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	<title type="text">PopMatters: Peripatetic Postcards</title>
	<subtitle type="text">By Todd (tjm) Holden | Travel blog</subtitle>
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	<updated>2008-07-25T20:08:13Z</updated>
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<title type="html">Yeah, Team</title>
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		<published>2008-07-23T01:19:06Z</published>
		<updated>2008-07-23T01:19:06Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
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		On my way to Scandinavia, in transit in South Wing, Terminal One in Japan; stuck in a line that is advancing as slow as it took Seurat to connect all the dots.

I look up to spy a portrait that is...		]]></content>
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<title type="html">Scenes on the way to Stockholm (or . . . all light, all night)</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.61161</id>
		<published>2008-07-20T15:33:58Z</published>
		<updated>2008-07-20T15:33:58Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
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		Okay . . . I&#8217;ve seen the light. You can turn it off now.



That&#8217;s what I wanted to say by 21:30 in Stockholm. After about 30 hours in transit, I was ready for a spot of sleep. Only, my...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Travel Light</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.61051</id>
		<published>2008-07-17T13:12:00Z</published>
		<updated>2008-07-17T13:12:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
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				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		I think I see the light 
coming to me, coming through me
giving me a second sight . . .
So shine shine shine
Shine shine shine
shine shine shine
"<i>I Think I See the LIght</i>", <i>Cat...</i>		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">From Here to K-9 Come</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.60660</id>
		<published>2008-07-08T04:53:07Z</published>
		<updated>2008-07-08T04:53:07Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		By now it was clear that we were dealing with a potential bomb in our midst. A discarded bag, over by money exchange. Who bothers to leave a bag unattended for 15-20-35 minutes? An answer only a dog could answer...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">In that sushi-ya, on that Saturday night, in Meguro (Tokyo)</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.60086</id>
		<published>2008-06-23T13:12:49Z</published>
		<updated>2008-06-23T13:12:49Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		In general, it is a good policy not to generalize. To talk about what is typical or normal or usual; it is best to avoid harping on the average, predictable, foreseeable or calculable. Life being so...		]]></content>
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	<entry>
<title type="html">Events: Structured and Spontaneous</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.59749</id>
		<published>2008-06-14T15:26:00Z</published>
		<updated>2008-06-14T15:26:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		As you may recall, my last post took up the matter of lifestyle. For those of you who didn't read it, can't recall what it said, or are always looking for the easy way out, let's review . . ....		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Time, Place, Opportunity, Lifestyle</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.59635</id>
		<published>2008-06-11T18:37:00Z</published>
		<updated>2008-06-11T18:37:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		In Santa Monica you get your coffee from 
The coolest places on the promenade 
Where people dress just so 
Beauty so unavoidable 
everywhere you turn 
It's there 
I sit and wonder what am I doing...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Whatever Gets You Through...</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.59048</id>
		<published>2008-05-26T06:47:00Z</published>
		<updated>2008-05-26T06:47:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
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				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Whatever gets you through the night
'salright, 'salright
It's your money or life
'salright, 'salright
Don't need a sword to cut through flowers
oh no, oh no 
"<i>Whatever Gets You Through the...</i>		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Coolest Song Standing</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.58759</id>
		<published>2008-05-18T20:14:00Z</published>
		<updated>2008-05-18T20:14:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		The great thing about Internet Society is that one can pursue a <i>peripatetic</i> lifestyle and not really have to have left home. Well, at least figuratively. Sure, maybe for simple things, like...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Weathering Media Events</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.58574</id>
		<published>2008-05-13T01:42:00Z</published>
		<updated>2008-05-13T01:42:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		A cyclone in Myanmar; an earthquake in China.

28,000 dead; 41,000 reported missing in one. An estimated 12,000 perished and 18,000 missing in the other.

Horrendous events. Mind-numbing numbers....		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">You're In!</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.58092</id>
		<published>2008-04-30T18:37:00Z</published>
		<updated>2008-04-30T18:37:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		That was the wording in bold, cursive 38 point script, scrawled diagonally across the letter-sized envelope. The exterior was a glossy affair, with a photograph of the UC Irvine administration...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Reality. Now What?</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.57421</id>
		<published>2008-04-15T19:00:00Z</published>
		<updated>2008-04-15T19:00:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		John A. Wheeler passed this week. If you haven't heard of him, he's the physicist who coined the word "black hole", along with "worm hole". Rumored to have invented the liver loaf on whole wheat,...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Back from the Dead</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.57036</id>
		<published>2008-04-07T05:54:00Z</published>
		<updated>2008-04-07T05:54:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Where can a dead man go
The question with an answer only dead men know . . .
Nickel Creek, <i>When in Rome



"Don't expect any favors out of life, but . . . enjoy the hell out of 'em if they ever...</i>		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Black Magic? Once!</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.55856</id>
		<published>2008-03-06T19:27:00Z</published>
		<updated>2008-03-06T19:27:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		In San Francisco. Walking along Van Ness toward the wharf. Came across this nightclub exterior 'round 'bout the corner of Broadway . . . give or take a block or so. 






