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		<title>Raining cats and dogs and blokes in high-vis vests</title>
		<link>http://matlarkin.com/2008/05/28/high-vis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 23:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mat</dc:creator>
		
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A cherry-picker investigates a tree from the inside. Click for a larger version on the ABC website. Photo credit: ABC News: Karl Hoerr

See the open window at the top? That’s my office. Read the full story here:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/27/2256870.htm
The boom arm on the cherry picker, which is essentially a steel I-beam about 80cm square, bent in half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A milkshake for Dennis</title>
		<link>http://matlarkin.com/2007/05/24/a-milkshake-for-dennis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 08:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mat</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You will be gratified to read that sensation is returning to my tongue. Obviously I don’t know why that news should affect you so, but that’s hardly my fault, is it? You sicken me. There, I’ve said it. No, wait: I love you. Let's never argue again. Have a peanut. I wonder what they make the stuff out of that goes in dental anaesthetic?]]></description>
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		<title>Viva El Chupacabra</title>
		<link>http://matlarkin.com/2007/05/22/viva-el-chupacabra/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 06:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mat</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the name, beginning with C, of the wild dog native to Mexico and the south-western USA?]]></description>
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		<title>Thai food nearly broke my ankle</title>
		<link>http://matlarkin.com/2007/05/05/thai-food-nearly-broke-my-ankle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2007 07:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Evil Sulphura, The]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[complete mortification]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[gluttony]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve ordered Thai food. ‘They say we can pick it up in twenty minutes,’ says the Evil Sulphura.
‘We should leave here in twenty minutes,’ I say. ‘It always takes at least half an hour, and I always end up sitting in that crowded bit at the front, waiting with all the other gullible losers who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I still like your trousers</title>
		<link>http://matlarkin.com/2007/03/07/i-still-like-your-trousers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[caffeine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The café is crowded, which gives me a chance to slink in undetected and loiter at the back to observe Justin. He is doling out muffins, coffee and bons mots with charismatic zeal to jonesing office-workers who offer little in the way of intercourse.

Certainly, less than I did.]]></description>
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		<title>A trousers-based catastrophe</title>
		<link>http://matlarkin.com/2007/03/05/a-trousers-based-catastrophe/</link>
		<comments>http://matlarkin.com/2007/03/05/a-trousers-based-catastrophe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[complete mortification]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a typically elegant bit of blog maintenance, I've managed to delete the original post, and although it has been recovered and re-posted, all your immoderately sympathetic comments are lost. Mea maxima culpa.]]></description>
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		<title>I like your trousers</title>
		<link>http://matlarkin.com/2007/03/05/i-like-your-trousers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mat</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I exit the office bursting with self-esteem and skip out onto Swanston Street with an impromptu soft-shoe shuffle of which Gregory Hines would have been proud. It's a beautiful day, the finest in nearly a decade, for today I am bound for a cafÃ© at which I intend to purchase a cup of coffee.

Full strength coffee.]]></description>
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		<title>Of human Bondage</title>
		<link>http://matlarkin.com/2007/01/02/of-human-bondage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mat</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Oscar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[complete mortification]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oscar, The Evil Sulphura and I have gone to see the new Bond film, <em>Casino Royale</em>. The first ten minutes takes place in a menâ€™s bathroom, in which a fight involving broken urinals and wildly spraying plumbing leads neatly into Bondâ€™s iconic flip-around-and-shoot-the-cameraman move.

It is exciting and violent and it awakens an urge deep in my bladder.]]></description>
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		<title>His amusing balloon animals in a vice</title>
		<link>http://matlarkin.com/2006/11/17/his-amusing-balloon-animals-in-a-vice/</link>
		<comments>http://matlarkin.com/2006/11/17/his-amusing-balloon-animals-in-a-vice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mat</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[balloon animals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wrath]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following true story contains a greater proportion of uncouth words than is normally tolerated here at matlarkin.com. In keeping with our federal governmentâ€™s push for a return to traditional family values, therefore, these have been substituted with family-friendly equivalents and italicised for reference. We trust this will not affect the reading experience. Thank you for your time.]]></description>
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		<title>Our condolences also go to the Irish Rovers.</title>
		<link>http://matlarkin.com/2006/11/17/our-condolences-also-go-to-the-irish-rovers/</link>
		<comments>http://matlarkin.com/2006/11/17/our-condolences-also-go-to-the-irish-rovers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mat</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What are we to do, when the impending choice is between the Devil and an eejit?]]></description>
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