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	<description>writes, reads history, listens to hip hop, never gets enough sleep</description>
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		<title>I Supportmanteau Good Pun Poetiquette</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some literary techniques are easy to abuse.  I hate to admit that the portmanteau is one of these (thanks, Snickers).  While still one of my favorite all-time ways to get bizzy with words, portmanteauing has become a central facet of our experience as consumers and internet-era digesters of signs. We are asked to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chronolect.com/archives/601</link>
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		<title>Geography Is New Writing Of The Earth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seeing the world differently gets me all hot and bothered, so I was proper &#8220;psyched&#8221; when I read &#8220;Above the Past&#8221; in the New York Times and learned about NYCityMap, a Google Maps-esque wonder-function for seeing what New York City looked like, from overhead, in 2008, 2006, or 1924 (click the camera icon).  It surprises [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chronolect.com/archives/595</link>
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		<title>Reading The Song: Prose/Poetry/Hip/Hop No. 2: Basement, Medicine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back to how songs I like function as texts, read on the screen or page, sans instrumentation&#8230;
Consider this pre-hip hop jam by the unsane Bob Dylan/Robert Zimmerman:
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Johnny&#8217;s in the basement
Mixing up the medicine,
I&#8217;m on the pavement
Thinking about the government,
The man in the trench coat,
Badge out, laid off,
Says he&#8217;s got a bad cough,
Wants to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chronolect.com/archives/583</link>
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		<title>Debbie, Krugs, &#038; The Skunked &#8220;Elite&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The news is generally frightening. I learned a few days ago that, in the Lone Star State, one Debra Medina is fighting to become the Republican candidate for governor.  Her platform is staunchly conservative, and she&#8217;s so bat-shit crazy that even Glenn Beck isn&#8217;t amused.  Quoth the New York Times:
Ms. Medina also appeals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading The Song: Prose/Poetry/Hip/Hop No. 1: Phalanges, Ham Sammiches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is the first installment in a lengthy, madcap investigation of how songs I like function as texts, read on the screen or page, sans instrumentation. Prosodists, sharpen your metrical pencils.

She said, she said:
&#8220;Nothin&#8217;s wrong—and I belong on stage&#8230;&#8221;
—Ted Leo, &#8220;Hearts of Oak.&#8221;
Songs aren&#8217;t always satisfying poems when read on the page.  Many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chronolect.com/archives/574</link>
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		<title>New Column For Atlas Obscura: The Lighthouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;In which I imagine how ancient persons might have experienced the sort of wonder that we at the Atlas attempt to catalogue.
My column&#8217;s first, eponymical iteration concerns the Pharos, or great Lighthouse, of Alexandria.  Read it today and let me know what you think.
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		<link>http://chronolect.com/archives/578</link>
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		<title>I Have Been Writing Cowboy Stories, Though I Dream Of The Kraken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The cowboy stories have taken up a fair chunk of time. Thus there have appeared here fewer posts on grammar and whatnot of late&#8230;
While awaiting more delicious words about words, please do enjoy this blog-post about a rum made from the ink of the legendary Kraken,—what killed Cpn. Thom &#8220;Ruckus&#8221; Marwallach back in 1905 (the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chronolect.com/archives/576</link>
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		<title>Reminiscin: My Favorite Flicks Of 2009 Was:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Up In The Air, which teaches us that no one believes in Love. (I disagree with this thesis, but who am I to argue with the walking cellular mound of excellence that is George Clooney?  Also, Vera Farmiga is hypnotizing, not to mention smokin&#8217;.)  Points for words, and for the cowboyish commercial pilot.
Inglourious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chronolect.com/archives/568</link>
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		<title>Para-Who?  Para-Wha?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m listing this under &#8220;Adventure&#8221; as well as other, perhaps better expected categories because the Learning of Useful Words &#38; Phrases should be considered adventurous—that is, profitable, if at times exceedingly dangerous. 
Following up on an earlier post regarding paratext, I&#8217;d like to further explore some other uses of para. (That&#8217;s my motherfuckin affix.)
Being a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chronolect.com/archives/553</link>
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		<title>Possible But Unlikely Reading List</title>
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The Haunted Vagina by Mellick Carlton III
HELP! A Bear is Eating Me! by Mykle Hansen
Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read In School by the man himself

These book non-recommendations come courtesy Abe Books&#8217; Weird Book Room, an indispensable trove of books I don&#8217;t really want to read (Haunted Vag. and HELP! A Bear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chronolect.com/archives/558</link>
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		<title>Sounds Of This Season: A Goodly Feast Of Incongruity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bob Dylan is from another planet, a distant heavenly sphere on which it is always Christmas.  He earns an Honourable Badge of Merit for this festive gem of festive gems, a very merry polka-zydeco chase sequence:

Now back to my regularly scheduled fare of Shostakovich, hip hop, and electro from other dimensions.  Advised listening:
&#8220;Hold [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chronolect.com/archives/550</link>
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		<title>Imaginary Post-Crunk Album Of The Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frappez, Entrez, Rompez Tout.
(&#8221;Strike, Enter, Break Everything,&#8221; Fr.)
This title is so hard, it forces our imaginary troubadour to venture into new psychic realms for rap material, such as the realm of real space beer you can actually buy.
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		<link>http://chronolect.com/archives/544</link>
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		<title>The Differences Between Varieties Of Front Matter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The front matter is the stuff before the stuff. You open a book, but it doesn&#8217;t start right off. It starts with some weird crap about how happy the author is you picked it up, what edition it is, why he wrote it, and blah blah blah. What up with that?
I&#8217;ll tell you.
⁂
First of all, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chronolect.com/archives/538</link>
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