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	<title>Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon &#187; Putting One Foot in Front of the Other</title>
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		<title>Ballpoint Pens and Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last six or seven years, I have relied exclusively on a single make of ballpoint pen: the black Super-GP, preferably size 0.5, manufactured by Pilot. Whenever I travel back to Japan, I buy up a handful. I like their grip, their ink delivery, their basic feel. The one design flaw is the cap, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting Natsume Sōseki&#8217;s Theory of Literature</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the University of Tokyo&#8217;s Center for Philosophy hosted a symposium on &#8220;Globalizing Natsume Sōseki&#8217;s Theory of Literature,&#8221; commemorating the publication of the English translation of Bungakuron (1907), Sōseki&#8217;s remarkable attempt to construct a fully scientific theory of &#8220;literature&#8221; complete with mathematical formulas and graphs, one that was supposed to be valid at all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sayonara, Dear Reader</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/12/17/sayonara-dear-reader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to move on, methinks. I&#8217;ve been doing this blog in one form or another for nearly seven years. It is possible, of course, that I&#8217;ll resume blogging at some point in the future, but for now it&#8217;s time to try other pastures. The original appeal to me in blogging was the opportunity to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And What Did You Do This Past Weekend?</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/12/13/and-what-did-you-do-this-past-weekend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As for us, aside from shoveling snow and watching our daughter play Debussy beautifully in a piano recital on Sunday, we spent a good part of our weekend giggling over these television commercials for Panda cheese.]]></description>
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		<title>Whirlwind</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/12/03/whirlwind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Classical]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night we attend my daughter&#8217;s high school winter concert here in Chicago. She sings in the choir, but we also enjoyed sets by the school orchestra, chamber ensemble, band and jazz ensemble. The band played a very striking piece I&#8217;d never heard before: &#8220;Whirlwind,&#8221; composed by Jodie Blackshaw. The worktakes a number of important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ladies and Gentlemen, Meet the Suicide Commandos</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/11/23/ladies-and-gentlemen-meet-the-suicide-commandos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just stumbled across this very nice video clip introducing the Suicide Commandos, the godfathers of the Twin Cities musical scene that produced the Replacements, Husker Du (add an umlaut or two there), Soul Asylum, Trip Shakespeare, Golden Smog, the Jayhawks, and eight dozen other great bands you&#8217;ve never heard of. The clip combines archival [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blurbing</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/11/21/blurbing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things on my to-do list this past week was to compose a blurb for a forthcoming book on modern Japanese literature. I get asked to do this once or twice a year; often it is for a title that I&#8217;ve already reviewed as an external referee, meaning that I&#8217;m already quite familiar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stew &amp; The Negro Problem at the Museum of Contemporary Art</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/11/14/stew-the-negro-problem-at-the-museum-of-contemporary-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 06:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night we headed down to the Museum of Contemporary Art for a concert by Stew and The Negro Problem. Stew is best known for his recent Broadway musical, &#8220;Passing Strange,&#8221; but I&#8217;ve been a fan for more than a decade, ever since I bought a copy of the album Joys and Concerns (1999) after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Those Were Indeed The Days</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/11/13/those-were-indeed-the-days-my-friend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 15:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If like me you grew up a Beatlemaniac, the release this month of Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records, a compilation of recordings by the other artists signed to the Beatles’ indie label Apple is a revelation. We finally get to hear music we’ve been reading about for decades—Jackie Lomax’s “Sour Milk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unhealthy Obsession</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/11/10/1041/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have about 20,000 songs stored on my I-Pod. A few months ago, I became haunted by the bizarre notion that I should listen to them all at least once: some vague idea about the ethics of ownership, about taking responsibility for music that I&#8217;d decided to hoard. I started going out of my way [...]]]></description>
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