<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:52:50 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@thetimchannel/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Midterms 2018]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just voted to outlaw slavery in Colorado. Just in time too. Voted straight blue ticket on candidates. Once we get slavery outlawed we'll throw a weed party to celebrate. We legalized weed several years]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/vote2018/@thetimchannel/midterms-2018</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/vote2018/@thetimchannel/midterms-2018</guid><category><![CDATA[vote2018]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thetimchannel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2018 23:12:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/AmRc67RgYaWTCbCd1L4AQP82AFWYYzZC15DpSZWeSYgzVNWySsfa5eZTsHnFaoixLNqsRV8AoqsiUhHr65nmHonNpQpHtBNxkDVYLHfBwuYUJ6gcFayWBzecSRVUCsX3TVdXfnwkEpv7mTAXZyE4jLSHTqKAVEiS?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take Your Dog to Work Day]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's take your dog to work everyday when you live in a van, and in my case, the term 'work' is very loosely defined. Enjoy.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/take-your-dog-to-work-day</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/take-your-dog-to-work-day</guid><category><![CDATA[vanlife]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thetimchannel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2018 01:21:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/HNWT6DgoBc14riaEeLCzGYopkqYBKxpGKqfNWfgr368M9WVwy4S4LEbx9UCXumzTnndR3d1tdLjCbPNPUiw5iSg9VnfVr9tXRxGitou4upkfBCXuTW7RbaVALFg?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did I mention I have a new dog?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I don't get by here often enough but things are going swell up here in the high mountain meadows as I enter my forth winter in Nellybelle. I lost my precious Bandit to old age last year but recently took]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/did-i-mention-i-have-a-new-dog</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/did-i-mention-i-have-a-new-dog</guid><category><![CDATA[vanlife]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thetimchannel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2018 00:40:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/HNWT6DgoBc14riaEeLCzGYopkqYBKxpGKqfNWfgr368M9VJbF94FxS6ib2vfbBLT8QG9jvATQhkrgg74FMzcHVkumPMTkJxkmjXFCFMpSDDK5pqDx9UpWcN925C?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Still of the Night]]></title><description><![CDATA[As if my aging decrepitude wasn't enough to remind me to keep a tight reign on my fabulosity, I've got this confounded 'old man' up-before-dawn thing running buck wild through me now. The only thing I'm]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/in-the-still-of-the-night</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/in-the-still-of-the-night</guid><category><![CDATA[vanlife]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thetimchannel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2018 10:33:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a Chance in Hell]]></title><description><![CDATA[In my role as devilishly handsome #hoboheretic advocate, I queried the counter staff at Sister Mary's this morning about the consequences it could have on the soul of one whose belief system forbade any]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/not-a-chance-in-hell</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/not-a-chance-in-hell</guid><category><![CDATA[vanlife]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thetimchannel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2018 20:48:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hobo Heretic Sunrise]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good morning to my collected gaggle of social media masters and misfits as well! It's a cold start to what will be a masterful mid-seventy degree day here in the flowering plains of the high mountain meadows.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/hobo-heretic-sunrise</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/hobo-heretic-sunrise</guid><category><![CDATA[vanlife]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thetimchannel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:09:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter Update]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's Easter, that time of the year when a lot of you will be celebrating our long cultural connection to the lost religious art of human sacrifice. For me it's near enough to the anniversary of the loss]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/easter-update</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/easter-update</guid><category><![CDATA[vanlife]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thetimchannel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2018 23:52:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sneak Peak of my upcoming book.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Work continues on The Hobo Heretic Handbook. Here's a snippet on item number two from the Hobo Creed, ratified 1889, and my take on it. When in town, always respect the local law and officials, and try]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/sneak-peak-of-my-upcoming-book</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/sneak-peak-of-my-upcoming-book</guid><category><![CDATA[vanlife]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thetimchannel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:27:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Movie Marketing and Intersectionality]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let's talk about the intersectionality between capitalism and Cinemark theater marketing. I probably could have used a different word than intersectionality, but given my penchant for fabulosity (and on]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/humor/@thetimchannel/marketing-marketing-and-intersectionality</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/humor/@thetimchannel/marketing-marketing-and-intersectionality</guid><category><![CDATA[humor]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thetimchannel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:57:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nellybelle's Return]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's a blustery 25 degrees out this evening with 15 mph winds whipping snow across Nellybelle's windshield here in the high mountain meadows parking spot I'm calling mine right now. The glow from nearby]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/nellybelle-s-return</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/nellybelle-s-return</guid><category><![CDATA[vanlife]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thetimchannel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2018 03:40:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here We Go Again - Walmart Suckage Rulz]]></title><description><![CDATA[For reasons I am not able to comprehend, an old blogpost I did on Why Walmart Failed in Germany is suddenly getting a ton of traffic directly from Google search. I can usually track these bursts back to]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/walmart/@thetimchannel/here-we-go-again-walmart-suckage-rulz</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/walmart/@thetimchannel/here-we-go-again-walmart-suckage-rulz</guid><category><![CDATA[walmart]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thetimchannel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2018 05:13:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day Eleven - Nellybelle's Revenge.]