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<title>Little Delving</title><link>http://www.littledelving.com/index.html</link><description>Just stuff</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2005 Jeff Boice</dc:rights><dc:date>2010-06-24T15:33:14-04:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:37:43 -0400</lastBuildDate><item><title>Pete Fountain &#x22;The Blues&#x22;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2010-06-24T15:33:14-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/337d8a5d648a63d41c030d4c84b315aa-136.html#unique-entry-id-136</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/337d8a5d648a63d41c030d4c84b315aa-136.html#unique-entry-id-136</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Unfortunately though, as is so often the case, this gem of a recording has never been released on CD, despite the fact that Pete Fountain is one of the most famous musicians ever to come out of New Orleans having played weekly for two years on the Lawrence Welk show in the late 1950's and for decades after that appearing on TV show after TV show including the Ed Sullivan, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Andy Williams specials and some 59 appearances on Johnny Carson's &ldquo;The Tonight Show". ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Mock-Yeah-Ing-Yeah-Bird-Yeah&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2010-06-19T10:22:54-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/14b3e76a024a07c859b8de53f1618313-135.html#unique-entry-id-135</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/14b3e76a024a07c859b8de53f1618313-135.html#unique-entry-id-135</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I often see one of them running up and down the porch railings or perched on the back of Midnight's rocking chair, and a few times now when I've been laying on my couch watching TV with the front windows open, one of them will perch on the porch rail right by the window, look inside at me, and sqauwk. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Highland Dreams</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2010-06-01T09:54:16-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/5cd9eeff6daf6e0251095c695057177d-134.html#unique-entry-id-134</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/5cd9eeff6daf6e0251095c695057177d-134.html#unique-entry-id-134</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It's still a ways off, V doesn't finish her doctorate until next January, and then we'll have to see where she lands that first veterinary job, but the day dreaming has already begun. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Sprouts&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2010-05-07T10:55:30-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/486d3bb84614a113f7393b9bcee88668-133.html#unique-entry-id-133</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/486d3bb84614a113f7393b9bcee88668-133.html#unique-entry-id-133</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I'm guessing that has to be at least 15 degrees or so above normal. *whew* So instead of mowing the lawn today (which is definitely due) I decided to just do a good soaking of all the new flowers sprouting up around the yard and call it a day. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Another good yard day&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2010-04-30T08:53:57-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/39d4449b2b235c73de1d5ccdce8cedaa-132.html#unique-entry-id-132</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/39d4449b2b235c73de1d5ccdce8cedaa-132.html#unique-entry-id-132</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Not that V would have minded (at all) seeing the house just as it was, but I really wanted to show her more of what the house could be, more of how it was in my mind's eye. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Hello&#x2c; 2010&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2010-01-03T08:54:51-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/efaeae981c2dac4d5672a52fae14ed07-131.html#unique-entry-id-131</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/efaeae981c2dac4d5672a52fae14ed07-131.html#unique-entry-id-131</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Well, we walked down to the theater anyway and saw that there were 4 performances scheduled during the remainder of our holiday, so the next morning when the box office opened I was there and wouldn&rsquo;t you know it, we got a pair of seats on the main floor, center, about 17 rows back for the next day&rsquo;s matinee. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Play Of Daniel&#x2c; The Play Of Herod</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2009-12-05T12:52:53-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/afd596f11157419401965c2946bf0611-130.html#unique-entry-id-130</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/afd596f11157419401965c2946bf0611-130.html#unique-entry-id-130</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[But in the nearly 20 or so years that New York Pro Musica and Greenberg were making music, they had a huge impact on the level of interest and attention given to early music in this country, and this recording of The Play Of Daniel has now been included in the National Recording Registry as an important hallmark of early music performance. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The End In Sight&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2009-07-21T07:48:24-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/2f54b8930d83f5f74e68ef165eafcf0b-129.html#unique-entry-id-129</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/2f54b8930d83f5f74e68ef165eafcf0b-129.html#unique-entry-id-129</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Of course now it&rsquo;s all raw lumber, treated too, so I can&rsquo;t do the painting I have planned for it until next year, but it looks really good, and I can clearly see in my mind&rsquo;s eye how it&rsquo;s going to look once the grapes are growing up each post and across the top of the arbor. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Renovations&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2009-06-29T07:04:41-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/3b44a16441a524766d0ce919d2db8ab6-128.html#unique-entry-id-128</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/3b44a16441a524766d0ce919d2db8ab6-128.html#unique-entry-id-128</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Our rainy weather usually comes from the southeast which is basically behind the house, so having the front open won&rsquo;t be letting in the wind blown rain for most of the storms, but it will let in a lot more light and more of the breezes which should make the porch area a more cozy setting for just sittin&rsquo; and rockin&rsquo;. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Olde Music</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2009-06-10T12:29:38-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/5158197a677d2061bb291d56186f1727-127.html#unique-entry-id-127</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/5158197a677d2061bb291d56186f1727-127.html#unique-entry-id-127</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[At the time I labeled the tape as The Julian Greene Consort and that&rsquo;s how I have come to know the music ever since, but even in this internet age I have had no luck tracking down any information about The Julian (Julienne? ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Sunny Side Up&#x21; Paolo&#x27;s Back In The Saddle Again.</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2009-06-06T19:05:48-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/7eb0d2ca09a8851a7b7b091ec1065c72-126.html#unique-entry-id-126</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/7eb0d2ca09a8851a7b7b091ec1065c72-126.html#unique-entry-id-126</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Well, after a bit of a layoff, Paolo has now released his second recording &ldquo;Sunny Side Up,&rdquo; and all I can say is REALLY good stuff, Maynard! ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>June Already???</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2009-06-01T07:03:15-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/2ec69172cb61de13421be091037a23e1-125.html#unique-entry-id-125</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/2ec69172cb61de13421be091037a23e1-125.html#unique-entry-id-125</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So now we have a nice long ditch to catch that run off and channel it to the side of the yard where there&rsquo;s an existing drainage ditch to take it on to the creek bed in back of the house. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Reading Stories For A Friend</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2009-05-08T15:10:07-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/452272846a208a24233d24343a5e6d4b-124.html#unique-entry-id-124</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/452272846a208a24233d24343a5e6d4b-124.html#unique-entry-id-124</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[On the off chance that someone out there might be a potential Charles de Lint fan if you only knew what you were missing, or perhaps some of you out there are just bored and could use a good story or two to pass the time, here are three of the twenty-two stories I recorded for V this winter. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Out Of Hibernation At Last</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2009-04-23T10:00:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/a444e0c41080058649901deeaaf5b910-123.html#unique-entry-id-123</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/a444e0c41080058649901deeaaf5b910-123.html#unique-entry-id-123</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The berm will form a south/east corner to mark the property line and  direct all the rain runoff that comes down the sloping hill out front into the side ditch to run into the creek bed in back instead of soaking the entire front and side yard turning it into a soggy pool of standing water for a day or two as it does now after the big rains. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Frozen In Time</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2009-01-31T17:51:39-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/1d897f209d2bb8bd63388c09073ba4cc-122.html#unique-entry-id-122</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/1d897f209d2bb8bd63388c09073ba4cc-122.html#unique-entry-id-122</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[And as good luck would have it, I had made a major supply run the Friday night before loading up on all sorts of goodies for the long haul, and so when the storm hit and havoc ensued, we were all set here at home, and so had no reason to even step outside the door! ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Good-bye&#x2c; Old Friend</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2009-01-30T07:21:41-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/20133a62114ec0d9db9fdcc26918c473-121.html#unique-entry-id-121</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/20133a62114ec0d9db9fdcc26918c473-121.html#unique-entry-id-121</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[But with all the back and forth, extra diagnostic time, and the soul searching that went with weighing Cost and Benefit, the weeks slipped by, and by the time I finally ordered my shiny new MacBook Pro from Apple and had it delivered we were well past the three week mark of living a Mac-less life.  *shudder*  
