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		<title>You shall not pass!</title>
		<link>http://www.jimallison.com/2012/01/30/you-shall-not-pass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Current Mood: BoredDon&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever posted a kitteh picture before&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="moods">Current Mood:<img src="/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_neutral.gif" alt="Bored emoticon" /> Bored</p><p>Don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever posted a kitteh picture before&#8230;</p>
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		<title>State of My Mind: Reason for the Season</title>
		<link>http://www.jimallison.com/2011/12/07/state-of-my-mind-reason-for-the-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<title>Quoteable Me: Effortless</title>
		<link>http://www.jimallison.com/2011/11/09/quoteable-me-effortless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Current Mood: Happy&#8220;The difference between moving a mountain and not lifting a finger is being in love.&#8221; &#8212; James Robert Allison]]></description>
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		<title>State of My Mind: Time of the Month</title>
		<link>http://www.jimallison.com/2011/08/25/state-of-my-mind-time-of-the-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Current Mood: MischievousIt&#8217;s been a long while since I&#8217;ve put out a comic&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="moods">Current Mood:<img src="/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_twisted.gif" alt="Mischievous emoticon" /> Mischievous</p><p>It&#8217;s been a long while since I&#8217;ve put out a comic&#8230;</p>
<p><img title="By the power of penis! I have the power!" src="http://www.jimallison.com/somm/timeofthemonth.png" alt="" width="640" /></p>
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		<title>Chaudair</title>
		<link>http://www.jimallison.com/2011/03/02/chaudair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chaudair? Chaudair? It&#8217;s chowdah! Chowdah!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chaudair?  Chaudair?  It&#8217;s chowdah! Chowdah!</p>
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		<title>English! Learn it!</title>
		<link>http://www.jimallison.com/2010/06/01/english-learn-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Current Mood: Whee!What if our favourite shows were written by stupid Internet people?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="moods">Current Mood:<img src="/wp-includes/images/smilies/thrpp.gif" alt="Whee! emoticon" /> Whee!</p><p>What if our favourite shows were written by stupid Internet people?</p>
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		<title>The Feeling Ceiling</title>
		<link>http://www.jimallison.com/2010/02/17/the-feeling-ceiling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Current Mood: FlirtatiousSince I have come across it a couple times in the last few years, I will now explain this concept using the male cast of Coupling. If you haven&#8217;t watched Coupling, go buy, download or YouTube it right now, you poor, deprived person! I&#8217;ll warn you now, though&#8230;just stop at the end of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="moods">Current Mood:<img src="/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt="Flirtatious emoticon" /> Flirtatious</p><p>Since I have come across it a couple times in the last few years, I will now explain this concept using the male cast of Coupling. If you haven&#8217;t watched Coupling, go buy, download or YouTube it right now, you poor, deprived person! I&#8217;ll warn you now, though&#8230;just stop at the end of season 3 and pretend that was it&#8230;the shark was not only jumped, but humped, bumped, and trumped in season 4.</p>
<p><em>Jeff, Steve and Patrick are in the bar on the sofa and side chair, as per usual.</em></p>
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<p><em>Jeff</em>:  Okay, so I&#8217;ll tell you about &#8220;The Feeling Ceiling.&#8221;<br />
<em>Steve, looking skeptical</em>:  Okay&#8230;<br />
<em>Jeff</em>:  Right&#8230;so&#8230;there&#8217;s these women, right?<br />
<em>Steve</em>:  There usually are, with your stories.<br />
<em>Jeff</em>:  Okay, and some of them, for whatever reason, don&#8217;t want to hear &#8220;the big L&#8221; from their boyfriends&#8230;it freaks them out and they go all crazy&#8230;and not crazy in a good way.<br />
<em>Steve</em>:  I&#8217;m familiar with these women.<br />
<em>Patrick</em>:  I love those women! Er, I mean, like them&#8230;you know what I mean.<br />
<em>Steve</em>:  Go on, Jeff.<br />
<em>Jeff</em>:  Right&#8230;so&#8230;with some women, you go out with them for months, and things are going great, but you don&#8217;t know how far you can go&#8230;how high you can rise in your feelings for them.  You say &#8220;the big L&#8221;, and BAM!<br />
<em>Steve jumps.</em><br />
<em>Jeff</em>:  &#8230;you hit&#8230;THE FEELING CEILING!<br />
<em>Steve</em>:  I see. So&#8230;<br />
<em>Jeff</em>:  And once you hit The Feeling Ceiling, you&#8217;re done! You&#8217;ve hit your head&#8230;you can&#8217;t go any higher.<br />
<em>Steve</em>:  Right&#8230;so&#8230;<br />
<em>Jeff</em>:  Even if you broke through, you&#8217;d be in the attic!<br />
<em>Steve</em>:  Um&#8230;<br />
<em>Jeff</em>:  &#8230;where your dad keeps his dirty magazines.<br />
<em>Patrick</em>:  Result! Nice.<br />
<em>Steve</em>:  Jeff&#8230;<br />
<em>Jeff</em>:  Then the next thing you know your mum&#8217;s calling, &#8220;Jeffrey! Are you in the attic? Why is the chandelier shaking?&#8221;<br />
<em>Steve</em>:  Too far, Jeff!<br />
<em>Jeff</em>:  Huh? Oh, right&#8230;so that&#8217;s&#8230;&#8221;The Feeling Ceiling.&#8221; If you&#8217;re not careful and go too high, you&#8217;ll be in the attic, masturbating.</p>
