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	<link>http://www.cianboland.com</link>
	<description>A Critique of My Life and Other Miscellaneous Debris</description>
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		<title>The Great Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once I have some money saved up I&#8217;m going to move to some rural spot in New Zealand and raise honey bees on a tract of land, by myself, save for one or two trusty hounds. I&#8217;ll only encounter other people when I roll up into the nearest village once a week to collect my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cianboland.com/2010/07/21/the-great-plan/</link>
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		<title>Adventures in Not-Drinking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If having an alcohol problem means that a person&#8217;s alcohol consumption interferes with his work or personal relationships, then I probably never had one when I used to drink, but I appear to have developed one since I stopped drinking. I am very much looking forward to leaving this island. The picture is not particularly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cianboland.com/2010/07/21/adventures-in-not-drinking/</link>
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		<title>Semi-Proficient Guitarist Seeks Semi-Proficient Bandmates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Title says it all. Influences include Taking Back Sunday, Brand New, Jawbreaker/Jets to Brazil, and Alkaline Trio. Plenty of other stuff too, but that&#8217;s the general idea. &#8230; Reading this back, that band sounds pretty terrible. So let&#8217;s expand the range of influences to include the industrial-lite stomp of Nine Inch Nails, the alt-rock stylings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cianboland.com/2010/07/16/semi-proficient-guitarist-seeks-semi-proficient-bandmates/</link>
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		<title>Spain Plane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Footage of the Spanish teams&#8217; flight home from South Africa. Probably the only time you&#8217;ll ever get to see Pepe Reina, Sergio Ramos and David Villa dance a conga line down an airplane aisle while singing along to Spanish music.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cianboland.com/2010/07/14/spain-plane/</link>
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		<title>Tiki Taka</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Paul the Psychic Octopus foretold, Spain defeated Germany in Durban this evening to progress to their first ever World Cup final. There&#8217;s no point going into detail about the match itself; anyone reading this probably watched it: Germany played well but just came up against a much better team, and it was absolutely beautiful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cianboland.com/2010/07/08/tiki-taka/</link>
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		<title>My Vocation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After trying my hand at philosophy and medicine, I&#8217;ve finally figured out what I want to do with my life: I&#8217;m going to be a football journalist.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cianboland.com/2010/06/24/my-vocation/</link>
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		<title>Sometimes I Catch Myself,</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pondering questions like, &#8220;How the fuck is buying a marimba going to help me?&#8221; But then I just carry on.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cianboland.com/2010/01/23/sometimes-i-catch-myself/</link>
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		<title>UCC&#8217;s Students&#8217; Union</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it&#8217;s unfair to lay all the blame on the SU for these issues, but: UCC students pay for the use of the Mardyke Arena in our capitation fee; it&#8217;s been closed for weeks and we&#8217;re not getting any compensation for it. Secondly, all the roads in Cork are covered in snow, the buses are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cianboland.com/2010/01/11/uccs-students-union/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Sory Wrong Number&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why would someone go to the trouble of writing down a made-up number for you and pretend it&#8217;s theirs? Why not just use some stock excuse, or say you&#8217;re not interested or whatever? I was having such a good day too&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cianboland.com/2010/01/09/sory-wrong-number/</link>
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		<title>New Alkaline Trio Song</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;This Addiction&#8217;. I love this band so much (Yes, that&#8217;s right, Alkaline Trio get a smiley from me for being so goddamn awesome.)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cianboland.com/2010/01/09/new-alkaline-trio-song/</link>
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		<title>Top Five Records</title>
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		<link>http://www.cianboland.com/2010/01/04/top-five-records/</link>
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		<title>Why, Why, Oh Why, Oh Why,</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why Is It Always Like This?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cianboland.com/2009/12/28/why-why-oh-why-oh-why/</link>
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		<title>Back From The Dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Essay deadlines are looming large on the horizon, so I&#8217;ll be posting nonsense here again for the next two weeks as I desperately try to avoid doing work. Here&#8217;s some stuff I encountered and liked while I was off-lining: The Idiots (the Lars Von Trier film) Wild Strawberries (the Ingmar Bergman film) Biffy Clyro The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cianboland.com/2009/12/07/back-from-the-dead/</link>
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		<title>Signing Off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I would very much like to put something up here, but I&#8217;m afraid that it could fuck everything up, so I won&#8217;t. &#8230; Looking back on it, blogging here has been a mixed bag. In the early days I posted reactionary political opinions which I&#8217;m thoroughly ashamed of now, but thankfully they were mostly washed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cianboland.com/2009/10/20/signing-off/</link>
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		<title>Om Nom Nom Nom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Braineaters&#8221; OI! OI! OI! Brains for dinner Brains for lunch Brains for breakfast Brains for brunch Brains at every single meal, Why can&#8217;t we have some guts? OI! OI! OI! Brains are all we ever get at this rotten fucking place, brains are all we ever get, why can&#8217;t we have a change of pace! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cianboland.com/2009/10/10/nom-nom-nom-2/</link>
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