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	<description>faults &#124; sins &#124; abuses</description>
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		<title>A Libelous Display / Blissfully Astray</title>
		<link>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2008/05/01/a-libelous-display-blissfully-astray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 03:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that day today, one of my favorite days, of budding trees and fecundity, of celebrating work and celebrating play. My lawn is already overgrown, the daffodils in the back yard come and gone with the crocus and bluebells and now the tulips in full bloom, the first sprigs of green on the grape vine.
There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CCCC08 B15: Rhetorical Memory and Delivery 2.0</title>
		<link>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2008/04/09/cccc08-b15-rhetorical-memory-and-delivery-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Kathie Gossett, Andrea Davis, and Carrie Lamanna (unfortunately, John Walter was unable to make it) began their panel with a quotation from Winifred Bryan Horner&#8217;s introduction to John Frederick Reynolds&#8217; book Rhetorical Memory and Delivery: &#8220;We need to re-think rhetorical memory and delivery as pertaining to new media.&#8221; Their panel explored some of the ways [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tink: Striker; Zeugma: Grappler</title>
		<link>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2008/04/07/tink-striker-zeugma-grappler/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When they mock-fight, Zeugma always goes to the ground. If my dining room&#8217;s the Octagon, Zeugma&#8217;s my Hoyce Gracie. Tink, while more tentative, has her own moves, and she&#8217;s good about cornering and using those front paws in conjunction with her weight: she&#8217;ll get in close to put Zeugma down, which Zeugma&#8217;s willing to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CCCC08 A25: Virtual Realities</title>
		<link>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2008/04/06/cccc08-a25-reading-and-writing-virtual-realities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Doug Eyman, the chair, introduced the panel (the full title being &#8220;Reading and Writing Virtual Realities&#8221;) by describing his excitment not just about writing about games in our composition courses, but about writing in games. In fact, Doug noted, one of the chief concerns of the panel was not just with reading games as texts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CCCC08 Day 1</title>
		<link>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2008/04/03/cccc08-day-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Arrived late yesterday morning after a 6 AM flight, in time for an early lunch and a nap, some exploring around NOLA&#8217;s central business district, and then a wonderful late dinner and live cajun music at Mulate&#8217;s. My hotel&#8217;s accomodations came at well under half one third of the price of the conference hotel, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunbeam</title>
		<link>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2008/03/22/sunbeam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Collum&#8217;s Song</title>
		<link>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2008/03/19/collums-song/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to a rebroadcast NPR&#8217;s Mountain Stage this week, and heard Nellie McKay doing an absolutely wonderful version of a tiny little gem called &#8220;Collum&#8217;s Song.&#8221; (On NPR&#8217;s publicly available big whole-show MP3, it goes from 24:10 to 25:50: one minute and forty seconds of fine figurative language, nicely sung. I won&#8217;t put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Those Not About to Rock</title>
		<link>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2008/03/17/for-those-not-about-to-rock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never been a big fan of the CCCC Friday night rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll dance: for me, there&#8217;s almost always been an better time to be had elsewhere, with other similar-minded composition folks.
This year, for those of us with geeky inclinations (of whom I am admittedly one), there is an additional significant and compelling reason [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Bartleby</title>
		<link>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2008/03/11/teaching-bartleby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to Advanced Composition, I&#8217;m teaching Intro to American Literature this semester, and enjoying it. We&#8217;re into the nineteenth century now, short fiction, and I&#8217;m rediscovering pleasures I&#8217;d long neglected. &#8220;Bartleby the Scrivener,&#8221; as fundamental as it is, is one such long-neglected pleasure for a rhetoric and composition specialist.
I&#8217;ll confess: the first time I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Day at the Shelter</title>
		<link>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2008/03/04/bad-day-at-the-shelter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So of the sixty-odd cats at the shelter, Ebony and Mr. Pokey have been fighting, to the point where they can&#8217;t come out of their cages at the same time. Nobody knows why.
Other shelter things continue apace: Willie, with his enlarged esophagus, still has trouble keeping food down, as does Clark. We lost hypothyroid Agatha [...]]]></description>
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