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		<title>I fear the silence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I fear the silence that results from fear. I’m afraid of our voices getting scrambled into white noise, hunkering in margins, reduced to doodles. I fear getting stuck in this place, feet planted in goo, unable to extricate my soul from the air-conditioned, climate controlled, office-smiling machine of expectation that would bowl over any meager [...]]]></description>
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		<title>time waster du jour</title>
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		<title>A thought I had while stuck in traffic yesterday:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lining the rear window ledge of your Lexis with Beanie Babies bespeaks some kind of deep-seated optimism that I will never possess. Maybe this is why I have an uneasy relationship with capitalism.]]></description>
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		<title>A note re. architecture and design: You are always somewhere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leaving an office building today, I was thinking of how the insides of those places seem carefully designed to feel like nowhere. I don’t just mean somewhere generic; I mean a hyper-generic, unsettling kind of anti-space. I passed several people on my way from the elevator to the entrance, and it didn’t even occur to [...]]]></description>
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