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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>2009-07-10T12:09:29Z</updated>
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	<entry>
<title type="html">If I Could Get Away, I'd Go to . . .</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.107565</id>
		<published>2009-07-02T08:39:58Z</published>
		<updated>2009-07-02T08:39:58Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Photo: Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times




PM is on a break, so I might as well come off mine.

I've been traveling about for some time now, collecting pictures and anecdotes, which I'll post as...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Going Inswine</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.94644</id>
		<published>2009-06-08T05:51:23Z</published>
		<updated>2009-06-08T05:51:23Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Making the approach down the brick path from the parking lot, the new configuration was barely discernible.




Positioned as it was to the left, just inside the glassed doors, the table might have...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Catch-22, Blog Style</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.72542</id>
		<published>2009-04-04T08:00:43Z</published>
		<updated>2009-04-04T08:00:43Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		I had an interesting exchange the other day, the fallout from publication of the most recent installment of <i>ReDotPop</i>. The substance of the dispute is less important than the fact that there...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Figuring Out the Figures</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.72456</id>
		<published>2009-03-30T08:14:05Z</published>
		<updated>2009-03-30T08:14:05Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		This past week, as I reported in my most recent PM column, <i>ReDotPop</i>, The ISU World Figure Skating Championships were held in Los Angeles, California. Now, what I know about skating probably...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">The WBC as Young Frankenstein</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.72296</id>
		<published>2009-03-27T05:56:32Z</published>
		<updated>2009-03-27T05:56:32Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		I've been on the road for -- it seems -- forever; hence the silence, and hopefully you've missed this voice. Words and pictures to follow.




For today though, I wanted to make a few brief comments...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Pre-Pop Presidents</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.70576</id>
		<published>2009-02-16T14:20:00Z</published>
		<updated>2009-02-16T14:20:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		The rankings are in and so is the verdict: the most efficacious U.S. presidents have tended to come from eras prior to the massification of media, and also prior to the age of pop.

That is one...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Super Bowl Wrap: The PETA Ad</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.69933</id>
		<published>2009-02-03T17:30:50Z</published>
		<updated>2009-02-03T17:30:50Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		As indicated, there was one more Super Bowl ad I wanted to weigh in on. It was an ad that actually wasn't shown during the broadcast; nonetheless, you may have seen it. If not, you have undoubtedly...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Super Bowl Wrap: The Ads, Part I</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.69930</id>
		<published>2009-02-03T01:56:09Z</published>
		<updated>2009-02-03T01:56:09Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		In bringing a close to my coverage of the "Super Bowl", one of America's major cultural events of the year, I wanted to follow up on the topic that wove in and out of yesterdays live-blogging...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">PopBlogging the Super Bowl, II</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.69851</id>
		<published>2009-02-01T22:47:59Z</published>
		<updated>2009-02-01T22:47:59Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Image Source: Sports Illustrated/CNN




Okay, about ready to rock 'n roll in Tampa. It's 7:58 here in Sendai, Japan.

Smart money is all with the Steelers. On NBC (which I am accessing through a...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Pre-PopBlogging the Super Bowl: The Boss's Play-list</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.69825</id>
		<published>2009-02-01T06:15:41Z</published>
		<updated>2009-02-01T06:15:41Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		If you were going to listen to The Boss and his E Street pals playing four songs in a stadium of 70,000 football (read casual Boss) fans, what would the play-list be? Of course, the national TV...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">PopBlogging the Super Bowl, I</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%2Fpopblogging-the-super-bowl-i%2F&amp;seed_title=PopBlogging+the+Super+Bowl%2C+I" />
		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.69767</id>
		<published>2009-01-30T11:30:00Z</published>
		<updated>2009-01-30T11:30:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Like it or not, the Super Bowl has become an event of major cultural significance in America.

According to this author, it is the "the most watched event in American sports, except for the Daytona...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Fear: Beyond Routine</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.69601</id>
		<published>2009-01-26T18:47:24Z</published>
		<updated>2009-01-26T18:47:24Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		When people hear about my travel gig, their comments range from:

"oh that must be exciting, going this place and that place all the time, on a moment's notice"

to

"don't you just hate traveling? I...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Driven Senseless</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.69485</id>
		<published>2009-01-24T07:53:43Z</published>
		<updated>2009-01-24T07:53:43Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		So, I'm sitting in my office the other day, sorting through the mail that has accumulated during my hiatus, and the phone rings. On the other end comes a male voice -- polite, businesslike (well,...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Will that be an Aisle or Window Seat, Sir?</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.69406</id>
		<published>2009-01-22T08:28:29Z</published>
		<updated>2009-01-22T08:28:29Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Image: Illustration by Gil Ahn Diagram Courtesy of seatguru.com



As my many loyal readers have (ahem!) certainly noticed, this blog has been silent of late. The result of my having been caught in a...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">The Peripatetic Vote</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%2Fthe-peripatetic-vote%2F&amp;seed_title=The+Peripatetic+Vote" />
		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.65306</id>
		<published>2008-11-04T07:08:53Z</published>
		<updated>2008-11-04T07:08:53Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Does anyone even remember what a "honkee" is? Well, it was once a term of relevance in American political culture. And the fact that it no longer is, not only is inditia of a sea change of monumental...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Wittgenstein, Semiotics, Proposition 8</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.64881</id>
		<published>2008-10-25T06:11:56Z</published>
		<updated>2008-10-25T06:11:56Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		The thing about travel is that you pass in and out of what Wittgenstein called &#8220;language games&#8221; &#8211; hermetic zones of meaning that make sense only to the people who inhabit that...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Mainstreamed Vulgarisms</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.64542</id>
		<published>2008-10-18T00:56:21Z</published>
		<updated>2008-10-18T00:56:21Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Rob Horning's contribution, <i>The Pejorative Gay</i>, yesterday drew attention to one word ("gay") and the (negative) traction it has gained in (English-speaking) society. As he observed, it has...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">PopBlogging the Debate</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.64454</id>
		<published>2008-10-16T00:30:51Z</published>
		<updated>2008-10-16T00:30:51Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Source



