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		<title>The Capitalists Tale &#8211; timely short story</title>
		<link>http://tallstories.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/the-capitalists-tale-timely-short-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am indebted to an old friend and relative for this timely tale of capitalist ingenuity.
Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar. To solve this problem, she comes up with new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tallstories.wordpress.com&blog=667943&post=179&subd=tallstories&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Torment of Saint Anthony- naked truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 22:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>callinan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just heard the news that an original painting by Michaelangelo, &#8216;The Torment Of Saint Anthony&#8217; is going on show in New York.
A quickie: when I was growing in Ireland and the UK it was common to say a quick prayer to St Anthony if you had lost something.
It was just &#8220;Saint Anthony guide me&#8221;. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tallstories.wordpress.com&blog=667943&post=172&subd=tallstories&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All The Wild Young Children</title>
		<link>http://tallstories.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/all-the-wild-young-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 19:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was surprised to discover this video of Sean Tyrrell singing a song  I wrote when I was  very young.
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		<title>Science, religion, creationism and Darwin</title>
		<link>http://tallstories.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/science-religion-creationism-and-darwin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 09:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>callinan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Metaphysics & religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of debate, books and articles and programmes about the issue of: &#8216;Is there a God?&#8217;; &#8216;Is there life after death?&#8217;; &#8216;Is Darwin right?&#8217;; &#8216;Are spirituality and religion shams and delusions?&#8217;
Well, perhaps they are all right &#8211; and all wrong.
An interesting proposition seems to be that all of these arguments are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tallstories.wordpress.com&blog=667943&post=144&subd=tallstories&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Marrakech Express &#8211; bring on the camels</title>
		<link>http://tallstories.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/the-marrakech-express-bring-on-the-camels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even writers need a holiday. With a certain regret at leaving a warm keyboard, especially at a time when my US agent is shopping my new novel (hopefully first of a series) &#8216;Old Habits Die Hard&#8217; and I am getting interest from actors to come on board my proposed TV drama &#8216;The Forest&#8217;, I revisited [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tallstories.wordpress.com&blog=667943&post=134&subd=tallstories&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Apocalypse and the credit crunch</title>
		<link>http://tallstories.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/the-apocalypse-and-the-credit-crunch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>callinan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a longish break from this blog that included Christmas, the New Year and my birthday. There is a condition known as blog burn out but I don&#8217;t think I was suffering from that. Maybe I had just run out of ideas for posts.
What&#8217;s  happened since then? Well, the world has spiralled down [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tallstories.wordpress.com&blog=667943&post=126&subd=tallstories&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Naked writer at the pool</title>
		<link>http://tallstories.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/naked-writer-at-the-pool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>callinan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know why (I do really) the word &#8216;naked&#8217; seems to jump start views of this blog but I&#8217;m grateful for it.
   I&#8217;m not big fan of political correctness so my mind was full of interesting stuff as I made my way to the changing room at my local swimming pool.
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		<title>Film script opportunity</title>
		<link>http://tallstories.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/film-script-opportunity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>callinan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may as well have a go at this one.
BBC Northern Ireland is once again searching for the next generation of television writers with the launch of the Tony Doyle Bursary for New Writing. Now in its sixth year, the bursary is open to new writers who think they’ve got what it takes to start a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tallstories.wordpress.com&blog=667943&post=114&subd=tallstories&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing, HarperCollins, Authonomy and the sock puppets</title>
		<link>http://tallstories.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/marketing-harpercollins-authonomy-and-the-sock-puppets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>callinan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was having a good time on HarperCollins&#8217;s new peer review online slush pile, Authonomy. Writers upload chapters or whole books and the community of writers comment. Later, readers came on stream. My book, &#8216;Old Habits Die Hard&#8217; rose to number 12 (first five actually get read by editors) and was virtually number one in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tallstories.wordpress.com&blog=667943&post=109&subd=tallstories&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Roadblocks to retirement</title>
		<link>http://tallstories.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/roadblocks-to-retirement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>callinan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trials of a reluctant motor home buyer
There is a certain lure about it. I mean the prospect of sliding into the driving seat of a two-litre plus motor home like a modern day supercharged nomad and heading out on a voyage of discovery – free to go anywhere you like and take as long as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tallstories.wordpress.com&blog=667943&post=106&subd=tallstories&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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