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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<title>Heartwarming Thoughts of Spring</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahhhh, spring. That time of natural and spiritual renewal, when life shrugs off the long cold grip of winter and embraces life anew, reveling in the rebirth and joy that the change of seasons brings. The heart lifts, the trees bloom, and smiles and good feelings towards all creation shine forth from the sense of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aravan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7834100&#038;post=1404&#038;subd=aravan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief Uplifting Tale from the Land of Northreach</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, my wife asked me to tell her a story. This is what came out. *** On a farm in Northreach, a child was playing alone behind the barn. His carved wooden soldiers were crude and simple, but he loved them anyway. His father had carved some of them, but some &#8211; the boy&#8217;s favorites [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aravan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7834100&#038;post=1402&#038;subd=aravan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>M&amp;MS 2012 in Review. It&#8217;s Like an Annual Report for the Self-Absorbed. Like Me!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 38,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 9 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report. Filed under: [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aravan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7834100&#038;post=1399&#038;subd=aravan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a short story, except nothing really happens in it, so I guess it&#8217;s not really a story. It&#8217;s something, anyway, whatever it is. I wrote it, so it&#8217;s not mine anymore, and reading it makes it yours. Sorry about that. All I know is I must be a real joy to work with. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aravan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7834100&#038;post=1394&#038;subd=aravan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Apologies for the Silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one&#8217;ll be short, actually, not the short where I say this is going to be short and it ends up at 1,200 words which generally isn&#8217;t short by blog standards but is incredibly short by my standards, but more like the short that is short because it&#8217;s short. And yes it took me 48 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aravan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7834100&#038;post=1388&#038;subd=aravan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Watched the World War Z Trailer. I Would Like to Take a Moment to Rage Incoherently.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Side note: yes, I know I&#8217;m a week late on The Walking Dead Episode 3. I just finished watching it this morning since I was busy last week. Plus the events of Episode 4 were surprisingly spoiled by close to a dozen people on Facebook within hours of it being shown, leaving me ambivalent for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aravan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7834100&#038;post=1378&#038;subd=aravan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Storm of Northreach Is Now Available. So There&#8217;s That.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official. The most popular zombie fantasy novel series in Bear, Delaware has the next installment available for mass purchase. The Storm of Northreach, Book Two of the Northreach Saga (see, I always wanted to write a saga. Trilogies are for the organized. A saga, man, that just sounds epic. Had to write a saga.), is now [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aravan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7834100&#038;post=1372&#038;subd=aravan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rick Grimes is a Sociopath: Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 2 Recap and Review</title>
		<link>http://aravan.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/rick-grimes-is-a-sociopath-walking-dead-season-3-episode-2-recap-and-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When last we left those intrepid nomads incapable of traveling more than 2 miles in 3 months, they had cleared part of a prison to serve as Babymaking Base Alpha, sung around a campfire, hurled dog food, lurched into puberty (well, that was just Carl), learned that the infection apparently makes it impossible for their [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aravan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7834100&#038;post=1366&#038;subd=aravan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a little bit of a stats obsessive. I love them. I think it&#8217;s one of the reasons why I enjoy football so much &#8211; stats are like the little milestones that let you say &#8220;Hey, neat, this thing that happens hundreds of times a year is slightly different than the other times!&#8221;. I don&#8217;t [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aravan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7834100&#038;post=1361&#038;subd=aravan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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