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		<title>Who Killed Folk Music?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 04:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We pull off the road, exhilarated from the ride and parched. Mouths drier than a Brit&#8217;s wit. I&#8217;m talking dry here. Kelly, Brian and I have not been on the road long, but it&#8217;s been busy. A lot of blind, off-camber turns and traffic have taken a little bit of a toll. A cold Coors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death Takes a Holiday Rambler</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 06:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just wolfed down a killer Klondike Bar, dark chocolate mind you, that is sitting rather heavy on the 4 extra dry martinis I made for myself tonight. Look, don&#8217;t let the headline scare you, I&#8217;m just experimenting tonight. I&#8217;ve spent the last couple of months writing pablum for the masses. Headlines and short snippets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decompression Stop</title>
		<link>http://www.gregorspub.com/ThePub/blog/2011/05/14/decompression-stop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 22:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, apologies for the deadness of this blog of late. To be honest, I&#8217;m apologizing to myself as I find this sort of writing very soothing and I&#8217;ve missed it. As many of you know I&#8217;ve been back among the workforce, writing copy for a product on Bing called MSN Answers. If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Northwest Vibe</title>
		<link>http://www.gregorspub.com/ThePub/blog/2011/01/28/the-northwest-vibe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 04:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Salmon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, before I start hearing choruses of &#8220;We&#8217;ve heard this&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s not always about Nirvana&#8221; and other comments, let me just say this: this ain&#8217;t your Entertainment Tonight version of the vibe. Fair? Okay, let me continue. I&#8217;ll be the first one to admit it, when we first moved out here and I could wear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civility and Reason Murdered for the Ratings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 22:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most of us, the events in this past week have affected me deeply. And, like most of us, I wanted answers and accountability. Before I hit the &#8220;eye for an eye&#8221; stage though, I decided to stop reading the accounts and do some thinking. This country has never been what you could call a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bring on the New Year!</title>
		<link>http://www.gregorspub.com/ThePub/blog/2010/12/31/bring-on-the-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man, what a year. Whew. What a decade actually when you stop to think about it. Unreal. I thought I&#8217;d take a moment on this last day of the decade to reflect a little on the future while glancing back at the past. I, for one, have some grand plans for the upcoming year (details [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letting Them Fly</title>
		<link>http://www.gregorspub.com/ThePub/blog/2010/12/14/letting-them-fly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My oldest son Marc should be boarding his plane soon, heading off to Texas for Air Force boot camp. I talked to him for a bit yesterday, and afterwards broke down into one of the most soul-wretching sobs I have ever had. Why? I mean, Marc&#8217;s mom and I have been divorced over half his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sports Chat</title>
		<link>http://www.gregorspub.com/ThePub/blog/2010/12/06/sports-chat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay kids, Bowl games are set, Hockey is in full swing, and basketball is moving along. It&#8217;s time for a sports chat, no? Bowl Games Currently there are 35 bowl games that I am aware of. That&#8217;s 70 teams going out of I think 170. What the hell? Why all the bowl games? One word&#8230;Money. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Thanks</title>
		<link>http://www.gregorspub.com/ThePub/blog/2010/11/23/giving-thanks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man, hard to believe another year has rolled around and it&#8217;s time for Thanksgiving again. Turkey, stuffing, green bean casserole, brussels sprouts in bacon fat and vinegar, freshly baked rolls, pumpkin pie&#8230; I love it all. I also love how while there are &#8220;standards&#8221;, every family has their own culinary tricks, favorites and traditions. Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Was a Young Man</title>
		<link>http://www.gregorspub.com/ThePub/blog/2010/11/08/i-was-a-young-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 03:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was a young man. I didn&#8217;t know your name. You fired your gun at me, I fired back. I was a young man. I saw your eyes. Full of terror, uncertainty. I hit. You didn&#8217;t . I was a young man. I held your head. You were bleeding. Too much. I couldn&#8217;t stop it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sous-vide or Not Sous-vide</title>
		<link>http://www.gregorspub.com/ThePub/blog/2010/11/05/sous-vide-or-not-sous-vide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gregorspub.com/ThePub/blog/2010/11/05/sous-vide-or-not-sous-vide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That is the question: Whether &#8217;tis nobler in the mind to suffer the pains of outrageous financial misfortune and purchase a sous-vide unit, or to take up arms against this&#8230;. okay, that&#8217;s enough. Sorry about that. If you can&#8217;t tell already, I&#8217;m on a food rant today. Target: home cooks using the sous-vide method of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Simple, Vote</title>
		<link>http://www.gregorspub.com/ThePub/blog/2010/11/02/its-simple-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know, what the hell am I thinking. Discussing politics in a pub? That&#8217;s like walking into a Mongrel&#8217;s clubhouse wearing an ATF wind-breaker. It&#8217;s just asking for trouble. But this post isn&#8217;t about left or right, blue or red. This is about the act of voting itself. Vote. Bottom line, if you are able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fir Friendships</title>
		<link>http://www.gregorspub.com/ThePub/blog/2010/10/18/fir-friendships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friendship. Even the word sounds nice. Like a toasty flannel cocoon, friendships embrace us in warm, safe comfort. &#8220;Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together&#8221; &#8211; Woodrow Wilson. &#8220;The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing 50 in a 35</title>
		<link>http://www.gregorspub.com/ThePub/blog/2010/10/06/doing-50-in-a-35/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gregorspub.com/ThePub/blog/2010/10/06/doing-50-in-a-35/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I did it. I managed to make it through my 50th birthday, and have officially entered my 50&#8242;s. I did not go gently into that good night as it were, but I made it. It&#8217;s just another birthday, right? For someone who feels like life is already speeding out of control though, it&#8217;s like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America the Beautiful</title>
		<link>http://www.gregorspub.com/ThePub/blog/2010/09/26/america-the-beautiful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most of America, we are getting inundated here with political ad after political ad. Seemingly nice people who are accusing each other of running this country into the ground. Republicans blame Democrats, Democrats blame Republicans, and some just go ahead and blame everyone. Some claim the problem is that our President is a pinko [...]]]></description>
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