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		<title>Tough Audience</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/07/tough-audience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/07/tough-audience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Celebrities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On being shown Michael Jackson moonwalking to Billie Jean, a friend&#8217;s seven-year-old son shrugged his shoulders and commented, unimpressed: &#8220;Ahh&#8230; He&#8217;s got wheels in his&#160;shoes.&#8221; [Anecdote and title stolen wholesale from&#160;JL.]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Are They Now?&#8212;Taff Trot / Brummie Schoolboy Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/03/where-are-they-now-taff-trot-brummie-schoolboy-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/03/where-are-they-now-taff-trot-brummie-schoolboy-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the 80s, I used to be in a band with a guy called Martyn Hope&#8212;indeed, we went to school together. Back in the 90s, having read that, surreally, Elvis revivalist Shakin&#8217; Stevens was a closet Red1, I went searching online to find out if he was a member of a late 70s cohort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Squeaky Wheelchair</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/03/the-squeaky-wheelchair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/03/the-squeaky-wheelchair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brentian Man]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Evans worked for a company that built Websites for political organizations long before the current crop of johnny-come-latelys started twittering about &#8220;digital engagement&#8221; and &#8220;campaigning 2.0&#8221;. This post of his about the kinds of people who use the Net to harass politicians and the kind of people politicians should listen to&#8212;two groups that, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jew Do You Think You Are?</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/01/jew-do-you-think-you-are/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/01/jew-do-you-think-you-are/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever someone implies that anti-Semitism isn&#8217;t racism, I point out that it&#8217;s one of the few examples of discrimination that really is racism (unlike, for example, the invented thoughtcrime &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221;1 ) because the Ashkenazi Jewish population is as close as you can get scientifically to the common (and deeply flawed) notion of what a &#8220;race&#8221;&#160;is. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Saint George!</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/11/lets-saint-george/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/11/lets-saint-george/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3831</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;m on a Radio 4 kick, I heard Mark Lawson interviewing the soon-to-be-stepping-down Andrew Motion and Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on Front&#160;Row yesterday evening about the appointment of the next Poet Laureate. Apparently, although they were quick to say it wouldn&#8217;t be a TV talent contest, there&#8217;s going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geek At Work</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/11/geek-at-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/11/geek-at-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3749</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[And now, like a page from Where&#8217;s Wally / Where&#8217;s Waldo?, see if you can spot the wedding photographer in this [large!] image. He&#8217;s cunningly camouflaged by being the same colour as the&#160;furniture. (The camera to my left has a 50mm f/1.4 lens on it and the one in my hands a 100mm f/2.8. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John The Savage and Bela Emerson</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/08/jon-the-savage-and-bela-emerson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/08/jon-the-savage-and-bela-emerson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, I saw John The Savage and Bela Emerson at&#160;Komedia. John The Savage is an experimental post-something-or-other band featuring my friend Richard Brincklow on piano. Don&#8217;t be put off by my arty-sounding and vague description. They have tunes and they can play. They groove and they rawk. But they&#8217;re also very unusual indeed. Go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish Comedy Timing</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/08/jewish-comedy-timing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/08/jewish-comedy-timing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3284</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[INTERIOR. KITCHEN. JEWISH MEDIA FRIEND L IS PREPARING DINNER FOR&#160;POOTERGEEK. POOTERGEEK: Like I said to [JEWISH&#160;WRITER FRIEND&#160;C] and [JEWISH&#160;WRITER&#160;FRIEND&#160;J] about [UNFUNNY JEWISH WRITER], being a Jewish writer who isn&#8217;t funny is like being black and having no sense of&#160;rhythm. JEWISH MEDIA FRIEND L: Were they&#160;offended? POOTERGEEK: Why should they&#160;be? [PAUSE] JEWISH MEDIA FRIEND L: Actually, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I LOVE THE BLACK MUSIC</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/08/i-love-the-black-music/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/08/i-love-the-black-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was listening to a Marvin Gaye track via last.fm&#8212;is it just me or has their sound quality improved lately?