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		<title>No Resolution, Only Hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2010 is the Year of the Tiger.  In particular, 2010 is the year of the Metal Tiger.  According to one website:
THE METAL TIGER           195O AND 2010
The Metal element           gives the Tiger its sharpness in action [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mahathera.wordpress.com&blog=1819411&post=322&subd=mahathera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Maher Live at the Wellmont.</title>
		<link>http://mahathera.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/bill-maher-live-at-the-wellmont/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zmahathera</dc:creator>
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Last night at the Welmont Theater in Montclair, NJ, my wife and I enjoyed a belated birthday present for me.  Technically, the gift was right on time, back in July, but the show wasn&#8217;t until last night.  And much like the Henry Rollins show, I wasn&#8217;t as entertained as I would have been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mahathera.wordpress.com&blog=1819411&post=311&subd=mahathera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Scened It Die!</title>
		<link>http://mahathera.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/i-scened-it-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zmahathera</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
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I don&#8217;t know for certain whether the scene is dead.  I mean, who am I to make that call anyway?  True, I cut my teeth on the classics when they flew fresh off of the presses, but what more have I contributed to the scene besides loyal attendance?  The biggest dent I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mahathera.wordpress.com&blog=1819411&post=302&subd=mahathera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An &#8220;interesting&#8221; time at Winnberies.</title>
		<link>http://mahathera.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/winnberies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zmahathera</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m posting this to see what you have to say about this.  You can comment here, in private, or at the other places I will be linking this entry.
My wife has not been feeling well the past couple of days.  So today she decided to go to her doctor.  She gave me ample time to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mahathera.wordpress.com&blog=1819411&post=297&subd=mahathera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The King (of) Pop(ped&#8230;pills).</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zmahathera</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m a bit conflicted about Michael Jackson&#8217;s passing.  You see, as I&#8217;ve told everyone and anyone who would listen, MJ&#8217;s &#8220;Bad&#8221; tour, back in 1988, was my first major concert.  I was 12 years old and my little brother was 9.  My brother won tickets to the show in a local delicatessen lottery.  My mother [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mahathera.wordpress.com&blog=1819411&post=293&subd=mahathera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A quick word on Hank.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Henry Rollins]]></category>
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Last night, for the second time in my life, I saw Hank perform.  The first time was 16 years ago, standing in the mud, freezing in rain, as he worked his magic onstage &#8212; and it was magical!  Last night, not so much.  Instead of working his magic the way he did [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mahathera.wordpress.com&blog=1819411&post=287&subd=mahathera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Familiar Faces at a Funeral</title>
		<link>http://mahathera.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/familiar-faces-at-a-funeral/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 02:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[wake]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s one &#8220;good&#8221; thing that can be said about the business of death, it&#8217;s the inevitable run into the second-cousin you hadn&#8217;t seen since the last wedding &#8212; or the last funeral.  There doesn&#8217;t necessarily have to be something preventing me, or you, from calling said cousin during the mundane times of our lives.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mahathera.wordpress.com&blog=1819411&post=275&subd=mahathera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New (to me).</title>
		<link>http://mahathera.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/new-to-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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I am now a married man.  I have been so since a little before the Ides of March.  The tranquility of my life now I find very rewarding.  As of this post, I feel very fortunate.  However, life is not all peaches and cream.  We have obstacles we&#8217;re working our way through, and hurdles we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mahathera.wordpress.com&blog=1819411&post=266&subd=mahathera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>April &#8216;09</title>
		<link>http://mahathera.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/april-09/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zmahathera</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nicotine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the mental image I&#8217;m trying to keep in my head, as I make my second, serious attempt to quit smoking.  Non-nicotine addicts, my wife included, can not fully understand my plight.  I even have a friend who swears he quit smoking, having never made a habit out of smoking REAL cigarettes in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mahathera.wordpress.com&blog=1819411&post=262&subd=mahathera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Sam says, NO!</media:title>
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		<title>Feb &#8216;09</title>
		<link>http://mahathera.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/feb-09/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zmahathera</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just an update, as I haven&#8217;t written anything in quite a while:
I&#8217;ve relapsed with smoking.  I went for four weeks clean.  It was a tumultuous time, what with the lucid dreaming, the cravings, and at first, the painful successes at denying myself a smoke.  But time passed and I lost my mind.  So, here I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mahathera.wordpress.com&blog=1819411&post=256&subd=mahathera&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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