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<title>New Blue Shoe</title>
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<modified>2007-03-13T04:45:24Z</modified>
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<title>Do Not Adjust Your Television Set</title>
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<modified>2007-03-13T04:45:24Z</modified>
<issued>2007-03-13T04:34:20Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.newblueshoe.com,2007://1.87</id>
<created>2007-03-13T04:34:20Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Right. So, um. Let&amp;#8217;s see here. One foot in front of the other&amp;#8230; no, that&amp;#8217;s walking. Okay, um, get up on this seat and spin&amp;#8212; no, bike riding. &amp;#8220;Post to Blog&amp;#8221;&amp;#8230;I&amp;#8217;ll click that! Ooh! A blog post!! Yay me! Not...</summary>
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<name>nbs</name>
<url>newblueshoe.com</url>
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<dc:subject>Amusing To Me</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>Right. So, um. Let&#8217;s see here. One foot in front of the other&#8230; no, that&#8217;s walking. Okay, um, get up on this seat and spin&#8212; no, bike riding. &#8220;Post to Blog&#8221;&#8230;I&#8217;ll click that!</p>

<p>Ooh!  A blog post!! Yay me!</p>

<p>Not that it&#8217;s really like riding a bike; I&#8217;ve had the urge to write building in me for ages now, and finally, here it comes. Of course, this is not the thing that I thought I&#8217;d be writing about.  A couple of weeks ago, you see, there was this woman in purple satin pants and a leopard-print coat. I had this whole thing about things you just don&#8217;t wear. And it was totally going to expand into this thing about things you just shouldn&#8217;t do generally, particularly in New York. But then, you see, it turned into nothing. And the idea sat there in my phone, waving to me forlornly, saying &#8220;Write me! Write me!&#8221;</p>

<p>Of course, that didn&#8217;t work. The idea was horrible. And without the full on visual (the pants were shiny! The coat was fur-y!), the thing really can&#8217;t be written. It definitely doesn&#8217;t write itself.</p>

<p>So&#8230;I&#8217;m going to try to be back. Not let it be such a big obligation, worry, etc. Just write, like I used to.  Maybe there will be cool rockstar stories, if I actually get any.</p>

<p>At any rate, it&#8217;s been almost a year, and I suck. But&#8230; I can tell you that in the last month, my site&#8217;s been hacked twice, which made me try to reinstall Movable Type 3.34 (which I finally figured out by my lonesome, but damn was that hard), and I bought S a brand spanking new <a href="http://tshirts.dadgonemad.com/">Hot Wife t-shirt</a> from <a href="http://dadgonemad.com">Dad Gone Mad</a> (Sorry, Danny, but she doesn&#8217;t really want to take the picture. That&#8217;s just the way she is).</p>

<p>So, uh&#8230; that&#8217;s it for now. More soon&#8230;er than later. But no promises. Can&#8217;t do that.</p>
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<entry>
<title>The Failure of Shameless Materialism</title>
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<modified>2006-05-30T18:08:35Z</modified>
<issued>2006-05-30T17:51:54Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.newblueshoe.com,2006://1.86</id>
<created>2006-05-30T17:51:54Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Dear Craigslist-- You&apos;re supposed to be the go-to in the clutch, the site that everyone told me that I should go to when trying to sell my couch. I believed in your prowess, enjoyed reading the Rants n&apos; Raves section,...</summary>
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<name>nbs</name>
<url>newblueshoe.com</url>
<email>nbs@newblueshoe.com</email>
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<![CDATA[Dear <a href="http://newyork.Craigslist.com">Craigslist</a>--

You're supposed to be the go-to in the clutch, the site that everyone told me that I should go to when trying to sell my <a href="http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/fur/165120294.html">couch</a>. I believed in your prowess, enjoyed reading the Rants n' Raves section, and generally have heard great things about experiences.

And I'll admit it--it was partly my fault--I tried to sell a couch on the Friday night before a long weekend, when lots of people aren't in front of their computers and those that are are probably never going to leave and therefore won't be looking at or carrying any couches any time soon.

