<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>nuclear frisson with bobprice</title>
	<atom:link href="http://bobprice.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com</link>
	<description>ass to chair. tag along.</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 21:08:45 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.com/</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<cloud domain='bobprice.wordpress.com' port='80' path='/?rsscloud=notify' registerProcedure='' protocol='http-post' />
<image>
		<url>http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/10f1b512b9132423b254175badf285f3?s=96&#038;d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png</url>
		<title>nuclear frisson with bobprice</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com</link>
	</image>
			<item>
		<title>Pulling up stakes (sort of)</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/pulling-up-stakes-sort-of/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/pulling-up-stakes-sort-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Hallucinogens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=274</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sending this blog into semi-retirement (except for the occasional self-indulgent entry). It was started with a respectful tip of the hat to my imaginative grandfather. Now it&#8217;s time for a different approach, a reboot of sorts.
New location: kurtkremer.wordpress.com
Posted in Other Hallucinogens       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=274&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/pulling-up-stakes-sort-of/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/411daa66e6935a5796a5df743ccecb6a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">1kurtkremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Otter</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/otter/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/otter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Hallucinogens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=272</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Displaced by condo construction and with no where else to go, your otter has joined the growing community of displaced life who wander our countrysides and streets. Keep watch–it might show up late in the afternoon as a busker going by Otr who plays jigs on a penny whistle, his sign reading How I Play [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=272&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/otter/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Garden for Yard</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/garden-for-yard/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/garden-for-yard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Hallucinogens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=252</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I dug up our small surburban front yard in favor of a garden. I laid the old sod alongside the creek that borders our lot, covering up the unholy f-ing morning glory with thick turf woven with forget-me-nots&#8211;the latter a beautiful infestation that I hope will resist and repress the almost unkillable morning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=252&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/garden-for-yard/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Revenge of the Old School Publishers</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/revenge-of-the-old-school-publishers/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/revenge-of-the-old-school-publishers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Hallucinogens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=255</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a revenge fantasy of publishers, a hurricane force wind tears through the Internet community, while the community documents its own demise with videocasts and images&#8211;and posts of 140 words or less&#8211;of  users hanging on desperately by their earbuds and mice (those few left with corded mice) as their playground is shredded and blown [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=255&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/revenge-of-the-old-school-publishers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>On Why People Can Like Science (with possible reasons why they don&#8217;t)</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/on-why-people-can-like-science-with-possible-reasons-why-they-dont/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/on-why-people-can-like-science-with-possible-reasons-why-they-dont/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=228</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is really a very long complementary comment to a blog post by author Vandana Singh, On Why People Don’t Like Science, Especially Physics.&#8221; It was too long to post on her site (and be fair to others). Read her post first, then, if the mood strikes, read mine. Reading me first will result in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=228&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/on-why-people-can-like-science-with-possible-reasons-why-they-dont/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>My Required Reading</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/my-required-reading/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/my-required-reading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=220</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of researching writing (and writing about) about war as story background and young women and girls in war (who have suffered loss and have lived both in war zones and backwaters affected by war) I&#8217;m reading through Riverbend&#8217;s blog on being a young woman in occupied Iraq (which is interrupted(?) in late 2007 with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=220&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/my-required-reading/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Earth Hour, Lights Out</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/earth-hour-lights-out/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/earth-hour-lights-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Hallucinogens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earth hour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/earth-hour-lights-out/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Earth Hour Website
People, turn your lights off for an hour on March 28, 8:30 PM, local time. Light a candle or two. Get to know your neighbors. Have a party (I know at least one person doing this.) Make carbon reduction a celebration, make it a holiday. Get your congresspeople in the game. Better yet, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=217&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/earth-hour-lights-out/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Lemonading</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/lemonading/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/lemonading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/lemonading/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I currently have very little time to write when I&#8217;m not tired. We are staying focused and generally positive following a paycut (at least I currently have a job&#8211;that&#8217;s the feelgood phrase, right?) and diminishing obvious opportunities. But the tools&#8211;at least online tools&#8211;that companies have developed to sell or link people are available to all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=199&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/lemonading/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Burden of Assuming a Writer&#8217;s Burden</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/the-burden-of-assuming-a-writers-burden/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/the-burden-of-assuming-a-writers-burden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=190</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog entry linked below thoughtfully describes critical skills needed by the modern writer of near future SF: The Burden of the Modern Science Fiction Writer. And because it&#8217;s so articulate, so strained with responsibility, and filled with belief&#8211;and so narrow in scope&#8211;it&#8217;s important to respond (because it pushed a button). Two excerpts follow, only to reflect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=190&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/the-burden-of-assuming-a-writers-burden/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>First sentences</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/first-sentences/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/first-sentences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend recently posed the question, based on this article about the first sentence in A Chronicle for Leibowitz:
“What’s in _your_ first sentence?”
