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    <title>LA Weekly Blogs: Urban in the Middle of Nowhere</title>
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    <description>You live in Los AngelesYou aren&#39;t an actorYou live in a city and you aren&#39;t centeredA blog with no niche</description><item>
      <title>Banking More Things into the What we Learned Vault</title>
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      <description>I shouldn't be surprised that the Bears stink; I mean they started out as Cubs.The only way I know there's a change of season in Los Angeles is by the change of drinks at Starbucks.Among their many pa</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:09:34 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>There's a Field Beyond it All, Will You Be There?</title>
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      <description>Everyone looks familiar in California. Sometimes Californians look like people I once knew. From other days. Far from here. Their faces form over the faces of random people.Years ago on I met up with </description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:22:17 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Do You know Who Built the First Fence?</title>
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      <description>The new neighbors built a fence. No one in the neighborhood has one. Everyone has open, one and a half acre lots. My parents' house was one of the first to be built twenty-six years ago. And for twent</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:33:18 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Why Do We Have To Love San Francisco?</title>
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      <description>I started my—Adam Corrola-like--rant over San Francisco one Saturday afternoon at the faux-playground, the haven for people watching in Orange County with Tricky Gina…Yes I could start with the easy t</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:14:32 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Platforms</title>
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      <description>A bomb ripped through the Spanish resort island Mallorca during the first week of August (2009): ETA, the Basque separatist group claimed responsibility. Since 1968 the ETA has killed 825 people.Befor</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:06:43 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Been Down So Long Even Enterprise-Rent-A-Car Won't Pick Me up</title>
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      <description>It is time for another lambast at shady business practices. Like many before, Enterprise Rent-A-Car has now been added to my list. In this economic downturn people keep saying that it is a buyer's tim</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:16:48 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Is It Our Given Right As An American to Snoop?</title>
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      <description>I am a chronic snooper. Yes. One excuse. I am a writer. Yes a writer. Everything is field research. Off of late, however, I think I might've been doing it--I am doing it--because I have convince</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:31:35 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Who is Emily Wells?</title>
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      <description>In a refurbished downtown space with a small theatre and plenty of steep rows, Emily Wells did a little jump and kick as she made her entrance on to the stage. Her action seemed unplanned and inspired</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:59:30 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Under the Weight: The Cove</title>
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      <description>The documentary The Cove opened this summer to critical acclaim, both at film festivals and from the cinematic cannon of critics. Filmmakers and a select group of activists with specialized skills wen</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:02:02 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Can we have a stable, meaningful relationship with our GPS?</title>
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      <description>So a few months back I took a poll regarding what we've named our GPS machine: Linda, Beverly, Shaniqwa, Christine, and Daniel—too name a few. All of us have a relationship with this thing, whether it</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:29 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Reining in Celebrity</title>
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      <description>So there are a lot of people out there who feel I should apologize to David Hasselhoff. After much "soul searching" I have chosen not to say, "I'm sorry."What happened? The obvious. I opened my mouth.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:10:43 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>At Bossa Nova When Does Fusion Go Too Far</title>
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      <description>I love South American food, load up my plate with generous portions of Colombian, Nuevo Peruvian, Chilean, Argentinean and above all Brazilian flair. I finally made it to one of the four Brazillian Bo</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:30:30 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Because it feels so damn good to yell bingo</title>
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      <description>While I was unemployed I tried to do all sorts of different experiences, things I probably wouldn't normally have been able to do had I been fully-employed. I decided in September of 2008 to play bing</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:17:47 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Frequently Asked Questions about Hipsters</title>
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      <description>How can they be scrawnier than someone from a third world country but look in pristine health?Why don't they get haircuts?Why do they act poor when they are rich, with a trust fund or similar?Why must</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:24:08 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>The personal assistant to a celebrity</title>
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      <description>I have this idea. I really think my perfect mate is a personal assistant to a celebrity. I am not seeking a personal assistant but someone to date. And I am not looking to meet a PA just to get close </description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:43:59 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Your Guide to Fall</title>
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      <description>For anyone who is Urban in the Middle of Nowhere of somewhere in the dead center of the suburbs here is your style guide to fall 2009.If you say it, it's passé: I'm just being honest, cougars, and tha</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:44:05 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Why Blog, Why Now?</title>
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      <description>Let's use the word impetus. The impetus. An impetus. To write for you. To provide a living project and a landscape for a battleground. When I have a hard time getting through the day I list for myself</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:42:59 -0800</pubDate>
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