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	<title>Matthew Dean</title>
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	<description>Artist, humorist, and geek</description>
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		<title>Personal sites are hard</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been struggling with building my personal website  for a long time. I&#8217;m sure a lot of people have stuggled with this, but I always feel like I have my fingers in so many pies, that narrowing a focus for a site has been kind of hard. Eventually, I decided the solution was to put my focused topics on OTHER [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Story of Thanksgiving, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 5 of the Holiday Story Series Look, I was a bit rude when I started telling you the Story of Thanksgiving before. I probably said some things and used some language that I shouldn&#8217;t have, and I&#8217;m sorry. I don&#8217;t want to ruin anything, or be the bad seed at the party, so let&#8217;s just put it behind us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Men Dying</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We only have six minutes until the oxygen runs out,&#8221; said Barry. &#8220;Six minutes?&#8221; said Don. &#8220;You mean six minutes until our lives are completely over?&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s right,&#8221; said Barry. &#8220;Well, maybe not six minutes on the dot, and we won&#8217;t die right away. Probably we&#8217;ll lose consciousness and then die.&#8221; &#8220;Still,&#8221; said Don, &#8220;that&#8217;s a very short time before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mason, Book 1, Chapter 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first chapter of a work in progress, a book based on MASON, the college film my friends and I made. Chapter 1 When walking the earth, the first thing to go is your shoes. &#160; Roland’s shoes started to fall apart three days after he crossed the border from Missouri to Kansas.  He was on a dirt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Story of Thanksgiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flash Fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 4 of the Holiday Story Series Most people think there&#8217;s some kind of association of Thanksgiving with pioneers and stuff. Those people don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re talking about, and you should probably tell them so. In fact, it would behoove you to go up to them at a party and say, &#8220;Carl, you don&#8217;t know what the fuck you&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Original student films!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film / Video]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1999, I made a movie with some friends called &#8220;Mason&#8221;. It&#8217;s horrible. You should watch it.  Here&#8217;s the original and &#8220;DVD commentary&#8221; version (with co-producer Geoff Owens). Original &#8220;DVD Commentary&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>5 Minutes of Inspiration</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film / Video]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Making and editing films is one of my passions, so I jumped on the opportunity to replace a kiosk PowerPoint presentation of inspirational messages (over still pictures) with this. It was also a great excuse to try out Apple&#8217;s Motion. Of course, the experience told me that I needed a new iMac.]]></description>
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		<title>Put Away Your Shoes</title>
		<link>http://matthewdean.me/2011/06/70/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=70</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film / Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[LYRICS: She&#8217;s a girl with twinkle eyes And wears a smile like summertime He&#8217;s a man, guitar in hand, Who sings deep and it sounds so fine She laces up her shoes and turns around And begins to walk away He picks up his guitar and tunes it up and Begins to play Oh sweet girl Put away your shoes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Author: Me</title>
		<link>http://matthewdean.me/2011/06/featured-author/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=featured-author</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accolades]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out my Featured Author article on Tim Ellis&#8217;s blog!]]></description>
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		<title>What is Love?</title>
		<link>http://matthewdean.me/2010/06/what-is-love-2/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-is-love-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I created a short film about and starring puppets, as a gift for Valentine&#8217;s Day.  It&#8217;s awesome.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjzNtS2goZ8]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Rock Eddies</title>
		<link>http://matthewdean.me/2010/06/the-big-rock-eddies/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-big-rock-eddies</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, folks.  Yesterday, I was at an awards show in Calgary for Big Rock called the Eddies.  Along with some cohorts, I submitted a beer commercial for their contest, which didn’t win, but was one of the finalists.  Some of you probably will recognize the guy starring in it.    Enjoy. http://vimeo.com/12315315]]></description>
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		<title>The Story of Easter</title>
		<link>http://matthewdean.me/2009/04/the-story-of-easter/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-story-of-easter</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flash Fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 3 of the Holiday Story Series The holiday of Easter is confusing to some, with it&#8217;s combination of the resurrection story and chocolate eggs and bunnies. These things seem to be completely separate. Or ARE they&#8230; You see, there was a period of Jesus&#8217; life&#8230; or is it Jesus&#8217;s life&#8230; or let&#8217;s just call it J&#8217;s life&#8230; or maybe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Story of Valentine&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://matthewdean.me/2009/02/the-story-of-valentines-day/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-story-of-valentines-day</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 2 of the Holiday Story Series Many people believe that the origins of Valentine&#8217;s Day are a little hazy. There were several martyrs named Valentine, who were later declared to be saints. But the real story of Valentine&#8217;s Day has a different origin. An alien origin. It all started in the days of the reign of the Evil Lord [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Story of Christmas</title>
		<link>http://matthewdean.me/2008/12/the-story-of-christmas/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-story-of-christmas</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 1 of the Holiday Story Series Mary, a virgin, was living in Galilee of Nazareth and was engaged to be married to Joseph, a Jewish carpenter. While Mary was still engaged to Joseph, she miraculously became pregnant, and eventually told Joseph. Joseph reminded her that under Jewish law, he not only had the right to divorce Mary, but that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pedometer</title>
		<link>http://matthewdean.me/2007/11/pedometer/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pedometer</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today as I was standing in line at Starbucks, About to order an eggnog latte. A man in a motorized wheelchair Came up behind me. I realized I was wearing a pedometer And I felt weird.]]></description>
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		<title>She Loved Waffles</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 1996 18:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She loved waffles. She was a waffle-lover. She would dream of them while she slept and while she was awake; their golden crispy edges dancing tantalizingly, their little grids of waffle-bumps repeating infinitely, their alluring scent drifting through the air, promising the almost devastatingly delicious explosion of maple-syrupy golden sweetness that would come with waffle-devouring. She loved waffles. If waffles could be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ode to Silly Putty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 1996 18:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[O glorious, globous goo, You don&#8217;t know how much I love you. Pinkish substance, stretching mass, Imprint yourself upon my mind. You are quite silly, O Silly Putty. You stay with me through clean and muddy. Show me backwards newspaper print, Ball of glory, Egg-shaped beauty, Be careful not to pick up lint. Whether pancake, ball, or snake, My love [...]]]></description>
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