&#8212;and I noticed this at the top of its user&#160;comments: white person wearing chinos on cruise ship LOVES THE BLACK MUSIC Which immediately made me think of Stuff White People Like, a blog that&#8217;s really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cliquey Back-Slapping</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/cliquey-back-slapping/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/cliquey-back-slapping/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3272</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the nicest things about blogging is being able to congratulate other bloggers on (what you believe to be) good blogging, so it&#8217;s unfortunate in a way when you are seen as part of a gang because, if you congratulate another supposed gang member, then doing so looks like cliquey back-slapping. Worse, if the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merrit</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/06/merrit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/06/merrit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember&#160;Wei? Well,&#160;Wei&#8230; &#8230;wed&#8230; &#8230;Bobby&#8230; &#8230;in Edinburgh earlier this month, and I was hired to shoot the&#160;event. It wasn&#8217;t my first tri-lingual wedding, but it was my first Cantonese/Mandarin/Scottish one. And it was the first one from which the happy couple excused me in the small hours because the tea ceremony was&#160;over-running. [Unusually for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freshening The Blogroll</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/06/freshening-the-blogroll/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/06/freshening-the-blogroll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3212</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to accept that the fine blogs &#8220;Let&#8217;s Be Sensible&#8221; and &#8220;The British Bullshit Foundation&#8221; are never coming back. In their respective market niches, PooterGeek now links to &#8220;Right Next Time&#8221; and &#8220;Sadie&#8217;s Tavern&#8221;. Don&#8217;t let me down,&#160;people. I&#8217;ve also made the following long-overdue additions: Paul Anderson&#8217;s blog Gauche, David Thompson&#8217;s, er, David Thompson, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jonathan Derbyshire</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/jonathan-derbyshire/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/jonathan-derbyshire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 11:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3191</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve converted the archives of Jonathan Derbyshire&#8217;s old Typepad blog and built a new WordPress site for him at jonathanderbyshire.com. Update your bookmarks and blogrolls accordingly. (You can email him at that new domain as&#160;well.)]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Unpleasant thuglike looking Jew&#8221; Also Jungle Bunny</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/unpleasant-thuglike-looking-jew-also-jungle-bunny/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/unpleasant-thuglike-looking-jew-also-jungle-bunny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 12:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Like me, Clive Davis is a product of one of those godless unions of black and white, but, because I am an expert on the conspiracy of sinister media Jews, when I took his byline photo I offered to make him look more Jewish in order to help his career. Now see what&#8217;s happened. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Single Man On Earth</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/01/the-last-single-man-on-earth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/01/the-last-single-man-on-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3098</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that came up over Christmas was, as usual, my continuing unmarried status as the big four-oh looms. Three different members of the family interrogated me about my non-existent love life. Yesterday, I was offered an opportunity to do something about this as I was invited to a singles event: a Website [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art Prog</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/09/art-prog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/09/art-prog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3058</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve taken my time getting around to this because the original email I was sent read like &#8220;benign spam&#8221; (which, in a way, it was) so it went to the bottom of my in-tray. [Sorry, Paul.] The infamous Paul Wixon is promoting a Japanese band called &#8220;Sollers&#8221; with a view to getting them some gigs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unbudgeable Turkeys</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/08/unbudgeable-turkeys/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/08/unbudgeable-turkeys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to my post about remaindered books, Claire reminds me of Clive James&#8217;s poem on the&#160;subject.]]></description>