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Merry Christmas&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2008-12-15T22:34:14-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/56e669aad5ad85d674c8138c2f5d1825-120.html#unique-entry-id-120</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/56e669aad5ad85d674c8138c2f5d1825-120.html#unique-entry-id-120</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I'm guessing that I must have just taken down the decorations in Chicago and packed them in whatever box was open at the moment instead of putting them all together in the same box I've been using for my Christmas decorations for about 25 years now. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Christmas Is Coming</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Stories For A Friend</category><dc:date>2008-12-06T10:42:12-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/d3376ca7cb5e5dce888c602128b5d7a9-119.html#unique-entry-id-119</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/d3376ca7cb5e5dce888c602128b5d7a9-119.html#unique-entry-id-119</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We would all sit in the living room together making long strings of popcorn and cranberries using needle and thread, and every so often one of us would have to run off to the kitchen to pop more popcorn which would happen more or less each year depending on how hungry we were while we were doing it! 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Apple Pie</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Stories For A Friend</category><dc:date>2008-10-07T13:00:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/c18a5736ec3b17f98e48def9eebcfddf-118.html#unique-entry-id-118</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/c18a5736ec3b17f98e48def9eebcfddf-118.html#unique-entry-id-118</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Well, you know, every time I ever came back to my old hometown to sleep on her couch during those gypsy years, every time, I would let myself in the front door and walk into that dark house in the early morning hours, I would dump my bag on the floor, walk into the kitchen where the stovetop light was left on, and there sitting on the top of the stove would be a freshly baked apple pie. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Fall Is Here</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2008-10-07T14:03:21-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/154dcb2281ef4637410e0b038c283cff-117.html#unique-entry-id-117</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/154dcb2281ef4637410e0b038c283cff-117.html#unique-entry-id-117</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[With all the hardwood trees we have here, fall is a pretty spectacular time of year here at home, and as I said, it's my favorite season of them all. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Christening - Albert Finneas McCool</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2008-08-28T11:51:03-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/490a814c6084f877537d761b6a6326ff-116.html#unique-entry-id-116</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/490a814c6084f877537d761b6a6326ff-116.html#unique-entry-id-116</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[First, let me just say that he is such a little guy, too small really to have stepped out into Life on his own as he has, all bluff and bluster in this great big world, that it just seemed like he needed a big ol' name he can climb on top of and hang onto. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Four Feet And Counting - Cat Wars: Episode I - The Small Black Menace</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2008-08-26T11:39:26-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/23e9e553cd29df2725e3cb441eb02a84-115.html#unique-entry-id-115</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/23e9e553cd29df2725e3cb441eb02a84-115.html#unique-entry-id-115</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[They couldn't find an animal shelter that would take him and promise to find him a home, and neither Rose nor Marissa had room in their homes for another furry friend, so they gave me a call, and Sunday my sister, my nephew, and I hopped in the car for the 3 hour drive upstate to pick up this tiny black kitten with a big heart and a sweet disposition. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>To The Faire We Go</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2008-07-15T08:38:37-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/b1f7ce8d91263c68e82c85f1f62db2e4-114.html#unique-entry-id-114</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/b1f7ce8d91263c68e82c85f1f62db2e4-114.html#unique-entry-id-114</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[For Bilbo's party I can lose the hat and pass for any old roust about kind of bloke you might run across at say The Prancing Pony, and for the renfairs I can (if I so choose) now wander the grounds as part of the ambience rather than as a tourist, so to speak. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Hooray For June&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2008-06-29T23:10:57-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/fe8fe04cb246dea9fb7e95670ee1b1ec-113.html#unique-entry-id-113</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/fe8fe04cb246dea9fb7e95670ee1b1ec-113.html#unique-entry-id-113</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[July is here, and I'd better get busy paying attention to things or my summer is going to be long gone before I even get a chance to cut loose and have a little fun. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Aloha</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2008-05-13T11:23:50-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/f6d76155bfa865cd4ac84124ee1fa86a-112.html#unique-entry-id-112</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/f6d76155bfa865cd4ac84124ee1fa86a-112.html#unique-entry-id-112</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[He got one of the houses for a two week period, and tomorrow I'll be joining him and his wife Cheryl along with a few of their family members to enjoy the second of their two weeks there. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Duchess of Little Delving</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2008-05-08T11:37:37-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/f94a75d56b6b5adfb9a9bdef49b3faed-111.html#unique-entry-id-111</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/f94a75d56b6b5adfb9a9bdef49b3faed-111.html#unique-entry-id-111</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I'm an animal lover, and the thought of poor Josie ending up in a shelter just broke my heart, so of course I said yes, but to make it work I was going to need some help because I knew the place was going to be empty for a few months. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>It&#x27;s A Dog&#x27;s Life</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2008-05-01T14:10:43-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/4a8f3d83553baa5ac7e70feff4f2517b-110.html#unique-entry-id-110</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/4a8f3d83553baa5ac7e70feff4f2517b-110.html#unique-entry-id-110</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Sean wanted to write something as a tribute to his best friend Jack, Jack The Dog, who put in a lot of time at rehearsals over the years for many different shows in many different cities. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>American Ghosts</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>On The Road</category><dc:date>2008-04-28T11:00:12-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/af58587473e923e16ae657d2d52cb76d-109.html#unique-entry-id-109</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/af58587473e923e16ae657d2d52cb76d-109.html#unique-entry-id-109</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Well, the shaker village has such a widely accepted reputation for such experiences with both the employees at the village and the local residents that apparently the village visitor center even has a guestbook where visitors can log any ghostly experiences they've had while visiting the site. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Upcoming Shows And Performances - My Other Career? </title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2008-04-14T18:21:09-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/d84beb8622d376b15f61d97602cffa7a-108.html#unique-entry-id-108</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/d84beb8622d376b15f61d97602cffa7a-108.html#unique-entry-id-108</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I've been messing around some here now after a long hiatus, and so for grins I did some googling just to see if Little Delving even registered out there in Cyber Land anymore, and dang if I didn't learn something new about myself. