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		<title>Seeing compassion in a postage stamp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somehow &#8212; I&#8217;m still not exactly sure how this happened but it might have been an act of God &#8212; my wife talked me into going to the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Labor Day weekend to watch the unveiling of a Mother Teresa postage stamp. I thought it would be a 20-minute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ernie Hayes can&#8217;t retire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And finally, the third post in this baseball trilogy: I was surfing stltoday.com this morning &#8212; I wanted to see how the hometown press was describing Thursday&#8217;s excruciating Cardinals loss to the Nats &#8212; when I came across some truly sad news: Ernie Hayes is stepping away from the mighty Wurlitzer at Busch Stadium. Ernie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://randylilleston.com/wordpress/?p=1593</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t talk to me. Don&#8217;t even look this way. Don&#8217;t mention You-Know-What. How can this be happening?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Strasburg. Baseball in this city is cursed.]]></description>
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		<title>Nobody pays retail for baseball tickets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing about having crappy baseball teams in the area: If you want to go to a game, especially on a weeknight, there&#8217;s no reason to pay the list price for tickets. I bought a half-dozen season tickets out of someone else&#8217;s plan back in February, and those are the only tickets I&#8217;ve purchased at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://randylilleston.com/wordpress/?p=1588</link>
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		<title>The gig kit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when you get older as a musician: Every year, the gear gets heavier. Sure, it seems to shrink in actual physical size and measurable weight, but every time you pick up a guitar amp at 2 a.m., it feels a little more like an anvil. So, over the years you learn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://randylilleston.com/wordpress/?p=1574</link>
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		<title>A few Paw Paw leftovers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another fun year: Here are a couple of audio clips: I Wish You Would Chicken Shack Boogie Previously: Omar&#8217;s Coming! &#124; Hokum home page]]></description>
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		<title>Omar&#8217;s coming!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;well, not Omar, but Michael Kenneth Williams, who played one of my all-time favorite television characters in HBO&#8217;s The Wire. This time, Williams will play Chalky White, described as &#8220;the de facto mayor of Atlantic City&#8217;s African-American community,&#8221; in HBO&#8217;s new series, Boardwalk Empire. I already was sold on that series before I got this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://randylilleston.com/wordpress/?p=1564</link>
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		<title>The improbability of &#8216;I&#8217;m Not There&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, I come across a film I really enjoy and wonder how it ever got made. What was the pitch for, say, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? How do you explain that concept to potential financial backers? What about Moulin Rouge! or my all-time-favorite improbable movie, The Adventures Of Buckaroo Bonzai Across The 8th [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://randylilleston.com/wordpress/?p=1553</link>
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		<title>Soap bubbles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Soap operas ruled at my house when I was a kid. There was &#8220;Search For Tomorrow,&#8221; with the star-crossed romance between Joanne and Sam; there was &#8220;The Guiding Light,&#8221; &#8220;As The World Turns,&#8221; and, of course, &#8220;Days Of Our Lives&#8221; among many others. I was stuck with them, just like sands are stuck in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://randylilleston.com/wordpress/?p=1546</link>
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		<title>Inspiration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a few of these streaks over the years I&#8217;ve been writing Hokum &#8212; weeks where nothing really leaps to mind when it comes to thinking of topics that need a few words applied against them. I&#8217;m in one of those streaks now and that&#8217;s why there haven&#8217;t been any meaningful updates for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://randylilleston.com/wordpress/?p=1542</link>
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