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		<title>The Art of Leaving</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve often thought that I&#8217;m pretty skilled at goodbyes, mostly because they involve locating words for descriptions of emotions and those are kinda my thing as a writer, as far as what tends to interest me most. I&#8217;m also not one to shy away from positive encouraging phrases and stories, especially ones that land a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screw the officials.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 11:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s officially morning, the grey light of a rising sun behind clouds is permeating the living room windows. It&#8217;s still night, says the cat, squawking around and wondering why I&#8217;m awake during her prime hours but refusing to play. I usually take herbs for anxiety, for insomnia, but sometimes I don&#8217;t, because they cost money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Shouldn&#8217;t Have Left You.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time. I always stop writing when big life changes happen, and such has been the case with: moving into a new home over the summer, adjusting to living with someone new, dealing with dying pets, being very broke and demoralized about work for many, many months, and then deciding to go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scenes from Childhood, Ep #08325</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flashbeagle I get this song stuck in my head a LOT. Today was so bad, I decided to actually look it up on youtube. I haven&#8217;t heard this song in over 15, nearly 20 years, and turns out the imprint burned in brain was pretty right on, note for note. I wish I still owned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wake Up Wake Up Wake Up Wake Up: It&#8217;s 3 O&#8217;Clock Somewhere #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a. raymond johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer has finally arrived here in Chicago, and it&#8217;s that time of the month: I&#8217;m in dress/tech rehearsals for a play that opens next week, I&#8217;m DJing on Sunday and performing in a cabaret on Monday, and sometime in the next few weeks I&#8217;m moving into a new apartment &#8211; but I still want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obligatory FTM-In-the-News Response</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 04:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a. raymond johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chaz Bono is making waves in my social media feeds, and I can&#8217;t look directly at it. First off, I stopped reading New York Times articles on trans people 5 years ago once I realized they were always being published in the &#8220;Style&#8221; section. Second, enough of what Bono is saying has trickled out to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m So Excited, I&#8217;m Shutting My Mouth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a. raymond johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since watching this mini-TED Talk awhile back, I&#8217;ve been very aware of the phenomenon of choosing to tell or not tell people my ideas, plans, and goals. But it can be hard when I&#8217;m excited about new projects! Since I&#8217;m not wanting to dissipate the energy or motivation, instead I&#8217;ll watch the video again.]]></description>
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		<title>These Are The Breaks: It&#8217;s 3 O&#8217;Clock Somewhere #1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 04:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a. raymond johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Damon Brown forwarded me a story from the LA Times about one of the sampling mysteries in hip-hop finally getting solved: the bass line of Mobb Deep&#8217;s Shook Ones, Pt. II. While listening to the original Herbie Hancock song Jessica, I got chills when I heard . I love these moments. I dabbled for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter to M.J. Hyland, Regarding This Is How</title>
		<link>http://www.araymondjohnson.com/2011/03/a-letter-to-m-j-hyland-regarding-this-is-how/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a. raymond johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear MJ, I have not written a fan letter in a very long time, which I just realized this is what I am writing, a fan letter. I just put down your book This Is How and it recharged my heart in the way novels should, the way writing should, I think of what Frank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I like the part about no meetings.</title>
		<link>http://www.araymondjohnson.com/2011/02/541/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Shame About Ray: Seeing My Own Name In Pop Culture</title>
		<link>http://www.araymondjohnson.com/2011/02/its-a-shame-about-ray-seeing-my-own-name-in-pop-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.araymondjohnson.com/2011/02/its-a-shame-about-ray-seeing-my-own-name-in-pop-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a. raymond johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[cross-posted from IFMiB] While I don’t mind people calling me “Ray” informally, I always introduce myself and write out my full name as Raymond, a habit I wonder if is in part because most of the Rays I’ve seen on television, movies, and books were, to be honest, low life jerks.  Frequently they are the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Colony</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a. raymond johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The month of September was spent at the Millay Colony, doing a writing residence.  For those who aren&#8217;t familiar with &#8220;writing camp&#8221;, there are residencies all over the place where you submit an application &#8212; generally a writing sample and a one-page proposal for what you want to work on &#8212; and then if the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvest Moon dances in Sparkle Motion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 04:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a. raymond johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the first day of autumn, was a hot one.  At noon, the hilltop was steamy, gnats out in full force as we squinted into the camera for the colony group photo.  Too hot for me, I retreated to my studio after lunch, and by the mid afternoon, the mugginess had gone grey with cloud [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Storm&#8217;s brewing.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a. raymond johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The barnhouse I call home, for the month of September, as seen from the top of the hill main building that contains the main kitchen and wireless routers. I hike up that 50 yard hill at least three times a day, so if I don&#8217;t finish this novel rewrite, at least I&#8217;ll have stronger quads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>preparing for a monthlong residency</title>
		<link>http://www.araymondjohnson.com/2010/08/preparing-for-a-monthlong-residency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a. raymond johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made a few lists.]]></description>
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