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Eye On The Skyline: Jeremiah Johnson</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2008-04-12T13:32:06-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/d67f43d22bdf18a4e396d453a0504312-107.html#unique-entry-id-107</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/d67f43d22bdf18a4e396d453a0504312-107.html#unique-entry-id-107</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Last night in one of my occasional fits of aimless googling in search of generally unattainable things, I ran across a posting on a bulletin board by a fella who had digitized a copy of one of the mythic Jeremiah Johnson LP's, and in the spirit of the mountain life he was offering to share his find with any who were in need of it. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>It&#x27;s The CJB</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2008-04-10T12:33:37-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/5238c922cb610fd0a22b4ecb4ad19992-106.html#unique-entry-id-106</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/5238c922cb610fd0a22b4ecb4ad19992-106.html#unique-entry-id-106</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Anyways, rather then loading all of the clips (again) here on Littledelving, I thought I'd just go ahead and add some links so any of you who are so inclined can waste some of your own time, and that way I won't feel as if I've wasted quite so much of mine. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Dresser: A Haunting Theme</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2008-04-07T02:06:11-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/912c05e42c8f675fd30b287bbeaa63fd-105.html#unique-entry-id-105</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/912c05e42c8f675fd30b287bbeaa63fd-105.html#unique-entry-id-105</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[His score for the film Glory I think is my favorite complete work of his, but this music is something else all together.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Law Bug: Herbie Cracks The Whip in Tennessee</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2008-03-25T11:00:54-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/ca6f5c646af941c00068f9f757feb7af-104.html#unique-entry-id-104</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/ca6f5c646af941c00068f9f757feb7af-104.html#unique-entry-id-104</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Garner nowadays can be seen tooling around the county in the "Bug-erceptor," which has accurate markings and is outfitted with a siren, radio, barred rear side windows, a side-mounted spotlight, a 1960s-vintage red bubble-type light on top, a blue light on the dash and more. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Red Lantern Pancake Time Again&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2008-03-18T11:21:37-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/97620853c9ee63fe16d1e6409ba1e9c8-103.html#unique-entry-id-103</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/97620853c9ee63fe16d1e6409ba1e9c8-103.html#unique-entry-id-103</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[She came back gamely this year, though, and while there was some momentary concern on Monday, she finally showed up at Safety around 4:30 p.m., gave her dogs about a half-hour break and then took off on the last 20 miles of easy-to-follow trail to Nome.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Last Great Race. Wow&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2008-03-12T09:12:54-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/c5a27c2d991efb5058e713ef948f7c3b-102.html#unique-entry-id-102</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/c5a27c2d991efb5058e713ef948f7c3b-102.html#unique-entry-id-102</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[On the trail from Elim to White Mountain on the Bering Sea coast, climbing up over the 1,000 foot summit in the Kwiktalik Mountains that mushers know as "Little McKinley,'' Mackey put time on King's dogs. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Return of the Prodigal Blogger or Home Sweet New Home</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2008-03-11T09:37:17-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/7765c567fdaee1185ff77729db5579d2-101.html#unique-entry-id-101</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/7765c567fdaee1185ff77729db5579d2-101.html#unique-entry-id-101</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I'm not sure which is the case with me this past year, but one way or another I've seen the good part of a year come and go since I last updated Little Delving. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>A True Story</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2007-05-14T00:04:09-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/1308456d51ba45fd62524a100af85e9e-100.html#unique-entry-id-100</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/1308456d51ba45fd62524a100af85e9e-100.html#unique-entry-id-100</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Here's a small gem that has aged quite well in the 30-some odd years since Cat Stevens gave it to the world.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>He Will Be Missed</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2007-04-27T20:44:06-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/dd085ec1cdf5b8e79d50446c5cbfb56e-99.html#unique-entry-id-99</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/dd085ec1cdf5b8e79d50446c5cbfb56e-99.html#unique-entry-id-99</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA["He is a passionate man, and he has a real lust for life, and his marriage is stronger because of it," his daughter Olga said when asked by the Internet Cello Society in 2003 about his loves in life. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Keep It Simple</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2007-04-20T20:00:30-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/60194a92d085e86ab5a2b6992aae9ea5-98.html#unique-entry-id-98</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/60194a92d085e86ab5a2b6992aae9ea5-98.html#unique-entry-id-98</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In the interest of saving all of us a little time, here's something from Bruce Feirstein of Vanity Fair, the All-Purpose Public MEA CULPA. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>One Potato&#x2c; Two Potato</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2007-04-18T18:20:59-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/0264f33f25ca4419155fbced23c83aec-97.html#unique-entry-id-97</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/0264f33f25ca4419155fbced23c83aec-97.html#unique-entry-id-97</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[And it doesn&rsquo;t seem to matter much anymore which news cast you listen to because the reporters all seem driven to out do each other by dishing out more adjectives than the next guy, more superlatives, the darker the better, to explain to us the hyper-emotional response that we as a nation ought to be feeling as we listen to hour after hour of coverage of whatever event of the day they deem worthy of their attention. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>A Good Cup Of Coffee In Mt. Shasta</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Stories For A Friend</category><dc:date>2007-04-06T18:36:13-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/b7036b9351d92bc19c52ae9f01c1dcef-96.html#unique-entry-id-96</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/b7036b9351d92bc19c52ae9f01c1dcef-96.html#unique-entry-id-96</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[If only there was a map for his life he could look it over and figure out where he took the wrong turn, where he crossed over that boundary line he never intended to cross, and where he is now in this god forsaken emotional wilderness and which way he can turn to get back Home. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Hello&#x2c; It&#x27;s Me</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Stories For A Friend</category><dc:date>2007-04-01T18:36:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/932d706016f3b773f1710fc98eec5ab2-95.html#unique-entry-id-95</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/932d706016f3b773f1710fc98eec5ab2-95.html#unique-entry-id-95</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So it&rsquo;s a new season, and the weather is turning, and my slumbering brain grudgingly shifts a little, then rolls over muttering something about more sleep and please go away, but there&rsquo;s that stick, and so I poke it again myself this time just to see what happens. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Southern Comfort</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>On The Road</category><dc:date>2007-02-28T16:45:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/9ecba0cde54cd1efbce502362781a42a-94.html#unique-entry-id-94</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/9ecba0cde54cd1efbce502362781a42a-94.html#unique-entry-id-94</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Dropping in to escape the heat, I had time for only a drink at Casimir's, but if I'd stayed for dinner, I could have ordered off the 700 Drayton menu and had Maryland crab cake with sauteed shrimp and tasso gumbo over a corn waffle with leek and bourbon cream.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>My Mountain &#x26; Me</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2007-02-24T14:12:44-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/fa8b05a8f64d399f4f2f77d7ceb938e2-93.html#unique-entry-id-93</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/fa8b05a8f64d399f4f2f77d7ceb938e2-93.html#unique-entry-id-93</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Once you're done they ask you a handful of questions (multiple choice) about your mountain, and then based on your answers they give you a quick and breezy snapshot of your personality. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Round Mound Of Rebound&#x2c; Sir Charles Barkley. Oh My&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2007-02-18T12:24:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/90e6fe6593a7b0576bf09c3cce691157-92.html#unique-entry-id-92</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/90e6fe6593a7b0576bf09c3cce691157-92.html#unique-entry-id-92</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[These days Charles hosts a sports broadcast on the TNT network that is as much about sit-down comedy as it is sports, and the biggest laughs this week have centered around a challenge foot race that Sir Charles is going to run against a 67 year-old NBA referee named Dick Bavetta.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Songs Of The Sea</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2007-02-18T13:24:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/05c4bc32336ded44bfec21ce88ddb2df-91.html#unique-entry-id-91</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/05c4bc32336ded44bfec21ce88ddb2df-91.html#unique-entry-id-91</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[As one reviewer put it, "The music of Maine folk singer Bok is like a universe unto itself, a roughhewn land filled with hardscrabble people, rascals in high places, and a natural world that is both cruel and kind, deadly and nurturing. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Do You Know The Way To Santa Fe?</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>On The Road</category><dc:date>2007-02-17T11:06:59-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/ea1e0f345cb0573bb32379071e700529-90.html#unique-entry-id-90</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/ea1e0f345cb0573bb32379071e700529-90.html#unique-entry-id-90</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[There are a lot of places I haven't been, but that I'd like to visit sometime just to check out; San Francisco, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Savannah, Georgia, Iceland, The Canadian Rockies, Mount Kilimanjaro, Tortuga and the Caribbean in general, and a big chunk of New Mexico as well (Albuquerque, Taos, and Santa Fe) to name just a few. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Now That&#x27;s A Lot Of Snow</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2007-02-11T12:52:40-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/0393775aeebd6a3a1d8eb3e0d9dace56-89.html#unique-entry-id-89</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/0393775aeebd6a3a1d8eb3e0d9dace56-89.html#unique-entry-id-89</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Unofficial reports put snowfall totals at 123 inches in Orwell and 131 in Redfield, but the weather service said those numbers included snow from a storm a couple of days before the latest run. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Girding For Battle</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2007-02-02T19:39:11-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/b778dbebafe4e7f4ce35d2862ce3fe76-88.html#unique-entry-id-88</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/b778dbebafe4e7f4ce35d2862ce3fe76-88.html#unique-entry-id-88</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In the next few days the Institute will use these measurements to outfit the lions with matching Chicago Bears helmets -- a way to "Stand in an Attitude of Solidarity" with the city and its citizens, as the lions did by wearing White Sox caps in 2005.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Far Flung Friends</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2007-01-22T19:19:09-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/0bacf8079a959b483c74c75a7ac0d438-87.html#unique-entry-id-87</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/0bacf8079a959b483c74c75a7ac0d438-87.html#unique-entry-id-87</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Now usually it has more to do with me and my gypsy ways than anything else (I do have a habit of loading up the wagon and rolling on to greener pastures every 6 or 7 years or so,) but it's not always me moving away, sometimes they're the ones picking up and moving on. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>HAPPY BIRTHDAY&#x21;&#x21;&#x21; </title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2007-01-14T12:20:19-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/37d422ddd743a4a41655a97dda2dd8ea-86.html#unique-entry-id-86</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/37d422ddd743a4a41655a97dda2dd8ea-86.html#unique-entry-id-86</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I'm sorry, hon, I could not find clips of Copacabana or Plaza Sesamo on such short notice. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Beowulf: The Epic in Performance</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Things Medieval</category><dc:date>2007-01-07T11:49:17-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/6d63d999eae621ab1bdf94bafa1ad36f-85.html#unique-entry-id-85</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/6d63d999eae621ab1bdf94bafa1ad36f-85.html#unique-entry-id-85</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[From The Met in New York to island music festivals in Australia, Bagby has brought to life the age old tale of the hero Beowulf and of Grendel, that most fiendish of fiends, the monster of the misty moors.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New Year&#x27;s Revelers Come to Chicago From Far and Wide</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2007-01-01T11:23:19-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/89adf19cc196aa0ae45df5cf9b90f453-84.html#unique-entry-id-84</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/89adf19cc196aa0ae45df5cf9b90f453-84.html#unique-entry-id-84</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A flying saucerlike object hovered low over O'Hare International Airport for several minutes before bolting through thick clouds with such intense energy that it left an eerie hole in overcast skies, said some United Airlines employees who observed the phenomenon.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Merry Christmas from Sufjan Stevens</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2006-12-21T03:03:41-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/eb0d834bebc906e145615432d8b14a27-83.html#unique-entry-id-83</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/eb0d834bebc906e145615432d8b14a27-83.html#unique-entry-id-83</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[All together there are 42 songs, about two hours' worth of quirky and yet touching Christmas carols that bring a certain wistfulness and quiet joy to the season.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Say Hello To Joanna Newsom</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2006-12-12T19:25:52-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/d2b85c563c2434ffad6efab4edfc6e58-82.html#unique-entry-id-82</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/d2b85c563c2434ffad6efab4edfc6e58-82.html#unique-entry-id-82</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In the song &ldquo;En Gallop,&rdquo; she sings about the seduction of the dream world over the real one, ending the song with the lines: &ldquo;Never get so attached to a poem / you forget truth lacks lyricism; / never draw so close to the heat / that you forget you must eat.&rdquo;
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Russians Are Coming&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-12-08T20:38:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/917c05ab49cc98c09149462b9e524e6e-81.html#unique-entry-id-81</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/917c05ab49cc98c09149462b9e524e6e-81.html#unique-entry-id-81</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Moscow Cats Theatre is coming to town, and I think this one I will have to see for myself. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>It&#x27;s Christmas Time in Little Delving&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2006-12-04T12:01:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/a8246bec337a2d1ea901278b13c50462-78.html#unique-entry-id-78</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/a8246bec337a2d1ea901278b13c50462-78.html#unique-entry-id-78</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Be sure to check out the Clip Art page for a wee dose of Scrooginess, oh, and Pixney Land is Way out of control...
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Those Crafty Old Greeks</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-12-02T12:20:20-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/f9326e4854150c9d2b62c7f5725b26af-77.html#unique-entry-id-77</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/f9326e4854150c9d2b62c7f5725b26af-77.html#unique-entry-id-77</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The "Anti-kythera Mechanism," an ancient Greek astronomical calculator dating to about 100 B.C., possessed a technical sophistication centuries ahead of its time, an international research team reports. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-11-19T21:00:29-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/5cd4499667bdaa52ff887b9cbb046253-76.html#unique-entry-id-76</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/5cd4499667bdaa52ff887b9cbb046253-76.html#unique-entry-id-76</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It was sent to me by my Seattle friend Joann who said "Why did the chicken cross the road? ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Cyber Bard?</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-11-03T21:12:20-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/7cc8a75912c57b4084477c78a049e872-75.html#unique-entry-id-75</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/7cc8a75912c57b4084477c78a049e872-75.html#unique-entry-id-75</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA["What we plan to do is have people encounter the texts in Shakespeare and ideas in the text at many points within a really fun, multiplayer game, so without even knowing it, they gradually are learning more about the bard's work," said Castronova, author of "Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games."
