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	<title>A Man, a Dog, Bathroom Graffiti, a Visor, and Other Important Characters...by Sean Hewlett</title>
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		<title>Rejection Emails I Have Received from McSweeney&#8217;s with the Messages Written between the Lines Spelled out.</title>
		<link>http://sahewlett.wordpress.com/2007/11/09/rejection-emails-i-have-received-from-mcsweeneys-with-the-messages-written-between-the-lines-spelled-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Hewlett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[- Hi Sean, Thanks for the list submission. We&#8217;re going to pass on it this time, but feel free to keep submitting!
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- Hi Sean, Thanks for the lists submission. We&#8217;re going to pass on it this time, but feel free to keep submitting! I have a special button on my computer that generates messages to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahewlett.wordpress.com&blog=469576&post=46&subd=sahewlett&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top Secret Journal of James Bond, Agent 007</title>
		<link>http://sahewlett.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/top-secret-journal-of-james-bond-agent-007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Hewlett</dc:creator>
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August 29th – Met this beautiful Irish woman tonight named Climax O’Rama.  I think she could be the one.  Granted, she came to the party on the arm of the terrorist who is my current nemesis, but she clearly wasn’t really into him.  She blew him off and came back to the hotel room with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahewlett.wordpress.com&blog=469576&post=45&subd=sahewlett&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Do List from March 13th, 1984 for the Guy from Wham that Isn&#8217;t George Michaels</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Hewlett</dc:creator>
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1.  Practice whatever instrument it is I play in the group.  Or maybe I just sing.   
2. Cash paycheck for performing whatever service I perform for the group.
3. Talk George into changing group name from Wham to Michaels and … whatever my name is.
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		<title>Select Entries from over the Years out of the Journal of Rod Hinkle, Tourrette’s Syndrome Sufferer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Hewlett</dc:creator>
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August 14th, 1979 (Age 6) – I am bad at hide and seek.  I get found first every time.  Not much better at blind man’s bluff.  Red Light, Green Light is hard too.   I am no longer allowed to play Marco Polo, either.  My friends say I don’t play by the rules because it’s not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahewlett.wordpress.com&blog=469576&post=43&subd=sahewlett&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jerry Seinfeld:Medieval Court Jester</title>
		<link>http://sahewlett.wordpress.com/2007/07/26/jerry-seinfeldmedieval-court-jester/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  What is the deal with the leeches, people?  Is this really the best medicine in all situations? If I come to the doctor with a demon possession and explosive diarrhea caused by this demon possession, I can understand… but if I fall off my horse and break my leg, I&#8217;m not thinking leeches are… [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahewlett.wordpress.com&blog=469576&post=42&subd=sahewlett&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Private Journal of G.I. Joe&#8217;s Snake Eyes</title>
		<link>http://sahewlett.wordpress.com/2007/07/13/the-private-journal-of-gi-joes-snake-eyes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 30th – Sometimes I have to wonder about this never-ending war with Cobra.  Super frustrating battle with Cobra today.   For about the billionth time, we had this large scale ground battle, thousands of troops, lots of artillery, tanks, hovercrafts, even some jet fighters overhead… and not one single casualty.   It sure would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahewlett.wordpress.com&blog=469576&post=40&subd=sahewlett&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What a Writer Stands to Learn from the Death of Captain America</title>
		<link>http://sahewlett.wordpress.com/2007/07/02/what-a-writer-stands-to-learn-from-the-death-of-captain-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Hewlett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read online today that Captain America’s funeral is this week.  No, I’m not delusional and think this is a real life event.  The comic book that features the event comes out on Thursday.  It might be the first comic book I buy in about four years.  And yes, I am comfortable enough in my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahewlett.wordpress.com&blog=469576&post=37&subd=sahewlett&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Does the Junkyard Have To Do With Anything?</title>
		<link>http://sahewlett.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/what-does-the-junkyard-have-to-do-with-anything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my recent story ideas has to do with my weird affinity for the junkyard.  It has more to do with writing than it has to do with me being a gear head or grease monkey or…another odd pseudonym for someone who enjoys working on vehicles. 
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		<title>My Biggest Hurdle</title>
		<link>http://sahewlett.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/my-biggest-hurdle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The same huge problem in my approach to writing that has held me back over and over has sidelined me in my pursuit of becoming published for quite some time now.
Laziness.  Or maybe procrastination. 
It wouldn&#8217;t be nearly as impossible to fit writing into my life as I&#8217;ve allowed it to seem lately.  True, I&#8217;ve been putting in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahewlett.wordpress.com&blog=469576&post=35&subd=sahewlett&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>7 Habits of Highly Effective Skin Irritants</title>
		<link>http://sahewlett.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/7-habits-of-highly-effective-skin-irritants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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- Requiring 30 minutes of continuing flushing with cool tap water after contact with skin
- Being corrosive
- Causing severe burns after only brief contact
- Requiring a warning label with instructions of how to treat skin after contact
- Needing to be keep out of the reach of children
- Thinking Win/Win
- Causing dermatitis 
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		<title>But What I Know is Boring</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
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But what I know is boring.
That was my response the first three or four hundred times I heard the universal advice to creative writers, “Write what you know.”  The first time I heard it, I was crushed.  I thought the advice was a death sentence to any dreams I had of writing.  I was a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahewlett.wordpress.com&blog=469576&post=33&subd=sahewlett&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things G.I. Joe could have prepared me for more pressing then downed power lines and the dangers of hiding in old refrigerators</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Scene opens with two kids unwrapping the coating off batteries, crushing some red pills, and donning gas masks)
 
