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		<title>&#8220;Hope&#8221; — Alex Lifeson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enjoy this &#8230;

Who else wants a solo acoustic guitar album from this guy?
Here&#8217;s another YouTube video on this. It didn&#8217;t include a code for embedding, but if you follow the link you&#8217;ll be rewarded with a closer view of Alex&#8217;s hands as he plays this. I wish the videos sounded as nice as the recording [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com&blog=5682487&post=384&subd=stevegoblefiction&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: &#8220;Tunnel in the Sky&#8221; — by Robert A. Heinlein</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com/?p=378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of what I&#8217;ve read in the past year or so has been non-fiction (or occasionally fiction masquerading as non-fiction &#8230;), as fodder for my current events news  column.
Having put aside the column recently, I found myself looking for something to read and determined to read something just for fun. My wife popped out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com&blog=5682487&post=378&subd=stevegoblefiction&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The least attentive Federation outpost, ever &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off, &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, et al., is a lot of fun and an awesome movie and I plan to watch it again and again.
But my wife calls me &#8220;The Plot King&#8221; and my friend TW often praises my bullshit detector when it comes to fiction plots, so when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com&blog=5682487&post=373&subd=stevegoblefiction&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The pen is mightier, but the sword is a lot of fun &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past year, I&#8217;ve been writing a newspaper/online column focused on hot-button issues. Most of the topics I wrote about hovered in that area where politics, religion and science meet.
The column took a lot of energy, required a lot of reading and keeping up-to-date on things — and usually resulted in some online conversation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com&blog=5682487&post=370&subd=stevegoblefiction&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of tentacles and sword-and-sorcery and dark things inside you &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suddenly, I have new fiction cropping up in delightfully strange places.
 First off, &#8220;The Book of Tentacles&#8221; will be available from Sam&#8217;s Dot Publishing in November. Tucked among the thirty or so tales you&#8217;ll find behind that really cool cover will be one from me, called &#8220;The Temple of Squoad.&#8221; This is a darkly humorous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com&blog=5682487&post=359&subd=stevegoblefiction&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Calthus swinging his blade again &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/calthus-swinging-his-blade-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Calthus, my resurrected sword-and-sorcery hero, will roar into the fray once again in &#8220;Through Blood and Iron,&#8221; an action-packed anthology in the works from Ricasso Press.
Editor Rob Santa said he wanted action, action, mayhem and more action for this collection. My tale, the never-before-published  &#8220;Deep as Death,&#8221; attempts to deliver on that work order. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com&blog=5682487&post=355&subd=stevegoblefiction&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Goble waxes poetic &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/another-goble-waxes-poetic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My brother Clark has a very nice poem called &#8220;Wailing&#8221; over at Every Day Poets. Enjoy.
— Steve
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		<title>Test your science I.Q. &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/test-your-science-i-q/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pew Research Center has an interesting online quiz to test your knowledge of science currently in the news.
I don&#8217;t want to brag, but I scored 100 percent. The sad thing, though, is that only 10 percent of people in the United States score so well. That wouldn&#8217;t bug me so much, except that we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com&blog=5682487&post=351&subd=stevegoblefiction&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An ego boost &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/an-ego-boost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, so I haven&#8217;t had a lot of time for writing fiction or poetry or blog posts of late. It seems every time I turn around, there is something going on. But I did have a brief writerly moment not long ago, and it was a nice little ego boost.
I was in a new library [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com&blog=5682487&post=345&subd=stevegoblefiction&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A moment of your time, please</title>
		<link>http://stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/a-moment-of-your-time-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you would, please, click on the SocialVibe thingy in my sidebar. You&#8217;ll spend a few seconds looking at a video of Andie MacDowell (not a bad thing) and then little kids who need food get some food.
I appreciate it, and the kids will appreciate it.
Thanks.
— Steve
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