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		<title>&#8220;Are You Michael Stipe&#8217;s Da?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, yes … it was July 17, 2003—the only time I ever saw, or will see, R.E.M. perform live. Though I felt like I’d already seen them: the concert documentary, Road Movie, collapses three nights of performances at The Omni in Atlanta in November 1995, and I’d made a pretty obsessive study of that VHS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This One Goes Out to the Ones I Loved</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing like a favorite band calling it quits to rouse a blogger out of his stupor. I&#8217;ll try to capture some thoughts, over the next few days, regarding R.E.M.&#8217;s announcement yesterday that they&#8217;re throwing in the towel. I don&#8217;t have what I think of as the &#8220;Woodstock&#8221; story to tell about R.E.M. I wasn&#8217;t at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Hath YouTube Wrought? The Exciting Conclusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["James Taylor Marked for Death"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lester Bangs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[More troubling, aesthetic hating seems, according to a logic that eludes me, to beget personal hating. Comments on the “Friday” YouTube page resemble a kind of gang violence, which is being perpetrated against a 13-year-old girl: I could just about forgive the mind numbing lyrics, god awfull video and the dull ass music, if she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Hath YouTube Wrought, Pt. 2</title>
		<link>http://www.fakechineserubberplant.com/2011/09/what-hath-youtube-wrought-pt-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sh*t My Dad Says]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fakechineserubberplant.com/?p=823</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Sorry for the delay: Part 2 today, finishing up on Monday.--KD] In retrospect, I think “Chocolate Rain” marked the start of something: It would be much tougher to say the start of exactly what. But apparently  “Chocolate Rain” was popular because it’s terrible. On or around April 22, 2007, we started watching video, and listening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Hath YouTube Wrought?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in May, I published an essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education that I really loved. But it coincided both with end-of-term and with the summer hibernation of fcrp, and so was sort of forgotten on this space. So today and the next two days, I reprint it here for your reading pleasure, and/or vehement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never Let Me Go, Finis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[otis redding]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[respect]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We needn’t sit helpless in front of the TV, of course; one of the great debates in cultural studies over the past couple decades has been waged over the notion that consumers of mass media might have access to real agency, real power. There are a couple of steps in becoming a self-conscious media consumer-cum-producer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never Let Me Go, Pt. 2</title>
		<link>http://www.fakechineserubberplant.com/2011/09/never-let-me-go-pt-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Psycho]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Never Let Me Go. Louis Althusser]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I don’t want to pursue the allegorical reading of the novel this evening, as easy and as tempting that is. I want to look at a related question—the novel’s enactment of various narrative strategies that are meant to suggest, precisely, the power of narrative. Throughout the course of the novel, Ishiguro demonstrates the power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Ishiguro&#8217;s Never Let Me Go</title>
		<link>http://www.fakechineserubberplant.com/2011/09/on-ishiguros-never-let-me-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[allegory Pomona College]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure on Sunday night to address the incoming Pomona first-year students on the topic of the first-year reading: Kazuo Ishiguro&#8217;s Never Let Me Go. I thought I&#8217;d post those remarks here, broken down across a few days into easily digestible installments. Two things I should probably say before diving in. First, I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Undead</title>
		<link>http://www.fakechineserubberplant.com/2011/08/undead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[the writing life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s the first day of classes back here at Pomona College, and I&#8217;ve been struck&#8211;heartened, embarrassed, surprised, flummoxed&#8211;by the number of students, faculty, staff (even parents) who have asked me about the blog. &#8220;Is it dead?&#8221; &#8220;Are you going to start again?&#8221; Certainly when I wrote my last post back in April, I had no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Reading My Facebook Friends Recommendations, Pt. III (finis)</title>
		<link>http://www.fakechineserubberplant.com/2011/04/on-reading-my-facebook-friends-recommendations-pt-iii-finis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some decisions are just common sense: I don’t friend the kids of friendz, nor the friendz of my own kids. Rule of thumb: as a middle-aged man, never send a friend request to one of your daughter’s girlfriends. Or boyfriends, for that matter. It’s just creepy. And as a teacher, I don’t friend my students. [...]]]></description>
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