Mike – “Gee, Donnie, I never realized how easy it is to cook meth.  I mean, we found all this stuff around the house…except the anhydrous.” 
 
Donnie – “Yeah, we’re gonna make a killing!”
 
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		<title>A Plea to the True Leaders of Our Culture</title>
		<link>http://sahewlett.wordpress.com/2007/01/25/a-plea-to-the-true-leaders-of-our-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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Dear Editors of Checkout Lane Magazines and Producers of Tabloid Television, 
It is quite clear at this point you all have your fingers on the pulse of
America.  On the cover of any one of your magazines or within the 30 second promo ad for any one of your TV programs, you directly address the five [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahewlett.wordpress.com&blog=469576&post=31&subd=sahewlett&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter Home after all the claims of My Spam Emails Actually Panned Out</title>
		<link>http://sahewlett.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/a-letter-home-after-all-the-claims-of-my-spam-emails-actually-panned-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 19:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Hewlett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Dad, 
Sorry, it’s been so long since I’ve written, but you wouldn’t believe the series of events I’ve been through.  They don’t seem to be slowing down either.  




I hope all is well.  How is the eczema?  I know a great PhAra-Macy, so I can get you some prescription skin cream direct from Canada.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahewlett.wordpress.com&blog=469576&post=29&subd=sahewlett&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two More Rejections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They came like machine gun fire today&#8230;okay, that&#8217;s a little over-the-top.  There were two right in a row, so i guess that doesn&#8217;t qualify as machine gun-like.  It was rapid fire, though.  47 seconds apart, according to email time stamps. 
It&#8217;s not a big surprise that the rejections were close together because they were both from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahewlett.wordpress.com&blog=469576&post=24&subd=sahewlett&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Interview with the Magic Eight Ball</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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I am often overwhelmed when I turn to the evening news or a daily newspaper.  It seems like there are so many issues and problems in our society and in the world as a whole and so few people with any answers.  I cannot recall the last time I heard a politician pitch an idea [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahewlett.wordpress.com&blog=469576&post=25&subd=sahewlett&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Commencement Speech I Would Give If Asked to Speak at a Fifth Grade Graduation Ceremony</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children, this may be hard to understand and a difficult truth to face, but that cool reputation you’ve been able to build up over the past 5 years as you climbed the ranks of (Fill in name of School) Elementary will soon work very much against you in three short months as you enter the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahewlett.wordpress.com&blog=469576&post=23&subd=sahewlett&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Famous Names That Are Less Impressive When Attached to Alternative Job Titles</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conan the Career Advisor
The Great and Terrible Fluffer of Oz
Bret “The Informant” Hart
Assistant Manager Hogg
John Henry the Tax Filin’ Man
Dr. Doom, DDS
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		<title>How do you shake a bad story idea?</title>
