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		<title>Life after death: A book review of The Dead Beat by Marilyn Johnson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert JA Basilio Jr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Serious stuff, my friend]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, there is life after death.
But it doesn’t involve cryogenics or Christianity.
It’s the obituary: The written tribute that is born immediately after someone — usually famous and otherwise — departs for parts unknown.
Putting it together is not easy.
Besides requiring meticulous research, it also involves managing morbid expectations especially since those considered terminal cases have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Johnson on rewriting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert JA Basilio Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rewriting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Dead Beat]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[““The great rewrite man, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has the ability, Strum says, “to take scores and scores of scraps and turn them into a beautiful, coherent story, all fully attributed. He asks the reporters who do his legwork, ‘How many steps up to the apartment building where the dead man was found? Did he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boyle on writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert JA Basilio Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[T. C. Boyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Paris Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Take the writers out of the classes, put them in dark cells with a plug for their monitors, a slot at the top of the door for pizza and a slot at the bottom for waste. Every time a finished story comes back out that top slot, you write them a check for a thousand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Californication isn&#8217;t just Sex and The City for men</title>
		<link>http://jackthescribbler.com/2010/02/californication-isnt-just-sex-and-the-city-for-men/</link>
		<comments>http://jackthescribbler.com/2010/02/californication-isnt-just-sex-and-the-city-for-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert JA Basilio Jr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Yadda Yadda Yadda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cable TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Californication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Duchovny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hank Moody]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Straight and/or superficial men have something to new rave about. Again.
And its not the latest issue of FHM or Maxim.
Nor is it a stolen sex video of a starlet giving the waiter a generous tip.
It’s Californication, a television show that has given the words &#8220;boob tube&#8221; a more literal interpretation.
The series — featuring the life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anonymous on Ecstasy</title>
		<link>http://jackthescribbler.com/2010/02/anonymous-on-ecstasy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert JA Basilio Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[drug use]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Ecstasy is delicious. Or, put it another way, Ecstasy is delicious and I recommend highly, loudly and long that everyone whose health — physical and psychological — does not contraindicate or preclude its ingestion, ought to ingest it. Young/old, man/woman, rich/poor, gay/straight, black/white, saint/sinner, genius/dolt, Christian and Jew and Muslim, Democrat, Republican and Independent, lawmaker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun at Microsoft&#8217;s bloggers&#8217; night</title>
		<link>http://jackthescribbler.com/2010/02/fun-at-microsofts-bloggers-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert JA Basilio Jr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Yadda Yadda Yadda]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bloggers' night]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft Philippines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Excuse this self-indulgence but I think Microsoft likes me. 
Yes, Microsoft – the company accused of monopolistic practices, sued by the US and the EU, and considered by free software advocates as the “evil empire.”]]></description>
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		<title>Making the grade: A book review of the Graywolf Annual: Short stories</title>
		<link>http://jackthescribbler.com/2010/02/making-the-grade-a-book-review-of-the-graywolf-annual-short-stories/</link>
		<comments>http://jackthescribbler.com/2010/02/making-the-grade-a-book-review-of-the-graywolf-annual-short-stories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert JA Basilio Jr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Serious stuff, my friend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Anthology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graywol Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Of the twelve short stories in this collection — the very first in the Graywolf Annual series, published in 1985 — only five make the cut.]]></description>
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		<title>Up to my ears in the Fabulous Baker Boys</title>
		<link>http://jackthescribbler.com/2010/02/up-to-my-ears-with-the-fabulous-baker-boys/</link>
		<comments>http://jackthescribbler.com/2010/02/up-to-my-ears-with-the-fabulous-baker-boys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert JA Basilio Jr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[This time it's personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beau Bridges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fabulous Baker Boys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Bridges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Pfeiffer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pianists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romantic Drama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One more once.
These three words were spoken by Count Basie when he sought to repeat a chorus from April in Paris, moments after it was just played by his renonwed orchestra.
From all appearances, Basie enjoyed listening and playing the chorus so much that he wanted to do it again, prolonging the song — and his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How The Fabulous Baker Boys reduced my teenage angst</title>
		<link>http://jackthescribbler.com/2010/02/how-the-fabulous-baker-boys-reduced-my-teenage-angst/</link>
		<comments>http://jackthescribbler.com/2010/02/how-the-fabulous-baker-boys-reduced-my-teenage-angst/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert JA Basilio Jr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[This time it's personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dave Grusin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fabulous Baker Boys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Bridges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Pfeiffer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teenage Angst]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Fabulous Baker Boys, a romance drama starring Jeff Bridges and Michelle Pfeiffer, temporarily interrupted my teenage angst.
How?

For one thing, I was nearly through my teenage years when the movie was shown in Manila sometime in 1990 (initial release in the US was on October 13, 1989).
Second, I immediately fell in love with the movie’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s &#8216;VIP Mix&#8217; to extend customer reach</title>
		<link>http://jackthescribbler.com/2010/02/microsofts-vip-events-to-extend-customer-reach/</link>
		<comments>http://jackthescribbler.com/2010/02/microsofts-vip-events-to-extend-customer-reach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert JA Basilio Jr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Serious stuff, my friend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook users]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philippines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft in the Philippines is trying out what looks and sounds like the second-oldest sales strategy in the book.
It’s the soft sell — except that this one has a Web 2.0 twist written all over it.
With some help from social media platforms, blogs, and their users, the strategy intends to generate buzz about its products [...]]]></description>
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