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		<title>Deus Ex Eracism and the Aesthetics of Skin</title>
		<link>http://manoamondo.com/2011/12/23/deus-ex-eracism-and-the-aesthetics-of-skin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikthom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a baby I used to scream when black people held me. This was awkward for my parents because we lived in Tanzania and the number of proximate black people with an interest in holding me was high. I can imagine them handing me over to their friends and neighbors who'd thought to come by with felicitations for the newest addition to the family, wondering whether or not I would convulse in a spasm of racism when delivered into the onyx arms of neighborliness.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manoamondo.com&amp;blog=9599535&amp;post=721&amp;subd=manoamondo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unlost, or Cell Phones and the Age of Colliding</title>
		<link>http://manoamondo.com/2011/08/04/unlost-or-cell-phones-and-the-age-of-colliding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 05:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikthom</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cell phones]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The guts of cell phones have kaleidoscope’d into quasi-sentient beings over the last decade and I have finally accepted one of these new quasi-sentient beings into my life. It is a white rectangle  with a touchscreen that preserves splotchy swirls of oil whenever I touch it or press its charged glass against my face. The price of this added presence is an extra 20 dollars of monthly fees and a renewal of my years-old promise to stay true to my satellite provider in the sky. Even with maps available at all times I  get lost with the same frequency,  it’s only the process of discovering how to become unlost has quickened.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manoamondo.com&amp;blog=9599535&amp;post=629&amp;subd=manoamondo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Fight We Put Up: Videogames, Aged Beef, and Obscenity</title>
		<link>http://manoamondo.com/2011/03/22/the-fight-we-put-up-videogames-aged-beef-and-obscenity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikthom</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ginsberg v. New York]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get nervous jaywalking in Washington D.C. As I was trying to navigate the streets between the Judiciary Square Metro Stop and the U.S. Supreme Court--a convoluted dual grid of square city blocks and diagonal gashes that cut across the city—I felt a fear that the last two years of life in New York have numbed. There is no such thing as jaywalking in New York.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manoamondo.com&amp;blog=9599535&amp;post=563&amp;subd=manoamondo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Dimple in Time: My Mom and Dad</title>
		<link>http://manoamondo.com/2010/09/21/a-dimple-in-time-my-mom-and-dad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikthom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My parents were born and raised in Denmark, just a few miles from each other in the countryside north of Copenhagen. Danes are secular and irreverent, heavy consumers of alcohol, tobacco, and pornography. My parents were both brought up as Seventh-Day Adventists, an austere sect of Christianity that was viewed with skeptical peculiarity in Denmark. They didn’t actually meet until years later in Michigan, where my Dad was finishing his PhD and teaching at a small Adventist college. My Mom had come there to further her nursing career. Less than a year after meeting they were engaged. This is the dimple in time when they met, and when my arrow in time began to stiffen.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manoamondo.com&amp;blog=9599535&amp;post=477&amp;subd=manoamondo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Left Word Flowers for You There; or Memoir, Dimension, and Guilt</title>
		<link>http://manoamondo.com/2010/07/20/i-left-word-flowers-for-you-there-or-memoir-dimension-and-guilt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikthom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his recently published memoir, Christopher Hitchens wrote something that encapsulated all of the guilt I feel about my confessional writing. “For those I have loved, or who have been so lenient and gracious as to have loved me, I have not words enough here, and I remember with gratitude how they have made me speechless in return.” When I write, I have a recurring fear of betraying the loyalties of the people I write about. This is bearably nerve-wracking when profiling people or characterizing someone’s work or public opinions—a kind of writing I find painfully boring.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manoamondo.com&amp;blog=9599535&amp;post=453&amp;subd=manoamondo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Age of the Electronic Whale; or Politics and Hyperbole</title>
