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		<title>this week on the avant guardian\/\/new beginnings</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/09/06/this-week-on-the-avant-guardiannew-beginnings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ari gratch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“History repeats itself&#8230; the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” Karl Marx, from the 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Any yokel can repeat the past and call it a fresh start or a new beginning but as Marx points out, repetition will eventually reveal itself as repetition, a seemingly endless cycle of reperforming our own and our collective histories. Regardless of the attempts of the would be creator he inevitably falls short unless he manages a breaking with/of the past. We are all capable of this breaking. As Hannah Arendt points out, our ability to create something new, something truly new is what marks us as human beings. It marks us as creatures able to perform miracles. For what is bringing something new into the world if not a miracle? Photo Credit: uncyclomedia commons]]></description>
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		<title>this week on the avant guardian\/\/forgetting</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/08/30/the-forgetting-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrew carebear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things fall out of my head all of the time.  Where I put the keys.  Where I put my wallet.  A phone number.  The name of a film.  I try to look out for a future version of myself who will eventually forget something, and I make lots of lists.  This is the list about the forgetting. Short term memory loss. Long term memory loss.  Selective memory.  Inattention.  Amnesia.  Collective forgetting.  Never forgetting.  Elephants never forgetting.  Trying to forget.  Forgetting fears.  Forgetting things.  Forgetting someone.  Forgetting Sarah Marshall.  Forgetting about Dre.  Forgetful Jones.  Forget Paris.  Forget-me-nots.  Fear of forgetting.  Fear of forgetting anniversaries and birthdays. Forgiving &#38; forgetting.  Forgetting and aging.  Forgetfulness.  Being forgotten.  Being The Forgotten.  The end of forgetting.  The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. So, what else am I forgetting? Image credits:  alexis mire]]></description>
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		<title>this week on the avant guardian\/\/nightmares!</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/08/23/this-week-on-the-avant-guardiannightmares/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shu!</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is from a sketchbook about a nightmare. The water didn&#8217;t stop forever and I couldn&#8217;t take a bath.]]></description>
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		<title>this week on the avant guardian\/\/hiccups</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/08/16/this-week-on-the-avant-guardianhiccups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>walter crunkite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I have the hiccups. I wonder if I might have another drink.&#8221; - James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story So I just learned this &#8212; a hiccup is also known as a hiccough or, in medicine, as a synchronous diaphragmatic flutter (SDF). Hiccups are interesting, because it&#8217;s not really known what purpose they serve; annoying, because they can last for up to 68 years; but most of all funny, as evidenced by the following video. UPDATE: Some real cool guy named Tyrone Johnson removed the video due to some copyright claim (read: wants money). Below I&#8217;ve included another video with a cat because there aren&#8217;t enough funny hiccup videos on the Internet. Alright, so the fart enhances the hilarity, but a cat hiccuping is undeniably funny. Just leave us be with our cats, copyright claimers. And I&#8217;m pretty sure that&#8217;s the way it is. Want more Crunkite? &#8220;Like&#8221; me on Facebook. &#8220;Follow&#8221; me on Twitter.]]></description>
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		<title>this week on the avant guardian\/\/hats</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/08/09/this-week-on-the-avant-guardianhats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andy reynolds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the invention of angels, wearing things on one&#8217;s head has been a solid way of defining who one is in the overall scheme of things. Angels were invented, of course, by the Greek God Apollo, soon after Zeus and the other Olympians created the idea of a single “God” so that they could take some much needed vacations. Apollo thought he could use some helpers (flying ones at that) and to differentiate them from other winged people, he decided to give them glowing things on their heads. Yet even with depictions of haloed angels all around us, hats weren&#8217;t invented until one spring morning in 1542 in Venice, Italy by none other than Napoleon I. He was sitting in a bakery pondering how and when to try to take over the world, all the while absent-mindedly drawing a stick figure on a piece of paper and drinking his coffee. When at one point he lifted the coffee cup, he looked down and there was a ring of coffee atop the stick figure&#8217;s head, and the sheer