My smart ass response was “90 days or 90 dollars!” Then I started imagining first sentences, with one starting a riff (on the potential adventures of Nan):
Terrence O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s introspective moments were typically inspired [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=178&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/first-sentences/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Doc Ock</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/doc-ock/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/doc-ock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kids]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=173</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, on our way to drop me off at the MAX stop, Sophie says from her back seat, &#8220;Sheesh, I need a third hand! Maybe four.&#8221; She was trying to coordinate drinking juice with playing her Leapster and apparently adjusting her tights.
She&#8217;s a bright kid, interested in science. Fear for the future.
Posted in Kids  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=173&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/doc-ock/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Bragging rights</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/bragging-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/bragging-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kids]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=165</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Deborah just called to tell me that Sophie won the 4 yo and under category in an “art” (coloring) competition at our local Value Village (first prize a $10 gift  certificate, which they quickly spent on a “dancing princess rug” and some  articles of clothing Ms. S apparently had her eye  on).
While it&#8217;s kind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=165&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/bragging-rights/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Strings do battle</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/strings-do-battle/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/strings-do-battle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Hallucinogens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=157</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Downtown, vines of white light are creeping cheerfully up our trees, chasing off the rust and golden leaves in stop action animation: one day they&#8217;re six feet up the trunk and twisting into the lower branches, the next, as you&#8217;re waiting for the commuter train, you notice they&#8217;ve crept up another foot, atropical artificial vines [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=157&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/strings-do-battle/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Vandana Singh</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/vandana-singh/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/vandana-singh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vandana singh]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=133</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Vandana Singh, an author out of Delhi, Portland, Austin, and leaf country (and incremental points between), has written six rich essays on writing, cognition, colonization, publishing, animal communities, and our biosphere at Jeff Vandemeer&#8217;s blog, Ecstatic Days

here
there
on the spice shelf (between the saffron and cardamom)
with the forks and spoons
in the garden
and the greenhouse

all in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=133&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/vandana-singh/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Back of the bus</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/back-of-the-bus/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/back-of-the-bus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Hallucinogens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How many of you wear earbuds when you commute, please raise your hand?
Ma&#8217;am, there in the back&#8211;would you like an earbud? You must feel very lonely.
Posted in Other Hallucinogens       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=126&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/back-of-the-bus/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>E-Book Snack Attack</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/e-book-snack-attack/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/e-book-snack-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following links on reading or using e-books sparked this entry of mine. (Links from Steve Shervais, a friend, writer, and systems scientist who has little time for reading or writing when he&#8217;s teaching, but is incredibly adept at skimming the Web for interesting articles and essays):
 Reading
vs
Snacking
Note, this isn&#8217;t the monologue of a luddite, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=120&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/e-book-snack-attack/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>little rattle stilt</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/little-rattle-stilt/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/little-rattle-stilt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Must spin a short story from straw titled &#8220;Rumplestiltskin At a Rave Hosted by Mysterians&#8221; after using that phrase in a blog comment. Hopefully a golden, not a grim opportunity.
