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	<title>AHB&#039;s Teenage Kicks</title>
	<link>http://ahb.brassland.org</link>
	<description>Thoughts, photos &#38; commentary from Alec Hanley Bemis</description>
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		<title>Finally! The internet explained!</title>
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&#8216;nuf said&#8230;
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		<link>http://ahb.brassland.org/2012/01/31/the-internet/</link>
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		<title>The unintentional gothic poetry of disgraced New York politician Carl Kruger</title>
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A brief but evocative tale of his rise from difficult circumstances; his pleasureless grasping at power; and his eventual fall from his perch can be read over here. I&#8217;ve just quoted the poetic manner in which he expresses his impressions of this experience:

He choked back tears and boasted about his rise with pride. &#8220;If you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahb.brassland.org/2012/01/21/carl-kruger/</link>
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		<title>I aspire to take photos that have not been taken</title>
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I aspire to take photographs that belie this quote from Geoff Dyer&#8217;s unique &#038; inspiring book on photography, The Ongoing Moment:
That&#8217;s what this book is trying to do also: to find out what certain things look like when they&#8217;ve been photographed and how having been photographed changes them. Often it turns out that when things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahb.brassland.org/2012/01/12/untaken-photographs/</link>
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		<title>Random bit of beauty</title>
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A picture by Paul Klee (via Cité de la Musique).
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		<link>http://ahb.brassland.org/2012/01/09/paul-klee/</link>
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		<title>The ever more subtle distinction between reality and fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That distinction is well demonstrated in these two videos. The first is a real crowd pleaser which has already made its way around the internets. The second is more of a slow grower. At first it seems like a lo-fi amateur video but it quickly evolves into something more probing: an investigation of screens &#038; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahb.brassland.org/2012/01/06/screens/</link>
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		<title>European vacation summation: Blackie Books, NextNature &amp; deep thoughts on email (from Jacob Palme) and fireworks (from Amsterdam)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back on the grid again, after a holiday week in Amsterdam &#38; Barcelona. For the most part devices remained out-of-sight if not entirely out of mind. For example, my reading material was James Gleick&#8217;s The Information which, in a not-so-roundabout way, is all about the items we use to analyze, access &#38; overwhelm us with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahb.brassland.org/2012/01/02/vacation-summation/</link>
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		<title>Talking secrets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the secret history of the Talking Heads &#038; the founding generation of New York punk rock &#8212; whenever that was &#8212; one of the biggest ones may have been that David Byrne was actually a crooner, always was. Check out this video from the first show of theirs attended by Seymour Stein, the founder [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahb.brassland.org/2011/12/15/talking-secrets/</link>
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		<title>Too bad my blog doesn&#8217;t have a &#8220;Like&#8221; button</title>
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Because someone would be clicking it right now.
Not as good as the song above &#8212; but even more interesting &#8212; is her covering Interpol:
 
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		<link>http://ahb.brassland.org/2011/12/01/azealia-banks/</link>
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		<title>Alternate life :: after life :: back to the land</title>
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Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric mov&#8217;d:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon ye who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahb.brassland.org/2011/11/17/alternate-life-after-life-back-to-the-land/</link>
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		<title>Two deep thoughts on community from other people</title>
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I post these two passages side-by-side because they&#8217;re more connected than you might imagine.
First, a rant by the eminently make-fun-able (but still preeminent) music industry firebrand, Bob Lefsetz.

Once upon a time, centuries ago, when we all lived in little villages, you had your fame. You were the blacksmith, the singer, the storyteller. You had a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahb.brassland.org/2011/11/11/two-community-thoughts/</link>
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