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Three Cheers For Pooh&#x21;  :-)</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2006-09-06T21:12:52-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/9b356a4a5e8b6b1c0587724a43b99716-74.html#unique-entry-id-74</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/9b356a4a5e8b6b1c0587724a43b99716-74.html#unique-entry-id-74</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[To this day it is difficult to find much information at all about either the songs or the recording, but bit by bit I've been able to piece together much of it, and with the help of Amazon.com (you can find anything on Amazon) I have managed to find a copy of each of the six Harold Fraser-Simson songbooks. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>99 Red Ballons</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-09-01T22:21:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/8c403f347a73ec061b27f931e369fa77-73.html#unique-entry-id-73</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/8c403f347a73ec061b27f931e369fa77-73.html#unique-entry-id-73</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I was taking a Flash course at the time, just breaking away from the book, doing silly little animations, and was blown away by what she had done. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>La Plan&#xe9;te Sauvage</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2006-08-27T17:16:15-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/c8b9929b86b704e5c6ef68040b6c71a0-72.html#unique-entry-id-72</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/c8b9929b86b704e5c6ef68040b6c71a0-72.html#unique-entry-id-72</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[When it was finally released on DVD in the U.S. as The Fantastic Planet, Anchor Bay did a fairly shoddy job of transfering the video and then compounded that crime by embedding English subtitles into the video so that a viewer had the choice of watching the film in French with English subtitles or in English with (yes) English subtitles. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Randy Newman and Humor That Hurts</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2006-08-15T00:10:30-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/61b8569270a717a3424135f187ba2bb1-71.html#unique-entry-id-71</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/61b8569270a717a3424135f187ba2bb1-71.html#unique-entry-id-71</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[He has the bothersome habit of seeing us as we are, and, whether we like it or not, his small jewel-like songs filled with those simple, haunting, and beautiful melodies hold the mirror up to us and force us to see ourselves in the harsh light of day. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Over The Rainbow</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2006-08-10T19:54:14-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/9a11015656969687f2b76c877c2b7209-70.html#unique-entry-id-70</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/9a11015656969687f2b76c877c2b7209-70.html#unique-entry-id-70</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Judy Garland Show: Legends captures two wonderful solo performances by a very young Barbra Streisand and one magical duet between Barbra and Judy. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Land Of Fire And Ice</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>On The Road</category><dc:date>2006-08-05T13:23:19-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/b9c33fda4c73f03dd8991263a08d2bb8-69.html#unique-entry-id-69</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/b9c33fda4c73f03dd8991263a08d2bb8-69.html#unique-entry-id-69</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I only have to survive for a week, though, and I have some help: a rugged British guide named Kelso, who's lived in Iceland for five years "after getting his mid-life crisis in early," and Helgi, an Icelander who transports our overnight gear from hut to hut each day. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>It&#x27;s All Relative</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-07-30T20:17:22-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/6ed40d3889e421b54aa14e6f49f154de-68.html#unique-entry-id-68</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/6ed40d3889e421b54aa14e6f49f154de-68.html#unique-entry-id-68</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It's always good to keep things in perspective. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Everybody Loves Muffins</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2006-07-20T11:06:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/8eb87a08430504155942ef8c67009df5-67.html#unique-entry-id-67</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/8eb87a08430504155942ef8c67009df5-67.html#unique-entry-id-67</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[My sister sent this link to me this morning, and it was just too much fun not to pass along. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Music and Mayhem in The Big Apple: Grendel Lives&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Things Medieval</category><dc:date>2006-07-17T20:58:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/18e6435ca793da92397af3135f23ad85-66.html#unique-entry-id-66</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/18e6435ca793da92397af3135f23ad85-66.html#unique-entry-id-66</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In comparison to so many well-made, well-mannered operas that have crossed the stage of late, Grendel is a fearlessly R-rated pageant with so much to say and so many imaginative ways of saying it that you're willing to wait until the two-act piece finds its footing somewhere near the end of Act I, particularly with the presence of Eric Owens. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Lord of the Rings: Complete Songs and Poems</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Tolkieny Goodness</category><dc:date>2006-07-05T12:24:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/99cd99abdf679944860d613db2d99e4c-65.html#unique-entry-id-65</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/99cd99abdf679944860d613db2d99e4c-65.html#unique-entry-id-65</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Tolkien's masterpiece 'The Lord of the Rings' set to music by Caspar Reiff & Peter Hall. 14 soloists, among these the world-famous actor Christopher Lee, and more that 150 professional musicians, have taken part in the ambitious project, which took 10 years to complete.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Starlit Jewel: Life In Middle Earth Before PJ &#x26; Company</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Tolkieny Goodness</category><dc:date>2006-06-10T02:00:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/57c6a664fdfb9cebbdea00d95d2fde3c-64.html#unique-entry-id-64</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/57c6a664fdfb9cebbdea00d95d2fde3c-64.html#unique-entry-id-64</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Well, just as Bilbo was in the right place at the right time to place his hand down in Gollum's cave and find The One Ring, I just happened to be on Amazon at the right moment to catch the listing of a new The Starlit Jewel CD almost the moment it went live. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Lord Of The Rings: The Musical</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Tolkieny Goodness</category><dc:date>2006-06-20T19:23:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/924a2c6e026f24b96a6e99f93baa75fc-63.html#unique-entry-id-63</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/924a2c6e026f24b96a6e99f93baa75fc-63.html#unique-entry-id-63</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Unfortunately, for those theater buffs who come to the show never having read the books or seen the movies, there will be two at least and maybe three or four places where the action on stage takes such a huge leap of faith that they will not be able to follow, The Black Riders being swept away in the river, The Balrog, The Tree Tops of Lothlorien, The Huron devouring the Orcs at Helm&rsquo;s Deep, and perhaps even the final struggle between Frodo and Gollum which takes place so fast that even I wasn&rsquo;t sure if I&rsquo;d seen that finger being bitten off and Gollum plummeting to his doom! ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Garrison Keillor and The Prairie Home Companion</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2006-06-25T01:05:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/994228c26e69cdbb6125766badd1f718-62.html#unique-entry-id-62</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/994228c26e69cdbb6125766badd1f718-62.html#unique-entry-id-62</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[And for many years later when I was not quite so glued to my radio on Saturday afternoons I would still, countless number of times, find myself sitting in the car in a parking lot somewhere not quite ready to get out because I had stumbled across Garrison and his latest update from Lake Wobegone, and Life took a short break while I listened to that voice and his meandering and yet so funny and insightful tales of small town midwestern life. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>AM&#x2c; this one is for you&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2006-06-14T17:11:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/716618acd53591606b96ebaf6659c365-61.html#unique-entry-id-61</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/716618acd53591606b96ebaf6659c365-61.html#unique-entry-id-61</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[After the long-standing flow of music and musicians between the United States and Cuba came to an abrupt halt with the 1962 Cuban embargo, New York musician Johnny Pacheco teamed with Jerry Masucci (his divorce lawyer and a fellow music fan) to create Fania Records.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Another Favorite</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2006-05-24T22:57:51-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/65a5933986c0d71c7b143a85a402d31c-60.html#unique-entry-id-60</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/65a5933986c0d71c7b143a85a402d31c-60.html#unique-entry-id-60</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[As one reviewer said, "The voice of an angel and the guitar of The Devil."