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's good news and there's bad news. The good news is that I am no longer in Chip's garage. I rolled out of there yesterday afternoon with the belt squealing and whining like a stuck pig. Knew it couldn't]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/day-eleven-nellybelle-s-revenge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/day-eleven-nellybelle-s-revenge</guid><category><![CDATA[vanlife]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thetimchannel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2018 01:09:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten Days of Total Disaster]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tomorrow morning will be day ten of the Nellybelle oil pump restoration project. This has been a rather stressful ten days, abated somewhat by the fact that I'm doing the repairs in the garage at a friend's]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/ten-days-of-total-disaster</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/ten-days-of-total-disaster</guid><category><![CDATA[vanlife]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thetimchannel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2018 20:32:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pre Christmas Homeless Bashing]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was just in the 7-11 at Trilby and 287 this morning getting my coffee when the new assistant manager decided it would be a good idea to brow beat me for having a food stamp card. I mentioned I didn't]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/pre-christmas-homeless-bashing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/pre-christmas-homeless-bashing</guid><category><![CDATA[vanlife]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thetimchannel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2017 04:12:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another Bright Shiny Day]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning Steemies Tremendous weather out here in the high mountain meadows. We did get a light dusting of snow last night but it's been highs in the 60's for the last week, and though it's brisk outside]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/another-bright-shiny-day</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/another-bright-shiny-day</guid><category><![CDATA[vanlife]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thetimchannel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2017 19:27:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facebook's Filtered Mail Folder]]></title><description><![CDATA[Did you know you had one? I didn't. I was just tapping thru the FB app last night after finishing a late posting here on Steemit when I saw the tab. There were text mail messages in it that were several]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/facebook/@thetimchannel/facebook-s-filtered-mail-folder</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/facebook/@thetimchannel/facebook-s-filtered-mail-folder</guid><category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thetimchannel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2017 01:24:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eJMZQnekg7i6N8ZXAgtCEQhkHEQiRG9zgox?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Super Tuesday]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good evening Steemies. Today Today was a good day for me. I got a couple things done today, the most important of which was contacting the county where I got my marriage license (28 years ago) to retrieve]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/super-tuesday</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/super-tuesday</guid><category><![CDATA[vanlife]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thetimchannel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2017 07:15:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[On The Road Again]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nellybelle is back up and running. Unlike her namesake Jeep on Roy Rogers (best known for a habit of breaking down at the worst possible moments) my Nellybelle picked a near perfect time and place to throw]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/on-the-road-again</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/on-the-road-again</guid><category><![CDATA[vanlife]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thetimchannel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2017 07:08:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Time to Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've finally earned something more valuable than gold. The ability to freely speak my mind on sensitive issues that would have been impossible for me to address before I retired. For most of my working]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@thetimchannel/from-time-to-time</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@thetimchannel/from-time-to-time</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thetimchannel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2017 15:51:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]></title><description><![CDATA[I went to Walmart today to purchase a few items (propane, food, and a Coleman camp stove). I figured it was about time to get a portable stove even though I've gone two years without one. I got a small]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/no-good-deed-goes-unpunished</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/vanlife/@thetimchannel/no-good-deed-goes-unpunished</guid><category><![CDATA[vanlife]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thetimchannel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2017 05:43:51 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>