It got me to thinking --...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Pine Coast</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.55489</id>
		<published>2008-02-27T06:07:00Z</published>
		<updated>2008-02-27T06:07:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		According to G.K. Chesterton:

a man may well be less convinced of a philosophy from four books, than from one book, one battle, one landscape, and one old friend.

Taking a trip up the California...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Blog, After All: PCH pics and bits</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.55203</id>
		<published>2008-02-18T21:25:00Z</published>
		<updated>2008-02-18T21:25:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		According to this piece by Sarah Boxer, in <i>The New York Review</i>, I don't know how to blog. 

As if:

whatever you think you've been doing for the last 3 years, dude . . . you've been doing it...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Buellton Bulletin</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.54914</id>
		<published>2008-02-15T03:04:00Z</published>
		<updated>2008-02-15T03:04:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		The crawl out of Los Angeles includes a pass through Agoura Hills, a city dubbed "The Gateway to the Santa Monica Mountain National Recreation Area". The city, first settled by the Chumash Indians,...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Ventura Highway</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.54772</id>
		<published>2008-02-13T07:00:00Z</published>
		<updated>2008-02-13T07:00:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Ventura highway
in the sunshine
Where the days are longer
The nights are stronger
than moonshine
You're gonna go I know
America, <i>Ventura Highway</i> 


At some point every Californian takes a trip...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Super (Competitive) Society</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.54091</id>
		<published>2008-02-08T07:01:01Z</published>
		<updated>2008-02-08T07:01:01Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Super Sunday. Super Tuesday. Super Signing Day.

In America, three events this past week, all national in scope. Events declaring this place -- regardless of one's feelings about the events,...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Travel, the Write Way</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.53682</id>
		<published>2008-02-02T05:51:01Z</published>
		<updated>2008-02-02T05:51:01Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		An ad in today&#8217;s <i>Los Angeles Times</i> proclaims:
Go from no travel
to know travel

Which caught my attention, since it is a major premise behind this blog.

But, for those who know, it...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">I am Legend (Part 2)</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.52441</id>
		<published>2007-12-29T16:22:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-12-29T16:22:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Do humans have efficacy? The ability to exert influence over the world around us?

An important philosophical question -- one asked through the ages. Inherent in the debate about whether it is...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">I am Legend (Part 1)</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.52189</id>
		<published>2007-12-16T15:20:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-12-16T15:20:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Do media influence us?

This is a question that has been debated for a couple of generations. It is one that, despite thousands of academic studies, directed at a variety of communication forms, has...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Squeegee Man with Stump (Somebody's Baby)</title>
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		<published>2007-12-08T21:46:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-12-08T21:46:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		There on the corner. Across from the car wash; at the intersection just before the freeway on-ramp. He's ever there, come rain or come shine. Unfailingly, clutching the meter-long squeegee under his...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Picture (this), without Words</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.51662</id>
		<published>2007-12-04T06:07:01Z</published>
		<updated>2007-12-04T06:07:01Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		This was the photo that should have gone with the drive talk entry a couple days back. It isn't necessarily the best -- and certainly not the only -- image moseying on by at 30 clicks an hour on the...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Drive, Talk: Listen</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.popmatters.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&amp;feed=Peripatetic+Postcards&amp;seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popmatters.com%2Fpm%2Fpost%2F51452%2Fdrive-talk-listen%2F&amp;seed_title=Drive%2C+Talk%3A+Listen" />
		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.51452</id>
		<published>2007-11-28T19:36:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-11-28T19:36:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		If you live in LA, you drive. No other option. Unless you work out of your home. But even then, unless you have livestock in the kitchen or a garden in the driveway, you gotta get in the car to stock...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Being Thankful (or . . . Have Yourself a Merry Little Turkey Day!)</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.popmatters.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&amp;feed=Peripatetic+Postcards&amp;seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popmatters.com%2Fpm%2Fpost%2F51210%2Fbeing-thankful-or-have-yourself-a-merry-little-turkey-day%2F&amp;seed_title=Being+Thankful+%28or+.+.+.+Have+Yourself+a+Merry+Little+Turkey+Day%21%29" />
		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.51210</id>
		<published>2007-11-22T21:45:01Z</published>
		<updated>2007-11-22T21:45:01Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Over here, where my feet have taken roost, this is a day of celebration. One of the limited few marked on our calendars and installed in national practice. It began with a story lodged in local lore:...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Protest-a-float</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.popmatters.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&amp;feed=Peripatetic+Postcards&amp;seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popmatters.com%2Fpm%2Fpost%2F50410%2Fprotest-a-float%2F&amp;seed_title=Protest-a-float" />
		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.50410</id>
		<published>2007-11-20T14:00:01Z</published>
		<updated>2007-11-20T14:00:01Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		It's amazing the things one runs into in the neighborhood.

