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		<title>Steve &#8216;Caz Camberline&#8217; Becker&#8230; Rest in peace, my brother.</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2020/12/19/stephen-caz-camberline-becker-rest-in-peace-my-brother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2020 21:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t quite remember the first time I met my near-lifelong pal, Steve Becker. He was a childhood friend of my first roommate, a quiet, even taciturn element in the sometimes rowdy mix of mostly musicians who hung out in our strange &#8212; and supposedly haunted &#8212; garret/loft apartment, a sprawling, mostly empty, multi-level space [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Everyone knew her name&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2018/02/28/2536/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2018 03:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new version of this song written back in July, 2001. I&#8217;ve always felt guilty writing joke and novelty songs &#8212; and I&#8217;ve always gone ahead and done it anyway &#8212; and all too often I haven&#8217;t been shy about sharing them. Always the kid in the back of the class. Anyhow, somehow, over the [&#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 winter of our fresh content?</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2015/12/22/the-winter-of-fresh-content/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2015 03:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A single-handed keyboard improvisation for orchestral synthesizer from several years ago. OK&#8230; yeah, bad pun. Maybe not even immediately recognizable in its intent. Sue me. But here it is, the turning of another season and this blog&#8217;s fresh new decade that started with the autumnal equinox is now three months in and&#8230; not much new [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>I love ya, ya big dummy. RIP, Captain Beefheart</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2010/12/17/i-love-ya-ya-big-dummy-rip-captain-beefheart/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 04:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Love will fool you&#8230; love can kill you&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2008/11/24/love-will-fool-you-love-can-kill-you/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Love is both a many splendoured thing and a royal PITA, not necessarily in that order, as everyone who&#8217;s been paying attention knows by now. That&#8217;s the nominal excuse for this song &#8212; but the real deal is just that I wanted to write a song with two then-trendy girls&#8217; names in the title &#8212; [&#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>A Thousand Lies (Bridge to Nowhere)</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2008/09/21/a-thousand-lies-bridge-to-nowhere/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[NEW SONG ALERT! The best liars don&#8217;t really need a reason. They&#8217;re glib. They&#8217;re creative. They enjoy lying. They&#8217;re not sociopaths&#8230; clinically speaking. They have feelings, stirrings of empathy; they indulge in sentimentalism and symbolic emotionalism&#8230; in fact, it&#8217;s the language they speak&#8230; all too fluently, at times. A Thousand Lies (Bridge to Nowhere) listen [soundclick [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>America Redux</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2008/07/04/america-redux/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Special Holiday Encore 0riginally posted October 15, 2007 Preachin&#8217; democracy&#8230; It&#8217;s still preachin&#8217;. With all that entails. Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve been spending so much time listening to country, mountain, and rural gospel lately. They ain&#8217;t afraid of no preachin&#8217;&#8230;. Anyway, when the phrase &#8220;This used to be America&#8221;* came to my lips the other [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Superstition is where you find it&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2008/06/13/superstition-is-where-you-find-it/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The search for cause and effect has not always been carried out with a rigorous methodology carefully crafted to return reliable results. Sometimes, folks make cognitive leaps that are breathtaking in their intuitive scope but are still just plain wack. Many supposedly scientific westerners have elaborate personal systems of superstition which they keep separate from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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