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		<title>You Shouldn&#8217;t Wake Me Awhile (Omaha, NE)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had dozens of jobs in my adult life, but I&#8217;ve never been anyone&#8217;s boss.  I never stuck around long enough at any one place to rise up beyond an entry-level position.  But in my band all the fellas like to call me Boss.  It started out as kind of a joke a few years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickjaina.wordpress.com&blog=2208796&post=42&subd=nickjaina&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Snow is Still Falling, I&#8217;m Almost Home (Buenos Aires, Argentina)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was at a loud bar in Buenos Aires, Argentina watching a three-piece klezmer band along with a bunch of new friends when one of them, Freddy, turned to me after some thought and said:
&#8220;Imagination is experience.&#8221;
I think that&#8217;s what he said.  It was really loud in there.  Maybe he said, &#8220;Experience is imagination,&#8221; or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickjaina.wordpress.com&blog=2208796&post=40&subd=nickjaina&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going to Graceland (Memphis, TN)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of us walk the borderline between believing in something and believing in nothing.  Whether it is our country or a divine creator, we are certain that we feel something stirring inside us, but if it is a true feeling we are afraid to let it out, because we see other people with a strong [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickjaina.wordpress.com&blog=2208796&post=37&subd=nickjaina&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>See You In Heaven If You Make The List (Burlington, VT)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes there are coincidences in this world that are so incredible that you can’t actually appreciate them. For example, the sun is about 400 times larger than the moon at the same time that it is 400 times further from the Earth than the moon is. This creates the illusion in the sky that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickjaina.wordpress.com&blog=2208796&post=31&subd=nickjaina&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Misuse of the Bassoon (Outside Toronto, Canada)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we were being thrown out of Canada the other day, the immigration officer coldly said to me the words that truly hurt:
“You’re just not offering any benefit to Canada.”
And I know he meant that in an economic sense. But still. Ouch.
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		<title>An Easy Chair on the Chopping Block (Denver, CO)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We drove down from Salt Lake City to the redder and redder rocks of Southern Utah on Friday, to the little town of Torrey, Utah. There lives David Williams, a man who looks like Jesus, and who humbly and Jesus-like puts on shows in a little pizza place in this tiny town and asked me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickjaina.wordpress.com&blog=2208796&post=27&subd=nickjaina&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief History of Western Pop Music (Salt Lake City, UT)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One problem that we human beings have that won’t endear us to our future alien overlords is the way that we tend to take personal, subjective experiences and try to turn them into universal, objective truths. Probably 3 billion or so murders could have been prevented throughout the history of the world if we were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickjaina.wordpress.com&blog=2208796&post=25&subd=nickjaina&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Take This Child, Lord (Tucson, AZ)</title>
		<link>http://nickjaina.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/take-this-child-lord-tucson-az/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take This Child, Lord (Tucson, AZ)
I recently had a dream where I was asked to play second base for the New York Yankees.  Just me, in my street clothes, with no particular baseball skill, suddenly asked to jump into the middle of a game and start playing.  And instead of saying no I just stalled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickjaina.wordpress.com&blog=2208796&post=24&subd=nickjaina&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>State Quarter Review: Mississippi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mississippi&#8217;s state quarter is an interesting failure.  It does something right that most quarters don&#8217;t: it chooses one image and displays it boldly.  Mississippi is the Magnolia State, so their quarter presents the caption &#8220;The Magnolia State&#8221; along with two beautifully composed Magnolia blossoms.  It is truly some of the best artwork on any of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickjaina.wordpress.com&blog=2208796&post=22&subd=nickjaina&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>State Quarter Review: Illinois</title>
		<link>http://nickjaina.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/state-quarter-review-illinois/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good Lord, Illinois, what is going on here?  When you had your quarter design contest, did you whittle it down to the top ten ideas and then just paste all those together into one design?
Let&#8217;s review what we have here.  Abraham Lincoln, apparently from his school days, is about to step through an outline of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickjaina.wordpress.com&blog=2208796&post=19&subd=nickjaina&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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