possibilities of hats overtook him. He jumped up and darted outside to his carefully hidden time machine, which he&#8217;d stolen from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>this week on the avant guardian\/\/010011010 codes</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/08/02/this-week-on-the-avant-guardian010011010-codes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul boshears</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cryptography is the art of hiding information; before the modern era this was synonymous with encryption, the rendering of information from a legible state to an unreadable one. With the recent exposing of a secret Russian spy ring in the U.S. (still using, it seems, Rocky &#38; Bullwinkle techniques) there has been a fresh round of popular interest in steganography as well. You might recall the unconfirmed speculations that embedded within Ebay images were secret messages to Al-Qaeda operatives. Deleuze &#38; Guattari, in A Thousand Plateaus, state that overcoding is the expression of capitalism par excellence. It is the parsing of code and overlaying of more coding that gives capital it&#8217;s quasi-magical powers to makes all objects commensurable with all other objects. I like how Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid) approached the term (from the webtake of his book Rhythm Science): &#8220;Encoding. What comes to mind when you say the word? Whether its written or spoken, several meanings come to mind and in turn lead you down other paths of meaning &#8212; no fixed points come into perspective, no key opens the cryptographic realms of the word to penetration. One simply uses the word to refer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>this week on the avant guardian\/\/bridges</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/07/26/this-week-on-the-avant-guardianbridges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ari gratch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ruby bridges]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bridges to nowhere Bridges to somewhere Bridge festivals Bridge games Ruby Bridges Jeff Bridges Big bridges Old bridges Small bridges New bridges Image Credit: Wikimedia]]></description>
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		<title>this week on the avant guardian\/\/in my secret life</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/07/19/this-week-on-the-avant-guardian-in-my-secret-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kathryn fidler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In My Secret Life I saw you this morning. You were moving so fast. Can’t seem to loosen my grip On the past. And I miss you so much. There’s no one in sight. And we’re still making love In My Secret Life. I smile when I’m angry. I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do To get by. But I know what is wrong, And I know what is right. And I’d die for the truth In My Secret Life. Hold on, hold on, my brother. My sister, hold on tight. I finally got my orders. I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving cross the borders Of My Secret Life. Looked through the paper. Makes you want to cry. Nobody cares if the people Live or die. And the dealer wants you thinking That it’s either black or white. Thank G-d it’s not that simple In My Secret Life. I bite my lip. I buy what I’m told: From the latest hit, To the wisdom of old. But I’m always alone. And my heart is like ice. And it’s crowded and cold In My Secret Life. -Leonard Cohen]]></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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		<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 \/\/ blockbuster</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/07/05/this-week-on-the-avant-guardian-blockbuster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tyler re</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The top twenty-five highest grossing movies worldwide. Happy Summer Studio Franchise/Tentpole/Blockbuster Movie Season! 1 Avatar $2,730,182,903 2 Titanic $1,843,201,268 3 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $1,119,110,941 4 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man&#8217;s Chest $1,066,179,725 5 Alice in Wonderland $1,021,778,566 6 The Dark Knight $1,001,921,825 7 Harry Potter and the Philosopher&#8217;s Stone $974,733,550 8 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World&#8217;s End $960,996,492 9 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix $938,212,738 10 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince $933,959,197 11 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers $925,282,504 12 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace $924,317,558 13 Shrek 2 $919,838,758 14 Jurassic Park $914,691,118 15 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire $895,921,036 16 Spider-Man 3 $890,871,626 17 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs $884,784,626 18 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets $878,643,482 19 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring $870,761,744 20 Finding Nemo $867,893,978 21 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith $848,754,768 22 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen $836,297,228 23 Spider-Man $821,708,551 24 Independence Day $817,400,891 25 Shrek the Third $799,958,162]]></description>
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