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>North Carolina</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2006-05-19T13:57:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/be4decbbf8793d4af3f73aa43bb47c3c-59.html#unique-entry-id-59</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/be4decbbf8793d4af3f73aa43bb47c3c-59.html#unique-entry-id-59</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[One of these days though I'm going to spend some time there exploring because I know there are lots of really beautiful parts of that state.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Spring time and Yeats</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2006-05-15T20:57:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/8cabe7795179053b00da98e67f295fff-58.html#unique-entry-id-58</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/8cabe7795179053b00da98e67f295fff-58.html#unique-entry-id-58</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Of youth and love, memories and regret, and lessons learned.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>One for the road... </title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2006-04-03T20:33:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/bc44399664a02460401789d08bd5ba11-57.html#unique-entry-id-57</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/bc44399664a02460401789d08bd5ba11-57.html#unique-entry-id-57</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[And there are days when I miss a lot of the people with whom I used to sing. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Shopocalypse Hits Chicago</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2005-12-12T20:15:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/d1ad4ad4741eb28908529cb619761153-56.html#unique-entry-id-56</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/d1ad4ad4741eb28908529cb619761153-56.html#unique-entry-id-56</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA["We're turning our communities into sprawl, we're sitting in our cars all day long waiting for an exit to get off and go buy something," said Talen, 47, bouncing in and out of character moments before his Michigan Avenue march. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Word Play. Way Too Much Fun&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-04-04T20:04:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/e6162bff18fa3782594aa1d9ef7aed2e-55.html#unique-entry-id-55</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/e6162bff18fa3782594aa1d9ef7aed2e-55.html#unique-entry-id-55</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[More (or another) from the web legend Washington Post Mensa Invitational, where you are asked to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing of one letter, and supply a new definition.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>John Langstaff&#x2c; 84; Author&#x2c; Singer Founded Christmas Revels</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2005-12-15T19:53:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/9d002f4ddcdd06b39d8a05ccf5f1965c-54.html#unique-entry-id-54</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/9d002f4ddcdd06b39d8a05ccf5f1965c-54.html#unique-entry-id-54</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In 1971, he founded the Christmas Revels in Cambridge, which will entertain more than 19,000 people this month with its trademark blend of traditional music, dance, ritual, and theater. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Politics and Cocker Spaniels</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-01-27T19:42:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/cadd9ea4ff014c4673dd7b9cd312b524-53.html#unique-entry-id-53</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/cadd9ea4ff014c4673dd7b9cd312b524-53.html#unique-entry-id-53</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It's good to know how to lie, and lie effectively, so you can go backstage after the high school production of "The Crucible" in which your friend's daughter mumbled her lines and stood like a fence post, trying to look horrified and looking drugged instead, and now here she is, fluttery, ashen-faced, perspiring, and you say, "It was fascinating to watch. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Oh&#x2c; I Am SO Guilty&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-05-09T19:36:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/c850320557ba9cc06f2de738071536d7-52.html#unique-entry-id-52</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/c850320557ba9cc06f2de738071536d7-52.html#unique-entry-id-52</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In the church that I go to, which is one of those old-fashioned churches where we sing out of hymnals, not off PowerPoint screens, and the minister doesn't have much hair and we don't hold our arms up in the air (we could but it would make it harder to sing from the hymnal), people seem to have about as many problems as they have over at First Atheist. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>A Comment On Harvard Student&#x27;s Troubles That I Thought Worth Passing On</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-05-06T19:30:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/4e260cfa211c437f445a186e970fb3c1-51.html#unique-entry-id-51</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/4e260cfa211c437f445a186e970fb3c1-51.html#unique-entry-id-51</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Sure, even though a few writers can be really good when they're young--Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein" when she was 19, but that was in 1816 when you weren't always getting interrupted by text messages--even the most meticulous of them aren't really up to the task until they're in their 20s or even really old, like in their 30s or 40s. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Over Achievers In The Animal Kingdom</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-05-11T19:07:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/c766aae775d1595fa2db4d9ee2abfaf9-50.html#unique-entry-id-50</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/c766aae775d1595fa2db4d9ee2abfaf9-50.html#unique-entry-id-50</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A construction manager didn't believe it at first when a worker reported seeing the raccoon on the 36th floor of the Kluczynski  Federal Building, but a cell-phone photo provided proof. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>That last quote is priceless...</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2006-05-02T22:39:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/4dd8ffb113c7b9931c45963c6f1388f3-49.html#unique-entry-id-49</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/4dd8ffb113c7b9931c45963c6f1388f3-49.html#unique-entry-id-49</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA["I think they had a lot in common, which is what we wanted to draw out in the opera," said Al-Doory, who composed the music to complete her masters degree. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Harvard Student&#x27;s Book Pulled From Shelves For Plagiarism</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-04-28T08:26:08-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/728315de1b997998f0347618476a8a61-48.html#unique-entry-id-48</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/728315de1b997998f0347618476a8a61-48.html#unique-entry-id-48</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Viswanathan's novel tells the story of Opal, a hard-driving teen from New Jersey who earns straight A's in high school but who gets rejected from Harvard because she forgot to have a social life. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Three Places I&#x27;ve Lived  :-)</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2006-04-18T23:22:00-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/758c0ef039f97d059d9c0b8d3b89f9f8-47.html#unique-entry-id-47</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/758c0ef039f97d059d9c0b8d3b89f9f8-47.html#unique-entry-id-47</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Happy Easter&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2006-04-16T09:49:58-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/5764e2351deba374280f11bcb8fe4aed-46.html#unique-entry-id-46</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/5764e2351deba374280f11bcb8fe4aed-46.html#unique-entry-id-46</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(null)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Grendel The Opera</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Things Medieval</category><dc:date>2006-04-14T10:18:19-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/20fa046e6488f8d6a26f5d577ad1aeed-45.html#unique-entry-id-45</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/20fa046e6488f8d6a26f5d577ad1aeed-45.html#unique-entry-id-45</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Tickets for Festival 2006 go on sale Monday, May 1 for multiple-event buyers via CenterCharge, 212-721-6500, online at www.lincolncenter.org and by mail to the Avery Fisher Hall Box Office, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, NYC, 10023. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Ladybugs Picnic</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-04-13T23:39:01-04:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/a4e6756d6bde6191927a1324c37091a3-44.html#unique-entry-id-44</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/a4e6756d6bde6191927a1324c37091a3-44.html#unique-entry-id-44</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[From my sister. :-)  Because somedays counting to twelve is just one or two numbers too many to remember!
