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		<title>My nominee for worst art of the 21st. Century</title>
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I went to UC Berkeley where I was an  art major all the way through to a Masters degree. Why? Because in the words  of the great Joe Strummer, &#8220;There&#8217;s only one answer to what you&#8217;re  going to do after school and that is art school: the last resort of  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daddy has bought an old Thunderbird</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thunderbird: V-8 Wonder of the Western World
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		<title>At long last: My Reality Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think it is time for me to have a reality show. So I have made the important decisions.
My reality show is going to be about the highs and lows, the pitfalls and the triumphs of being a single woman. You will share in the heartaches and the struggles but you will also be there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating the 4th with my Obit Collection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its the 4th of July and I am still in the middle of a rewrite of this new book of essays.  I&#8217;ve been at it so long I am not sure if I am writing in English.
I was going through my notes and came to another piece that never made it out of the gate.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Proust Questionnaire by Puppyboy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the end of the nineteenth century, when Marcel Proust was still in his teens, he answered a questionnaire in an English-language confessional album belonging to his friend Antoinette, daughter of future President Felix Faure, as was the fad among English families. The one that the young Proust completed was entitled "An Album to Record Thoughts, Feelings, etc." and it has been studied and replicated many many times since then.]]></description>
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		<title>Costco: A love story in 4 acts, kinda sorta.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi. I&#8217;m back.   I have been absent for a while because I have been  very very absorbed by writing a new book of essays.  But now that I am  in the re-write phase two things have happened.
1. I have more  additional things to say and
2. I know that about half of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Answering the musical question: You want a piece of meat?</title>
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		<title>Puppyboy : Guard Dog</title>
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		<title>Oh well: You didn&#8217;t get a free book!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: I got my ten names. That was fast. Oh well. You missed out. Unless we already had an exchange and you gave me your address. But may I encourage you to please buy a copy of my book in paperback? Because&#8230;uh&#8230;you need something funny to read and I have to earn a living.
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		<link>http://merrillmarkoe.com/for-a-limited-time-only-free-book</link>
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		<title>One Jonestown Koolaid Grande</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently some residents of Guyana are trying to resurrect Jonestown as a tourist attraction, according to an article in today&#8217;s New York Times.
Immediately I began to imagine visiting this place, since it is certainly the kind of thing I would pull off the road to see  if I were for some reason traveling between Venezuela [...]]]></description>
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