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		<title>Plan 9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have seen what most people consider the worst film ever made, Plan 9 from Outer Space, a film made even more famous by Johnny Depp’s turn as director Ed Wood. I assure you: it is as bad as they say. It is, in all likelihood, the worst movie ever made. But you know what? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two More Favorites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This first is The Music Lesson by Henri Matisse. Again, for me it&#8217;s really about color, but I also just love the mood here. The second is by Vincent van Gogh: A Corridor in the Asylum. I&#8217;m not as fond of the colors here, but I love those sweeping, downward-curving ceiling beams and those jagged [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chalkdust.mitchellkdwyer.net/?p=1913</link>
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		<title>Death, Dying, and English Teachers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was an English teacher at Dear Alma Mater, this was the assigned ninth-grade reading: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Lord of the Flies by William Golding Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare “Why is the assigned reading so depressing?” I was often asked by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chalkdust.mitchellkdwyer.net/?p=1912</link>
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		<title>On Creativity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are people who’ve been creative ever since they were little kids. I wasn’t like that. Until my first-grade year, I never felt compelled or motivated to create anything. I liked to color, but I was no good at drawing. I loved to read, but I never felt the desire to write anything of my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chalkdust.mitchellkdwyer.net/?p=1911</link>
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		<title>Solitude</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite paintings. It’s Solitude by Marc Chagall, and when I teach my students how to look at art and how to make interesting comments on it, it’s one of the ones I use. I teach them first ONLY to talk about what’s ACTUALLY there. It’s not as easy for them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chalkdust.mitchellkdwyer.net/?p=1910</link>
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		<title>A Quick List of Films About Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gonna be writing about art for the next month, and even though it’s a challenge for me to say anything interesting or meaningful about art without sounding like the ignoramus I am, I think it will be a good exercise for me. I’m not doing NaNoWriMo this year and will instead be working on something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chalkdust.mitchellkdwyer.net/?p=1908</link>
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		<title>The Mountain Goats: &#8220;1 John 4:16&#8243;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t stop crying. In the holding tank I built for myself It&#8217;s feeding time And I start to feel afraid &#8216;Cause I&#8217;m the last one left in line. The endless string of summer storms That led me to today Began one afternoon with you Long ago and far away. And someone leads the beast in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chalkdust.mitchellkdwyer.net/?p=1906</link>
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		<title>I Never Wave Bye-Bye</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Strange couple of weeks, again. I am having the hardest time yanking myself out of vampire mode, and it&#8217;s driving me crazy. It&#8217;s 4:34 in the morning as I write this and for the past two hours, I&#8217;ve pretty much been up just to be up, like when I was young and stupid. As I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chalkdust.mitchellkdwyer.net/?p=1905</link>
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		<title>Friday 5: Dog and Pony Shows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s your favorite zoo animal? It&#8217;s a tie between bears and elephants. I don&#8217;t think we have bears at our zoo, so at least here at home, it would be elephants. They are so noble and admirable. What&#8217;s your favorite circus act? I dislike circuses after what happened in 1994. I won&#8217;t go to a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chalkdust.mitchellkdwyer.net/?p=1902</link>
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		<title>Book Review: A Million Shades of Gray by Cynthia Kadohata</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Million Shades of Gray by Cynthia Kadohata My rating: 3 of 5 stars I didn&#8217;t know there were tribal agrarian peoples in Vietnam who were not officially involved in the war. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m especially ignorant about these things, so I admit I was surprised to learn about the Rhade people, a tribe [...]]]></description>
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