That said, Memorial Day is supposed to be this huge commercial holiday (though of course, it's got that somber tinge to it as well, and such memories should be kept and preserved), when people go out and think about entertaining their friends and family with flamethrower grilling and lawn darts and sprinklers and hot dogs and beer in the sun and...well, you get the idea. The point is, this is when people are often moving into and out of apartments, thinking about new furniture for entertaining, seeing what they can get and what they need.

And here, I got a single offer from a person who offered me $100 for it and pick up a day after my must-move-by date and an expression of interest from someone who hasn't replied to my email and both of whose phones have been turned off.

If you're telling me that capitalism isn't at least just a bit sick, I'm telling you to think again.

Love,
Shoe]]>

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<entry>
<title>Be Careful What You Wish For</title>
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<modified>2006-05-26T00:14:15Z</modified>
<issued>2006-05-25T23:51:31Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.newblueshoe.com,2006://1.85</id>
<created>2006-05-25T23:51:31Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Okay, so you know those health quizzes where they talk about stress factors and events contributing to heart attacks? You know: &quot;If you started a new job, add one point. If you had a death in the family, add 3,...</summary>
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<name>nbs</name>
<url>newblueshoe.com</url>
<email>nbs@newblueshoe.com</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>Law</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[Okay, so you know those health quizzes where they talk about stress factors and events contributing to heart attacks? You know: "If you started a new job, add one point. If you had a death in the family, add 3, and 2 more if it was a close relative like a parent, spouse, or child."

Right. That kind. Maybe I'm only making one up (because I couldn't find it doing a half-assed Google search for something like that; perhaps typing in "heart attack stressful events death job" isn't enough), but I'm pretty sure that I've seen these, and all I know is that they suggest you limit the number of such events to as few as possible over as long a period of time. Yes, yes, you're not supposed to love, move away from home, work, get married, etc. <em>Then </em>you'll live forever.

However, despite no longer being a teenager--and frankly, never having been one of the ones who thought he was invincible or whatever--I do fully recognize my own mortality, and rather than take another vitamin or schedule a prostate exam, I have apparently wholeheartedly embraced the Stressful Events Vortex as though it were a Sunday morning toilet bowl and I was a frat-boy who found a free case of Boone's Farm late on Saturday afternoon. 

I got myself married to S, who is now S Blue Shoe. Two days before the wedding I was offered a new job, doing music law work for a firm I have always wanted to work for, and then upon returning, the Missus and I packed all of our stuff (okay, our friends <a href="http://www.iprettymuchhateeverything.com">Torrie</a> and K, along with some movers packed it all up), and we moved, and then I accepted the job at the end of the last week. 

If you add that up, that's 3 Major Life-Changing, Personal World-Shattering, Heart Attack-Inducing Events in the space of three weeks. 

I'll see you when I get out of the ICU next month some time.]]>

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<entry>
<title>Wah Wah Wah</title>
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<modified>2006-04-24T00:22:37Z</modified>
<issued>2006-04-24T00:11:20Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.newblueshoe.com,2006://1.84</id>
<created>2006-04-24T00:11:20Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">In the midst of this--the wedding planning (and upcoming--only days away), the honeymoon getaway-from-it-all, the move to a beautiful new apartment, and everything that comes with the stars aligning in a particularly wonderful and also stressful way--I have found myself...</summary>
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<name>nbs</name>
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In the midst of this--the wedding planning (and upcoming--only days away), the honeymoon getaway-from-it-all, the move to a beautiful new apartment, and everything that comes with the stars aligning in a particularly wonderful and also stressful way--I have found myself in a tricky position. This is the sort of thing that critics of blogs would likely seize upon and say, &quot;This, this is the perfect example of the blogger: self-centered, and self-pitying over things of which the rest would be glad.&quot;  And I won&apos;t lie: they&apos;d be right. 

But that said, I find myself in the need to let off a bit of steam about the good fortune that seems to have befallen me. After my first year in law school, I worked for a firm whose main practice was entertainment law, and music in particular; it was my dream job. The named partner is the guy I want to be, representing the very musicians that got me interested in, and actually employed in, the industry. And last week he called me up, and essentially asked if I wanted to come work for him. 

