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		<title>the luck of the dice</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/01/the-luck-of-the-dice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 04:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dungeons & dragons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up on a tiny island in the middle of the Philippines meant that, for the most part, we were fairly behind on the States when it came to new fads, TV shows, fashion, or other pop culture. While normally an annoyance, it worked in my favor when, in 1985, my best friend came over with this game his dad had brought back from Japan, Dungeons &#038; Dragons.]]></description>
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		<title>snow time like the present</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/12/snow-time-like-the-present/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[blizzard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I learned that there are essentially two types of people that will venture out into a blizzard-thunderstorm in the middle of the night: dog owners, who gladly brave the cold so that their pooches can do their dirty sinful business, and nutcases who look at the snow pouring down and think "I bet that'd make a pretty picture!"]]></description>
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		<title>jiggety jig</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/11/jiggety-jig/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birthday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[safari]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Home again, home again, after a good three weeks or so back in California.  As much as I love traveling it pretty much hobbles much of my updating.  Since my laptop has a glossy screen, photos I edit on it usually wind up a lot darker than they seem at the time.  As such, I tend to shy away from photo work on the road.]]></description>
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		<title>Look, ma! No desktop!</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/10/look-ma-no-desktop/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/10/look-ma-no-desktop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[best camera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chase jarvis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lost cat]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently there's a Wordpress app for Android. This I'd especially fortuitous because just today I resolved to do a lot more shooting. Lately it seems like the only shooting I do anymore is for jobs or friends. I hardly ever shoot for me anymore.]]></description>
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		<title>saturday in the park</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/07/saturday-in-the-park/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/07/saturday-in-the-park/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 05:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[central park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So Fourth of July weekend is upon us, and for some reason that made me feel extra-compelled to go out and do something than any other Saturday. Go figure. In any case, I promptly hopped on my trusty steed (the Manhattan-bound N Train) and galloped (commuted) my way into town,]]></description>
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		<title>the other half</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/the-other-half/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/the-other-half/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dichotomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philippines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social structure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today presented an interesting situational dichotomy as I spent it hanging out with different friends. In the morning, I met up with a good friend of mine, Iñigo (in whose spare bedroom I'm crashing while in Manila) and some of his friends for lunch. We ate at a nice upscale Japanese restaurant before retiring to one of the friends' houses for sangrias.]]></description>
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		<title>ravens wood</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/ravens-wood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[flying]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The shot above was taken while on a karaoke outing with some coworkers the day before last. We had a private room and a lot to drink -- the perfect recipe for fun karaoke times.]]></description>
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		<title>Day Two</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/day-two/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/day-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[defrag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital cleanse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[log]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-improvement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I'm a good day or so into the 'cleanse' and it's going well so far. It's actually a little scary how much more time I have in the day, just from cutting out twitter, facebook, and other "distraction" websites.]]></description>
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		<title>santa&#8217;s slayed</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/12/santas-slayed/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/12/santas-slayed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've seen a lot of Christmas decorations in my time, but this has got to be one of the more macabre ones to date. It reminds me of those witch doctors' shrunken heads you'd see in cartoons and comics. The only things that are missing are lifeless eyes and sewn-shut lips.]]></description>
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		<title>effigy whiz</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/12/effigy-whiz/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/12/effigy-whiz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concertinapieces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crotchet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doppelganger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[etsy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine makes little creatures. More to the point, she crochets little critters into being. She makes other things, too, like clothes and jewelry, but really it's the critters you keep coming back for. She also makes little tiny versions of people, usually to order.]]></description>
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		<title>hobbled</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/12/hobbled/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/12/hobbled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[central park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hansom carriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[horses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carriage horses always make me sad. Whenever I think about horses, I think wide open spaces. I think herds of wild horses, thundering across the plains. I don't think of bridles and saddles and pulling carriages of fat tourists through a paved park.]]></description>
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		<title>danielle, sly</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/danielle-sly/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/danielle-sly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fashion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autumn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[central park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[danielle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leaves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sly]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did a test shoot on Saturday with a friend-of-a-friend (see if you can guess her name), who was a dream to work with. I wish all my subjects were this easy to work with.]]></description>
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		<title>whiffle</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/whiffle/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/whiffle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whiffle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I'd always taken denial somewhat literally. When I'd think of denial, I'd think of someone consciously rejecting the truth. Someone making a concerted effort to pretend something.]]></description>
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		<title>gussy-poo</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/gussy-poo/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/gussy-poo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[That's what my sister called him. She'd brought him with her to San Francisco from Savannah when she moved in 2001, and for as long as I can remember, that's been her name for him.]]></description>
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		<title>guss &amp; rudy revisited</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2008/12/guss-and-rudy-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2008/12/guss-and-rudy-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://focalmatter.com/2008/12/guss-and-rudy-revisited/" title="guss &#038; rudy revisited"><img src="http://focalmatter.com/blah/wp-content/plugins/yet-another-photoblog/YapbThumbnailer.php?post_id=271&amp;w=180" width="180" height="120" alt="guss &#038; rudy revisited" style="float:left;padding:0 10px 10px 0;" ></a>Was going through the archives of photos and decided to try and take a second stab at post-processing on this one, now that I&#8217;ve learned new things in Photoshop and (hopefully) advanced in skill in the year-and-a-half since I took the original photo. I suppose sometimes less is more, as I kinda prefer the original.]]></description>
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		<title>Ghirardelli Square</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2008/07/ghirardelli-square/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2008/07/ghirardelli-square/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blah/?p=239</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://focalmatter.com/2008/07/ghirardelli-square/" title="Ghirardelli Square"><img src="http://focalmatter.com/blah/wp-content/plugins/yet-another-photoblog/YapbThumbnailer.php?post_id=239&amp;w=180" width="180" height="119" alt="Ghirardelli Square" style="float:left;padding:0 10px 10px 0;" ></a>Last one from today&#8217;s update. I think the thing I love most about this shot is the fact that it could&#8217;ve been taken almost any time. The newest building in the shot couldn&#8217;t be less than twenty or thirty years old. Other than that, there&#8217;s really nothing dating the shot. I&#8217;m tempted to try and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>lucy r.i.p.</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2007/07/lucy/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2007/07/lucy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://focalmatter.com/2007/07/lucy/" title="lucy r.i.p."><img src="http://focalmatter.com/blah/wp-content/plugins/yet-another-photoblog/YapbThumbnailer.php?post_id=142&amp;w=180" width="180" height="135" alt="lucy r.i.p." style="float:left;padding:0 10px 10px 0;" ></a>Not the greatest photo in the world &#8212; taken with my old Powershot s40 under terrarium lights &#8212; but the only one I really have of her. I should&#8217;ve taken more. I wasn&#8217;t terribly attached to her (seeing as she was, you know, a poisonous spider and all), but she was a friend and I&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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