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		<title>Of course it goes like that. Look at it.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m slowly working my way through the Ken Perlman beginner clawhammer guide. A lot of banjo stuff is (knowingly or not) written for guitarists who are picking up their next instrument, and this looks like no exception. But I&#8217;m not one of those; my deal is that I played the cello for eight-odd years as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2011/08/19/of-course-it-goes-like-that-look-at-it/</link>
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		<title>Herons at the UW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that there are herons nesting at the south end of campus? Occasionally you can see them from the bus stop near the medicinal herb gardens. My camera phone didn&#8217;t capture them well, but there&#8217;s a gorgeous slideshow that Bruce Hemingway put together of one of the nests last year.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2011/07/04/herons-at-the-uw/</link>
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		<title>newsflash: having fun is a good idea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last time I posted, I was hitting the treadmill. Unfortunately, shortly after hitting the treadmill I found out that I&#8217;d wildly overestimated my treadmill-hitting abilities; I walked myself right into a great big flare-up. So back to PT I went. It&#8217;s all very three steps forward, two steps back. I&#8217;ve joined something called &#8220;Health Month&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2011/06/24/newsflash-having-fun-is-a-good-idea/</link>
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		<title>Spine update: I love my shoes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still recovering from getting squashed last June. Apparently, it takes a lot longer to heal a herniated disc that&#8217;s been re-injured than it does to heal it the first time. This week, though, I&#8217;ve been hitting the treadmill with a vengeance. I bought new walking shoes a month ago, and they&#8217;re still giving me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2011/04/25/spine-update-i-love-my-shoes/</link>
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		<title>crow games: fun with bicyclists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a fair number of bicyclists who use our street, and your usual number of crows. I&#8217;ve been noticing over the last six months or so that at least one of our crow neighbors has picked up the trick of matching speeds with bicyclists as they go up or down our hill. They fly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2010/10/22/crow-games-fun-with-bicyclists/</link>
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		<title>Rossetti&#8217;s wombats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I promised you wombats. That was long enough ago that I can&#8217;t quite remember how I stumbled over the whole Rossetti wombat business. At first I thought it was just a silly, inexplicable in-joke among Rossetti scholars. But there really were Rossetti wombats, two of them. Rossetti was reportedly mad about wombats, and the rest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2010/10/15/rossettis-wombats/</link>
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		<title>Paul Cullen and his six-foot sun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can put this on the list of things I mean to read more about someday, right next to Dante Gabriel Rossetti&#8217;s wombat. (Yes, wombat. His name was Topsy. I&#8217;ll post about that later this week when I have a little time to sort through my links.) I was looking for something entirely different when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2010/09/26/paul-cullen-and-his-six-foot-sun/</link>
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		<title>But I am the Mexican for that&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I&#8217;ve worked hard in the garden and accomplished something &#8212; even when I haven&#8217;t gone and injured myself &#8212; a fair number of people have gotten a kick out of announcing, &#8220;You need a big strong guy for that!&#8221; I&#8217;ve nodded and smiled with gritted teeth. But it could be worse. Since Josh actually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2010/09/17/but-i-am-the-mexican-for-that/</link>
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		<title>Pool skaters: foreclosure&#8217;s detritivores</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Some of them are full of black water. Others have become graveyards for old lawn furniture and rodent carcasses. They are shaped like jelly beans and manufactured by companies named Sunny Side and Champagne. Once upon a time, Fresno was the California Dream. Own a car. Own a house. Own a pool. Everyone wanted it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2010/09/06/pool-skaters-foreclosures-detritivores/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not really a word puzzle, though that&#8217;s the title. More of a word meditation. Via Radiolab.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sculpin.com/journal/2010/08/24/words-are-alive-cut-them-and-they-bleed/</link>
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