I want to work for him--I&apos;ve wanted to work for him since the day I met him, and before, when I only knew him as a name to be reckoned with, a powerful man in an industry of self-important, and powerful-seeming men. He&apos;s well-liked, well-respected, a good lawyer and a good guy. But of course, at the moment my sense of loyalty is getting the better of me, and I feel bad for giving Big Firm a trip in the lurch; I have projects right now that I don&apos;t feel good about leaving behind, and I have people who depend on me regularly. 

I can&apos;t worry about them, I know that, I have to worry about me. But I still can&apos;t help but feel that in pursuing my own happiness, I might be dropping people I like, real friends, in the dust. 

And of course, these projects will wait while I&apos;m gone after the wedding, but they&apos;ll be looming when I get back, and there will be no way to simply pass them off. 

This isn&apos;t really going anywhere, but this is the one way I know that I can blow off a bit of steam, and maybe get some input from folks who can think about this in ways I can&apos;t.

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<entry>
<title>Ready or Not...</title>
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<modified>2006-04-18T13:35:58Z</modified>
<issued>2006-04-18T13:22:34Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.newblueshoe.com,2006://1.83</id>
<created>2006-04-18T13:22:34Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">These days, it seems I can&apos;t ake more than about 4 steps out the door before someone--a co-worker, a store owner, the doormen, --the local lovable homeless guy--asks me, &quot;So, are you nervous?&quot; My mom asked me the other night--and...</summary>
<author>
<name>nbs</name>
<url>newblueshoe.com</url>
<email>nbs@newblueshoe.com</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>Love</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[These days, it seems I can't ake more than about 4 steps out the door before someone--a co-worker, a store owner, the doormen, --the local lovable homeless guy--asks me, "So, are you nervous?" My mom asked me the other night--and she was hoping I'd up and ask S long before I actually did.

We've got 11 days till S and I are mister-and-missus Shoe. 

I don't know if it's politeness, if that's just what you say when you hear or know someone's going to get married, like if someone's about to buy a home or sneezes their milk or something like that (you know, consequential), but it amazes me how many people ask that question. 

To me, it makes sense in the context of the old days where  you courted each other before getting married. And yes, I know that that's a fanciful, sterilized vision of The Way Things Were&trade;, but the fact is that I don't really know anyone who doesn't know their betrothed all that well. Nor, I suspect, do you.  S and are among the last people who don't live together before they're married. That doesn't bother me at all, but if anything, I've got more reason to be worried.

I'm not, though.

It's this simple: I love her. I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with her. I can't wait to celebrate it, and I sure as shooting can't wait to go on our honeymoon together and then move into our beautiful new home together. The only thing I'm worried about is whether I'll remember the wedding and reception, or if they'll shoot by like the last couple of birthdays I've had, whether all will go according to plan or if we'll find the band has gone to the <b>other</b> hotel.

Either way, I'm not nervous. I just want to slow down time next Friday afternoon and never have it speed up so I can enjoy it all.]]>

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<entry>
<title>Grandpa Sam</title>
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<modified>2006-03-31T01:43:35Z</modified>
<issued>2006-03-31T01:37:41Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.newblueshoe.com,2006://1.82</id>
<created>2006-03-31T01:37:41Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">I still can feel the weight of his body as I held his arm to steady him. The rasp of his unshaven beard over the softness of his cheek still prickles my lips where I kissed him goodbye on Sunday....</summary>
<author>
<name>nbs</name>
<url>newblueshoe.com</url>
<email>nbs@newblueshoe.com</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>Serious</dc:subject>
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I still can feel the weight of his body as I held his arm to steady him.

The rasp of his unshaven beard over the softness of his cheek still prickles my lips where I kissed him goodbye on Sunday.

His voice will echoe in my ears and on my answering machine forever.

And I will always hold him in my heart, even though now his body has been taken from us.

1914-2006

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<entry>
<title>Made it</title>
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<modified>2006-03-27T05:45:37Z</modified>
<issued>2006-03-27T05:34:14Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.newblueshoe.com,2006://1.81</id>
<created>2006-03-27T05:34:14Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">I&apos;m alive. I will admit only to ending the night on an upnote, in that I wrestled a Navy SEAL and was beating him for at least part of the match....</summary>
<author>
<name>nbs</name>
<url>newblueshoe.com</url>
<email>nbs@newblueshoe.com</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>New York</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[I'm <a href="http://www.newblueshoe.com/archives/2006/03/bleargh.php">alive</a>.

