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	<description>A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.</description>
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		<title>Obedience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Some time in May I ran across a description of this book and wrote down the name as something I might be interested in reading. When I read the jacket cover to Whirl she responded that it did not sound like my typical choice in books. I&#8217;m not exactly sure how to take that. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinyes.org/bingo/2008/07/04/obedience</link>
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		<title>On Photography and My Father</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying to remember my first encounter with photography in any form other than being the subject of my parents&#8217; all-seeing eyes. My dad enjoyed taking pictures of me as I grew up. He would shoot both slide and print film. Not unlike the experiences of many people, my childhood included a number of moments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinyes.org/bingo/2008/06/15/on-photography-and-my-father</link>
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		<title>Under The Banner Of Heaven</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Under the Banner of Heaven  will be the third book I have read from author Jon Krakauer. The other two books include his moving non-fiction account of the harrowing 1996 summit of Mt. Everest, Into Thin Air, and the compelling research retrospective about the last two years of life for Christopher McCandless in Into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinyes.org/bingo/2008/06/01/under-the-banner-of-heaven</link>
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		<title>Narrow Escape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An excited mob of bicyclists took over the intersection of East Monroe Drive and South Michigan Avenue while I was on my way home from work.  At first I thought this stream of noisy cyclists was Critical Mass out for their last Friday of the month, traffic-stopping escapades. And it might have been part [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinyes.org/bingo/2008/05/30/narrow-escape</link>
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		<title>Mass Effect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In following with my return to science fiction, I have picked up the critically acclaimed BioWare action RPG, Mass Effect. I have not written much about video games since my departure from Midway a year ago. Whirl and I did pick up an Xbox 360 and an HD-capable television last summer. Whirl has been playing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinyes.org/bingo/2008/05/07/mass-effect</link>
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		<title>The Foundation Trilogy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided to return to the classics of science fiction. I have read science fiction for a number of years but there are some standbys that I missed the first time through. Most noticeable on the list of works I missed on the first go is Isaac Asimov&#8217;s Foundation trilogy: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinyes.org/bingo/2008/05/05/the-foundation-trilogy</link>
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		<title>Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible + Fried</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first experience with Wax Trax Records happened in the mid-80s. I happened upon the store late. The founders had moved on to Chicago to start a record label by the same name. They maintained ownership of the original store in the seedy Capital Hill area of Denver, just south of Colfax Avenue behind the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinyes.org/bingo/2008/04/19/concrete-bulletproof-invisible-fried</link>
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		<title>Rock On</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I perused a couple of the local bookstores a few days ago. I was looking for a copy of The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. I found it. I bought it. I have completed reading it. At the time I was looking for it, however, I stumbled upon Rock On by Dan Kennedy. I picked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinyes.org/bingo/2008/04/11/rock-on</link>
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		<title>The Long Goodbye</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twice a year&#8211; once in the spring and once in the fall&#8211; the Chicago Public Library selects a book for the entire city to read. This spring, &#8220;One Book, One Chicago&#8221; enters its seventh year as a program to promote reading and discussion among all city residents. The selection is the 1953 Raymond Chandler crime [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinyes.org/bingo/2008/03/29/the-long-goodbye</link>
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		<title>Members Nights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whirl has worked at the Field Museum for ten years. She’s worked for a number of departments and divisions in that time doing a wide array of different jobs. We have joked that she seems to be collecting various divisions as a twelve year-old boy might collect baseball cards and have gone so far with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinyes.org/bingo/2008/03/27/members-nights-at-the-field-museum</link>
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		<title>Into the Wild</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is uncommon for a film to have a dramatic impact upon me. While I like film as a general rule and I enjoy discussing them with my friends and family, I generally reserve my highest praise with more than a little caution. To confess in public to a film having significant impact upon me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinyes.org/bingo/2008/03/24/into-the-wild</link>
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		<title>The Diving Bell and the Butterfly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago, in January 2005, I suffered a serious traumatic brain injury. The injury placed me in a coma for ten days and the hospital for weeks more. The injury changed my life. Since that time I have looked for voices and means of expression of what I went through and continue to carry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinyes.org/bingo/2008/03/23/the-diving-bell-and-the-butterfly</link>
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		<title>Oil!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I knew the Oscar-nominated film There Will Be Blood was inspired by the novel Oil!.  What somehow slipped through my awareness was that Upton Sinclair was the novel&#8217;s author. This would be the same Upton Sinclair who wrote The Jungle, the seminal novel about the Chicago stockyards in the 19th Century. I ran across [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinyes.org/bingo/2008/02/23/oil</link>
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		<title>Generation Kill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The wars in Iraq have figured as prominent cultural events in my adult life. I arrived in Berlin two weeks before the 1991 invasion and experienced firsthand the anti-American sentiment that decision fostered. When I returned to the States, I noticed how differently my experiences were from those of my friends and family. Germany&#8217;s perspective [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinyes.org/bingo/2008/02/17/generation-kill</link>
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		<title>Leaving Las Vegas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago I almost died. Do not worry. The story does not have a bad ending. I would not be sitting here writing it if it did. Besides, I have already told the story a number of times, so repeating it once more would not be particularly interesting for anyone. Including me. So I&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinyes.org/bingo/2008/01/29/leaving-las-vegas</link>
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		<title>I Am Legend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Matheson wrote the apocalyptic novel, I Am Legend, in 1954. It is the story of the last man alive in a world overrun by a changed, bestial version of humanity. It is partly a vampire story. It is partly a zombie story. It is one of the definitive end of the world stories. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinyes.org/bingo/2008/01/19/i-am-legend</link>
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