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Lord Of The Rings Musical</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Tolkieny Goodness</category><dc:date>2006-03-27T19:27:45-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/dc9f6c9d73dcf13a3e7b43df8335cf5c-43.html#unique-entry-id-43</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/dc9f6c9d73dcf13a3e7b43df8335cf5c-43.html#unique-entry-id-43</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Rob Howell's sets, a forest of invention with withered branches as the governing motif, pull not just the stage but the auditorium into Middle Earth, as does Paul Pyant's lighting, which, in its beauty and variety, calls for the coining of new superlatives... ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Red Lantern</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-03-20T19:26:10-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/7da4be27f514f52c50d80d0618fdd2e1-42.html#unique-entry-id-42</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/7da4be27f514f52c50d80d0618fdd2e1-42.html#unique-entry-id-42</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It looks like we may be having pancakes with the Red Lantern winner sometime Wednesday! :-)]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>A Quiet Moment On The Sea Of Ice</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-03-20T19:23:45-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/c2951f27625b44d7d4c6a8718ddb1701-41.html#unique-entry-id-41</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/c2951f27625b44d7d4c6a8718ddb1701-41.html#unique-entry-id-41</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jessica Hendricks certainly belongs in this group, but she finished just outside of the top-20 in this Iditarod, a vivid reminder that in dog racing, no position is guaranteed: If you don&rsquo;t believe me, take a look at the runs of Martin Buser and Ramy Brooks this year.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>An Iditarod Recap</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-03-16T19:27:14-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/fd92408fbe0909819069d76d79e2a5c5-40.html#unique-entry-id-40</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/fd92408fbe0909819069d76d79e2a5c5-40.html#unique-entry-id-40</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Swingley's speeds between checkpoints were falling as the well-rested team of Paul Gebhardt, who had taken a bold gamble and run his dogs well past the Iditarod's halfway point before taking the race's one mandatory, 24-hour rest, powered up the trail behind.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Three Cheers For Salem&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-03-14T19:22:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/6a2e502b6fd7bd2c47d114bc2529a446-39.html#unique-entry-id-39</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/6a2e502b6fd7bd2c47d114bc2529a446-39.html#unique-entry-id-39</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[WHITE MOUNTAIN -- Just an hour before starting a Tuesday march toward what promised to be a long-awaited fourth victory in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, musher Jeff King sprawled in the straw next to beloved lead dog Salem with arms spread wide. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The End Of Dreams</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-03-16T19:19:13-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/f60176f6092625c43704044201d57d02-38.html#unique-entry-id-38</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/f60176f6092625c43704044201d57d02-38.html#unique-entry-id-38</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[By the time he finally gave up his Iditarod dream, Aisenbrey was an old guy with a bad back who thought he might still have a shot if the Iditarod would only allow him a helper along the trail as it had the legally blind Scdoris. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Like A Thief In The Night</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-03-10T19:16:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/f24bd9d52b73b3e80cae20af55dbaa20-37.html#unique-entry-id-37</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/f24bd9d52b73b3e80cae20af55dbaa20-37.html#unique-entry-id-37</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Cripple, Alaska, Mar. 9, 2006, 3:00 p.m. &ndash; Jeff King made a bold move to not only make up time on Iditarod leader Doug Swingley, but pass him, running some 85 miles - more than 10 hours - from Takotna to this remote tent camp in the middle of nowhere.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Pancakes in Nome</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-03-15T21:07:49-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/29e6ae4004fede0fc9d138be410216b3-36.html#unique-entry-id-36</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/29e6ae4004fede0fc9d138be410216b3-36.html#unique-entry-id-36</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Jeff King and his dog team pulled off an exciting win crossing the finish line at about 2:00 AM CST today (Wednesday, 3/15) completing the 1112 miles in a total time of 9 days, 11 hours, 11 mins, and 36 seconds. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>It&#x27;s A Numbers Game Now&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-03-09T19:22:15-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/de6daa87e4151361ddd3b979002476b4-35.html#unique-entry-id-35</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/de6daa87e4151361ddd3b979002476b4-35.html#unique-entry-id-35</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Everyone who wins the Iditarod winds up putting some long runs in, whether it's making the leg from Ophir to Cripple in one run the way Martin Buser does it, or breaking the Yukon River into two eight- or nine-hour runs as Charlie Boulding pioneered a few years back. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>AAAaaaoooooooooooooo&#x21;&#x21;&#x21;&#x21;&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-03-06T18:56:54-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/a6cbfcdcf53047f328e5fe1b1f0f8bdf-34.html#unique-entry-id-34</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/a6cbfcdcf53047f328e5fe1b1f0f8bdf-34.html#unique-entry-id-34</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The whole when to run and when to rest decision is a big part of everyone's strategy to win, and you have to know your dogs to be able to make the right call at the right time. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>I&#x27;ve Got A Little List&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2006-03-02T19:52:16-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/e4f577df3a3ffc3cc7154b23df65365a-33.html#unique-entry-id-33</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/e4f577df3a3ffc3cc7154b23df65365a-33.html#unique-entry-id-33</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The production featured The Bell Telephone Orchestra and the wonderful Norman Luboff Choir, and it starred Robert Rounseville as Nanki-Pooh, Dennis King as The Mikado, Stanley Holloway as the oh so dry Pooh-Bah, Barbara Meister as Yum-Yum, and Sharon Randall as Pitti-Sin. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Juilliard&#x27;s Newest Musical Treasure</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-03-02T08:17:27-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/50111a5fed9e7715842fc7ac7d62c358-32.html#unique-entry-id-32</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/50111a5fed9e7715842fc7ac7d62c358-32.html#unique-entry-id-32</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's Juilliard school unveiled a treasure trove of music manuscripts on Tuesday given by a collector determined to seek out the original papers scribbled and annotated by the likes of Beethoven, Mozart and Bach. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Saying Goodbye</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2006-03-01T18:46:20-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/c617472638adb2f2ee9929efd142d979-31.html#unique-entry-id-31</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/c617472638adb2f2ee9929efd142d979-31.html#unique-entry-id-31</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s one of the most natural things in the world, a basic part of Life itself, and yet that doesn&rsquo;t seem to make it any easier when it comes your turn to say goodbye to someone who has been a part of your life. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Happy Fat Tuesday&#x2c; New Orleans&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2006-02-28T21:52:12-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/69447d5aad5a91b5c93847f071efbbaf-30.html#unique-entry-id-30</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/69447d5aad5a91b5c93847f071efbbaf-30.html#unique-entry-id-30</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[LAISSEZ LES BONS TEMPS ROULER!!!
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Sometimes you just have to laugh</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2006-02-25T00:30:34-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/c92d505bcc5533d1ffd2f9e7fa211a6a-29.html#unique-entry-id-29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/c92d505bcc5533d1ffd2f9e7fa211a6a-29.html#unique-entry-id-29</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Okay, so I know things are not so good in several spots around the world these days, but sometimes all you can do is trust that everything is going to work out for the best. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>It&#x27;s Up&#x21; </title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2006-02-25T00:08:51-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/80aaa9acd480b421abaf89e5d392d2f6-28.html#unique-entry-id-28</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/80aaa9acd480b421abaf89e5d392d2f6-28.html#unique-entry-id-28</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Well, really it's just a bare bones site for now, but it will suffice for Leah & Sean's Playbill interview next week. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Thursday Thoughts</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2006-02-23T18:47:19-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/11f1a252adb257250e4524e9dddb0384-27.html#unique-entry-id-27</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/11f1a252adb257250e4524e9dddb0384-27.html#unique-entry-id-27</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Now I&rsquo;m taking a few nights off to clear my mind a bit, and then I&rsquo;m going to dive into two books that my friend Jackie sent to me this Christmas, Sailing To Sarantium and A Song For Arbonne. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>This one struck me...</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2006-02-21T23:21:20-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/17c5110481a755c949edc81ae9f2b228-26.html#unique-entry-id-26</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/17c5110481a755c949edc81ae9f2b228-26.html#unique-entry-id-26</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[They say miracles are past, and we have our philosphical
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Route 66 - The Mother Road</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>On The Road</category><dc:date>2006-02-19T11:00:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/4dbd446cd82d61feaaef52ea8792500d-25.html#unique-entry-id-25</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/4dbd446cd82d61feaaef52ea8792500d-25.html#unique-entry-id-25</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA["There's not as much to see as there used to be--because the freeway knocked out a lot of the mom-and-pop stuff and the fun things," said Kirk, who still speaks with an accent from her Massachusetts upbringing, pronouncing water as "watah."