<p><em>Steve shakes his head, and Patrick looks thoughtful. Jeff is lost in the moment.<br />
</em></p>
<p><em>Sound of laugh track clapping.</em></p>
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		<title>Sunday Snowy Sunday</title>
		<link>http://www.jimallison.com/2009/12/16/sunday-snowy-sunday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Current Mood: PlayfulI started making this up in my head on Sunday, but had to concentrate on driving. Sung to U2&#8242;s Sunday Bloody Sunday: I can&#8217;t believe it snowed today, Oh, I can&#8217;t even drive, Please make it go away. How low&#8230; How low can the temperature go? How low, how low, Tonight, the ice [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="moods">Current Mood:<img src="/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif" alt="Playful emoticon" /> Playful</p><p>I started making this up in my head on Sunday, but had to concentrate on driving.</p>
<p>Sung to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQZLPV6xcHI" target="_blank" class="extlink">U2&#8242;s Sunday Bloody Sunday</a>:</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t believe it snowed today,<br />
Oh, I can&#8217;t even drive,<br />
Please make it go away.</p>
<p>How low&#8230;<br />
How low can the temperature go?<br />
How low, how low,<br />
Tonight, the ice will form,<br />
Tonight&#8230;</p>
<p>Slippy, slidey, under all our feet,<br />
Cars losing control across the street.<br />
But I won&#8217;t join those stupid duds,<br />
I went and got some,<br />
Went and got some tires with studs.</p>
<p>Sunday, snowy Sunday&#8230;<br />
Sunday, snowy Sunday&#8230;<br />
Sunday, snowy Sunday&#8230;</p>
<p>And the sleet has just begun,<br />
Many off the road, some more just spun.<br />
Why can&#8217;t people drive for crap?<br />
Moving slowly, surely, painfully,<br />
Mind the gap.</p>
<p>Sunday, snowy Sunday&#8230;<br />
Sunday, snowy Sunday&#8230;</p>
<p>How low&#8230;<br />
How low can the temperature go?<br />
How low, how low,<br />
Tonight, the ice will form,<br />
Tonight&#8230;tonight&#8230;</p>
<p>Sunday, snowy Sunday&#8230;<br />
Sunday, snowy Sunday&#8230;</p>
<p>Scrape ice from your windshield,<br />
Scrape the ice away.<br />
Oh, scrape the ice away,<br />
Oh, scrape the ice away,<br />
(Sunday, snowy Sunday)<br />
Oh, scrape away that damn ice!<br />
(Sunday, snowy Sunday)</p>
<p>Sunday, snowy Sunday (Sunday, snowy Sunday)&#8230;<br />
Sunday, snowy Sunday (Sunday, snowy Sunday)&#8230;</p>
<p>And I&#8217;m sure that it won&#8217;t stay,<br />
When it warms up everything will turn to slush.<br />
And today kids make snowmen,<br />
Enjoy them now, a puddle they&#8217;ll be then.</p>
<p>(Sunday, snowy Sunday)</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t believe I made this song,<br />
This waste of time, it is just wrong.</p>
<p>Sunday, snowy Sunday&#8230;<br />
Sunday, snowy Sunday&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Unwritten book excerpt: Time Agents &#8211; The Tunguska Transference</title>
		<link>http://www.jimallison.com/2009/09/01/unwritten-book-excerpt-time-agents-the-tunguska-transference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Current Mood: BoredAnother plasma blast went over Gareth&#8217;s head.  He hunkered down further into the hollow of the fallen tree.  Where the hell was Beatty? Then there was a flurry of footfalls and Gareth&#8217;s partner&#8217;s slim form dived down next to him.  He had in his hands&#8230; &#8220;Oh my God,&#8221; Gareth muttered. Beatty&#8217;s eyes were [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="moods">Current Mood:<img src="/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_neutral.gif" alt="Bored emoticon" /> Bored</p><p>Another plasma blast went over Gareth&#8217;s head.  He hunkered down further into the hollow of the fallen tree.  Where the hell was Beatty?</p>
<p>Then there was a flurry of footfalls and Gareth&#8217;s partner&#8217;s slim form dived down next to him.  He had in his hands&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;Oh my God,&#8221; Gareth muttered.</p>
<p>Beatty&#8217;s eyes were locked on the round transparent sphere as he fiddled with the controls on the base.  &#8220;Yeah, it&#8217;s the antimatter drive,&#8221; he said, matter-of-factly.  &#8220;The <em>Wells</em> is damaged beyond repair, but the drive&#8217;s magnetic bottle is still intact.&#8221;</p>
<p>Gareth shook his head.  &#8220;Naw, man, naw&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Beatty reached out and grabbed Gareth by his collar.  The man&#8217;s eyes put tempered steel to shame, Gareth thought.  &#8220;Nothing else we have has even made a mark on the enemy ship,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>With the flip of a switch, the antimatter drive started to emit a keening wail.  Beatty continued, &#8220;The date is June 30, 1908 AD, and that river back there?  It&#8217;s called the Tunguska.  We have history on our side, Gareth.  Those bastards don&#8217;t have a chance.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>These Aren&#8217;t The Hammer</title>
		<link>http://www.jimallison.com/2009/08/28/these-arent-the-hammer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Current Mood: PlayfulGeoffrey and Emily were playing with the blow-up hammers they got at the PNE. Geoffrey: Emily&#8217;s hammer is bigger than mine. Me: But do you know how to use it? Geoffrey: Yeah. Me: Okay then.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="moods">Current Mood:<img src="/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif" alt="Playful emoticon" /> Playful</p><p>Geoffrey and Emily were playing with the blow-up hammers they got at the PNE.</p>
<p><em>Geoffrey: </em>Emily&#8217;s hammer is bigger than mine.</p>
<p><em>Me:</em> But do you know how to use it?</p>
<p><em>Geoffrey:</em> Yeah.</p>
<p><em>Me:</em> Okay then.</p>
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