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	<title>Annette Appollo</title>
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		<title>&#8220;Last Words&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the title of George Carlin&#8217;s posthumously published sortabiography, finished by Tony Hendra, a funny, funny, smart man who had been Carlin&#8217;s friend for many decades, and with whom he&#8217;d started work on this project many years ago.
Right after the table of contents, and just before Hendra&#8217;s introduction, there is this small statement:
It says &#8220;Gee, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annetteappollo.com/2009/12/15/last-words/</link>
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		<title>There are some great people out there&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[and I&#8217;m lucky enough to have some of them as friends.  The dog is pure lagniappe, for sure.  Cuter than all of us put together.
But, when Rosemary backed the right guy for President &#8211; alas, things go awry &#8211; she managed to get her picture taken with him:

And Harry, who loves James as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annetteappollo.com/2009/12/09/there-are-some-great-people-out-there/</link>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Dad&#8230;&#8230;..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He would have been ninety-five years old today.  Hard to imagine, but numbers don&#8217;t lie.  Fortunately, he doesn&#8217;t have that kind of infirmity to contend with, having shuffled off his mortal shell long before it became too burdensome.
When it finally mattered, he showed his greatest gift:  he got the hell out of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annetteappollo.com/2009/12/08/happy-birthday-dad/</link>
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		<title>One can never be too careful&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not like my wonderful pal is a conspiracy theorist of any kind, but it never hurts to have a tin hat handy, just in case:

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		<link>http://www.annetteappollo.com/2009/12/03/one-can-never-be-too-careful/</link>
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		<title>Rudolph had it coming&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Little Boy is at it again, looking at another weekend where he&#8217;ll be out on his property, disguised as a buck or something, wearing an antler hat and a bright orange vest, designed to fool any deer that wanders by, for sure.  
I mean, what&#8217;s more attractive to an innocent woodland creature than a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annetteappollo.com/2009/12/02/rudolph-had-it-coming/</link>
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		<title>What the blind man saw, what he told me&#8230;..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was maybe twenty years ago.  I was dallying in San Francisco, caught up with yet another handsome and stupid man with a silver Porsche and the intelligence of wallpaper.
But he was pretty.  And he had excellent table manners.  Looked wonderful in a tux, and really was very presentable if you didn’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annetteappollo.com/2009/12/01/what-the-blind-man-saw-what-he-told-me/</link>
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		<title>A brand new baby girl!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[She&#8217;s growing so quickly.  Babies have a way of doing this.
Here is the newborn Ryan, in early September:

And here she is now, not quite three months old!

She&#8217;s already a beauty, and, if she&#8217;s anything like her twin cousins, old GrannyT**t is gonna be on the run for the next thirty years or so.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annetteappollo.com/2009/11/30/a-brand-new-baby-girl/</link>
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		<title>DANGER! DANGER! DANGER!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that you take your life in your hands if you try to get in between a hungry Princess Ava and her Happy Meal, even if it&#8217;s only to get her to smile for a quick picture:

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		<link>http://www.annetteappollo.com/2009/11/21/danger-danger-danger/</link>
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		<title>Doesn&#8217;t he look so ALIVE?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Upright, breathing, eyes reflecting light it can&#8217;t even see, all brought to us by the magic of technology and the sneaky little camera that Little Boy has installed in his magic place where he hunts during the deer season.  He likes to send me pictures of the Big Bambis he plans to kill.
This one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annetteappollo.com/2009/11/21/doesnt-he-look-so-alive/</link>
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		<title>Thinking of the men, remembering The Man&#8230;&#8230;..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I’ve been watching a lot of videos and listening to a lot of music made by the entertainer I regard as the best in the world.  Of course, he’s named Meat Loaf, which sort of detracts from the exalted plane on which I’ve placed him, but I must agree that Meat Loaf is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annetteappollo.com/2009/11/19/thinking-of-men%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Irony, like The Dude, prevails&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Graydon Carter famously, and opaquely, declared that the events of 9/11 had effectively killed irony.  I still don’t know what that meant, but I do know that watching the news coverage of yesterday’s massacre at Fort Hood, a most enlightening notion struck me:
Imagine that this horrid event so affects President Obama that he decides [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annetteappollo.com/2009/11/06/irony-like-the-dude-prevails/</link>
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		<title>Princess Ava&#8217;s school pictures&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This little girl is a natural before the camera, which clearly loves her &#8211; who doesn&#8217;t?
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		<link>http://www.annetteappollo.com/2009/11/04/princess-avas-school-pictures/</link>
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		<title>Madame Ambassador, at your service&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The funniest story I can tell you today is about our new Ambassador to a certain Western European country which shall remain nameless here.
She was my best friend during our first year of law school, before my then-husband and I moved, and I transferred schools.  She was very wealthy &#8211; her mother was from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annetteappollo.com/2009/11/04/madame-ambassador-and-she-swallows/</link>
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		<title>Happy Belated Birthday, GC&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not for one moment do you not own my heart.
I love you with everything in me, G.  And that&#8217;s forever&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..
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		<link>http://www.annetteappollo.com/2009/10/30/happy-belated-birthday-gc/</link>
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		<title>When good families go redneck&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;ve recovered now, but their long weekend in the backwoods caused a temporary, but sincere, regression.  Princess Ava was seen frolicking quite regally in a creek, which is now sanctified water.  Young Master Cole discovered that the animals&#8217; souls would bend to his will, with only his thoughts as the weapon.
(His father, of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annetteappollo.com/2009/10/15/when-good-families-go-redneck/</link>
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		<title>The backstory&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</title>
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		<link>http://www.annetteappollo.com/2009/10/10/the-backstory/</link>
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		<title>All things being relative&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</title>
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		<link>http://www.annetteappollo.com/2009/10/10/all-things-being-relative/</link>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s Annette?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Has anybody seen any sign of her?
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		<link>http://www.annetteappollo.com/2009/09/15/wheres-annette/</link>
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		<title>What Easter means to me &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
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		<link>http://www.annetteappollo.com/2009/04/10/what-easter-means-to-me/</link>
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		<title>Showing the Brits &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; how it&#8217;s done at 10 Downing Street.

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		<link>http://www.annetteappollo.com/2009/04/07/showing-the-brits/</link>
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