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>We&#x27;re back&#x21; </title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2006-02-19T12:35:23-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/eba77fde994ea49bf34e1328460a4ec4-24.html#unique-entry-id-24</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/eba77fde994ea49bf34e1328460a4ec4-24.html#unique-entry-id-24</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I was just messing around working on a few ideas for Leah and Sean's website, and Leah wanted a sneak peek, so I put one version up here on Little Delving just for a bit. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Opening At The American Heartland Theater in Kansas City&#x2c; March 2006&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2006-02-19T11:29:58-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/930ff309e3a2a943b02189770724f8da-23.html#unique-entry-id-23</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/930ff309e3a2a943b02189770724f8da-23.html#unique-entry-id-23</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Leah and Sean are planning to do a cast recording of the Kansas City production in late April, and that's when I'm planning to fly down and see the show for myself. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Wednesday Thoughts</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2006-02-15T19:12:01-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/a5894da913e5e3082a2e409a280faf08-22.html#unique-entry-id-22</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/a5894da913e5e3082a2e409a280faf08-22.html#unique-entry-id-22</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I love Leonard Bernstein&rsquo;s score for this show (Overture  Life Is Happiness  Oh Happy We  It Must Be So  Barcarolle  Alleluia  What's The Use  Make Our Garden Grow,) and though the pianists played mightily, there is simply no way they could compensate for the missing instrumentals. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Beowulf - Coming Soon To A Theater Near You</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Things Medieval</category><dc:date>2006-02-09T20:08:37-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/8535dc122bf16648cce49980847d50b0-21.html#unique-entry-id-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/8535dc122bf16648cce49980847d50b0-21.html#unique-entry-id-21</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Soon, however, there will be two new Beowulf movies coming out, Beowulf And Grendel, and Beowulf. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Dead</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2006-02-08T19:58:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/2a50f12c2f092c72b3bbd4c1d8b2657a-19.html#unique-entry-id-19</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/2a50f12c2f092c72b3bbd4c1d8b2657a-19.html#unique-entry-id-19</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[But all of those scenes are there for only one reason: to establish the surface of a commonplace, satisfactory life, so that the closing moments of the story can shock us by showing what hidden depths of loneliness and passion can exist secretly in the hearts of people we think we know.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Niggle&#x27;s Adventure</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Tolkieny Goodness</category><dc:date>2006-02-06T20:40:14-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/7107bec0d549aced1f841443a66f3857-17.html#unique-entry-id-17</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/7107bec0d549aced1f841443a66f3857-17.html#unique-entry-id-17</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Niggle deserved better than to be shelved somewhere, but since he was one of the very early iPods he needed to go to an Apple friendly home. iTunes and iPods didn't start playing nicely with Windows PC's until a year or so after Niggle arrived.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Sick Of Hearing About Harvard?</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-02-06T19:05:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/6016847eb27982f822a91e11f0bbde56-16.html#unique-entry-id-16</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/6016847eb27982f822a91e11f0bbde56-16.html#unique-entry-id-16</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[And while Harvard certainly has its superstars, when you look at the people who have taught at Chicago in the past 40 years or so--Milton Friedman, Richard Posner, Allan Bloom, Leo Strauss, Robert Lucas, Albert Wohlstetter, Richard Epstein, Leon Kass, Saul Bellow, Martha Nussbaum--it is pretty clear which school has been giving off more heat.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Another Monday</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2006-02-06T19:40:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/fa756aceb2a84c2dd3b0e1328acfce61-15.html#unique-entry-id-15</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/fa756aceb2a84c2dd3b0e1328acfce61-15.html#unique-entry-id-15</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In that way it&rsquo;s usually a double edged sword, but so far with RW I have to say I am very pleased with what it has allowed me to put together even with my novice&rsquo;s level of understanding. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brokeback To The Future</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2006-02-05T14:01:38-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/b3641a925a5a3ca9d4d2a0fad2746078-14.html#unique-entry-id-14</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/b3641a925a5a3ca9d4d2a0fad2746078-14.html#unique-entry-id-14</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It's a testament to the art of trailer editing, and it's a hoot to boot. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Unni Wilhelmsen</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2006-02-03T20:25:24-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/1f7e9c6dfd857624343984728c45ed3e-9.html#unique-entry-id-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/1f7e9c6dfd857624343984728c45ed3e-9.html#unique-entry-id-9</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[My Norwegian buddy, Lill Ann, sent me a few songs a while back and I really liked them, so I went looking for her CD&rsquo;s, but they&rsquo;re a bit hard to find here in the States. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>January 23rd Is National Pie Day</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2006-01-23T01:25:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/a2ad847fd57952f2570a3ca78c648935-8.html#unique-entry-id-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/a2ad847fd57952f2570a3ca78c648935-8.html#unique-entry-id-8</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Tip: The original recipe stated that the pie should be baked 45 to 50 minutes in a preheated 350-degree gas oven. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Red Carpet Time Again</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2006-02-01T21:11:28-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/45bb01fa7ea82385c21fcaa849f1e9ce-7.html#unique-entry-id-7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/45bb01fa7ea82385c21fcaa849f1e9ce-7.html#unique-entry-id-7</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I haven't been in the theater much this past year, but I always seem to get excited about the movies when Oscar Time rolls around. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>A New Moon Rising</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Maximum Celticity</category><dc:date>2006-01-31T21:58:35-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/02aeb4c8e109386e1b1d00d4cc1fbb11-5.html#unique-entry-id-5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/02aeb4c8e109386e1b1d00d4cc1fbb11-5.html#unique-entry-id-5</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[And while I was slaving away on my new Celtic Moon I had the appropriate tunes to back me up and inspire my efforts. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>More of Winter&#x27;s Revels</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Things Medieval</category><dc:date>2005-12-25T16:07:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/24a33b99c9827100a1501603579c528c-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/24a33b99c9827100a1501603579c528c-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[They put on several performances a year at various times of the year, but the corner stone of the season is always the Christmas Revels, a celebration of community and mystery surrounding the winter solstice and the changing of the seasons. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Echo And Shadow</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Now Playing</category><dc:date>2006-01-10T15:58:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/3fb5399875d32a53693bd3e780c19221-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/3fb5399875d32a53693bd3e780c19221-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Every so often I hear something on the radio that stops me in my tracks. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Mythic Imagination: Winter Solstice And The Stag</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Fun &#x26; Interesting</category><dc:date>2005-12-30T12:09:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/fb36299e0453f4ffa731f27f39699ce9-2.html#unique-entry-id-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/fb36299e0453f4ffa731f27f39699ce9-2.html#unique-entry-id-2</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It's a gathering of various folk from far flung fields such as the performing arts, literature, poetry, psychology, religion, academics, folk studies, and the like who come together to discuss the role that mythology has and still can play in our lives and in our cultures. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Greetings and Salutations</title><dc:creator>cjeffboice@LIttleDelving.com</dc:creator><category>Day To Day</category><dc:date>2005-12-11T18:37:00-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/3ff3548f12eab11fc74ca4fdc73aa8c0-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.littledelving.com/News/files/3ff3548f12eab11fc74ca4fdc73aa8c0-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Well here's to kicking off a new blog site and hoping I find the time and inclination to keep up with it.  ]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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