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		<title>Mitt Romney&#8217;s Body Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s going to be a novel and movie about a presidential candidate&#8217;s Body Man. I can feel it. The topic is too rich. I&#8217;m not talking about his body guard. Or some wardrobe guy. Or, please, some sexual thing (good grief, people). I&#8217;m talking about the dude whose task it is to free up the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the heck is a Mormon, and are they carrier monkeys of evil?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FYI, I&#8217;ve added a page linked to my bio in which I reveal all.]]></description>
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		<title>Generating Story 1: Can You Create a Redneck Crapper?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bugatti Veyron Super Sports $2,400,000 Almost everyone reading this knows what they like in a car. We know what we want a car to do. We can talk about acceleration, voom-voom styling, and handling. Some of us could talk about how engines and transmissions and tires all work together to create those things. We could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, Lord, for these smoking hot wives may we be truly thankful . . .</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2011/07/youve-never-heard-a-prayer-like-this-one-boogity-boogity-boogity-amen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 01:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How they pray at NASCAR. Boogity, boogity, boogity, amen!]]></description>
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		<title>Largest Ancestry by County</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2010/11/largest-ancestry-by-county/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 06:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How cool is this! Click to here to get the full-sized picture.]]></description>
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		<title>Up &amp; Over It does &#8220;We Speak No Americano&#8221;</title>
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		<comments>http://johndbrown.com/2010/10/up-over-it-does-we-speak-no-americano/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because today is a special and you deserve to smile. Performed and choreographed by Suzanne Cleary &#38; Peter Harding Film by: Jonny Reed Music: &#8220;We Speak No Americano&#8221; by Yolanda Be Cool &#38; DCUP Up &#38; Over It: http://www.facebook.com/upandoverit or http://www.upandoverit.com Produced by: http://puckproductions.com It appears &#8220;We Speak No Americano&#8221; by Yolanda Be Cool &#38; DCUP samples [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cats and monsters</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2010/08/cats-and-monsters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My second-to-youngest daughter came in the house telling me that there was a huge line of ants out in the garage. &#8220;Because there&#8217;s poop,&#8221; her younger sister says. I groan inside. Cats. There&#8217;s the whole wide world and a litter box to boot. They have to do it on the garage floor? I go out to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uncanny cool</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just had the most uncanny, coolest experience. It&#8217;s 6 PM. I&#8217;m out on a walk along a road that runs by a swampy river called Birch Creek to a fork in the road. The sky is this glorious blue with brilliant white and gray clouds. I stop and pick some ripe black currents off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rufus Hussey: The Bean Shooter Man</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2010/08/rufus-hussey-the-bean-shooter-man/</link>
		<comments>http://johndbrown.com/2010/08/rufus-hussey-the-bean-shooter-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I posted pure zing, but here&#8217;s one that I just ran across and love. I want Rufus in one of my stories. These kind of things make life great. According to Remembering Randolph County, North Carolina, Rufus appeared on the Johnny Carson show. If anyone has links to that video, please [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wolves in my backyard</title>
		<link>http://johndbrown.com/2010/05/wolves-in-my-backyard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 15:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News - updates on books, events, appearances, etc.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Geographic ran an article in the March issue titled &#8220;Wolf Wars.&#8221; It has a great interactive map. You&#8217;ll want to read the whole article, but I want you to look at something. First, here&#8217;s a picture of a wolf in Yellowstone licking his or her chops over a recent elk kill.  Looks real friendly, doesn&#8217;t it. [...]]]></description>
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