		<link>http://sahewlett.wordpress.com/2006/10/30/how-do-you-shake-a-bad-story-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Hewlett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t get rid of this really crappy story idea.  I keep thinking up new plot twists and character details and I don&#8217;t want to.  It&#8217;s not even a genre I&#8217;ve written in before or ever planned on.  It&#8217;s science fiction.   I am not a science fiction fan at all.  I loved the Star Wars movies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahewlett.wordpress.com&blog=469576&post=6&subd=sahewlett&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The First Rejection</title>
		<link>http://sahewlett.wordpress.com/2006/10/21/the-first-rejection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2006 02:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Hewlett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I knew as soon as I picked up the envelope. Too thin, too light. No way it contained anything like a letter explaining the next step of the process and when to expect to see the published story or, oh, I don’t know, a check? I could see there was only a little rectangle of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahewlett.wordpress.com&blog=469576&post=16&subd=sahewlett&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The “Important Characters”</title>
		<link>http://sahewlett.wordpress.com/2006/10/21/the-%e2%80%9cimportant-characters%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2006 02:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The titled I picked for this page probably has a fairly universal response of “huh?”  That is, except for the select few people that have read the stories that I’m presently shopping around. Anyone who has sent his writing in to get published would probably agree that it is extremely difficult to sum up the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahewlett.wordpress.com&blog=469576&post=15&subd=sahewlett&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good and bad life advice taken from the pages of NES instruction manuals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Hewlett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good Advice
 As you skate around the Main Park, watch out for cars tearing through the streets, tough-looking thugs, motorcycle maniacs, and Frisbee-throwing freaks.
 A Fat Man is as bad as his belly is big. He'll put the squeeze on your vitality if he gets his hands on you.
 The Leather Shield is not much use against bullets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahewlett.wordpress.com&blog=469576&post=14&subd=sahewlett&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Follow-up songs to Checch and Chong’s Basketball Jones</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jai Ali DT’s 
Shuffleboard Munchies
Chutes and Ladders Physical Dependence 
Boggle Recreational Use
Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Rehab
Four-Square Withdrawal
Duck Duck Goose Cold Turkey
Hockey Tolerance
Presidential Physical Fitness Challenge Overdose
Pac-Man Fever
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		<title>Rebuttal to the Wishes Expressed in the Song If I Had a Hammer by Someone Who Does, In Fact, Have a Hammer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to say I feel you are grossly overestimating the impact hammer ownership would have on your life. 
Let me elaborate.
First of all, I can appreciate your enthusiasm, but let me tell you, using a hammer isn’t as enthralling as you may believe.  If you start off hammering in the morning, no matter your level [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahewlett.wordpress.com&blog=469576&post=12&subd=sahewlett&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Original Versions of Famous Film Lines Less Inspired Than The Final Revisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Frankly Scarlet, you’re going to have to repeat that. I spaced for a second.”
 
“Soylent Green is salty!”
 
“I’m out of order? I’m out of order?! Well, I apologize, then.”
 
“To Infinity and…geez, there’s really nothing left after infinity.”
 
“As far back as I can remember, I wanted to be a Pep Boy.”
 
“Of all the gin joints in all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahewlett.wordpress.com&blog=469576&post=11&subd=sahewlett&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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