<?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/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8359351142813310927.post2015343188118174335..comments</id><updated>2012-02-13T15:05:32.286-08:00</updated><category term='romance'/><category term='subway'/><category term='travel'/><category term='New York'/><category term='serendipity'/><category term='dublin'/><title type='text'>Comments on amantes sunt amentes: Awash in Amsterdam</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.ex-nihilo.net/feeds/2015343188118174335/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8359351142813310927/2015343188118174335/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.ex-nihilo.net/2010/08/awash-in-amsterdam.html'/><author><name>-cj-</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10247301127828318418</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Pldm-e98sos/SJTcH6-525I/AAAAAAAABDg/Xhbw3mM9_qM/S220/siena_jay.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>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8359351142813310927.post-8460105265535198808</id><published>2010-08-25T04:55:58.824-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-25T04:55:58.824-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Wow, sounds like a packed coupla days.  Your Amste...</title><content type='html'>Wow, sounds like a packed coupla days.  Your Amsterdam is exactly as I remember it -- clean, relaxed, charming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yeah, the Red Light District is a tourist attraction, they keep it pretty clean.  If you&amp;#39;d gone to a sex show you wouldn&amp;#39;t have come out feeling any more seedily genuine:  it&amp;#39;s just live porn, and the audience is full of Japanese tourists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s hard to realize how tense it is to live in a security state when it comes about so gradually.&amp;quot; -- amen, brother.  It&amp;#39;s one of the many reasons that I, too, fantasize about moving to Amsterdam every time I go there.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8359351142813310927/2015343188118174335/comments/default/8460105265535198808'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8359351142813310927/2015343188118174335/comments/default/8460105265535198808'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.ex-nihilo.net/2010/08/awash-in-amsterdam.html?showComment=1282737358824#c8460105265535198808' title=''/><author><name>A. Jesse Jiryu Davis</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14350978847550662665</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://emptysquare.net/images/me.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://blog.ex-nihilo.net/2010/08/awash-in-amsterdam.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8359351142813310927.post-2015343188118174335' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8359351142813310927/posts/default/2015343188118174335' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1397570796'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8359351142813310927.post-9021863996760828749</id><published>2010-08-25T04:55:37.322-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-25T04:55:37.322-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Wow, sounds like a packed coupla days.  Your Amste...</title><content type='html'>Wow, sounds like a packed coupla days.  Your Amsterdam is exactly as I remember it -- clean, relaxed, charming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yeah, the Red Light District is a tourist attraction, they keep it pretty clean.  If you&amp;#39;d gone to a sex show you wouldn&amp;#39;t have come out feeling any more seedily genuine:  it&amp;#39;s just live porn, and the audience is full of Japanese tourists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s hard to realize how tense it is to live in a security state when it comes about so gradually.&amp;quot; -- amen, brother.  It&amp;#39;s one of the many reasons that I, too, fantasize about moving to Amsterdam every time I go there.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8359351142813310927/2015343188118174335/comments/default/9021863996760828749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8359351142813310927/2015343188118174335/comments/default/9021863996760828749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.ex-nihilo.net/2010/08/awash-in-amsterdam.html?showComment=1282737337322#c9021863996760828749' title=''/><author><name>A. Jesse Jiryu Davis</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14350978847550662665</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://emptysquare.net/images/me.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://blog.ex-nihilo.net/2010/08/awash-in-amsterdam.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8359351142813310927.post-2015343188118174335' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8359351142813310927/posts/default/2015343188118174335' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1397570796'/></entry></feed>
