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		<title>avatars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ari gratch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[oprah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patti Pace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend I performed at the Patti Pace Performance Festival, in Statesboro Georgia.  Though I love to talk about my own performances, and probably will soon enough, what stood out for me at the festival was the last performance.  Rather than explain why it stood out to me, or what it was about, neither of which I have a decent answer for, I&#8217;ve compiled the following list of words and images that may give some insight to the performer&#8217;s madness.  The performer&#8217;s name is Amy Burt, and she is a communication scholar from Georgia College and State University. The first thing to note is that Burt is hilarious.  She flows back and forth between a serious tone that draws us in and forces us to listen, and a comic tone that had me, at times, falling out of my seat.  Nearly, at least. None of the images seemed poignant for the longest time.  I wanted to find meaning in it, but she didn’t seem to offer any.  We just rolled along, like a roller coaster out of control. About half-way through the performance, after the Thomas Kinkade image that frightened us all, bits began to emerge that revealed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the infiniteability of stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ari gratch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night at Barnes and Noble my partner and I stumbled across the book Cake Wrecks, and spent the next 15 minutes laughing to the point of tears.  Three hours later, after watching a movie we thought about the book and had another laughing attack.  It was almost unbearable.  There&#8217;s just something inordinately funny about someone doing their job to the letter of that job description.  Or maybe the cake makers were fucking with the people who requested the cake because they wrote in the wrong line.  Whatever the case, a more complex form of communication than the little cake request cards is obviously in order. It is not, I should point out, only human errors that fascinate and amuse me.  There is also something deliciously delightful about human actions made for a particular audience that end up reaching a mass audience.  Found magazine is, I think the best example of such pop-culture knick-knacks.  Reading the magazine reminds me of wandering through consignment shops, thrift stores and second-hand stores.  I&#8217;ve sent my fair share of used clothing to the Goodwill and rarely is there a piece of it that I will miss.  It might as well be going to the [...]]]></description>
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