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	<title>A Memo To A Higher Office</title>
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		<title>domestic violence, hipsters and apostles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 21:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				</script>I saw this on Facebook today: &#8220;The victim must do all in his or her power to stop the abuse. Most often, the victim is innocent because of being disabled by fear or the power or authority of the offender. At some point in time, however, the Lord may prompt a victim to recognize a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Crucifixion Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 20:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I rolled up to the club on my skateboard, wave &#8220;HI&#8221; to the general assembly of smoking comics outside. I walk in. Find the host. Get my name on the list. Order a beer. Find a table. Take a seat. The vibe is not good tonight.  Before a single comic has taken the stage, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When does the master F-ing Stop?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Master does his job and then stops. Tao te Ching, #30   (S. Mitchel translation) How did you like that stupid f-stop pun in the title? Yep. That&#8217;s the kind of thing that no sleep will get you.  I need to talk shop for a minute. If you are a photographer or similar creative professional, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being a detective is SO HARD!</title>
		<link>http://www.paulduane.net/blog/2012/05/being-a-detective-is-so-hard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 05:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, before you read any further, I want you to queue up some sexxxaay porno music. Or maybe some Barry White. Or the Bee Gees. What you are about to read is not, in fact, my latest porno screen play.  This is an actual story from the heart of Mormondom, Salt Lake City, Utah.  It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hold the pants, please.</title>
		<link>http://www.paulduane.net/blog/2012/05/hold-the-pants-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 18:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday night is upon us again.  As usual, my apartment was the launching pad for an evening out on the town. My cousin / BFF Melissa, Dr. Normy, Kober, and the lovely, newly single Stephanie, congregated at my place for drinks and some chit chat.  As I was getting ready to roll out, I contemplated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank God for Girls and Guitars  &#8230;.and kids</title>
		<link>http://www.paulduane.net/blog/2012/05/thank-god-for-girls-and-guitars-and-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 22:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have the best job in the world. Somehow I have been blessed with a life where I get paid to be photograph the things that I love most in this world: girls and guitars. &#8230;and kids. Only in my craziest dreams would I have imagined that this is what my life would look like, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>money on the table</title>
		<link>http://www.paulduane.net/blog/2012/05/money-on-the-table/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 23:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adam Carolla often muses over the elusive possibility that Guns &#38; Roses will reunite and tour.  He always asks the question: &#8220;How much money have they left on the table, just because they can&#8217;t get along enough to play a few shows?&#8220;  Axl Rose refuses to reunite with the band. It&#8217;s difficult to imagine how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>when I say &#8220;we&#8221;, I mean &#8220;me&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.paulduane.net/blog/2012/05/when-i-say-we-i-mean-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 22:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been all up in my head about my blog for the last week or so.  I&#8217;m always very self conscious about it, but sometimes that self consciousness decays into inaction. In a recent post, I talked about how awkward I feel about the darkness of some of my topics.  I got a comment the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inaugural Wine Wednesday</title>
		<link>http://www.paulduane.net/blog/2012/05/inaugural-wine-wednesday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 22:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Nate (aka &#8220;Super Nate&#8221;) have decided to institute a new tradition: Wine Wednesday.  Every Wed evening, we do a stand up comedy set at Wiseguys Comedy in Salt Lake City. Following the comedy club, we convene at my studio for an informal wine tasting party.  This week was the first such pairing of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wisdom of Penn Jillette</title>
		<link>http://www.paulduane.net/blog/2012/05/the-wisdom-of-penn-jillette/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 16:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Confession: I&#8217;ve been hooked on Celebrity Apprentice. I started watching it because  on of my heros, Adam Carolla was on it.  Since his firing on the show, I&#8217;ve become very interested in Penn Jillette.  In the board room, Mr. Trump was talking to Penn about a recent project on the show: Donald Trump: &#8220;Do you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open letter to an awesome girl</title>
		<link>http://www.paulduane.net/blog/2012/05/open-letter-to-an-awesome-girl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 09:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, let&#8217;s say you are a beautiful, interesting girl.  Let&#8217;s say we just met. Let&#8217;s say that we have a definite attraction between us. Let&#8217;s also say that, although the attraction exists, I can see that we don&#8217;t have congruent long term goals / values. Let&#8217;s say that we feel like getting in each others [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I hate the way this mirror makes me look</title>
		<link>http://www.paulduane.net/blog/2012/05/i-hate-the-way-this-mirror-makes-me-look/</link>
		<comments>http://www.paulduane.net/blog/2012/05/i-hate-the-way-this-mirror-makes-me-look/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 00:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been feeling very aware, and very self conscious of, my habit of metering my words and my presence when I&#8217;m around people I don&#8217;t know that well. I don&#8217;t like this. It doesn&#8217;t serve me or anyone else.  I&#8217;m getting very frustrated.  My cousin Melissa is one person that I am the least guarded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the saddest picture EVER</title>
		<link>http://www.paulduane.net/blog/2012/04/the-saddest-picture-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This may be the saddest thing I have ever seen. It was in a book about &#8220;bucket lists&#8221;, ie, things you want to do before you die: Just look at that picture.  I&#8217;m tempted to congratulate that person for being brave enough to be honest about what their heart truly longs for.  At the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dreamers, Dragons, and Jesus</title>
		<link>http://www.paulduane.net/blog/2012/04/dreamers-dragons-and-jesus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I was at the book store helping my daughters pick out a birthday gift for their mother.  I started flipping through a book from the MTV reality show &#8220;The Buried Life&#8221;, and saw this: I so love quotes like this. They seem to soar up above the banality of every day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tao of the Asshole</title>
		<link>http://www.paulduane.net/blog/2012/04/the-tao-of-the-asshole/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.&#8221; - Gore Vidal I never knew how hard it can be to have &#8220;style&#8221;.  There are moments when I sit down to write,  I realize that there is some deeper truth turning my gears that day, but for some [...]]]></description>
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