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<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>Not really Bukowski, not quite Krakauer. Just lots of hyperbole. With sprinklings of music (especially Tom Waits) news, and bitter reflections on the downfall of Star Wars, an introspective look at my reality.</description><title>Swordfish &amp; Trombones</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @swordfish-trombones)</generator><link>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>Shutouts to my main turtles Scrimp and Bernie. We had a good...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/06e2299b848a6a817eafb2dd145a9f9f/tumblr_mmwwrsafEb1s1vpnjo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shutouts to my main turtles Scrimp and Bernie. We had a good run, but you’re in safe hands with @whalno&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/50605643263</link><guid>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/50605643263</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:21:28 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Stress ball with your taco? #cramjam #bruff</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a7a5a4f7400f41c895787401c6378412/tumblr_mm1vivD5AZ1s1vpnjo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stress ball with your taco? #cramjam #bruff&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/49237204307</link><guid>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/49237204307</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:08:55 -0400</pubDate><category>cramjam</category><category>bruff</category></item><item><title>Address the Excess - A Recipe for Cutting Food Waste: Peter...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UwOHpWTRsbE?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Address the Excess - A Recipe for Cutting Food Waste: Peter Lehner at TEDxManhattan 2013 (by &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwOHpWTRsbE&amp;feature=share"&gt;TEDxTalks&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/46826048469</link><guid>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/46826048469</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:05:41 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Dreams do come true #sb2013 #alabama</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/df896f51ea57a023f0273dff8a8f7789/tumblr_mkablfNJNP1s1vpnjo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dreams do come true #sb2013 #alabama&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/46359593278</link><guid>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/46359593278</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:29:38 -0400</pubDate><category>alabama</category><category>sb2013</category></item><item><title>#PlantingDay over at Fee-Fi-Fo-Farm! in the lower 9th ward #FFFF...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ce7ff75c65be0766a686af9fc86f6197/tumblr_mjtgflTDKk1s1vpnjo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;#PlantingDay over at Fee-Fi-Fo-Farm! in the lower 9th ward #FFFF #StMo&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/45600156338</link><guid>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/45600156338</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:54:57 -0400</pubDate><category>ffff</category><category>stmo</category><category>plantingday</category></item><item><title>What Sally Jewell’s Nomination Means for the Outdoor Industry</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/adventure-ethics/What-Sally-Jewells-Nomination-Means-for-the-Outdoor-Industry.html"&gt;What Sally Jewell’s Nomination Means for the Outdoor Industry&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Great article regarding the future of Environmental protection in the US….Will Jewell lead to a green revolution in American land development?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/43511303905</link><guid>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/43511303905</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:46:36 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Meet The Roots of Music, StubHub’s Inaugural Rising Star...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SNl4F5mXRqo?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Meet The Roots of Music, StubHub’s Inaugural Rising Star (by &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNl4F5mXRqo&amp;feature=share"&gt;stubhub&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/42436268165</link><guid>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/42436268165</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:22:26 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Goldmine.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://proj.tgxn.net/converter/"&gt;http://proj.tgxn.net/converter/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/42327167595</link><guid>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/42327167595</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:19:47 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Rebirth Brass Band - Casanova (by surewould85)</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NLdgKIWjtro?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rebirth Brass Band - Casanova (by &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLdgKIWjtro&amp;feature=share"&gt;surewould85&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/42324978654</link><guid>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/42324978654</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:53:38 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work.html?source=tumblr#.URByLFx1l-U.tumblr"&gt;Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;How life works -  Happiness leads to success, not vice/versa&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/42324259465</link><guid>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/42324259465</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:45:14 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Welcome to the bywater</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b63a767c0fbadb6c9c263037b7367526/tumblr_mhq7hq0zvv1s1vpnjo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the bywater&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/42323970095</link><guid>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/42323970095</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:41:50 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>#49erNation</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/94fc59e9746acf546493bbffb1b5c048/tumblr_mhq7hdyQf91s1vpnjo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;#49erNation&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/42323950473</link><guid>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/42323950473</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:41:37 -0500</pubDate><category>49ernation</category></item><item><title>It’s the Super Bowl baaaaby #49ernation...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4cd52c3a5e6ba904ab8f07fd171c96d3/tumblr_mhnz07lhIO1s1vpnjo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;It’s the Super Bowl baaaaby #49ernation #superbowl2013#NOLA&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/42219948257</link><guid>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/42219948257</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:43:18 -0500</pubDate><category>superbowl2013</category><category>nola</category><category>49ernation</category></item><item><title>The Hassidic Yeshiva. It was. An unsettling experience, if only...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/02479c7685c40b42f2e074163a3c5bc9/tumblr_mg1zshlNfm1s1vpnjo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Hassidic Yeshiva. It was. An unsettling experience, if only because it revealed the clear gender stratification found in all orthodox religions. Similarily, I felt that Hassidim follows a very self-righteous path to enlightenment, where I personally favor universalism as the path to self-discovery. Also, one of the Israeli soldiers among our group, Haim, told me that those in the yeshiva do not pay taxes or work at all, but only study Torah all day. Interesting….&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/39565841123</link><guid>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/39565841123</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:19:29 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Some days…</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/6770962b799cafad48821da1a3805a93/tumblr_mfpadz8qQ81s1vpnjo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some days…&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/38961293987</link><guid>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/38961293987</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:39:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>My home - beautiful Mt. Tam in the fog and rain, with a wet,...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8e7526c0dde792f80d6a6466ebff825b/tumblr_mflykpxCYn1s1vpnjo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;My home - beautiful Mt. Tam in the fog and rain, with a wet, happy dog in front.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/38818097864</link><guid>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/38818097864</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:31:37 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>First Postings</title><description>&lt;p&gt;As I note in the description, this tumblr is a little bit of everything: food, music, literature, news, Tom Waits. It is a reflection of my interests. As I continue to explore this new blogging world, perhaps I&amp;#8217;ll find an idea or theme that I can focus on specifically.  Beyond anything else though, it is a method of personal reflection and healing, an introspective diary to help me clarify my thoughts on family, friends, relationships, and the world around me. As my mother has done so with her own writings, I hope this tumblr will, in my own way, help to express the me that I want to be, or believe myself to be.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To the few who I ever allow to read these posts, enjoy. May it help you to understand myself and my world, as I seek to do the same. It will be personal, honest, and above all, a mixture of seriousness and humor. For that is who I am&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Peace be onto you, and Merry Christmas.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/38779180516</link><guid>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/38779180516</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 02:47:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Video</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dn7h4RzWtbQ?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/38777116115</link><guid>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/38777116115</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 01:58:27 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>"I think that everybody likes music but what you really want is music to like you."</title><description>“I think that everybody likes music but what you really want is music to like you.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Tom Waits&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/38770482916</link><guid>http://swordfish-trombones.tumblr.com/post/38770482916</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:01:28 -0500</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
