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		<title>Whines and other whelpish excuses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry I have been way too busy to blog lately. After almost being outsourced at work, I decided it would behoove me to add value to my person by pursuing an MBA. I am still writing, but not fiction. Mostly case studies. I am still reading, but SF is taking a backseat to Accounting, Statistics, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonathanerock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5757086&amp;post=139&amp;subd=jonathanerock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A quick review of Bones of the Dragon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bones of the Dragon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bones of the Dragon (audiobook) I’ve not read Weis and Hickman before, but my brother-in-law has thoroughly enjoyed some of their previous series. With that in mind I looked forward to Bones of the Dragon, the first in the Dragonships series following the fates of Skylan Ivorson and his clans of Vindrasi. Their lifestyle has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonathanerock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5757086&amp;post=135&amp;subd=jonathanerock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palimpsest</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life&#8217;s too short for bad books. You read so many and then you&#8217;re done whether it is debilitation or death. And the internets are rife with people throwing books at the wall. But if the writing is beautiful&#8230;if the ideas are mind-blowing&#8230;. It&#8217;s easy to dismiss substandard fare, but this book defeated me. I brought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonathanerock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5757086&amp;post=118&amp;subd=jonathanerock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Callback Technique</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah the mighty callback technique. Comedians use it to wrap up their shtick (some nights I think Letterman uses it exclusively). But it is powerful in other types of writing as well. For example a second viewing of M Night Shyamalan&#8217;s The Sixth Sense shows numerous hints and details which point to the surprise ending. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonathanerock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5757086&amp;post=125&amp;subd=jonathanerock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My silence and hypocrisy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Halo 3]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay so my previous post is a curt, unfair review of Halo 3 ODST based on the nausea that playing Mombasa Streets gives me. Reading that one would think I beat the game and moved on. Not so. The reason I haven&#8217;t updated this blog in a very long time is that I have been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonathanerock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5757086&amp;post=127&amp;subd=jonathanerock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Review:  Halo 3 ODST</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanerock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wanted an all-day deep sea charter fishing trip, but lacked the money and time to commit to it? Never fear. Play the campaign for Halo 3 ODST for thirty minutes as the Rookie in night-time New Mombasa and you will have the lingering green-in-the-gills, lie on your bed with the pillow over your face [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonathanerock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5757086&amp;post=122&amp;subd=jonathanerock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Negative Onlies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are certain words and phrases that have accumulated in cultural parlance for which the positive use is vestigial, but the negatory enjoys widespread use. For example, whenever somebody retains their faculties through a surprising, or violent occurrence they are referred to as &#8220;unfazed.&#8221; But rarely do you hear somebody relate: &#8220;I was completely fazed!&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonathanerock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5757086&amp;post=120&amp;subd=jonathanerock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet update</title>
		<link>http://jonathanerock.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/sweet-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Biscuit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was gonna write a sweet update today, but my wife just got back from Meijer with some awesome biscuits and my daughter is screaming No for the sheer joy of it, so I&#8217;ll give you a writing prompt: Write a story in which a character realizes that he can&#8217;t write right now because some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonathanerock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5757086&amp;post=119&amp;subd=jonathanerock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Story Published @Outshine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanerock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a humorous, near future, optimistic story up at the twitter magazine @Outshine. For those of you linking to this blog from there, welcome! Take a look around, you can find some posts about writing, science fiction, and some advice from the pros on worldbuilding for the short story length. For those of you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonathanerock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5757086&amp;post=114&amp;subd=jonathanerock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jon Rock&#8217;s Heroic Shades</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a leader for my church&#8217;s high school youth group. For weeks I have heard about how feminine my shades are. Frequent comments include: &#8220;Dude, why are you wearing girl shades?&#8221; and &#8220;Those look ridiculous on you.&#8221; I even put my shades on the line in an Xbox showdown with a student that has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jonathanerock.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5757086&amp;post=102&amp;subd=jonathanerock&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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