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		<title>Happy Birthday, William Gibson, Sir~!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is William Gibson&#8217;s Birthday! For those of you who have been hiding under a rock for the past twenty years, or have been freshly cloned, William Gibson is the primary progenitor of the cyberpunk movement. He&#8217;s generally credited with coining the term &#8220;cyberspace&#8221; and popularizing a somewhat more realistic, if somewhat bleak, view of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, My Droogie Lad.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the birthday of novelist and critic Anthony Burgess He was born John Anthony Burgess Wilson in Manchester, England on this day in 1917. Though he had written several novels early in his career, none of them were particularly successful. His career took a different turn, however, when, in 1959, he began to suffer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday&#8230;Nevermind.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the birthday of Kurt Cobain. The singer-songwriter who essentially founded the &#8220;grunge&#8221; music movement, was born in Hoquiam, Washington on this day in 1967. He started from humble beginnings, working a job as a school janitor, but he started playing in local rock bands. He spent most of this time living at various [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Bill.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is William S. Burroughs&#8216; birthday. Born in St. Louis, Missouri on this day in 1914, he is best known for having written Naked Lunch, which was later turned into a movie that starred Peter Weller. Burroughs started writing while attending Harvard, but when a piece of his was rejected by Esquire magazine, he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Bob.</title>
		<link>http://www.fantasist.net/scroll/2009/01/happy-birthday-bob/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the birthday of the man who brought us Conan the Barbarian, King Kull, and Solomon Kane science fiction author Robert E. Howard, who was born in Peaster, Texas on this day in 1906. If you&#8217;re from Texas, or just passing through, you can find out more about him at the Crossplains Robert E. Howard [...]]]></description>
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