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	<title>The Consortium of Greater Minds &#187; christmas</title>
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		<title>mo&#8217; yuletide for that ass</title>
		<link>http://www.thegreaterminds.com/2008/12/23/mo-yuletide-for-that-ass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R Saguin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[have listened to this song along with Run DMC&#8217;s Christmas in Hollis for at least the past six years during the holidays. Kurtis Blow &#8211; Christmas Rappin&#8217; and to all&#8230; A GOOD NIGHT! bonus: Santa Baby &#8211; Rev Run, Mase, Puff Daddy, Salt-N-Pepa, Snoop, Onyx, &#38; Keef Murray + booty music for those holidays at [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>have listened to this song along with Run DMC&#8217;s Christmas in Hollis for at least the past six years during the holidays.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFtA7IHZgzw">Kurtis Blow &#8211; Christmas Rappin&#8217;</a></p>
<p>and to all&#8230; A GOOD NIGHT!</p>
<p>bonus: <a href="http://www.imeem.com/24th/music/HVFF6FER/rev_run_mase_puff_daddy_snoop_doggy_dog_saltnpepa_ony/">Santa Baby</a> &#8211; Rev Run, Mase, Puff Daddy, Salt-N-Pepa, Snoop, Onyx, &amp; Keef Murray</p>
<p>+</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0z5gcCMExA">booty music for those holidays at the club</a></p>
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		<title>Christmastime.</title>
		<link>http://www.thegreaterminds.com/2008/12/15/christmastime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R Saguin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex posted his top 3 holiday songs. Here are 3 more that got drums and two-stepping. Christmas in Hollis OH MY GOD &#8211; AN ILL REINDEER! G-Funk x Christmas On the 2nd day of Christmas, my homeboy gave to me, a fif of Hen dog. TLC &#8211; Sleigh Ride Traditional Christmas garb did infact include [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alex posted his top 3 holiday songs. Here are 3 more that got drums and two-stepping.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juBEue3L4LE">Christmas in Hollis</a></p>
<p>OH MY GOD &#8211; AN ILL REINDEER!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQfSIZiv8q4">G-Funk x Christmas</a></p>
<p>On the 2nd day of Christmas, my homeboy gave to me, a fif of Hen dog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efvfVSb4kXk">TLC &#8211; Sleigh Ride</a></p>
<p>Traditional Christmas garb did infact include condoms.</p>
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		<title>all around the world it&#8217;s beginning to look a lot like christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.thegreaterminds.com/2008/12/11/all-around-the-world-its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[top three christmas tracks to get you in the holiday spirit. call me a traditionalist but christmas songs are the best sung by artists from our parents generation&#8230;except for Wham&#8217;s last christmas of course. 1. [kml_flashembed movie="http://jp.youtube.com/v/q9mo4yGvaIA" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] it wouldn&#8217;t be christmas in the allen household without the best of johnny mathis [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>top three christmas tracks to get you in the holiday spirit.  call me a traditionalist but christmas songs are the best sung by artists from our parents generation&#8230;except for Wham&#8217;s <em>last christmas</em> of course.</p>
<p>1.<br />
<code>[kml_flashembed movie="http://jp.youtube.com/v/q9mo4yGvaIA" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]</code><br />
it wouldn&#8217;t be christmas in the allen household without the best of johnny mathis on the hifi</p>
<p>2.<br />
<code>[kml_flashembed movie="http://jp.youtube.com/v/3M0dzWuSmGQ" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]</code><br />
old blue eyes sings it the best</p>
<p>3.<br />
<code>[kml_flashembed movie="http://jp.youtube.com/v/MUlOMc-2QvA" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]</code><br />
simply classic</p>
<p>and honorable mention goes to, you guessed it, Wham!</p>
<p><code>[kml_flashembed movie="http://jp.youtube.com/v/3354flS1KJs" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]</code><br />
reminds me of last christmas when a bunch of us grew our hair into mullets and rented a cabin up in the mountains and each brought our blond girlfriends&#8230;what a great memory&#8230;we wore a lot of turtlenecks&#8230;</p>
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		<title>blood red maple</title>
		<link>http://www.thegreaterminds.com/2008/12/08/blood-red-maple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[jotted this down after stumbling across shinjuku goen yesterday following some holiday gift shopping. i can&#8217;t belive it&#8217;s taken me this long to discover what is probably the most beautiful park in the city. all the flat ground a man needs to roll bocce, beautiful winding paths, coy ponds and ancient trees dazzling in their [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>jotted this down after stumbling across shinjuku goen yesterday following some holiday gift shopping.  i can&#8217;t belive it&#8217;s taken me this long to discover what is probably the most beautiful park in the city.  all the flat ground a man needs to roll bocce, beautiful winding paths, coy ponds and ancient trees dazzling in their fall colours.  one old man of the forest in particular struck me with much awe and i sat for quite some time in a wooden pergola overlooking the japanese maple on a hill above a large coy pond.  the juxtaposition of the bustling city shopping block and the meditative repose of the park shocked me out of the consumer stupor i had been in all morning and afternoon.    </p>
<p><a href="http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/bridge20under20japanese20maple.jpg" rel="lightbox[pics-1228716794]" title=""><img src="http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/bridge20under20japanese20maple.jpg" alt="bridge20under20japanese20maple" width="500" height="375" class="attachment wp-att-1105 alignleft" /></a></p>
<p><strong>blood red maple</strong></p>
<p>blood red maple<br />