Wherever you are. Just open the door and step outside. Take a stroll, give it a little walkabout. You're bound to run into something...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Comp 24-7</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.popmatters.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&amp;feed=Peripatetic+Postcards&amp;seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popmatters.com%2Fpm%2Fpost%2F50854%2Fcomp-24-7%2F&amp;seed_title=Comp+24-7" />
		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.50854</id>
		<published>2007-11-12T00:14:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-11-12T00:14:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		For a foreign visitor, the marvels of American society are many. So many that a year's supply of blog entries are surely guaranteed. 

Good news for me.

However, of the bushel of marvels waiting to...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">War is Peace (and other nefarious syllogisms)</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.50608</id>
		<published>2007-11-08T15:21:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-11-08T15:21:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		SourceSource




In last Sunday's <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, there was an op-ed section on George Orwell.  Dubbed "Why Orwell Matters", the section featured four writers weighing in on Orwell's...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Fill in the Blank</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.popmatters.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&amp;feed=Peripatetic+Postcards&amp;seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popmatters.com%2Fpm%2Fpost%2F50609%2Ffill-in-the-blank%2F&amp;seed_title=Fill+in+the+Blank" />
		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.50609</id>
		<published>2007-11-05T12:27:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-11-05T12:27:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Source: The New Yorker

It's a long story, but for various reasons -- inhering in punishment and perfectability, alike -- I am working with my son on his brain. Well, he has a considerable one, so...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">The Devil Made Me Do It</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.50470</id>
		<published>2007-11-01T16:30:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-11-01T16:30:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		You thought that one would have been enough, didn't you? One being the number of entries we would have on Halloween this year? Yeah, me too . . . until my daughter walked in last night looking like...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Here-a-Haunting</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.popmatters.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&amp;feed=Peripatetic+Postcards&amp;seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popmatters.com%2Fpm%2Fpost%2F50338%2Fhere-a-haunting%2F&amp;seed_title=Here-a-Haunting" />
		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.50338</id>
		<published>2007-10-28T06:01:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-10-28T06:01:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Although they are not fully under control, the wildfires are becoming more manageable. This has allowed more and more residents in these here parts to return to the natural rhythm of things. And,...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">The Terrorist's Tune</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.popmatters.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&amp;feed=Peripatetic+Postcards&amp;seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popmatters.com%2Fpm%2Fpost%2F50206%2Fthe-terrorists-tune%2F&amp;seed_title=The+Terrorist%27s+Tune" />
		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.50206</id>
		<published>2007-10-23T20:00:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-10-23T20:00:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		A couple of vectors brought into quick confluence: 

1. The San Diego wildfires rage.



While . . . 

2. Perusing a back-issue of <i>The New York Review</i>, I come across this quote from Don...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">All Things Must Pass</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.50025</id>
		<published>2007-10-18T06:00:01Z</published>
		<updated>2007-10-18T06:00:01Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Deborah Kerr passed today. As with all people and all things, eventually there comes a passing.

