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		<title>Lust, Caution (2007)</title>
		<link>http://pedestriansaga.com/archives/2008/08/21/270/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lust, Caution managed to be intense and boring simultaneously, like a loathsome Spielberg drama. Too pedestrian for Pedestrian Saga. The student resistance troupe wasn&#8217;t compelling enough. The ending was disappointing. And all that wasted Tony Leung sexual tension (and, ehm, release) simply left me in the mood for In the Mood for Love again.
***
Coming soon: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>La commare secca (1962)</title>
		<link>http://pedestriansaga.com/archives/2008/08/16/269/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[La commare secca (The Grim Reaper) was Bernardo Bertolucci&#8217;s directorial debut (at 21 years old, the upstart). Pasolini (a mentor) wrote the film but then went to work on Mamma Roma, so Bertolucci was hired to direct instead.
It&#8217;s a murder mystery unraveled via slice-of-life stories of the various Roman proles who passed through the park [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Down with August</title>
		<link>http://pedestriansaga.com/archives/2008/08/12/268/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I harbor no particularly negative feelings toward Wings, Jefferson Airplane, or Jerry Garcia, I so agree with the thesis of this polemic against the month of August: It consistently sucks. Decimate it! Diminish it! Down with August!*
It sure is swell to collect some external validation for my intense, long-standing, and mostly irrational personal prejudice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Couch to 5K a resounding success</title>
		<link>http://pedestriansaga.com/archives/2008/07/21/265/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite a few pesky butterflies beforehand and continuous incline with punishing evening sunshine in the face during the first half of the course, I finished the Midsummer Night&#8217;s Run Saturday with my C25K team. Whoo-hoo, team!
We were slow but steady right through to the finish (and on to the sacred temple of shaved ice). One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to Bologna, an Aurelio Zen Mystery, by Michael Dibdin</title>
		<link>http://pedestriansaga.com/archives/2008/07/21/264/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More zany farce than hard-boiled crime fiction, this Aurelio Zen mystery features an ensemble of wacky characters running amok in beautiful Bologna―la dotta, la grassa, la rossa. A Berlusconi-esque tycoon and controversial owner of the local football team is found shot dead and stabbed with a parmesan knife. Meanwhile, an arrogant semiotics professor (a thinly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Couch to 5K: Almost there</title>
		<link>http://pedestriansaga.com/archives/2008/07/16/262/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JO&#8217;GGER n. s. [from jog.] One who moves heavily and dully.
They, with their fellow joggers of the plough. Dryden.
—Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755
Tomorrow is the last practice run before the 5K this Saturday evening. So it&#8217;s a still sort of moment, the quiet before a big event. Reflective, as in, &#8220;Holy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recommended armchair travel: A Walk with the Wood Elf</title>
		<link>http://pedestriansaga.com/archives/2008/07/05/261/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sylvia is traveling the French-speaking world this summer and logging an impressive journal of her adventures in pictures and words. Having led a group of her young students on a two-week tour de France, she&#8217;s now assumed the student role herself for three weeks to explore Switzerland and Belgium under the auspices of the American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Couch to 5K: Fartlek and big dreams</title>
		<link>http://pedestriansaga.com/archives/2008/07/03/259/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jogged another two miles in 25 minutes this morning. I was tired and not breathing well. R was on fuego. She called fartlek twice, which just kills me—the sprinting itself but also the fact that she can&#8217;t resist saying fartlek with such glee. (&#8221;Fartlek to the blue arrows!&#8221;) And while I was merely thinking ahead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Couch to 5K: &#8220;No, I&#8217;m Not Down&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://pedestriansaga.com/archives/2008/07/01/258/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[0623–0653
30 minutes
&#8220;London Calling&#8221;–&#8221;Clampdown&#8221;
10 laps
~2 1/2 miles
~4 kilometers
&#8230;jogging the whole of it without stopping!
Back in May, I went on a mission with two plucky colleagues: we would follow the nine-week Couch-to-5K Running Plan and train for the Midsummer Night&#8217;s Run July 19. I hate running (Intentional self-suffocation? No, thanks!) and happen to be quite fond of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lonely as a cloud / in the Golden State</title>
		<link>http://pedestriansaga.com/archives/2008/06/24/257/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, summer! Hey-ya, sunshine! Long time no see.
Summery stuff ascending&#8230;meanwhile, some inoculation against next winter&#8217;s grays:

Sleater-Kinney performing &#8220;Jumpers&#8221; on the Letterman show in 2005
Maybe I will buy an artificial sun and stare at it.
Or maybe I will blare Sleater-Kinney. I will sing along. I will not get depressed.
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