raging fire in my veins<br />
burst forth from a wooden nervous system<br />
burst forth from roots as old as<br />
time</p>
<p>in the autumn of your life<br />
warmed by the heat of a thousand suns<br />
wise old man who has lived through so much<br />
who has seen so much</p>
<p>emperors are born and die<br />
under the shade of your wooden arms<br />
battles are fought and empires crumble<br />
in the impenetrable shadow of your mighty stalk<br />
history is etched in your very skin<br />
and your blood is the blood of a nation<br />
proud and mysterious<br />
it is the blood of the shogun<br />
the samurai<br />
it is so much the blood of the peasant</p>
<p>blood red maple<br />
in this the autumn of our life<br />
which was predicted in the first shoot of your might brow<br />
and now smolders<br />
in the raging fire of your bloody cannopy </p>
<p>you who have heard so much<br />
the confession of murderers<br />
the cooing of lovers<br />
a mother&#8217;s tears as they fall in pond of coy</p>
<p>blood red maple<br />
if you could speak on the eve<br />
of our great demise<br />
what would you say to a deaf man</p>
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		<title>one hundred drunken santas</title>
		<link>http://www.thegreaterminds.com/2008/01/04/one-hundred-drunken-santas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[christmas is over and sure it&#8217;s depressing to bring it up once it&#8217;s gone, but i think you&#8217;ll enjoy one hundred drunken santas&#8230;seriously, santas were falling like flies as they walked through yoyogi park]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>christmas is over and sure it&#8217;s depressing to bring it up once it&#8217;s gone, but i think you&#8217;ll enjoy one hundred drunken santas&#8230;seriously, santas were falling like flies as they walked through yoyogi park</p>
<p><a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/img_9196.JPG' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/img_9196.JPG' alt='' /></a></p>
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		<title>garmisch retrospective 02-06</title>
		<link>http://www.thegreaterminds.com/2007/12/29/garmisch-retrospective-02-06/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Allen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[how i'm livin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christmas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[since it&#8217;s that time of the year when, in days past, the consortium would find themselves carving up the slopes of the majestic german and austrian alps it seems appropriate that a post is dedicated to winter break trips of the past. it brings a tear to a grown man&#8217;s eye as he leafs through [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>since it&#8217;s that time of the year when, in days past, the consortium would find themselves carving up the slopes of the majestic german and austrian alps it seems appropriate that a post is dedicated to winter break trips of the past.  it brings a tear to a grown man&#8217;s eye as he leafs through the photos from a time back in the day and reflects upon a life less hectic.  the yearly garmisch trip with the consortium and friends/family will always represent some of the best moments of my life, i&#8217;m sure of that.  the days were filled with fresh powder and majestic scenery while the nights were consumed with raucous laughter, hours of domino playing, drinking and partying.  who among us will forget the rooms we slept in at haus lilly and the wizened proprietor, frau lechner &#8211; with her delicious breakfasts and crazy german ranting and that time she got drunk off the wine we gave her as a gift.  for nine years the consortium whether fully intact or only in skeleton crew, called haus lilly their home and this winter marks the first in nearly a decade that we have not reunited for days of boarding and nights of camaraderie.  i can see i wax on, my friends, so i will bring this to a close and proceed with the photo retrospective of those happy days in deutschland from &#8217;02 to &#8217;06.  auf wiedersehen   </p>
<h2>&#8217;02</h2>
<p><a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/dsc_0030.JPG' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/dsc_0030.JPG' alt='' /></a><br />
waaaay back in &#8217;02.  first year of uni for soundune and suav &#8211; the young fellas in the center were still seniors in high school&#8230;how the time passes</p>
<p><a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/dsc_0023.JPG' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/dsc_0023.JPG' alt='' /></a><br />
there were many crazy poses over the years</p>
<p><a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/garmisch-bar-ii.jpg' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/garmisch-bar-ii.jpg' alt='' /></a><br />
there were years where dj was there and we drank in bars with awesome contemporary art</p>
<p><a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_0595.JPG' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_0595.JPG' alt='' /></a><br />
sister was always there hitting the slopes, too</p>
<h2>&#8217;05</h2>
<p><a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_0572.JPG' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_0572.JPG' alt='' /></a><br />
on the road</p>
<p><a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_0603.JPG' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_0603.JPG' alt='' /></a><br />
looking cool in the cold</p>
<p><a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_0609.JPG' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_0609.JPG' alt='' /></a><br />
of course&#8230;</p>
<p><a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_0617.JPG' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_0617.JPG' alt='' /></a><br />
sweetness took some awesome shots over the years</p>
<p><a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_0645.JPG' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_0645.JPG' alt='' /></a><br />
more posing</p>
<p><a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_0662.JPG' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_0662.JPG' alt='' /></a><br />
another shot by sweetness &#8211; just about sums the whole post up</p>
<h2>&#8217;06</h2>