I will admit only to ending the night on an upnote, in that I wrestled a Navy SEAL and was beating him for at least part of the match. 

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<entry>
<title>Bleargh!</title>
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<modified>2006-03-24T15:54:46Z</modified>
<issued>2006-03-24T15:48:53Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.newblueshoe.com,2006://1.80</id>
<created>2006-03-24T15:48:53Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Tonight, I am going to have the first event in my life wherein a group of my friends will attempt to get me as drunk as possible and then roll right past that mark. I&apos;m hesitant to call it a...</summary>
<author>
<name>nbs</name>
<url>newblueshoe.com</url>
<email>nbs@newblueshoe.com</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>Amusing To Me</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[Tonight, I am going to have the first event in my life wherein a group of my friends will attempt to get me as drunk as possible and then roll right past that mark.  I'm hesitant to call it a "bachelor party", since that word conjures up all sorts of images involving strippers and ping pong balls and waking up without any pants in a foreign country that <em>isn't </em>Canada or Mexico [often considered to be U.S. North and U.S. South]. 

However, I suspect that this is the best word to describe a whole bunch of men (including S's brother and <a href="http://iprettymuchhateeverything.com">Dr. Torrie</a>, both of whom I expect will help mitigate any truly egregious behaviors, and <a href="http://enigmaticfemale.typepad.com">Enigmatic Female</a>'s roommate, B, who I suspect will exacerbate them all, possibly all on his own.)

I know there is going to be dinner, and there is going to be highfalutin' lounging, but part of me is super nervous about whatever "other" there might be. 

I would say "call the cops if you don't hear from me in a day or two", but I post so incredibly infrequently that I should revise that number upward. So....call me, or check back here in a month and a half.]]>

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<entry>
<title>It is sort of what it sounds like</title>
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<modified>2006-03-20T14:56:41Z</modified>
<issued>2006-03-20T14:55:16Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.newblueshoe.com,2006://1.79</id>
<created>2006-03-20T14:55:16Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Is it just me, or is &quot;logorrhea&quot; not just the best word ever?...</summary>
<author>
<name>nbs</name>
<url>newblueshoe.com</url>
<email>nbs@newblueshoe.com</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>Wordplay</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[Is it just me, or is "<a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=logorrhea">logorrhea</a>" not just the best word ever?]]>

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<entry>
<title>I Get Sprung</title>
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<modified>2006-03-10T15:42:48Z</modified>
<issued>2006-03-10T15:41:04Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.newblueshoe.com,2006://1.78</id>
<created>2006-03-10T15:41:04Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">New Yorkers, tell me true: Have you heard the dulcet tones of birds twittering lately? You know, like spring might be here? My heart grew two sizes as a direct result of my first observed bird-caroling earlier this week. Absolutely...</summary>
<author>
<name>nbs</name>
<url>newblueshoe.com</url>
<email>nbs@newblueshoe.com</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>New York</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[New Yorkers, tell me true: Have <em>you</em> heard the dulcet tones of birds twittering lately? You know, like spring might be here? 

My heart grew two sizes as a direct result of my first observed bird-caroling earlier this week. Absolutely music.]]>

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Ah...Civilization</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.newblueshoe.com/archives/2006/03/ahcivilization.php" />
<modified>2006-03-05T06:15:33Z</modified>
<issued>2006-03-05T06:12:33Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.newblueshoe.com,2006://1.77</id>
<created>2006-03-05T06:12:33Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">This evening, I apparently edged out a man who had been waiting for a taxi on a wintry street for a half hour. I didn&apos;t see him, and I saw the cab, ran around a corner and up a street...</summary>
<author>
<name>nbs</name>
<url>newblueshoe.com</url>
<email>nbs@newblueshoe.com</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>New York</dc:subject>
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This evening, I apparently edged out a man who had been waiting for a taxi on a wintry street for a half hour. I didn&apos;t see him, and I saw the cab, ran around a corner and up a street to get it, only hearing voices behind me once S was getting into the cab.

