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	<title>Confessions of a Cultural Idiot</title>
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	<description>A newbie discovers cultural stuff. Be gentle.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8220;The Suburban Inmate:&#8221; Substance over Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Suburban Inmate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you enjoy Allan Thorn&#8217;s self-published book, The Suburban Inmate: A Man&#8217;s Guide to Surviving Prison, may depend to some degree on whether or not you&#8217;re actually a suburban man heading to prison. The closer you are to facing the situations Thorn describes, the less likely you may be to quibble about his writing style.
My initial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exorcising our childhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dan Misener]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gladstone Hotel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who&#8217;d have thought I would enjoy an exorcism quite so much?
The idea was simple: people were just supposed to show up at the Gladstone Hotel ballroom, bringing little stories, poems, or diary entries they&#8217;d written years ago as children or young teenagers, and be prepared to read the things to a crowd of total strangers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Sacred&#8221; - a Concrete or Abstract Matter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 00:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Do I Want to Read Your Book?]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Concrete Reveries]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Concrete Toronto]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Graeme Stewart]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[International Readings]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mark Kingwell]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Michael McClelland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What if someone asked you to put a pin on the map of your city or town, on the spot you consider your personal &#8220;sacred space&#8221;?
The different responses to such a suggestion might surprise you. For some, their &#8220;sacred space&#8221; could be the location of their first kiss. For others, perhaps a peaceful park nestled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prince Caspian: a prince worth waiting for</title>
		<link>http://shinyideas.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/prince-caspian-a-prince-worth-waiting-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 22:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Chronicles of Narnia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[movie review]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[I warn you: I can&#8217;t be objective about this movie. I grew up reading and rereading the Chronicles of Narnia, so seeing my well-loved stories made real before my very eyes is a thrill. Here is the word made living, beautiful flesh. The thought gives me goosebumps.
But maybe I can manage some objectivity. After seeing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If We Are What We Eat&#8230;Redux</title>
		<link>http://shinyideas.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/if-we-are-what-we-eatredux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 22:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[In Defense of Food]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Michael Pollan]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Raj Patel]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.&#8221;
Thus journalist Michael Pollan begins his book, In Defense of Food: An Eater&#8217;s Manifesto. And once he makes his case for returning to a diet without processed foods, you see that those three rules are truly as simple as they look.
But first, the complicated bits. Raj Patel recently demonstrated how [...]]]></description>
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