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	<title>Matthew T Grant &#187; pop culture</title>
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		<title>Good Enough Is Good Enough, OK?</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/01/20/good-enough-is-good-enough-ok/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard someone today say, &#8220;Nowadays, good enough just isn&#8217;t good enough.&#8221; I disagree. Good enough, by definition, is good enough. If it weren&#8217;t good enough, then it wouldn&#8217;t be. But behind the statement is a more general cultural consensus that one should never &#8220;settle for less&#8221; and, instead, strive for the amazing. &#8220;Go big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Refuge in Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/10/04/taking-refuge-in-gravitys-rainbow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 04:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Um über die nachträgliche Abspannung der Nerven hinwegzukommen habe ich leider wieder zum Chloroform meine Zuflucht genommen. Die Wirkung war furchtbar.&#8221; &#8211; Georg Trakl, 1905 I&#8217;ve begun to re-immerse myself in the intricate and densely overwrought sprawl of Pynchon&#8217;s masterwork. I first read it some 28 years ago and must declare that it remains, then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Odd Future in a World that Allows Rape</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/05/24/odd-future-in-a-world-that-allows-rape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 22:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Congo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In 12 years, there have been 6 million dead men and women in Congo and 1.4 million people displaced. Hundreds and thousands of women and girls have been raped and tortured. Babies as young as 6 months, women as old as 80, their insides torn apart. What I witnessed in Congo has shattered and changed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A List of Science Fiction Books for Phil Johnson</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/11/21/a-list-of-science-fiction-books-for-phil-johnson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/11/21/a-list-of-science-fiction-books-for-phil-johnson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phil Johnson has an ad agency (PJA) and also likes to read books. One day I asked him if he ever read science fiction and he said he didn&#8217;t. He asked me then to assemble a list of science fiction books I would recommend. I agreed to do so but thought, &#8220;Why should this list [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rush at the Garden: Why couldn&#8217;t they have been more like Liberace?</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/09/15/rush-at-the-garden-why-couldnt-they-have-been-more-like-liberace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to see Rush at the Garden last night. It was good, but it wasn&#8217;t sublime. Here&#8217;s the thing. I&#8217;ve liked Rush since I was a kid and in fact still listen to their music with an, for some, alarming frequency (my favorite album being Fly by Night). However, I never really explored their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taylor Swift and Jacques Lacan</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/09/02/taylor-swift-and-jacques-lacan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Can&#8217;t you see that I&#8217;m the one who understands you?&#8221; When my oldest son was 3 or maybe 4, he picked up a copy of Jacques Lacan&#8217;s Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, opened it and, looking intently at the pages (he could not read at the time), started shouting, &#8220;I knew it! I knew it!&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Case You Missed These Tweets</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/07/30/in-case-you-missed-these-tweets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/07/30/in-case-you-missed-these-tweets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spend more time tending my Twitter garden than I do planting bulbs here in my own backyard. To remedy this, I&#8217;m attempting a little cross-pollination and invite you, dear reader, to drink deep from my Twitter well. Just look at the precious coins I&#8217;ve tossed therein: &#8220;How to Train Your Girl with a Dragon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pat Martino and Tony Monaco at Scullers, May 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/05/15/pat-martino-and-tony-monaco-at-scullers-may-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/05/15/pat-martino-and-tony-monaco-at-scullers-may-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 14:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caught Pat Martino&#8217;s first set at Scullers last night. He was playing with organist Tony Monaco and drummer Jason Brown and confirmed note-by-sinewy-note  his well-deserved status as a living master still very much in possession of his prodigious gifts. Martino&#8217;s patented &#8220;horn-like&#8221; lines were in full display, as was his aptly groovy and well nigh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Paths to Social Media $ucce$$!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/05/02/three-paths-to-social-media-ucce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/05/02/three-paths-to-social-media-ucce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 00:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The way I see it, there are three paths to social media success. 1. Invent a Popular Social Media Platform Marshall McLuhan once said something like, &#8220;Media owners don&#8217;t care what&#8217;s on TV, as long as everyone is watching.&#8221; To put it another way, the people who own what everyone uses, are the big winners. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thought Ronin</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/01/26/thought-ronin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a &#8220;thought ronin&#8221; for going on a year now. In the same way that the lone gunslinger is a staple of the Western, ronin (&#8220;masterless samurai&#8221;) have been staple figures, and frequently protagonists, in samurai films from the very outset of the genre &#8211; an early epic of which was in fact entitled [...]]]></description>
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