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		<title>Lightly Worn</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/08/lightly-worn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/08/lightly-worn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2937</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Beachy Head[click image to enlarge it] I was eating breakfast in an hotel in Cambridge the Saturday morning after I shot that college ball. A tall, intense-looking man with a beard sat down at a table nearby. He pulled a hardback book out of his briefcase and began underlining paragraphs heavily with a soft pencil. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dialectical Minimalism</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/dialectical-minimalism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/dialectical-minimalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Damian: [T]he impression I get is that Norm is more forgiving of Eagletonâ€™s errors of reasoning than he should&#160;be Norm: Damian leaves an impression about my viewpoints that I feel I have a right to comment&#160;on. Damian: Iâ€™d happily place a bet with Norm on which of the two of them will be considered worth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bald Eagleton</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/bald-eagleton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write short posts. Much goes unsaid. I often write ironically. Some subjects are better approached that way; or it&#8217;s just more fun for me to tackle them sideways. What I do say, I say in plain English in the hope that my words at least are clear to everyone who reads&#160;them. Reading Norm today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passenger Ships</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/passenger-ships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also at that party the other day, one of the Young People told me that Passenger, featuring Richard Brincklow on keyboards, are high up on BBC&#160;Radio&#160;2&#8217;s playlist. The next day, one of my spies inside the Passenger camp also passed on to me a delicious&#160;factoid. Whenever Richard and I write or perform any music together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victorian Values</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some new blogs on the roll here: Vic, Brighton &#38; Hove resident and occasional PooterGeek commenter, has her own place now, called The Stopping Service. On the political side of things, I&#8217;ve mentioned Conservative Home here before and both Political Betting and Polling Report are also well worth dipping into. Lastly, I have added Martin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Harsh Truth</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/06/the-harsh-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot Wheels Helena is back from Glastonbury with a message for post-modernists, fundamentalists, and plain mentalists everywhere: More info&#160;here. [Thanks to Caroline for the&#160;pic.]]]></description>
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		<title>And It&#8217;s Goodnight From Them</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/04/and-its-goodnight-from-them-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This post should have gone up as Private. It is&#160;now.]]]></description>
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		<title>Stabbity-Stab</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/04/stabbity-stab/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[YESTERDAY EVENING: I&#8217;m outside the House of Commons with Bloggers4Labour supremo Andrew Regan, his sister, and another friend. We&#8217;re on our way to Andrew&#8217;s [very successful as it happened] Labour blogging meeting in one of the Commons committee rooms. As you&#8217;d expect in these Times Of Terror, every visitor gets scanned and searched. Naturally, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshots From My Glamorous Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I noticed a registered Brighton &#38; Hove taxi parked outside the Muslim community centre. Prominent on the dashboard was a hardback copy of Richard Dawkins&#8217; The God Delusion. A couple of days later I saw the car (and the book) again. This time the vehicle was being attended to by two of B&#038;H&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s All In The Hanging</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/03/its-all-in-the-hanging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jogging from the bank yesterday evening to catch Richard Brincklow&#8217;s in-store performance at Passenger&#8217;s launch of their new single [buy it now!*], I stopped to photograph&#160;this: Regulars will know that I am not an admirer of Banksy&#8217;s work, but circumstances and the shrewd planning of the staff at artrepublic temporarily turned the 2006 effort of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yet Another Test Post</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/02/yet-another-test-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If this entry also appears at Bloggers4Labour then thanks to Andrew Regan, the evil genius behind that site, and to the cunning Andrew Skudder for restoring PooterGeek&#8217;s feed to the&#160;collective. UPDATE: I&#8217;m boring, I&#8217;m beige, I&#8217;m back, and my pants are as tight as a Scissor Sisters&#160;track.]]></description>
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		<title>A PooterGeek Appeal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been staying at my parents&#8217; this weekend&#8212;thanks, folks&#8212;while I&#8217;ve been attending the National Wedding Show [of which more soon at the Wedding Photography Blog]. The show was on at the National Exhibition Centre, round the corner from their place. As a boy I never imagined that I&#8217;d grow up to spend working Saturdays, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing Wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends have told me that my obsession with freewill and my belief that there is such a thing as evil are products of my Catholic upbringing. They are, in fact, products of personal experience and of a long, dull training in human biology. I know people who simply do not believe in evil. They are [...]]]></description>
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