		<link>http://manoamondo.com/2010/05/20/the-age-of-the-electronic-whale-or-politics-and-hyperbole/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 00:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikthom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s one criticism of my writing that I’m especially sensitive to, the accusation of hyperbole. I’m happy to tangle with disagreement and often amused by personal insults and mockery, but when someone suggests hyperbole, I feel like I’ve failed in something essential. For the accusation to stick, it has to be demonstrated that the subject doesn’t actually believe what they’ve written. It’s an accusation of being disingenuous, having exaggerated a point beyond the limits of what the author really believes. It’s a devastating criticism. How can any writer expect someone else to believe a point that they themselves know is a whimsical untruth?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manoamondo.com&amp;blog=9599535&amp;post=374&amp;subd=manoamondo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cannibalism, Crisisses, and My Disappearing Sex Columns</title>
		<link>http://manoamondo.com/2010/05/05/cannibalism-crisisses-and-my-disappearing-sex-columns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 20:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikthom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week something unexpectedly terrible happened. I was rifling though some links of things I’d written and discovered that every Nerve column had disappeared. The links, when sent out to the humming computer boxes housed in a high-rise office building somewhere in midtown Manhattan, found empty spaces where once had been mementos from my emotion-swollen brain. When I first started writing I was in the habit of reading my own work over and over again. There was no one who enjoyed it more than me. No one better appreciated the words whose etymologic thread had an especially lovely meaning, or which connected to some anecdote that hovered silently in between the lines. No one reveled more than I did in the circuitous conclusions I’d arrive at after wandering in the rhetorical murk for a thousand words. And no one, certainly, laughed louder at my jokes.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manoamondo.com&amp;blog=9599535&amp;post=364&amp;subd=manoamondo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Case Against History, or Same-Sex Marriage and Human Digestion</title>
		<link>http://manoamondo.com/2010/04/15/the-case-against-history-or-same-sex-marriage-and-human-digestion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikthom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s sometimes unflattering to look back at the record of history one leaves behind. When I was twelve, I remember the mortification I felt when my dad brought home a video camera with which he intended to record one of his classes. He let me and a friend record ourselves yammering into the lens, and when we took the video tape out and replayed it on the television I felt like I was looking a poorly formed worm in a baggy t-shirt. My voice sounded somehow pig-like. The thrill I’d felt in seeing the glinting new piece of technology suddenly turned to resentment. “Get that stupid thing out of here,” I thought.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manoamondo.com&amp;blog=9599535&amp;post=351&amp;subd=manoamondo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage, Poetry, and Fucking That Ass That I Own</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikthom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poetry is a lost art that no one rightfully cares about anymore. Modern media offers many more powerful and direct methods for expressing the abstractions in our lives. The dusty old practitioners of word bending couldn’t keep pace with the rest of the world. It’s not that poetry is bad, nor that John Milton doesn’t matter anymore. It’s that there’s nothing left to build on in what remains of those old creations. You could listen to a song on your iPod, discovering the same colliding ideas held together across the semantic handholding of a linebreak, but now with the added embellishment of sound and performance. You could watch a montage of abstractly connected ideas held together on YouTube video streamed to your phone while waiting for the bus. The abstract surrounds us in new forms so much more than it did centuries ago, in an age of deliberate functionality and ceremonial human engagement.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manoamondo.com&amp;blog=9599535&amp;post=343&amp;subd=manoamondo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rites of Anniversary, Commemorabilia, or the Wallpaper of Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikthom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the roots of the word “right” comes from the French “droite,” which is derived from “du rois.” In this way a right was neither inalienable nor innately granted but referred to a slip of paper that exempted someone from a royal tax or restriction by order of the King. It’s an exception from an arbitrary demand, not a defining quality that can be used to ennoble humanity. On the other hand, the word “rite” is a demarcation of something passed through, experienced, or survived.

I moved to New York one year ago today. I can’t say that means anything, but it has been an experience that I’ve never really had before. It’s something I’m grateful for and so I’ll commemorate that strange and lucky passage with this collage of all the sights, experiences, and surprising places that have been a part of my meandering arrow of time here. Whatever I’ve done over the last year, this has been the world that I’ve done it in. And done it for.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=manoamondo.com&amp;blog=9599535&amp;post=278&amp;subd=manoamondo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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