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	<description>and we think we&#039;re getting smarter</description>
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		<title>Opening paragraph to a new story (maybe)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bullet Is The Gun
The families are kept behind glass. Possibly two hundred close relations are cloistered in bleacher box seats, most smiling but some also weeping as the proceedings are noised through a public address speaker. The field is green comfort save for a few mud-cut patches and the array of senior boys. There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Camera</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 05:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the opening paragraphs of a new story.
Behind the Camera
We first meet Serj Malakian at a party thrown by our mutual friends, the cable news networks. When we see his pixelated self from across our kitchens and living rooms and break areas, we are instantly smitten. He is enveloped by a smile of microphones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is Me Spreading the Gospel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I haven&#8217;t been updating this thing because I&#8217;ve been spending all of my time writing a new story. In lieu of a blog post, I thought I&#8217;d share the first third of the story for the small number (5?) of folks who actually read this. So here it is.﻿
This Is Me Spreading The Gospel
by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Groff, Toews, Adler and Paddleford</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bookish Things]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, that&#8217;s not the name of a law firm. It&#8217;s the last names of the people who show up in Google Suggest™ when searching the word &#8220;Jonathan.&#8221;
Noticeably absent from that list is the Jonathan that is absolutely everywhere right now, Jonathan Franzen:
For chrissake, the man was on the cover of TIME FUCKING MAGAZINE and he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Book is Better</title>
		<link>http://joshlabau.com/lablog/?p=76</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I had an idea for a website/organization/panacea the other day, and I think it could be pretty cool.
Here&#8217;s the background. I&#8217;ve been increasingly worried about the state of reading in the U.S. People aren&#8217;t reading as much as they used to, especially fiction, and that&#8217;s bad for a number of reasons. Selfishly, I want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The blog is back. I think.</title>
		<link>http://joshlabau.com/lablog/?p=51</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bookish Things]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I took the entire winter away from blogging in favor of doing &#8220;real&#8221; writing:

Actually, it was pretty successful. I churned out two (two!) short stories between December and April. That might not sound like a lot, but for me, it was huge. I have a tendency to quit things halfway through, so completing two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NaNoWriMo</title>
		<link>http://joshlabau.com/lablog/?p=48</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it looks like Abby and I are going to do NaNoWriMo. In the past I had refused to participate; my neurosis and perfectionism are worst when trying to write fiction, and I thought I would never come close to the 50,000 word finish line. But Abby made a good point &#8211; I don&#8217;t have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Physics, Poetry and Music?</title>
		<link>http://joshlabau.com/lablog/?p=33</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason I have been thinking about limits recently. More than this, I&#8217;ve been thinking about the trade-offs that must come with limits. Sometimes they&#8217;re fairly apparent, as with choosing to save or spend; you can do one or the other, and they both have advantages. But you can&#8217;t do both, unless you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video games are not art, but they can be.</title>
		<link>http://joshlabau.com/lablog/?p=30</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video Games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine recently decided to get a degree in computer science, several years after completing a degree in chemical engineering and pursuing a career in medicine. The reason? He wants to make video games. It&#8217;s been a lifelong dream of his, but he never seriously pursued it because he felt it was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High-Brow Sci-Fi</title>
		<link>http://joshlabau.com/lablog/?p=24</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bookish Things]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve found myself fascinated with the idea of science fiction recently. For me,  &#8216;literary&#8217; science/speculative fiction is the hardest to distinguish from its &#8216;genre&#8217; counterpart (in the asshole way that journals mean it when they say &#8216;NO GENRE&#8217;). It&#8217;s pretty easy to tell a shitty Harlequin Romance from a  &#8216;literary&#8217; book with romantic themes, and [...]]]></description>
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