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		<title>Officially the saddest attempt at a Christmas tree</title>
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		<title>&#8216;Tis the Season&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just splurged on the bamboo interchangeable needle set I&#8217;ve been eying for the past few years. (www.knitnewyork.com) Perfect gift for any knitters on your list. No more searching for the right needle size/length! Every size you will ever need in one charmingly cute package! Worth the $99 investment because you&#8217;ll never have to buy another [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apocalypticwhimsy.wordpress.com&blog=979227&post=46&subd=apocalypticwhimsy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Public Service Announcement&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(I would cite the source, but I know it not. Thank you, whomever you are!)
NINE WORDS WOMEN USE
(1) Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right
and you need to shut up.
(2) Five Minutes: If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour. Five
minutes is only five [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apocalypticwhimsy.wordpress.com&blog=979227&post=43&subd=apocalypticwhimsy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://apocalypticwhimsy.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/a-public-service-announcement/</link>
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		<title>The Best Pick Up Line Ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[





So he says, &#8220;Do you read Yeats?&#8221;
I say, &#8220;Sure.&#8221;
He says, &#8220;Are you familiar with the poem &#8216;For Anne Gregory&#8217; which is about the down side of being a blond?&#8221;
I say, &#8220;No. No I am not familiar with that.&#8221;
He says, &#8220;Would you like to hear it?&#8221;
Now, at this point in my life, there is only one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apocalypticwhimsy.wordpress.com&blog=979227&post=40&subd=apocalypticwhimsy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My day at the Anna Maria Island Seafood Festival . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I was in one of the many gift shops in Bradenton Beach, buying more  shit for my niecelings and nephlings which I now have no idea how I&#8217;m going to get home, when I overheard someone ask something about the location of some festival. Hmm. Ears perked, I asked the nice lady at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apocalypticwhimsy.wordpress.com&blog=979227&post=31&subd=apocalypticwhimsy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://apocalypticwhimsy.wordpress.com/2008/02/17/my-day-at-the-anna-maria-island-seafood-festival/</link>
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		<title>Friday&#8217;s Rilke . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Letters to a Young Poet:
 You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apocalypticwhimsy.wordpress.com&blog=979227&post=27&subd=apocalypticwhimsy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://apocalypticwhimsy.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/fridays-rilke/</link>
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		<title>A Valentine to my Friends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[been reading Rilke&#8217;s Letters to a Young Poet . . .
&#8220;You ask whether your verses are good. You ask me. You have asked others before. You send them to magazines. You compare them with other poems, and you are disturbed when certain editors reject your efforts. Now (since you have allowed me to advise you) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apocalypticwhimsy.wordpress.com&blog=979227&post=24&subd=apocalypticwhimsy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://apocalypticwhimsy.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/a-valentine-to-my-friends/</link>
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		<title>If a picture&#8217;s worth a thousand words . . .</title>
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well, what else can I say . . .
Greetings from Anna Maria Island, FL. More blog updates/pics soon, maybe tonight when I get back from trolleying around the island . . .
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		<link>http://apocalypticwhimsy.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/if-a-pictures-worth-a-thousand-words/</link>
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		<title>somniloquy (som-NIL-uh-kwee) noun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m subscribed to this email list called Word A Day, right? And as I am sipping my 1am cup of coffee, having awoken from a quite satisfying 3 hour nap, I am checking my email, and I see that, for the week of Feb. 4, the theme is &#8220;words having to do with sleep.&#8221;
Sleep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apocalypticwhimsy.wordpress.com&blog=979227&post=21&subd=apocalypticwhimsy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not so much a blog post . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[as a note to self that i truly do intend to post something new. someday. soon. maybe today.
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		<link>http://apocalypticwhimsy.wordpress.com/2008/02/03/not-so-much-a-blog-post/</link>
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