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		<title>My favorite films of 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Comello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and what I thank them for. Beginners, for Christopher Plummer&#8217;s exuberance as a recently-out elderly gay man; for Ewan McGregor&#8217;s hopeful melancholia as his perpetual bachelor son, and for this exchange between them: &#8220;HAL: Well, let&#8217;s say that since you &#8230; <a href="http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/my-favorite-films-of-2011/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesimbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470841&amp;post=1194&amp;subd=thesimbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pruning The Rosebushes: When caring is not sharing</title>
		<link>http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/pruning-the-rosebushes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Comello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a scene in Saving Private Ryan when Matt Damon&#8217;s Pvt. Ryan and Tom Hanks&#8217; Capt. Miller sit and chat, waiting for the impending German offensive to hit their French town. Ryan&#8217;s three brothers had recently died and he can&#8217;t remember &#8230; <a href="http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/pruning-the-rosebushes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesimbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470841&amp;post=1184&amp;subd=thesimbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Packers: the emotional tribalism of fandom</title>
		<link>http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/my-packers-the-emotional-tribalism-of-fandom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Comello</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aaron Rodgers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[football]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Article republished from January 2010] I can’t sit still when it’s down to the wire. Four minutes to go in the fourth, the Packers are driving for the game-tying score and I’m on my feet, pacing around my room. It’s &#8230; <a href="http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/my-packers-the-emotional-tribalism-of-fandom/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesimbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470841&amp;post=1129&amp;subd=thesimbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My favorite albums of 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Comello</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blitzen Trapper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bon Iver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lonely Island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Stone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Roots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Glazer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trey Parker]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Happy List-Making Month everybody! It&#8217;s my favorite of the year. To celebrate, I present my list of albums that I love from 2011. There was a lot of good stuff, but these top few were the ones that kept me &#8230; <a href="http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/my-favorite-albums-of-2011/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesimbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470841&amp;post=1099&amp;subd=thesimbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A genuine faith</title>
		<link>http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/a-genuine-faith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Comello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rodney Reeves writes on his blog about the &#8220;loss by cross&#8221; example set by Paul, and how that example is not compatible with American culture. You should read the whole thing, but here&#8217;s the kicker: &#8220;Thinking like an American comes naturally to &#8230; <a href="http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/a-genuine-faith/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesimbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470841&amp;post=1091&amp;subd=thesimbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is: Aaron Rodgers</title>
		<link>http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/what-is-aaron-rodgers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Comello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A point of pride here: Jason Wilde is the Packers beat writer for ESPNMilwaukee.com and a Twitter fiend and also hosts &#8220;The Aaron Rodgers Show&#8221; on Tuesdays. He solicits questions for Aaron on Twitter and today on a whim I &#8230; <a href="http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/what-is-aaron-rodgers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesimbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470841&amp;post=1085&amp;subd=thesimbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hark Noel! My 2011 Advent playlist</title>
		<link>http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/hark-noel-my-2011-advent-playlist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Comello</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Advent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s simple: no Christmas music until December. That&#8217;s my rule. So every year after Thanksgiving ends and the Advent season approaches, I&#8217;m thinking about three things: snow, eggnog, and what music will help me enjoy them. Some songs here are &#8230; <a href="http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/hark-noel-my-2011-advent-playlist/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesimbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470841&amp;post=1035&amp;subd=thesimbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>7 moments when a movie and its music blended beautifully</title>
		<link>http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/my-favorite-movie-music-moments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Comello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we as moviegoers have to let movies affect us in ways we cannot explain or control. One of those ways is through music. Whether it is an epic orchestral theme or a lone piano suite, music in the movies &#8230; <a href="http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/my-favorite-movie-music-moments/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesimbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470841&amp;post=382&amp;subd=thesimbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Why Wait?&#8217;: The adventure of marrying young</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Comello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously published in the North Central Chronicle on April 23, 2010. The PDF version of this article as it originally appeared in the Chronicle is at the end of the story. Antonia and Brian bought a wedding planning book for &#8230; <a href="http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/why-wait-the-adventure-of-marrying-young/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesimbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470841&amp;post=942&amp;subd=thesimbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A morning brush with Rahm</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Comello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, I was catching a train at the Clinton green line stop when I go through the turnstiles to see a phalanx of reporters and cameramen gathered before a podium with the Chicago seal affixed upon it. Turns out &#8230; <a href="http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/a-morning-brush-with-rahm/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesimbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470841&amp;post=898&amp;subd=thesimbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My hometown</title>
