Economy of One&#8217;s Own</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first chapter of Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Thoreau distills life to economic necessities, rhetorically presenting four, “Food, Shelter, Clothing, and Fuel,” that “few, if any” men or women, further qualified, “in this climate,” for it gets &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/an-economy-of-ones-own/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=3188&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are, some argue, two forms of life on our planet: animal and plant. It&#8217;s generally conceived that only animals have consciousness, but not all of them. When Descartes said, &#8220;I think; therefore I am,&#8221; he may have ruined possibilities &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/trick-photography-and-trees/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=3165&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“There are no aesthetic emergencies,” John Cage said, in A Year From Monday (1969, p. 28). Above that, same page, Cage typed: &#8220;Complaint: you open doors; what we want to know is which ones you close. (Doors I open close auto- matically after &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/happy-new-ears/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=3140&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Toads Goes to The Movies: &#8220;Moneyball&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/the-toads-goes-to-the-movies-moneyball-and-theatreball/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We went down to the Academy last night to see &#8220;Moneyball,&#8221; staring Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, the paradigm breaking general manager for the Oakland A&#8217;s, from the book by Michael Lewis. I have not read the book, but I &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/the-toads-goes-to-the-movies-moneyball-and-theatreball/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=3128&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>East Side Mt Tabor Photo Essay Walk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sidewalks in what used to be called Tabor Heights, on the north slopes of Mt Tabor, were poured in the early 1900&#8242;s. The dates are marked on the curbs, but many of the dates are being lost to code &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/east-side-mt-tabor-photo-essay-walk/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=3091&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peccadilloes; or, The School of No Sestina</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peccadilloes; or, The School of No Sestina In the School of No, every word sounds a peccadillo, every class closes a cage, every cage captures a rule, every rule regards no with gusto. No bites yes with gusto behind a &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/peccadilloes-or-the-school-of-no-sestina/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=3084&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Yourself: Where the Poet Hides</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clive James argues that poets should know the rules before breaking them. “Technique’s Marginal Centrality” (Poetry, January 2012, pp. 326-335) is a very conservative argument, often repeated by those who do know the rules and have come to control the &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/beyond-yourself-where-the-poet-hides/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=3068&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is Portland for Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I asked Eric if for Christmas he might like a couple of books. It was a busy week, with the Christmas baby on her way, and so Susan and I found ourselves in Powell’s on Hawthorne two days before Christmas &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/this-is-portland-for-christmas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=3060&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Epiphany In the straw burrow farm mice. Get a little closer and you’ll see Nits in baby Jesus’s hair, lice, And a house snake in the olive tree. There’s beer on the breath of the three Sage men sitting under &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/two-poems-for-the-feast-of-the-epiphany/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=3042&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Brooks, in “The Sydney Awards: Part I” (New York Times, Dec. 19, 2011), selects the “best magazine essays of the year.” Like the recent Rolling Stone article, “The 101 Greatest Guitarists of All Time,” Brooks’s piece is another list; &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/david-brooks-and-how-to-be-a-better-person/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=3027&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the beach at Refugio we walked under palms through sea grass Small waves rolling off the point from curlers coiled and we’re Young and unafraid holding our long boards against our hips and in Summer surfers with yellow and &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/big-dogs-in-tall-grass/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=3017&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Didi and Gogo Feted with Lifetime Achievement Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A country road. A tree. Against the tree a bicycle. Quick! Gogo! What the hey? I was sleeping! Why can’t you let me sleep, Didi? The need for your heinie’s beauty sleep notwithstanding, Surely you’ve not forgotten we are to &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/didi-and-gogo-feted-with-lifetime-achievement-award/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=3007&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solstice Sestina: Whiteout on the Whiteboard in Winter</title>