Being of a different generation, I didn't have intimate awareness of Kerr. But sharing the common...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Every Picture Tells A Story</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.popmatters.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&amp;feed=Peripatetic+Postcards&amp;seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popmatters.com%2Fpm%2Fpost%2F49437%2Fevery-picture-tells-a-story%2F&amp;seed_title=Every+Picture+Tells+A+Story" />
		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.49437</id>
		<published>2007-10-08T11:33:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-10-08T11:33:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		There was a game we played in grad school. Well, actually the professors taught us a "concept" in the classroom that we students converted into a parlor game after. Kids being "clever". We played the...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">So . . . what do you do?</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.49209</id>
		<published>2007-10-01T00:52:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-10-01T00:52:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		This is the song that has been going through my head of late, since I end up listening to it every time I ferry my daughter to and from school, ballet class, voice lessons, her SAT tutor. Wherever....		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">On the Bus</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.popmatters.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&amp;feed=Peripatetic+Postcards&amp;seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popmatters.com%2Fpm%2Fpost%2F48949%2Fon-the-bus%2F&amp;seed_title=On+the+Bus" />
		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.48949</id>
		<published>2007-09-27T06:30:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-09-27T06:30:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		This year my project is to help grow my kids. After a couple of years in which they toiled in a foreign country on their own (submerged in a different culture, trying to negotiate a radically...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">I Wonder as I Wander</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.popmatters.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&amp;feed=Peripatetic+Postcards&amp;seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popmatters.com%2Fpm%2Fpost%2F48895%2Fi-wonder-as-i-wander%2F&amp;seed_title=I+Wonder+as+I+Wander" />
		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.48895</id>
		<published>2007-09-23T16:00:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-09-23T16:00:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		I&#8217;m not as grey a guy as ol&#8217; Chris, quoted above. But still, traveling around this great globe of our&#8217;n gives pause. In so many ways, it sets a man (and probably a woman) to...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">15 Seconds (or notes on the Post-Warholian World)</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.popmatters.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&amp;feed=Peripatetic+Postcards&amp;seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popmatters.com%2Fpm%2Fpost%2F48573%2F15-seconds%2F&amp;seed_title=15+Seconds+%28or+notes+on+the+Post-Warholian+World%29" />
		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.48573</id>
		<published>2007-09-18T15:05:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-09-18T15:05:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Andy Warhol, perhaps the first person to be famous for being famous, is credited with the idea that "in the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes."

We are not yet at that point....		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">My Old School</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.48476</id>
		<published>2007-09-13T13:02:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-09-13T13:02:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		&#8230; And I&#8217;m never going back to my old school-- Steely Dan, circa 1974

It&#8217;s not, as Thomas Wolfe would have it, that you <i>can&#8217;t</i> go home again, it is more like: why would...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Suffern Succotash</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.popmatters.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&amp;feed=Peripatetic+Postcards&amp;seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popmatters.com%2Fpm%2Fpost%2F48333%2Fsuffern-succotash%2F&amp;seed_title=Suffern+Succotash" />
		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.48333</id>
		<published>2007-09-09T17:19:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-09-09T17:19:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Pop cult lore lisps its way through my hippocampus.

And all I was doing was passing through a small village in the southern tip of New York. 



But Sufferin' Succotash! You know how life is -- I'm...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Yellow Hack Lost</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.popmatters.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&amp;feed=Peripatetic+Postcards&amp;seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popmatters.com%2Fpm%2Fpost%2F47970%2Fyellow-hack-lost%2F&amp;seed_title=Yellow+Hack+Lost" />
		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.47970</id>
		<published>2007-09-01T06:42:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-09-01T06:42:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Habib ought not to have rolled down his window.

His yellow cab was stopped at a red light behind a bus in the tar-dark Queens night when I approached. But roll down his window Habib did. And from...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Coup-ons</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.popmatters.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&amp;feed=Peripatetic+Postcards&amp;seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popmatters.com%2Fpm%2Fpost%2F47850%2Fcoup-ons%2F&amp;seed_title=Coup-ons" />
		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.47850</id>
		<published>2007-08-30T06:12:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-08-30T06:12:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		I think I've talked about one of my travel companions before. Although perhaps not by name. She has sat alongside me in planes, ridden in my lap by rail, strolled hand in hand with me along...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Nyu- Yawkahs</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.47677</id>
		<published>2007-08-26T10:38:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-08-26T10:38:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		We're in New York now -- well, <i>Nyu Yawk</i> as they say over here -- but I'm still in the midst of reporting how that happened, so, here's more o' dat . . . 