		<link>http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/my-hometown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Comello</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m going back to my hometown. Gonna sit right down and take a look around. Tall trees talking all around the shore where the wood meets the river at the forest floor. &#8230; Does a true heart change or does &#8230; <a href="http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/my-hometown/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesimbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470841&amp;post=893&amp;subd=thesimbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Song: &#8216;Christmastime is Here&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/song-christmastime-is-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Comello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Christmastime is Here&#8221; &#8211; Chad Comello This is a demo I made last October, using only my guitar and GarageBand. May it bring tidings of a merry holiday. Filed under: music<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesimbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470841&amp;post=881&amp;subd=thesimbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why don&#8217;t you make like a tree and take a different look at &#8216;Back to the Future&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/why-dont-you-make-like-a-tree-and-take-a-different-look-at-back-to-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Comello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a college class in winter 2008-09, we had to make a &#8220;zine&#8221; on a topic of our choice. Mine was called The Movies: Take Two. It aimed to &#8220;take a different look&#8221; at all things movie-related using crowd-sourced haikus, &#8230; <a href="http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/why-dont-you-make-like-a-tree-and-take-a-different-look-at-back-to-the-future/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesimbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470841&amp;post=867&amp;subd=thesimbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lone Pine Mall and other reasons why &#8216;Back To The Future&#8217; still rules</title>
		<link>http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/lone-pine-mall-and-other-reasons-why-back-to-the-future-still-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Comello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To celebrate Back to the Future Week, I&#8217;m posting a story I wrote for my school paper in 2008 about my hopeless devotion to the time-bending trilogy. If I were asked to name what I think are the greatest films of &#8230; <a href="http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/lone-pine-mall-and-other-reasons-why-back-to-the-future-still-rules/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesimbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470841&amp;post=859&amp;subd=thesimbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs lives</title>
		<link>http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/steve-jobs-lives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Comello</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This 1987 concept video from Apple predicts not only the iPad and all of its capabilities, but also Siri, the speech-activated personal assistant that will be ubiquitous technology in a few years given how Apple products usually work. (H/T to Andrew &#8230; <a href="http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/steve-jobs-lives/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesimbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470841&amp;post=850&amp;subd=thesimbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dig a little deeper</title>
		<link>http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/dig-a-little-deeper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Comello</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hope is not a future-minded reverie or escapist dream, but rather a call to action to order the disordered, right the wrongs, and fix what we can in the here-and-now, even if it’s always just scratching the surface. &#8211;Brett McCracken, &#8230; <a href="http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/dig-a-little-deeper/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesimbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470841&amp;post=843&amp;subd=thesimbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is this the real life? Love and illusion in &#8220;Midnight in Paris&#8221; and &#8220;Me and Orson Welles&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/is-this-the-real-life-illusion-and-reality-in-midnight-in-paris-and-me-and-orson-welles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Comello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Is this the real life? / Is this just fantasy? / Caught in a landslide / No escape from reality / Open your eyes / Look up to the skies / And see.                         &#8230; <a href="http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/is-this-the-real-life-illusion-and-reality-in-midnight-in-paris-and-me-and-orson-welles/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesimbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470841&amp;post=821&amp;subd=thesimbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dogging dogma</title>
		<link>http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/the-dogma-that-dogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Comello</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; I&#8217;ve been reading Colonel Roosevelt, volume III of the Edmund Morris&#8217; TR trilogy, and one line came back to me after seeing Ezra Klein&#8217;s pie chart illustrating, in the midst of a debate &#8230; <a href="http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/the-dogma-that-dogs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesimbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470841&amp;post=812&amp;subd=thesimbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mad World</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 03:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Comello</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lost]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like Mad Men is getting the LOST treatment, and I couldn&#8217;t be happier about it. The deal between Mad Men showrunner Matthew Weiner and AMC will end the series after the sixth season premieres. Like the deal that gave LOST &#8230; <a href="http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/mad-world/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesimbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470841&amp;post=807&amp;subd=thesimbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here and LeClaire</title>
		<link>http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/here-and-leclaire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Comello</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent part of the weekend in Iowa with my dad. We made a pilgrimage of sorts to Antique Archaeology in LeClaire, the home base of the antique-scavengers featured in the show American Pickers. Didn&#8217;t end up selling anything, but it &#8230; <a href="http://thesimbalife.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/here-and-leclaire/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesimbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2470841&amp;post=802&amp;subd=thesimbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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