Posted in writing       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=111&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/little-rattle-stilt/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Your love is better than ice cream</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/your-love-is-better-than-ice-cream/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/your-love-is-better-than-ice-cream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Hallucinogens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=76</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It may sound foolish, but, depending on one&#8217;s income, what can be more shocking than an increase in the price of a staple like milk is an increase in the cost of luxury items based on a staple (or a hidden staple like corn by-products)&#8211;ice cream, for example (only recently a luxury item in our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=76&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/your-love-is-better-than-ice-cream/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>garb garb</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/anti-onamotapoeia/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/anti-onamotapoeia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Add new tag]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=56</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever think about what a strangled bark (or glottal purr) of a word garb is? Is there an antonym for onamotapoeia? Other words that, read or pronounced, sound dissociatively different than the things or ideas they currently represent? Especially if you repeat them quickly.
       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=56&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/anti-onamotapoeia/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Limiting within our work</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/limiting-within-our-work/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/limiting-within-our-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=25</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ripped from a recent job description for tech  writing (instructional materials) for the Oregon Dept. of Justice. Everything you need to know about the job is in this snippet:
“Relies on limited experience and  judgment to plan and accomplish goals.”
You don&#8217;t necessarily have to squint to glimpse the author&#8217;s intent. If you grant them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=25&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/limiting-within-our-work/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>A case of stories</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/a-case-of-stories/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/a-case-of-stories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=26</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The setting: 12 bottles of fresh southern Oregon Syrah in our closet, waiting for Christmas. Some will be gifts, some will be kept and drunk by the proprietors. Each label will have different art to illustrate the story (commissioned from my two children handy with pen, paint, and charcoal).
Challenge to myself: Write 12 character descriptions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=26&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/a-case-of-stories/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>What&#8217;s missing is the What</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/whats-missing-is-the-what/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/whats-missing-is-the-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 19:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=24</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing a first novel means trying to make every good idea you&#8217;ve ever had work in the story.
Then, writing a first novel becomes extracting almost every idea you&#8217;ve ever had from the story.
But the longer you take to tell the story, the more you read and live, the more ideas you generate, then the more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=24&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/whats-missing-is-the-what/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Corteo</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/corteo/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/corteo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Hallucinogens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=23</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate the circus. There&#8217;s no magic, no wonder, no inner music. Clowns are idiots, not funny, not charming. Circus daredevils and dancing girls keep me at arm&#8217;s length. (Okay, I use the words &#8220;hate&#8221; and &#8220;idiots&#8221; carelessly.) I&#8217;m disinterested, bored, not charmed or mystified. My kids are more accomplished clowns and daredevils (because they&#8217;re [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=23&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/corteo/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>First impressions</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/first-impressions/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/first-impressions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Hallucinogens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=22</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What was that noise?
First impression: I&#8217;m alone in the &#8230; and trying to get to sleep and&#8230;
First impression: Something woke me and I&#8217;m just trying to focus&#8230;
First impression: I&#8217;m burglaring and&#8230;
First impression:  The wife and I are alone at last&#8230;
First impression: It&#8217;s inside of me.
