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		<title>Stuff falls between the cracks&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2017/12/11/stuff-falls-between-the-cracks/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This brief whiff of piffle was actually written back in 2014 while I was participating in an online songwriting forum. Not sure but the exercise might have been to write a song on a specific topic when you felt absolutely no inspiration whatsoever&#8230; I Bet the Farm on Loving You I lost my dog I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Ask a Fool (Why He Falls in Love)</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2017/05/24/dont-ask-a-fool-why-he-falls-in-love/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2017 01:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[NEW SONG ALERT!* &#160; &#8220;In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias, wherein persons of low ability suffer from illusory superiority when they mistakenly assess their ability as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority derives from low-ability persons&#8217; metacognitive inability to recognize their own ineptitude.[1]&#8221;  Wikipedia entry [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Gospel Hour</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2015/09/13/countdown-to-our-gala-deluxe-never-before-10-year-anniversary/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2015 18:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In addition to writing songs, I also massacre classics&#8230; Ten days from now, on the 2015 Autumnal Equinox, Wednesday, September 23,* A Year of Songs will be 10 years old. We don&#8217;t want to give away too much, but let&#8217;s just say that we&#8217;ll** be cranking out new content, both music and microfiction, and doing a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A little guitar interlude&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2011/02/08/a-little-guitar-interlude/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Devil you say&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2009/10/31/the-devil-you-say/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you gamble in the Devil&#8217;s House, you will pay&#8230; This version originally appeared back in September of 2007 and is brought back as a special All Hallows&#8217; E&#8217;en goody&#8230; lyrics The Devil Just Doubled Down Now I&#8217;m not a betting man but I&#8217;ll play these chips in my hand are just good for today [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Just another bodhisatva on the lam</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2009/01/16/just-another-bodhisatva-on-the-lam/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dharma. It&#8217;s the damnedest thing. Not to mix metaphysical and cultural paradigms here. We are born into a life we have no business pretending to understand, and, if we spend too much time pondering that, we either drive ourselves crazy or become paralyzed, frozen in the amber of our own, absurd ontological dialectic&#8230; Angel&#8217;s Vacation [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>On a Monday morning&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2008/10/11/on-a-monday-morning/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You know the old saw about the mechanic driving the smoke-belching, beat up, barely running car&#8230; As a database guy in real life, you&#8217;d think I&#8217;d be more on top of my own IT&#8230; But until recently I&#8217;d been using a highly informal matrix of data queries, guesswork, and eyeballing to figure out which of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Devil Just Doubled Down</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/09/30/the-devil-just-doubled-down/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[NEW SONG ALERT! Think of this new song as a kind of Gnostic blues song, a sort of House of the Rising Sun &#8212; but not about prostitution and gambling &#8212; rather, about the trap of desire, itself. Or&#8230; just think of it as an excuse to write a song about playing cards with the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>When the cocked .45 came out from behind the cop&#8217;s leg, honest to God, I found myself thinking &#8212; Damn, I know busking is illegal but geez&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2007/03/09/when-the-cocked-45-came-out-from-behind-the-cops-leg-honest-to-god-i-found-myself-thinking-damn-i-know-busking-is-illegal-but-geez/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You almost read about this in the evening news instead of in this blog. This happened just about two hours ago&#8230; When the cocked .45* came out from behind the cop&#8217;s leg, honest to God, I found myself thinking &#8212; in that slow-mo way &#8212; Damn, I know busking is illegal but I&#8217;m just sitting [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Exploiting emotional investment seminar</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2006/06/25/exploiting-emotional-investment-seminar/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Sure&#8230; you can try to cash out your relationship to the tabloids&#8230; but the money from that is here and gone like a found bindle of&#8230; someone else&#8217;s forgotten dreams. No&#8230; to fully exploit your investment in a relationship you&#8217;ve gotta grow it. Now, we&#8217;re pretty much talking about mushrooms on a corpse, here, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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