<p><a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/s-camera-summer-2007-059.jpg' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/s-camera-summer-2007-059.jpg' alt='' /></a><br />
always the best authentic italian &#8211; la baita</p>
<p><a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/dscn0531.JPG' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/dscn0531.JPG' alt='' /></a><br />
whistler what??  tahoe who??</p>
<p><a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/dscn0536.JPG' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/dscn0536.JPG' alt='' /></a><br />
cold as ice</p>
<p><a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/dscn0551.JPG' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/dscn0551.JPG' alt='' /></a><br />
there was always clowning</p>
<p><a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/dscn0554.JPG' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/dscn0554.JPG' alt='' /></a><br />
and more clowning</p>
<p><a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/dscn0566.JPG' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/dscn0566.JPG' alt='' /></a><br />
believe there was beer </p>
<p><a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_0292.JPG' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_0292.JPG' alt='' /></a><br />
and what trip would be complete without hours of bones at the lodge?  i think nick and i were up</p>
<p><a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_0378.JPG' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_0378.JPG' alt='' /></a><br />
did i say there was clowning?</p>
<p><a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_1910.JPG' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_1910.JPG' alt='' /></a><br />
meeting new friends.  linda from munich</p>
<h2>the steps: a series</h2>
<p>&#8217;02<br />
<a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/dsc_0060.JPG' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/dsc_0060.JPG' alt='' /></a><br />
with the frau herself</p>
<p>&#8217;05<br />
<a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_0636.JPG' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/img_0636.JPG' alt='' /></a></p>
<p>&#8217;06<br />
<a href='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/s-camera-summer-2007-060.jpg' title=''><img src='http://www.thegreaterminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/s-camera-summer-2007-060.jpg' alt='' /></a></p>
<p>my how we have grown&#8230;</p>
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		<title>merry christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.thegreaterminds.com/2007/12/25/merry-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Allen</dc:creator>
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		<title>happy holidays from the consortium</title>
		<link>http://www.thegreaterminds.com/2007/12/22/happy-holidays-from-the-consortium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 02:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Allen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[how i'm livin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nat king cole]]></category>

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		<title>and it&#8217;s christmas time on the blue ridge</title>
		<link>http://www.thegreaterminds.com/2007/12/18/and-its-christmas-time-on-the-blue-ridge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Allen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[how i'm livin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blue ridge]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[navy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[some awesome shots of the floating mound of steel i call home for half the year. blue ridge lcc 19 with 20k worth of christmas lights&#8230;and we don&#8217;t have enough paint brushes&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>some awesome shots of the floating mound of steel i call home for half the year.  blue ridge lcc 19 with 20k worth of christmas lights&#8230;and we don&#8217;t have enough paint brushes&#8230;</p>
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		<title>it&#8217;s christmas time in the city</title>
		<link>http://www.thegreaterminds.com/2007/12/16/its-christmas-time-in-the-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A Allen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ginza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tokyo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[in tokyo on saturday to knock out the christmas shopping. stopped through ginza in the evening and had &#8216;silver bells&#8217; stuck in my head all night. there really isn&#8217;t anything like christmas time in the city, wherever that city may be. a little random, but i found this in some back street of aoyama &#8211; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>in tokyo on saturday to knock out the christmas shopping.  stopped through ginza in the evening and had &#8216;silver bells&#8217; stuck in my head all night.  there really isn&#8217;t anything like christmas time in the city, wherever that city may be.</p>
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a little random, but i found this in some back street of aoyama &#8211; advertising one of the 100,000 salons in aoyama/harajuku &#8211; where are all the girls that look like this?</p>
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chillin on the street</p>
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z kicking it with the mamasans</p>
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apple!</p>
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when the bus moves&#8230;</p>
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go!</p>
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lights as far as the eye can see&#8230;</p>
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on the way home we stopped for ice cream&#8230;only in japan does ice cream come in an edible heart shaped wafer that&#8217;s packaged in a plastic bag</p>
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z seems to love it</p>
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coca cola with that over the top christmas marketing</p>
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