I must admit, however, I was much less inclined to ease off and ask S to get out of the cab once he&apos;d elbowed me, called me an asshole and hit me with the open car door.

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<entry>
<title>This Message Brought to You...</title>
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<modified>2006-03-03T15:01:37Z</modified>
<issued>2006-03-03T01:24:03Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.newblueshoe.com,2006://1.76</id>
<created>2006-03-03T01:24:03Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">...by AWW, the Awfully Worried Weatherpeople: Holy shit!!!! SNOW!!!!! SNOW EVERYWHERE!!!! It will drown you alive, hide your babies for a week, eat your car and make you wish you were born a polar bear! It will cover every living...</summary>
<author>
<name>nbs</name>
<url>newblueshoe.com</url>
<email>nbs@newblueshoe.com</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>Amusing To Me</dc:subject>
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...by AWW, the Awfully Worried Weatherpeople:

Holy shit!!!! SNOW!!!!! SNOW EVERYWHERE!!!! It will drown you alive, hide your babies for a week, eat your car and make you wish you were born a polar bear! It will cover every living thing and everything that every living thing has ever created! 

It will be white and thick and it will be unlike anything you&apos;ve ever seen before! It will be AWFUL. It will prevent you from being able to work, to play, to eat, to drink, to sleep, to wake, to do anything except bemoan the awful, awful whiteness that has befallen the Earth in this time of God&apos;s forsaking us!

Run for your lives! It&apos;s SNOW!!!!

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<entry>
<title>Soul Man</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.newblueshoe.com/archives/2006/02/soul_man.php" />
<modified>2006-02-16T15:22:19Z</modified>
<issued>2006-02-16T15:20:48Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.newblueshoe.com,2006://1.75</id>
<created>2006-02-16T15:20:48Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">I find it surprising that not one of the groomsmen has responded to my email that we should all wear soul patches to my wedding, except for the Navy SEAL, who should have a beard like Mr. T. They may...</summary>
<author>
<name>nbs</name>
<url>newblueshoe.com</url>
<email>nbs@newblueshoe.com</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>Love</dc:subject>
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I find it surprising that not one of the groomsmen has responded to my email that we should all wear soul patches to my wedding, except for the Navy SEAL, who should have a beard like Mr. T. 

They may actually have believed me.

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Brrrrrrrr</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.newblueshoe.com/archives/2006/02/brrrrrrrr.php" />
<modified>2006-02-10T14:57:37Z</modified>
<issued>2006-02-10T14:56:20Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.newblueshoe.com,2006://1.74</id>
<created>2006-02-10T14:56:20Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">You know, on a day like today, when it&apos;s so chilly out that everyone&apos;s wrapped in multiple layers, there&apos;s something really thrilling about getting in to the office and realizing that your zipper&apos;s been open all morning....</summary>
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<name>nbs</name>
<url>newblueshoe.com</url>
<email>nbs@newblueshoe.com</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>Perspective</dc:subject>
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You know, on a day like today, when it&apos;s so chilly out that everyone&apos;s wrapped in multiple layers, there&apos;s something really thrilling about getting in to the office and realizing that your zipper&apos;s been open all morning.

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<entry>
<title>Temporary Remedy</title>
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<modified>2006-01-09T19:12:36Z</modified>
<issued>2006-01-09T19:10:26Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.newblueshoe.com,2006://1.73</id>
<created>2006-01-09T19:10:26Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Yesterday&apos;s minor tragedy was the cab driver outside of H&amp;H Midtown Bagels East, who had managed to lock his keys inside of his running taxi. Heaven and Hell, right there, for all to see....</summary>
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<name>nbs</name>
<url>newblueshoe.com</url>
<email>nbs@newblueshoe.com</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>New York</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[Yesterday's minor tragedy was the cab driver outside of<a href="http://www.hhmidtownbagelseast.com/"> H&H Midtown Bagels East</a>, who had managed to lock his keys inside of his running taxi.

Heaven and Hell, right there, for all to see.]]>

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