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	<title>Buffy Holt &#187; blogging</title>
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		<title>downton abbey. and some smothering dream.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2012/01/20/downton-abbey-and-old-beggars-under-sacks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t a post about Downton Abbey. But it is a post about Wilfred Owen, and he seems to be popping up a lot lately because of Downton. Media Bistro recently published a &#8220;Downton Abbey Reading List&#8221; and The New York Times even did a piece about Downton and how publishers were using America&#8217;s interest [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2012/01/20/downton-abbey-and-old-beggars-under-sacks/' addthis:title='downton abbey. and some smothering dream.' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>regency</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2012/01/09/regency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great Expectations BBC One I spent the last few weeks eating pies and watching costume dramas and reading Claire Tomalin&#8217;s Dickens Biography. I gained five pounds, discovered the wonderfully squared jawline of a young Douglas Booth, and began to suspect that my favorite Victorian novelist was a wee bit fond of hallucinogenics (see: henbane). I [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2012/01/09/regency/' addthis:title='regency' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>cast your fate to the wind</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/10/05/cast-your-fate-to-the-wind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been listening to the Charlie Brown Christmas Album and various Vince Guaraldi holiday hits since mid-September. They&#8217;re all mildly sedative and put the calm in me. I spent most of last week in the hospital. I didn&#8217;t get there on my own merit &#8211; a certain someone decided to have a stroke, and there [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/10/05/cast-your-fate-to-the-wind/' addthis:title='cast your fate to the wind' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>she&#8217;s the zeal i wish i had</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/09/12/shes-the-zeal-i-wish-i-had/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/?p=4813</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I started running again last week. Because everything hurts when I don&#8217;t and because it&#8217;s preferable to yoga. Because even though I&#8217;m a bit of a sloth, when it comes to exercise, I&#8217;d rather move than not. Also, you can&#8217;t eagle pose to Eye of the Tiger. That&#8217;s just a fact. Steph drove over this [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/09/12/shes-the-zeal-i-wish-i-had/' addthis:title='she&#8217;s the zeal i wish i had' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>the brief wondrous</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/08/11/the-brief-wondrous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Junot Diaz made me cry. Twice. Not his writing . Because, I&#8217;ve gotta be honest. I haven&#8217;t read any of it yet. (Not yet.) But his voice. I have absolutely zero in common with the man. Our backgrounds are not at all similar. Our lives, current, even less so. But hearing him speak really lit [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/08/11/the-brief-wondrous/' addthis:title='the brief wondrous' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>sweet dreams</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/07/19/sweet-dreams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 04:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know stress is getting the better of you when you wake up at 4:00am-screaming. I use to do this routinely. The Euro found it amusing, until he didn&#8217;t. Then he started sleeping in the guest bedroom because &#8220;you&#8217;re going to give me a heart attack and I&#8217;d really rather you not, thanks.&#8221; But that [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/07/19/sweet-dreams/' addthis:title='sweet dreams' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>mo and kev.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/06/17/mo-and-kev/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re in London this summer stop by the National Portrait Gallery&#8217;s BP Portrait Award Exhibition and see &#8220;Mo and Kev&#8221; by artist Chris Holt. I&#8217;ve mentioned Chris&#8217;s artistic talents before and you&#8217;ll see from his bio on the National Portrait Gallery&#8217;s website that he&#8217;s also a BAFTA nominated director, writer, and producer. So you [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/06/17/mo-and-kev/' addthis:title='mo and kev.' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>rare bird alert</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/05/29/rare-bird-alert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 02:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/?p=4651</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Flynn and I have an ongoing fantasy involving Bill Murray and Steve Martin &#8211; circumstance throws the four of us together and we live happily ever after on an island in the south pacific, eating cheese and drinking wine and spearing the occasional sailfish. That sort of thing. On Tuesday I put on my traveling [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/05/29/rare-bird-alert/' addthis:title='rare bird alert' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>the girl who would speak for the dead. by paul elwork.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/05/03/the-girl-who-would-speak-for-the-dead-by-paul-elwork/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 19:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/?p=4564</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the pleasure of being introduced to author Paul Elwork whose debut novel The Girl Who Would Speak For the Dead (Amy Einhorn Books/Penguin Group) was released in March. The title and cover are good and gothic and more than enough to pull you in &#8211; but it&#8217;s the story that keeps you [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/05/03/the-girl-who-would-speak-for-the-dead-by-paul-elwork/' addthis:title='the girl who would speak for the dead. by paul elwork.' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>that catherine girl.  and the abbey.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/04/29/that-katherine-girl-and-the-abbey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever anyone mentions Westminster Abbey around Steph she gets all crazy-eyed and shouts out LONGSHANKS! It has to do with her obsession with William Wallace and a kind of temporary Tourette&#8217;s. London is a pretty camera-friendly place, but there&#8217;s no photographs allowed inside the Abbey. Unless you&#8217;re Steph. She&#8217;s a bit of a ninja and [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/04/29/that-katherine-girl-and-the-abbey/' addthis:title='that catherine girl.  and the abbey.' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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