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	<title>FlipCollective &#187; Paul Shirley</title>
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		<title>A Million Miles An Hour (Thanksdude), by Paul Shirley</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pshirley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paul Shirley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[did he get my message]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[messaging worries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[texting mistakes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[{No problem. I’ll pick it up on the way over.} I type, {Thanks dude} I stare at my phone. What, I can’t muster a couple of marks of punctuation? Backspace x 11. {Thanks, dude.} That’s kinda formal. What is this, a response to a wedding invitation? And comma plus period? Haven’t I thus negated the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Weather In Neverland, by Paul Shirley</title>
		<link>http://www.flipcollective.com/2012/01/24/the-weather-in-neverland-by-paul-shirley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pshirley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[l.a. is neverland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lalaland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[los angeles and peter pan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the weather in los angeles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As obvious a metaphor as ever there was: Los Angeles is Neverland. Adults dress like children, grown men rise at 11, breakfast food is as ubiquitous as oxygen. (More so, on some days.) Velcro shoes are acceptable footwear for first dates, a two-hour trip to the coffee shop counts as work, dreaming replaces doing. All [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speechless, by Paul Shirley</title>
		<link>http://www.flipcollective.com/2012/01/17/speechless-by-paul-shirley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pshirley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[brooklyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[last words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[long-distance relationships]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.flipcollective.com/?p=4606</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Brooklyn, New York A hand on the nape of my neck. She pulls me down to her face, closing her eyes as she does. I can’t help but look over her shoulder, at the blue light coming from beside her bed. 12:36 Pompeii, Italy The sound of his feet drumming against the pavement warns of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warning: May Cause Self-Loathing, by Paul Shirley</title>
		<link>http://www.flipcollective.com/2012/01/10/warning-may-cause-self-loathing-by-paul-shirley/</link>
		<comments>http://www.flipcollective.com/2012/01/10/warning-may-cause-self-loathing-by-paul-shirley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pshirley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paul Shirley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life after sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the results of a basketball career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what comes after a basketball career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what comes next]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.flipcollective.com/?p=4548</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t like myself. This is not something I ever thought I’d feel compelled to write, or even to think. When I was in second grade and some teacher or consultant or vice-principal came to our class to talk to us about self-esteem (because it was the eighties and the eighties were all about self-esteem), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Internal Monologue Of A 67-Year-Old Woman As She Watches The Trailer For The 3-D Version Of Titanic, by Paul Shirley</title>
		<link>http://www.flipcollective.com/2012/01/03/the-internal-monologue-of-a-67-year-old-woman-as-she-watches-the-trailer-for-the-3-d-version-of-titanic-for-the-first-time-by-paul-shirley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pshirley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[new titanic trailer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[titanic preview]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[GREEN SCREEN: WHITE TEXT: “The Following PREVIEW Has Been Approved For APPROPRIATE AUDIENCES” 00:00:00 Jeesh! Another one? I didn’t pay thirteen dollars to watch commercials. I’m ready for Robert Downey Jr.! And that Jude Law, heavens-to-Betsy. I wonder what he’s been doing since that Mr. Ripley movie. I wonder if Matt Damon will make a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eyes, by Paul Shirley</title>
		<link>http://www.flipcollective.com/2011/12/28/eyes-by-paul-shirley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pshirley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[leaving]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[looking in someone's eyes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These eyes, looking up at me from the curb. They’re about to leave me, these eyes. Not forever, or at least, I don’t think. But then again, I don’t know for sure. Their owner could take them on Delta 5998 and the plane could fall out of the sky or they could watch the rest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Settlers Of Cool, by Paul Shirley</title>
		<link>http://www.flipcollective.com/2011/12/20/settlers-of-cool-by-paul-shirley/</link>
		<comments>http://www.flipcollective.com/2011/12/20/settlers-of-cool-by-paul-shirley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pshirley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[best board games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[best board games for christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christmas gift ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[settlers of catan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.flipcollective.com/?p=4488</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has become cool to call yourself a nerd; to say that you once struggled to make sense of the complexities of human interaction and/or listened to a lot of wrist-cutting music in your childhood. It’s disarming -  a weakness that’s not all that weak. An opening offer in the negotiation of a social contract. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tebow Effect, by Paul Shirley</title>
		<link>http://www.flipcollective.com/2011/12/06/the-tebow-effect-by-paul-shirley/</link>
		<comments>http://www.flipcollective.com/2011/12/06/the-tebow-effect-by-paul-shirley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pshirley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[sports and religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tebow and football]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tim tebow and religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t like Tim Tebow. Because I don’t watch much football, my dislike of Tim Tebow is based on specious evidence, namely that I occasionally watched Tebow play in college, and that it took me approximately two plays from scrimmage to pick up on his “thing.” The religious thing, I mean. And that thing was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sports: The New American God, by Paul Shirley</title>
		<link>http://www.flipcollective.com/2011/11/29/sports-the-new-american-god-by-paul-shirley/</link>
		<comments>http://www.flipcollective.com/2011/11/29/sports-the-new-american-god-by-paul-shirley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pshirley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[football coaches and priests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[penn state and priests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion in sports]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, it became clear that sexual misconduct between priests and young boys was and had been widespread in the Catholic Church. On November 5th of this year, a former assistant football coach at Pennsylvania State University stood accused of sexual misconduct with young boys. A few weeks later, a longtime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Thankful For, by Paul Shirley</title>
		<link>http://www.flipcollective.com/2011/11/22/what-im-thankful-for-by-paul-shirley/</link>
		<comments>http://www.flipcollective.com/2011/11/22/what-im-thankful-for-by-paul-shirley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pshirley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paul Shirley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[i have to write what i'm thankful for]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kiribati flag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thanksgiving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what i'm thankful]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Long brown hair, Pale blue eyes. California sunsets, Kansas City skies. &#160; The books of Richard Russo, Music by Arcade Fire. The ears on baby monkeys, The movie Princess Bride. &#160; Seeing a sign like this one: Whenever I might drive. A good, old-fashioned breakfast, And showering inside. &#160; Barcelona, Spain, The Truckers who Drive-By. [...]]]></description>
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