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	<title>spiral::notepad by Ian Cavalier</title>
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	<description>Pop culture, art, and random trivia equals life.</description>
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		<title>A war on Saturn&#8217;s return?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About two weeks ago, my girlfriend was playing with a Saturn return calculator and contemplating the impact of celestial bodies, specifically Saturn, on her life. A Saturnian year takes roughly 30 Earth years. In astrology, the Saturn return is an alleged phenomenon that influences a person&#8217;s life development at around 29-year intervals.
A magic realism tangent
Because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iancavalier.com/spiralnotepad/2011/11/20/a-war-on-saturns-return/</link>
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		<title>Magical books I read in October 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I look back and think about the most memorable, inspiring pieces of literature I consumed last month, four books clearly come to mind. Each one explores parallel realities (or supernatural realms) and the magical creatures and animals that inhabit these universes. Naturally, three of the books were written for children.

The first two are out-of-print [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iancavalier.com/spiralnotepad/2011/11/01/magical-books-october-2011/</link>
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		<title>Blackboard 9.1 y u no run faster?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Friday. (Yesterday was Thursday. And tomorrow is Saturday. And Sunday comes afterwards.) (You&#8217;re welcome.)
Maybe, just maybe, I&#8217;ll start using this blog more regularly again since I have become thoroughly disenchanted with the social networking landscape. I used to really enjoy Twitter and Flickr (and tolerate Facebook, etc.), but joining Google+ in June overwhelmed me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iancavalier.com/spiralnotepad/2011/10/14/blackboard-91-y-u-no/</link>
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		<title>Glitch in the Grid by the Leiser Brothers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In 2007, I received a DVD screener of the film Imagination by the Leiser Brothers and posted this review.
A few weeks ago, I received a DVD screener of their latest film, Glitch in the Grid. I recently posted my 15-word review to Filmometer.com, but I want to expand on my thoughts here.
Glitch in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iancavalier.com/spiralnotepad/2011/09/26/glitch-in-the-grid/</link>
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		<title>Mascot Mashup 8-bit art project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the release of the 200th image I&#8217;ve created for my 8-bit art project Mascot Mashup. Every day I post a new famous character that I&#8217;ve translated into pixel art.
No. 200 happens to be Johnny Cash (because he died on this day in 2003). Even though I attempt to tie my daily characters into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iancavalier.com/spiralnotepad/2011/09/12/mascot-mashup-8-bit-art/</link>
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		<title>Oregon tennis tournaments: Summer 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Community tennis tournaments
 Summer tennis tournament season is here again and I&#8217;ve been trying to figure out which weekends I will be on the courts. Most of my information comes from OregonTennis.com. I always try to play four or five tennis tournaments in the Mid-Willamette Valley over the summer. Here are the tournaments I plan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iancavalier.com/spiralnotepad/2011/07/01/oregon-tennis-summer-2011/</link>
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