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		<title>this week on the avant guardian\/\/fa-fa-fa-fa fashion</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/09/13/this-week-on-the-avant-guardianfa-fa-fa-fa-fashion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachel simhon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We here at theavantguardian.org like to keep our collective finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist, so there was no doubt in our minds as to whether we should coordinate our own fashion week with the Spring-Summer 2011 collections on display in New York for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Expect the usual avant garde fun along with some hard-hitting reporting from behind the scenes at all the shows, parties, and on the streets. We are the goon squad and we&#8217;re coming to town&#8230;..beep beep! Photo Credit: StyleHop Blog]]></description>
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		<title>commodity fetishism gone right\/\/the epic east village lingerie tour</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/09/12/commodity-fetishism-gone-rightthe-epic-east-village-lingerie-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 03:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachel simhon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[la petite coquette]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn’t get much sleep last night thinking about underwear Have you ever stopped to consider underwear in the abstract When you really dig into it some shocking problems are raised Underwear is something we all have to deal with Everyone wears some kind of underwear Even Indians wear underwear Even Cubans wear underwear The Pope wears underwear I hope The Governor of Louisiana wears underwear I saw him on TV He must have had tight underwear He squirmed a lot Underwear can really get you in a bind You have seen the underwear ads for men and women so alike but so different Women’s underwear holds things up Men’s underwear holds things down Underwear is one thing men and women do have in common Underwear is all we have between us You have seen the three-color pictures with crotches encircled to show the areas of extra strength with three-way stretch promising full freedom of action Don’t be deceived It’s all based on the two-party system which doesn’t allow much freedom of choice the way things are set up America in its Underwear struggles thru the night Underwear controls everything in the end Take foundation garments for instance They are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>this week on the avant guardian\/\/to listen with one ear to each summer sound</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/07/12/this-week-on-the-avant-guardianto-listen-with-one-ear-to-each-summer-sound/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachel simhon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends — They are like air bubbles on water, hastening to flow together. History tells of Orestes and Pylades, Damon and Pythias, but why should not we put to shame those old reserved worthies by a community of such? Constantly, as it were through a remote skylight, I have glimpses of a serene friendship-land, and know the better why brooks murmur and violets grow. This conjunction of souls, like waves which met and break, subsides also backward over things, and gives all a fresh aspect. I would live henceforth with some gentle soul such a life as may be conceived, double for variety, single for harmony — two, only that we might admire at our oneness — one, because indivisible. Such community to be a pledge of holy living. How could aught unworthy be admitted into our society? To listen with one ear to each summer sound, to behold with one eye each summer scene, our visual rays so to meet and mingle with the object as to be one bent and doubled; with two tongues to be wearied, and thought to spring ceaselessly from a double fountain. -Henry David Thoreau (b. July 12, 1817)]]></description>
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		<title>this week on the avant guardian\/\/h2o</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/05/31/this-week-on-the-avant-guardian-h2o/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 07:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachel simhon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is no water but only rock Rock and no water and the sandy road The road winding above among the mountains Which are mountains of rock without water If there were water we should stop and drink Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand If there were only water amongst the rock Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit There is not even silence in the mountains But dry sterile thunder without rain There is not even solitude in the mountains But red sullen faces sneer and snarl From doors of mudcracked houses If there were water And no rock If there were rock And also water And water A spring A pool among the rock If there were the sound of water only Not the cicada And dry grass singing But sound of water over a rock Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop But there is no water -T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land Photo Credit: Lin Xu]]></description>
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		<title>commodity fetishism gone right\/\/shopping in harlem</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/05/27/commodity-fetishism-gone-right-shopping-in-harlem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 19:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachel simhon</dc:creator>
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		<title>this week on the avant guardian\/\/time is the greatest innovator</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/05/17/this-week-on-the-avant-guardian-time-is-the-greatest-innovator-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 12:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachel simhon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the births of living creatures, at first are illshapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. Yet notwithstanding, as those that first bring honor into their family, are commonly more worthy than most that succeed, so the first precedent (if it be good) is seldom attained by imitation. For ill, to man’s nature, as it stands perverted, hath a natural motion, strongest in continuance; but good, as a forced motion, strongest at first. Surely every medicine is an innovation; and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end? -Francis Bacon, Of Innovations Image: JISC infoNet]]></description>
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		<title>this week on the avant guardian \/\/ a grain of poetry suffices to season a century</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/03/29/this-week-on-the-avant-guardian-a-grain-of-poetry-suffices-to-season-a-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachel simhon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.           - José Martí, Selected Writings]]></description>
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