First impression: &#60;explosive cartoon balloon, no time or day or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=22&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/first-impressions/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Spring lawn fever</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/spring-lawn-fever/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/spring-lawn-fever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Hallucinogens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/spring-lawn-fever/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sozzled by constant lawn care responsibilities? No more scissors for your grass, Judy! Modern lawnsters use the Brin Pulsating Lawn Shaver®, with Touch-n-Go® technology to shave more blades with every stroke. Neighbor ladies will give your man the approving nod when they see his perfect grass, so keep him on a leash! The programmable Pulsonic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=21&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/spring-lawn-fever/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Conducting business as usual</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/conducting-business-as-usual/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/conducting-business-as-usual/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Hallucinogens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=20</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, across from the Coffee Plant (my favorite downtown Portland coffee dive), I watched a street person conducting the activities of an ATM from the front patio of a tall steel and glass bank building. He was standing about 15 feet back, waving and pointing his hands and fingers with wild precision at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=20&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/conducting-business-as-usual/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Writing Tag Lesson</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/the-writing-tag-lesson/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/the-writing-tag-lesson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=18</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Trudi Topham, another WordPress blogger, has some educational things to say about/to ignoramuses like me who freely &#8220;create&#8221; tags and categories for our entries, perhaps thinking that these labels apply only  to our own blogs as internal nav; not knowing that these tags are global to WordPress and are searched by people seeking (even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=18&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/the-writing-tag-lesson/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Friday is free association day</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/friday-is-free-association-day/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/friday-is-free-association-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Hallucinogens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/friday-is-free-association-day/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At work today, the word &#8220;nutriceutical&#8221; stuck in my head (I don&#8217;t know  its spelling but am okay with that). Then it started rattling around like a  gumball. Or like a dried pea.

nutriceutical
neuter  receptacle
nut receptacle  (that would be my cube)
new trick  tentacle
no tri-cuticles  (read the sign)
nutria cute,  Al!
new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=17&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/friday-is-free-association-day/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Why write</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/why-write/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/why-write/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/?p=16</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Write because intentional ambiguities are beautiful&#8211;when they mean something.
Write because in writing you can act out your insanities in the sanest of ways.
Write because you desperately seek and fear the pat on the back.
Write because you can&#8217;t stand not knowing what&#8217;s going on in the minds and lives of others, so you make it up.
Write [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=16&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/why-write/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Genre busters chop wood, carry water</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/14/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/14/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genre]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/14/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The London Times essay linked below is another knot in a recent string of reactions to (non SF) lit crits dissing science or speculative fiction genres and people leaping (some like crickets) to the defense of genre. This one&#8217;s well written, but for heaven&#8217;s sake&#8230;
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2961480.ece
&#8230;why should we continue to scrap with stringy goblins, evil queens [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=14&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/14/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Timely books that need a home</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/timely-books-that-need-a-home/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/timely-books-that-need-a-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 04:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Hallucinogens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/timely-books-that-need-a-home/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently displayed in New Nonfiction at the Beaverton Powell&#8217;s Books not far from my home:
Are You My Obama?
Three Little Kits Have Lost Their Mitts
Hillary Mounts Everest
Me, I&#8217;d like to see Obama and Richardson on the Demo ticket and win the election&#8211;we might just have a chance of presenting a different face to the world that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=15&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/timely-books-that-need-a-home/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Nachos Amore</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/nachos-amore/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/nachos-amore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Hallucinogens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nachos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[passion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/nachos-amore/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Work-in-progress, final version may or may not appear here:
&#8220;The action is regrettable. 15 good years. Please take your time, say goodbyes.&#8221; Your manager hands you your final check and wipes his eyes. Times are hard. In cleaning out your desk, you find a brochure: Go! Ataguitania, from Go! Travel series, #P59-A. It must have arrived [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=13&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/nachos-amore/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Marbles Lost and Found</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/marbles-lost-and-found/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/marbles-lost-and-found/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marbles]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/marbles-lost-and-found/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The wizard who lives in the pine cabin next to the tumble-down on Old Smoky Road contemplates the amber bottom of his tumbler and says: The aleph that will complete your story is one of three marbles, two of which are compelling decoys. One marble is under the stone hearth of the fireplace in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=12&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/marbles-lost-and-found/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Three Robbers</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/the-three-robbers/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/the-three-robbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marbles]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/the-three-robbers/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a ruined old three room house on Old Smokey Rd in ZigZag that dates back to about 1920, with a buckled roof and the one drunken wall held up by a river rock chimney. That place was the hideout and last stand of three bank robbers who on one afternoon in 1936 robbed the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=11&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/the-three-robbers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Thaumaturgy</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/thaumaturgy/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/thaumaturgy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Hallucinogens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/thaumaturgy/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends (who are saved from a life as Fiends by a simple single letter),
The following is a real letter from a friend, and my reply, with the names changed on a lark because there is no privacy anymore. It&#8217;s fun with language, the Italian is cribbed and stuffed somewhat out of grammatical (but well [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=10&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/thaumaturgy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Queen of the Editorial Jungle</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/queen-of-the-editorial-jungle/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/queen-of-the-editorial-jungle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office Space]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/queen-of-the-editorial-jungle/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Written for an Editor friend on her 40th.