It may seem a bit implausible that anyone would be reading PM (let alone this blog) while the presidential debate is going on, but on the off-chance that there is someone out there doing...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Cool Hand Paul</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.63932</id>
		<published>2008-09-29T05:53:01Z</published>
		<updated>2008-09-29T05:53:01Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		SourceSourceSource



By now you have all heard that Paul Newman has passed. And, me being too busy or stupified to log a comment am just getting around to paying homage. Since, most of what has...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Life Stranger than Fiction: The Palin phenomenon</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.63452</id>
		<published>2008-09-16T09:29:42Z</published>
		<updated>2008-09-16T09:29:42Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		For the earliest peripatetics who toured America -- say, a visitor such as Alexis de Tocqueville -- politics was one of the greatest fascinations about the nascent nation. Not only because it was...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">North by Southwest</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.62664</id>
		<published>2008-08-28T21:27:49Z</published>
		<updated>2008-08-28T21:27:49Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Source: Motion Picture and Television Photo Archive

Sometimes travel is a metaphor and sometimes it isn&#8217;t, and often separating which is what, when, can be a perplexing exercise in...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">The End of the Road</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.62179</id>
		<published>2008-08-16T13:03:32Z</published>
		<updated>2008-08-16T13:03:32Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		Out on the road I read about the end of someone else's road; life's journey curtailed, existence expunged.

Journalist and <i>My Cancer</i> blogger Leroy Sievers died today. If you don't know him,...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Beijing (Capital Airport) 2008</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.61905</id>
		<published>2008-08-09T11:12:08Z</published>
		<updated>2008-08-09T11:12:08Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		The bang and boom having receded -- the flare of fireworks, the wash of color, the bold pageantry, the synchronization of thousands of bodies in motion. Yes, Beijing 2008 has officially begun. And...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Serendipity (all over again)</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.61619</id>
		<published>2008-08-03T15:36:48Z</published>
		<updated>2008-08-03T15:36:48Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		As a deeply-committed <i>peripatetic</i>, I recognize the indispensible role that serendipity plays in travel. In fact, eight times out of seven, it is serendipity -- rather than deep ratiocination...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Round, Round, Get-Around (I . . . )</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.61532</id>
		<published>2008-07-30T13:00:00Z</published>
		<updated>2008-07-30T13:00:00Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		According to this site, "Stockholm is built across 14 islands and is often called the Venice of the North." Water covers one third of the city area.

You might wonder what that has to do with the...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Ostermalmstorg: Peace</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.61421</id>
		<published>2008-07-28T07:01:01Z</published>
		<updated>2008-07-28T07:01:01Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		&#8220;You ought not to do that.&#8221; 

The first time I ignored her because, frankly, I couldn&#8217;t believe someone would be speaking to me. A complete stranger, just off the plane.

&#8220;I...		]]></content>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<title type="html">Yeah, Team</title>
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		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2008:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.61241</id>
		<published>2008-07-23T01:19:06Z</published>
		<updated>2008-07-23T01:19:06Z</updated >
		<author>
			<name>tjmHolden</name>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		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>
	</entry>
	<entry>
<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>
		</author>
				<content type="html"><![CDATA[
		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>
		<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%2Ftravel-light%2F&amp;seed_title=Travel+Light" />
		<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>
		</author>
				<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>
		<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%2Fin-that-sushi-ya-on-that-saturday-night-in-meguro-tokyo%2F&amp;seed_title=In+that+sushi-ya%2C+on+that+Saturday+night%2C+in+Meguro+%28Tokyo%29" />
		<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>
	</entry>
	<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>
		</author>
				<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>
		<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%2Fcoolest-song-standing%2F&amp;seed_title=Coolest+Song+Standing" />
		<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>
		<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%2Fpine-coast%2F&amp;seed_title=Pine+Coast" />
		<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>
		<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%2Fventura-highway%2F&amp;seed_title=Ventura+Highway" />
		<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>
		<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%2Fsuper-society%2F&amp;seed_title=Super+%28Competitive%29+Society" />
		<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>
		<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%2Ftravel-the-write-way%2F&amp;seed_title=Travel%2C+the+Write+Way" />
		<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>
		<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%2Fi-am-legend-part-2%2F&amp;seed_title=I+am+Legend+%28Part+2%29" />
		<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>
		<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%2Fi-am-legend-part-1%2F&amp;seed_title=I+am+Legend+%28Part+1%29" />
		<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>
		<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%2Fsqueegee-man-with-stump%2F&amp;seed_title=Squeegee+Man+with+Stump+%28Somebody%27s+Baby%29" />
		<id>tag:popmatters.com,2007:pm/blogs/peripatetic-postcards/16.51849</id>
		<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>
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		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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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	<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>
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		<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>
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	<entry>
<title type="html">The Terrorist's Tune</title>
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		<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>
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	<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>
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