<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896546469372554665</id><updated>2011-07-30T12:08:10.595-07:00</updated><category term='mini book review'/><category term='deadline'/><category term='crutcher'/><category term='chris'/><title type='text'>vanessa.</title><subtitle type='html'>Trying to find meaning amid a technology and common sense failure that the every day man provides for me.  Who will begin the next revolutionary Renaissance?</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://surrealaudience.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896546469372554665/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://surrealaudience.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>vanessa.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02549788041216040418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JWLQ8fiSc2Y/SX_dLBX1-OI/AAAAAAAAAAU/0Un5MDq1Nlk/S220/CIMG1726.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896546469372554665.post-5403381083476831687</id><published>2010-04-06T22:30:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-06T22:30:39.311-07:00</updated><title type='text'>formspring.me</title><content type='html'>Don't be flat-mouthed...Ask me anything! &lt;a href="http://formspring.me/nessiespring" target="_blank"&gt;http://formspring.me/nessiespring&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5896546469372554665-5403381083476831687?l=surrealaudience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://surrealaudience.blogspot.com/feeds/5403381083476831687/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://surrealaudience.blogspot.com/2010/04/formspringme.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896546469372554665/posts/default/5403381083476831687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896546469372554665/posts/default/5403381083476831687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://surrealaudience.blogspot.com/2010/04/formspringme.html' title='formspring.me'/><author><name>vanessa.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02549788041216040418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JWLQ8fiSc2Y/SX_dLBX1-OI/AAAAAAAAAAU/0Un5MDq1Nlk/S220/CIMG1726.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5896546469372554665.post-8912720176270579159</id><published>2009-05-03T19:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-14T21:44:24.791-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chris'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mini book review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deadline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crutcher'/><title type='text'>deadline.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JWLQ8fiSc2Y/S527G0gy6tI/AAAAAAAAAHk/CvRqx7wSZAM/s1600-h/deadline.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JWLQ8fiSc2Y/S527G0gy6tI/AAAAAAAAAHk/CvRqx7wSZAM/s320/deadline.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448716850037975762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I'll tell you all you need to know. Look, I'm a scientist. Everything out here in the universe came from a single thing, something scientists call the &lt;/span&gt;big bang&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;. That means you have within you everything the universe has within it. When you know something without learning it, it's because some part of you connects up with something out there and it is &lt;/span&gt;familiar.&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; You know it without learning it... The point is that everything that exists inside you also exists outside you. The world is practice for the inner you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;These were &lt;b&gt;quite&lt;/b&gt; the deep words here; broken down into teen speak, and I still I can't completely understand them. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Deadline &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;by Chris Crutcher is a great book, and it's also the type of book that makes you ponder (&lt;i&gt;really think&lt;/i&gt;) about the situations in your life. It's interesting to see life through the eyes of a guy who is going to die, who is literally on a&lt;b&gt; dead&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;line&lt;/i&gt;, because you catch on to things you wouldn't normally understand in daily life. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;Give the book a chance because Crutcher might change your life, or try. What's more deliciously satisfying than someone giving enough of a s*** to try and change your life? Nothing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Like I said before, it's all about differences. Something about humans really doesn't like them, when they are the very thing we should embrace. IF someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look. If you're scared or mad, that's about you, not about the person who scares or angers you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5896546469372554665-8912720176270579159?l=surrealaudience.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://surrealaudience.blogspot.com/feeds/8912720176270579159/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://surrealaudience.blogspot.com/2009/05/deadline.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896546469372554665/posts/default/8912720176270579159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5896546469372554665/posts/default/8912720176270579159'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://surrealaudience.blogspot.com/2009/05/deadline.html' title='deadline.'/><author><name>vanessa.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02549788041216040418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JWLQ8fiSc2Y/SX_dLBX1-OI/AAAAAAAAAAU/0Un5MDq1Nlk/S220/CIMG1726.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JWLQ8fiSc2Y/S527G0gy6tI/AAAAAAAAAHk/CvRqx7wSZAM/s72-c/deadline.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
