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	<title>Cynthia &#187; Observations</title>
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	<description>My life, my sculpture...and other things</description>
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		<title>An arm and a leg or three</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm tempted to ask if this is what is meant by "a buttload" but, seeing as how I'm a classy chick, I'll refrain.

I'm currently looking for ideas for building a 10-foot long wall of glass stuff for an upcoming show. It needs to support rather heavy glass sculptures on shelves and leave some space for wall-hung stuff. It also needs to be small and light enough that I can manhandle it into and out of Max, my poor old Nissan Maxima, and across a block-long convention center, single-handed. And it should look as if I didn't pick it out of a dumpster.]]></description>
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		<title>Glass makes the news</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey--just a fast note for Ernie lovers: Ernie's mom is in the news.

Brenda Griffith, the powerhouse GlassValkyrie wonderwoman of Atlanta, is doing her best to convert the South to kilnforming (and beadmaking and glassblowing and, apparently, nude dates at the gloryhole, but that's another story).]]></description>
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		<title>Lisa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right around lunchtime I heard a quiet tapping on my front door and sighed. (door to door peddlers famously interrupt my Saturday afternoons) I opened the door to a woman about 25, slim, vivacious and smiling.

"Hi!" she said brightly, "I'm Lisa, and you're going to think this is really weird, but can I take a picture of your tree?"]]></description>
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		<title>Tea and crumpets with the Mayor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, sorta.

I mean, the Mayor wasn't there, and they were serving apples and beer and wine instead of tea and crumpets, but other than that it's true.]]></description>
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		<title>The hay is feverish once more</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whoever invented spring should be SHOT.

There's a reason I like looong winters and avoid bright, hot, sunshiny places like a vampire: Hay fever. I'm not entirely sure what I'm allergic to, but when I see blossoming trees and rivers of pollen flowing down the gutters with the rain, I know misery isn't far behind.]]></description>
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		<title>The dog stork cometh</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet my new little brother. His name is Kobe. Or Tobe. Or Toby. I'm not sure which, and now my dad's calling him "doggy-dog." Their last beloved critter was named "Pusscat," and the one before that, "Bunnyrabbit."

I see an unfortunate continuation of a trend here, but at least nobody makes any embarrassing misidentifications of species.]]></description>
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		<title>Private parts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting piece today in the New York Times on the differences in privacy laws between Europe and the US. It forecasts a significant show-down over privacy rights vs. free-flow of online information.

The article zeros in on Google/YouTube's current Italian legal woes; the court has given prison sentences to Google execs for failing to protect a boy's privacy. It's caused waves of shocked incredulity in the online world but demonstrates what "localization" experts understand through painful experience: The global playing field only LOOKS level. In reality, global transactions often paint a thin veneer of universality over a whole bunch of cultural chasms.]]></description>
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		<title>Pancakes in Coos Bay</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know you're in Oregon when you walk into a dockside pancake shack and the sign on the wall says, "Gluten-free pancakes with organic chai tea."

I'm down in Coos Bay this weekend, about five hours south of Portland, working through a casting problem with Hugh McKay of Cast Glass Forms. Hugh's in Port Orford; Gigi the iPhone led me a merry GPS dance through cow pastures and abandoned farmland to get there.

"Geeeez, that's hours out of the way," said Hugh, "Don't you computer people ever look at a map?"]]></description>
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		<title>Dick Francis: Thanks, old friend</title>
		<link>http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/2010/latest/dick-francis-thanks-old-friend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will sorely miss Dick Francis.

Mr. Francis, who died this week at the age of 89, was a legendary British jockey turned sportswriter turned detective novelist. He wrote about the world he knew best, racetracks and horses and jockeys and trainers and grifters. I've been reading his books since I discovered them as a child.

If you haven't read one, you should.]]></description>
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		<title>Chessboxing</title>
		<link>http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/2010/latest/chessboxing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am NOT making this up. Chessboxing is an up-and-coming new sport, alternately known as "the thinking person's contact sport," or  "the strategic violence game." And there's talk of making it an Olympic contest.

Whodathunkit?]]></description>
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