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		<title>Et tu, zombie?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In light of the recent zombie-related story posted a week back, I thought it might be a good time to look at the concept of the zombie in popular culture. Given the zombie-like devotion to vampires right now, I figure another classic monster category is due for an upswing. Like so many other classic “monsters,” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spinachchin.com/about/?p=689</link>
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		<title>Zombies &#8211; What Is Hip?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have loaded up the new story &#8220;Dreams of Zombies,&#8221; which is about the desperate chase for the next big idea. The narrator is this poor schmo who somehow thinks he can make a living writing. Laughable, I know. You can imagine him writing teen vampire stories &#8211; but at least here he is trying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spinachchin.com/about/?p=672</link>
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		<title>Expanding &#8220;Toy Lists&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The short story &#8220;Toy Lists&#8221; is a little longer now and a little more involved. I admit, it is a goofy story. The first part, the conversation about work versus personal emails, was fun to write, and I hope it supports the main theme of the story, which is our need to make connections with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spinachchin.com/about/?p=628</link>
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		<title>The Reivers &#8211; Read It!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished reading William Faulkner&#8217;s The Reivers. It was an excellent book, highly recommended. Some great passages stood out in my mind: &#8220;&#8230;if all the human race ever stops moving at the same instant, the surface of the earth will seize, solidify: there are too many of us; humanity will destroy itself not by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spinachchin.com/about/?p=603</link>
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		<title>Tweaking &#8220;Little Things&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made a few small modifications to &#8220;Little Things&#8221; last week, nothing that affects the plot of the story but more in the way of attempts to refine and improve the language of the piece. I&#8217;d like to say I am done with that story, that it is frozen forever now as it will always [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spinachchin.com/about/?p=594</link>
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		<title>Speaking Chinese</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent tragedy in West Virginia has thrust Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy, into the spotlight, which knocked loose a memory of his interview on Marketplace, broadcast on October 29, 2009. His broad declaration, &#8220;There is no global warming,&#8221; did not stick with me, not as much as what he said next, when asked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spinachchin.com/about/?p=573</link>
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		<title>Wastelands&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I, like so many others in the reading public, went through a Stephen King phase. It was in junior high for me, when I bought his books by the yard and read one after the other, from Christine to Firestarter to all of The Bachman Books. It gave me a certain reputation in school &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spinachchin.com/about/?p=446</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s all in a name&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I do not remember a time when the words &#8220;Skywalker&#8221; or &#8220;Alderaan&#8221; sounded nonsensical and silly. In fact, I don&#8217;t know if that time ever existed. They seem like perfectly natural names &#8211; a future surname and the name of a planet, celestial in theme but seemingly normal in the natural evolution of language. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spinachchin.com/about/?p=535</link>
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		<title>Year of the Turtle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the spirit of the 2009 summer movie season, I developed a &#8220;prequel&#8221; to the Highway Virus series called &#8220;Year of the Turtle.&#8221; Of course it is a prequel only in the sense that it chronologically predates the other stories already posted and was written after those stories were &#8220;finalized.&#8221; &#8220;Year of the Turtle&#8221; names [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spinachchin.com/about/?p=475</link>
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		<title>Burgess&#8217;s Honey for the Bears</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished reading Honey for the Bears, by Anthony Burgess. Of course his most famous work by far is A Clockwork Orange, although his other writing is highly regarded &#8211; and I have to say, Bears was an excellent read, highly recommended, and not just because it has words like &#8220;sphingine&#8221; (resembling a sphinx). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spinachchin.com/about/?p=508</link>
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