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	<title>League of Inveterate Poets &#187; It`s All About Me</title>
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	<description>The out-of-context contextuality of a foolish sage</description>
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	<itunes:subtitle>An exploration of out-of-context contextualities. Stories, excelsior and other effluvia.</itunes:subtitle>
	<itunes:summary>Stories of out of context contextualities out of the head of storyteller Mark Traphagen (aka The Foolish Sage) of foolishsage.com</itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:author>the Foolish Sage (aka Mark Traphagen)</itunes:author>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll Bet You Money That the Song Was &#8220;This Year&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://foolishsage.com/2011/07/17/ill-bet-you-money-that-the-song-was-this-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Traphagen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben turned around and offered me his fist. I punched it softly, even though I hated that greeting. &#8220;Q!&#8221; he shouted over the music. &#8220;How good does this feel?&#8221; And I knew exactly what Ben meant: he meant listening to the the Mountain Goats with your friends in a car that runs on a Wednesday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emily Dickinson on What Is Poetry?</title>
		<link>http://foolishsage.com/2011/07/09/emily-dickinson-on-what-is-poetry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 22:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Traphagen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[imagination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bulltown Strutters Mini-Documentary Video</title>
		<link>http://foolishsage.com/2011/04/13/bulltown-strutters-mini-documentary-video/</link>
		<comments>http://foolishsage.com/2011/04/13/bulltown-strutters-mini-documentary-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 01:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Traphagen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bulltown strutters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community band]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[durham nc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marry durham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rodrigo dorfman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[second line band]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street band]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in October I became one of the founding members of Durham&#8217;s newest community band, The Bulltown Strutters. Patterned after the famous &#8220;second line&#8221; bands of New Orleans, but drawing inspiration from street band traditions around the world, we have been playing and strutting to Dixieland, old time standards, spirituals, and even Beyonce&#8217;s &#8220;Single Ladies&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alan Helm&#8217;s Afternoon of Glory: Conclusion (Monti GrandSLAM Story Video)</title>
		<link>http://foolishsage.com/2011/04/08/alan-helms-afternoon-of-glory-conclusion-monti-grandslam-story-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Traphagen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[It`s All About Me]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[grandslam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high school band stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high school stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[storytelling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the monti]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time coming, but I finally finished my multi-part story of high school band geekdom that began as an audio podcast (Alan Helm&#8217;s Afternoon of Glory, Part 1) that never got finished because I started intensive chemo for my cancer. Last night I got to finally put an ending on this story, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afternoon at Fickle Creek Farm, Efland NC</title>
		<link>http://foolishsage.com/2011/04/03/afternoon-at-fickle-creek-farm-efland-nc/</link>
		<comments>http://foolishsage.com/2011/04/03/afternoon-at-fickle-creek-farm-efland-nc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Traphagen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[farms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fickle creek farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[north carolina farms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable farming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fickle Creek Farm, a bio-sustainable project that "strives to provide farm fresh, healthy products to its customers through careful environmental stewardship, sustainable practices, and humane animal treatment"]]></description>
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		<title>Arcade Fire Blogotheque Take Away Shows Video</title>
		<link>http://foolishsage.com/2011/02/12/arcade-fire-blogotheque-take-away-video/</link>
		<comments>http://foolishsage.com/2011/02/12/arcade-fire-blogotheque-take-away-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Traphagen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I wrote in praise of the Take Away Show series at Blogotheque (&#8220;Spoon Videos on Blogotheque&#8217;s Take Away Shows&#8220;), and how their videos exemplify the theme of this blog: reveling in out-of-context contextualities. Blogotheque accomplishes this by taking bands off the stage and having them play in places or situations where you would never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spoon Videos on Blogotheque&#8217;s Take Away Shows</title>
		<link>http://foolishsage.com/2011/01/31/spoon-videos-on-blogotheques-take-away-shows/</link>
		<comments>http://foolishsage.com/2011/01/31/spoon-videos-on-blogotheques-take-away-shows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Traphagen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[It`s All About Me]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started the League of Inveterate Poets blog, I wrote that it was to be &#8220;an experiment in out-of-context contextuality.&#8221; I find that much of what is beautiful and worthwhile in this world comes about when things appear or are seen in some setting where we don&#8217;t expect them to be. Ever since I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bulltown Strutters Band Takes to the Streets.</title>
		<link>http://foolishsage.com/2010/09/30/bulltown-strutters-band-takes-to-the-streets/</link>
		<comments>http://foolishsage.com/2010/09/30/bulltown-strutters-band-takes-to-the-streets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Traphagen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[It`s All About Me]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bulltown strutters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[durham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marching band]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Watch Bulltown Strutters Mini-Documentary Video from Marry Durham I love Durham. Tonight at the second rehearsal of the Bulltown Strutters Band, Durham&#8217;s new New Orlean&#8217;s second line marching band extravaganza, we just felt like we needed to start steppin&#8217;. After going over a few tunes in one member&#8217;s living room, we decided to practice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lego Modulex Mini-bricks Greenhouse</title>
		<link>http://foolishsage.com/2010/09/30/lego-modulex-mini-bricks-greenhouse/</link>
		<comments>http://foolishsage.com/2010/09/30/lego-modulex-mini-bricks-greenhouse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Traphagen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[It`s All About Me]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karyn Traphagen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lego]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lego modulex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pardon me for bragging on my wife for a moment, but her MOC (&#8220;My Own Creation&#8221;) Lego Modulex mini-brick model of a greenhouse was just featured as the &#8220;Fascinating Lego Model of the Day&#8221; at the popular blog of that title. Congratulations, Karyn! You can find out more about the little-known world of Modulex mini-bricks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Review of The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson</title>
		<link>http://foolishsage.com/2010/09/29/new-review-of-the-secret-life-of-emily-dickinson/</link>
		<comments>http://foolishsage.com/2010/09/29/new-review-of-the-secret-life-of-emily-dickinson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Traphagen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[the secret life of emily dickinson by jerome charyn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My dear friend, author and prolific book reviewer Mindy Withrow, has just published her review of The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson. So pleased to see she &#8220;got&#8221; it and loved it as much as I did.]]></description>
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