QUEEN OF THE EDITORIAL JUNGLE
FADE IN:
SHE is sitting at her computer, with marked up papers scattered in loose piles about her cube floor. SHE is wearing headphones, and is frustrated and mumbling to herself.
HE stands in her cube entrance, dripping sweat from dysfunctional glands, tangling up his therapist&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=9&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/queen-of-the-editorial-jungle/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Possession</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/possession/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/possession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Hallucinogens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orange clean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/possession/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m taking a break from work, which is beginning to drive me mad. In an effort to expel that madness, I&#8217;ve spent the last 20 minutes* producing the following, which you, as itinerant browser, are obliged to read. Besides, it&#8217;s important that people who are smarter than you expose you to things you&#8217;d never ever [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=7&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/possession/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Titan</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/titan/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/titan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Hallucinogens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/titan/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NASA Science News for January 16, 2005
The ESA Huygens probe parachuted to Titan on Jan. 14th, landed safely, and transmitted the first sounds and pictures from the surface of Saturn&#8217;s giant moon.
Just behind the probe umbrella shaped natives dangled stems in the gently swirling surf and sipped methane coladas, seemingly non-plussed at the sudden appearance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=6&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/titan/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Be-gauze</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/be-gauze/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/be-gauze/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Hallucinogens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/be-gauze/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The funny thing about the hills here: you unzip them and learn they&#8217;re  stuffed with cotton gauze, which, when dampened in the fall, winter and  spring, swells and strains up through the topsoil and into the air,  where it&#8217;s stretched and warped and woofed in the winds from the Gorge  and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=5&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/be-gauze/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>A fine mess</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/a-fine-mess/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/a-fine-mess/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Pearl]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/a-fine-mess/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thar he blows (walrus chunks). My walrus piece (below) is an example of a writer blowing a satirical metaphor out of proportion&#8211;and realizing this halfway through the writing (realizing that while he&#8217;s struggling to write nice crafty sentences to no real purpose). Some writers could turn walruses in the Pearl into a treatise or weird [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=4&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/a-fine-mess/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Here there be walruses*</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/here-there-be-walruses/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/here-there-be-walruses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Pearl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lewis carroll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pearl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[walrus]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/here-there-be-walruses/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I see walruses in the Pearl. Crisp mornings I see them bristling at corners like sumos, stamping and huffing for the green light. Lunches I see them lolling and grunting at cafes, drunk on spiced fish ale. They nap in pools of sunlight outside my office, tucked against shopping carts or draped mumbling over laptops [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=3&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/here-there-be-walruses/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>The virtual light in our heads</title>
		<link>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/hello-world/</link>
		<comments>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/hello-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kremer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Pearl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pearls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[walruses]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false"></guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My employer recently moved our offices from a crumbling former lumber warehouse in central SE to the north Park Blocks, in the &#8220;Pearl District,&#8221; a chunk of alien world (for any long time Portlander) dropped against downtown Portland, and inhabited simultaneously on different planes by variants of &#8220;See Me&#8217;s&#8221;&#8211;from the gym or yoga rats to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobprice.wordpress.com&blog=1804000&post=1&subd=bobprice&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bobprice.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/hello-world/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4697ab881f1eedcd603f9e0015fe868a?s=96&#38;d=monsterid&#38;r=X" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kurt Kremer</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>