JetBlue -- how we arrived -- is a...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Life, Like That</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.47676</id>
		<published>2007-08-25T03:16:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-08-25T03:16:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		In the midst of an extended Parisian idyll, time for a change. Even with so many things not yet accounted for-- its people, streets, buildings, art &#8211; well, that is life. Like that. A number of...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Go Ask the Globe</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.popmatters.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&amp;feed=Peripatetic+Postcards&amp;seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popmatters.com%2Fpm%2Fpost%2F47371%2Fstories-of-life-and-nature%2F&amp;seed_title=Go+Ask+the+Globe" />
		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.47371</id>
		<published>2007-08-18T05:40:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-08-18T05:40:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		One of the reasons that I came to Paris this time was to attend professional meetings. These meetings were held at the UNESCO headquarters, within sight of <i>Invalides</i> to the north and the...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">P-o-V</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.popmatters.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&amp;feed=Peripatetic+Postcards&amp;seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popmatters.com%2Fpm%2Fpost%2F47105%2Fpov%2F&amp;seed_title=P-o-V" />
		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.47105</id>
		<published>2007-08-14T15:39:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-08-14T15:39:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		I was in the Louvre the other day. Perhaps the world's most famous art museum, it is also one of the world's largest. According to this on-line source, it has 300,000 pieces of art spread out over...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">I Know It When I See It</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.popmatters.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&amp;feed=Peripatetic+Postcards&amp;seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popmatters.com%2Fpm%2Fpost%2F46997%2Fi-know-it-when-i-see-it%2F&amp;seed_title=I+Know+It+When+I+See+It" />
		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.46997</id>
		<published>2007-08-10T13:37:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-08-10T13:37:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		For those in America, of a certain generation (or two), a knowing smile, perhaps. For, the words in the title form the catch-phrase associated with Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart's famous...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Parisian De-sign</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.46798</id>
		<published>2007-08-06T17:00:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-08-06T17:00:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
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		Paris, being the seat of fashion and style, a working hypothesis comes quickly to mind: turn the camera anywhere -- liberally, licentiously, laconically -- and locate  design.  So I do. A challenge...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Long Live Light</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.46731</id>
		<published>2007-08-02T17:00:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-08-02T17:00:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		The thing about Paris at this time of year is the light.



Glorious. Irridescent. Variegated. Like neopolitan ice cream melting on top of an oven-baked berry pie.




The light. It is really worth...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Eco-Cyclic</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.46547</id>
		<published>2007-07-31T07:00:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-07-31T07:00:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		This is a socially-conscious country. Maybe not as much as many, but more so than others. Without naming any names . . . (we all know who we are).  

The most obvious sign is the bikes -- which as I...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Iconic Eye-full</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.46508</id>
		<published>2007-07-29T13:04:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-07-29T13:04:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		With the Montparnasse Tower, the obelisk in the <i>Place de la Concorde</i>, <i>Sacre Coeur</i> and the Eiffel Tower, you can say that the French have a phallic dynamic going. A penchant for...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Huis Clos</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.46465</id>
		<published>2007-07-28T12:47:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-07-28T12:47:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		The title is Sartre&#8217;s. I conjure it here (first, because I promised in the last entry that I would, but then second, as a way) to suggest that perhaps it takes a French philosopher to explain...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Re/Connaissance</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.46426</id>
		<published>2007-07-26T22:42:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-07-26T22:42:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		I used to live in Paris. Years ago. Most of it &#8211; the language, the rhythms, the ways of doing and thinking, the tastes, and sounds, and smells -- now are a part of eroded memory. In clutching...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Paris! Is . . .</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.46248</id>
		<published>2007-07-23T09:01:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-07-23T09:01:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Where I am today. And so should you be, too!




<b>Everyone</b> should come to Paris. For some time -- the longer the better. For Paris is . . . so many things. Wonderful things. Dreamy things....		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Privileging Life</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.46206</id>
		<published>2007-07-21T05:00:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-07-21T05:00:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		I&#8217;ve been traveling <i>Korean Air</i> for two decades on a regular basis and, for all that fealty I was made a member of their Morning Calm club years ago. My bags get marked...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Virtual Pre-visitation</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.44445</id>
		<published>2007-07-16T06:20:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-07-16T06:20:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		photo: Pedro Sim&#245;es

Residing in Japan, one gets used to living on a time lag. For instance, baseball and (non-American) football are still working into the concept of free agency over here. The...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Tunnel Vision</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.43491</id>
		<published>2007-07-08T07:28:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-07-08T07:28:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		As I make my way on life's journey (wherever it is that it is heading), a favorite aphorism is one attributed to Lao-Tze and it goes:

Doors, windows, in a house,
Are used for their emptiness;
Thus...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Bunny Country</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.43470</id>
		<published>2007-07-03T07:04:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-07-03T07:04:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		I just saw <i>Live Free or Die Hard</i>, so I do understand that there is a limit on how often one can suspend disbelief in life. That said, I am pretty much the eternal optimist. (I mean, it is true...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Guitar Rex</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.43373</id>
		<published>2007-07-01T03:33:00Z</published>
		<updated>2007-07-01T03:33:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		The hard part about life is extracting enough novelty from it to keep it interesting, but not so much as to make it intolerably, unbearably, unmanageably, unliveable. 

Which is why we have...		]]></content>
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