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	<description>A Journal of the Irrepressible</description>
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		<title>Point Omega by Don DeLillo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don DeLillo&#8217;s Point Omega is a quiet jewel of a book, a short novel that is really two short stories (the beginning and end of one bookending the second story in the middle) that read like a play. Nothing much happens in Point Omega: the premise of the novel is conversation, our attempts to communicate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man of a Million Faces</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NPR&#8217;s &#8220;Project Song&#8221; got Stephin Merritt in the studio for 48 hours. Merritt wrote a cool song called &#8220;Man of a Million Faces.&#8221;
From a group of six photos and six words, The Magnetic Fields guru Stephin Merritt picked &#8220;1974&#8243; &#8212; and an image of a man wearing a kind of suit covered with baby dolls. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.briancharlesclark.com/man-of-a-million-faces/</link>
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		<title>One Love by Playing for Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another fantastic video from the Playing for Change folks.

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		<link>http://www.briancharlesclark.com/one-love-by-playing-for-change/</link>
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		<title>Climate Is Not Weather</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Climate is not weather and the group that seizes the story first is bound to control it best and longest. A sad but true rule of PR.
A panel of eminent U.S. and European scientists has confirmed the widespread scientific consensus that the Earth&#38;apos;s climate is warming due to human activities, but said they and their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.briancharlesclark.com/climate-is-not-weather/</link>
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		<title>Lipstick Traces &#8211; A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The music came forth as a no that became a yes, then a no again, then again a yes:” and then the drums kicked in and “nothing is true except our conviction that the world we are asked to accept is false. If nothing is true, everything is possible.&#8221; (9)
Welcome to Lipstick Traces: A Secret [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Manny Farber wrote like he ran with the Beatniks, smoking, drinking and bopping to jazz rhythms. In Farber on Film, we get the straight, the uncut, the complete writings of Farber on film.
Farber wrote scores of film reviews for The Nation, Time, The New Republic and other publications. But his reviews rarely fit into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pornografia by Witold Gombrowicz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Set in war-torn, German-occupied Poland during World War II, Pornografia is a key text of late modernism &#8212; and this is the first edition that is a translation into English from Gombrowicz’s Polish. (The previous edition came into English from a French translation.)
Witold Gombrowicz is a novelist of psychological entanglements, and Pornografia is a novel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.briancharlesclark.com/pornografia-by-witold-gombrowicz/</link>
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		<title>Gain by Richard Powers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gain, Richard Power’s amazing sixth novel (originally published in 1998), takes one of the most difficult issues of our time and humanizes it. The issue is corporate culpability. We all know that “better living through chemistry” has its price and its consequences, but who is to pay?
Not Clare, the transnational corporation whose history is charted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.briancharlesclark.com/gain-by-richard-powers/</link>
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		<title>This Too Shall Pass by OK Go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A one-take music video par excellence by OK Go, directed by Brian L. Perkins. Booooooom asks,
Can we crown them kings of the one-take music video yet?
Hell yes.

OK Go &#8211; This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo.
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		<link>http://www.briancharlesclark.com/this-too-shall-pass-by-ok-go/</link>
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		<title>Ancient tribal language becomes extinct as last speaker dies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last speaker of an ancient tribal language has died in the Andaman Islands, breaking a 65,000-year link to one of the world&#8217;s oldest cultures.
Boa Sr, who lived through the 2004 tsunami, the Japanese occupation and diseases brought by British settlers, was the last native of the island chain who was fluent in Bo.
Taking its [...]]]></description>
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