		<link>http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/solstice-sestina-whiteout-on-the-whiteboard-in-winter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whiteout on the Whiteboard in Winter The shadowless man in the center of winter drew nine snowmen leaving no shadow on the boardroom wall size whiteboard and sketched one goal as cold as snow nine snowmen into one who would &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/solstice-sestina-whiteout-on-the-whiteboard-in-winter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=2990&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New Lear; or, Daughter Dissed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We waited last week in an anon umbra for the expectant promise over at Literary Rejections on Display, an entertaining and informative site we visit periodically to check up on the latest trends in rejection slips and attitudes of those &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/a-new-lear-or-daughter-dissed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=2984&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women Under the Glass Ceiling: Parity and Power in the Pipeline</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Catalyst project, discussed in the HBR Blog Network post “New Research Busts Myths About the Gender Gap,” calls for action within the MBA corporate community. No one doubts that women’s experience in the workplace has woefully lacked what &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/women-under-the-glass-ceiling-parity-and-power-in-the-pipeline/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=2968&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Glass Guitar Ceiling: Rolling Stone’s “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The women’s glass ceiling, that invisible, clandestine barrier that separates any upper economic echelon of men from their connected but not equal women counterparts, apparently extends to guitar playing, as evidenced by the latest Rolling Stone list, “The 100 Greatest &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/the-glass-guitar-ceiling-rolling-stones-the-100-greatest-guitarists-of-all-time/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=2945&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Literary Thanksgiving Feast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a big platter in the middle of the full table sits the fat novel, its dust jacket a cracking bronze, peeling at the edges, its pages sliced and curling, its story stuffed with, well, stuffing: characters mixed with plot &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/a-literary-thanksgiving-feast/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=2925&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My alma mater, California State University at Dominguez Hills, this past year celebrated its 50th anniversary, 1960-2010; they celebrated through commencement 2011, and had invited on their website alumni to share memories. The invitation limited submissions to 200 words, a &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/happy-50th-csudh/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=2895&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Shoes: A Barefoot Existentialism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another summer unfolded like a dirty sock, stiff and hot. Baseball fell to football, and I kicked off the boat shoes. What to put on? If you’re a ballplayer, you may have uncommon shoe choice, as evidenced by reports of &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/on-shoes-a-barefoot-existentialism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=2881&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hunger is a condition of life: no hunger, no life. The spider spins her web, hungry for the busy bee dancing by hungry for blues. The cactus patiently awaits the coming of a distant, dithering cloud. The salmon swims against &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/the-way-we-dont-age-now/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=2865&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Par for the course has changed, and Finnegans today must hit from tees so far away they can’t see the green, let alone the flag. They move to the park, where the fruit rusts, but the green is real. In Finnegans &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/james-joyce-occupies-wall-street/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=2852&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woe were we when once we wooed wowed with words we would vow to wed where naught taught to tie the knot a language log in front of us saw how it was on a woeful wordful sea. To whoo &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/ere-words-were/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=2841&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ah, Bartleby! Ah, Humanities!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For more Liberations and Humanities in Crisis Revolution, see &#8220;Strangers on a Train: A chance encounter provides a lesson in complicity and the never-ending crisis in the humanities,&#8221; at Academe Online, by Cathy N. Davidson. Photo to left is cover of Liberations: New Essays &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/ah-bartleby-ah-humanities/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=2836&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happiness and the Humanities</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Beha’s investigative report (Harpers, Oct. 2011) on the for-profit higher education experiment is an impressionistic view of the inequities of degree access and funding. Not quite Maigret goes to [night] school, but this is US culture, the land of &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/happiness-and-the-humanities/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=2827&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Happy Humanists of Main Street (a Fragment)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Happy Humanists of Main Street (a Fragment): College Humanities now post their letters from Desolation Row. Yet on Main Street, the happy humanists go about their business. Lawrence, the locksmith, time on his hands, having just come back from &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/the-happy-humanists-of-main-street-a-fragment/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=2816&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Culturomics and Google&#8217;s Ngram Viewer: More Noise?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, a few minutes of wilfing led us to Technium’s post on Google’s latest project, the Ngram Viewer. Is Google making us stupid again? But this is serious stuff, as evidenced by the Ngram Viewer introduction in last December’s Science. The Ngram &#8230; <a href="http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/culturomics-and-googles-ngram-viewer-more-noise/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2371298&amp;post=2790&amp;subd=joelinker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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