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	<title>Patrick Cooper: Greetings from Evanston, Ill.</title>
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		<title>Dr. Horrible is my new favorite doctor</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/dr-horrible-is-my-new-favorite-doctor.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Except he&#039;s evil! First iTunes buy ever and best $4 I&#039;ve spent all month. Look for the Ted line. How I Met Your Mother continues to take over the world. If you need something to help cheer you up (mostly), this is it.
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		<title>This one is more aspirational than anything</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/this-one-is-more-aspirational-than-anything.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve been trying to sing to myself this week. It helps. Not just in the shower, but sitting in the car, walking around the office, brushing my teeth. I don&#039;t know any of these songs in their entirety. But I remember singing to myself in high school. Don&#039;t remember the songs, don&#039;t remember where, just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If the radio wants you to be sad</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/if-the-radio-wants-you-to-be-sad.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#039;s 5:30 drive in &#8230; first station, Radio Nowhere, Patti Smith&#039;s Because the Night, Breakdown &#8230; second station, Ticket to Ride, I&#039;m on Fire, Scenes from an Italian Restaurant with the bottles &#8230; back to the first, Pride (in the Name of Love). Today on the way in &#8230; I listened to people talk and tried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Locked-in</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/locked-in.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diving Bell and the Butterfly is as sad as you said it was.
 

 
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		<title>Close personal relationships with Mavis Beacon, Tina Louise</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/close-personal-relationships-with-mavis-beacon-tina-louise.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/close-personal-relationships-with-mavis-beacon-tina-louise.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obit of the week, in case you haven&#039;t read it: Les Crane, who&#039;d somehow eluded my pop culture radar while alive. First real challenger to Johnny Carson. One-time husband of Tina Louise. Creator of Mavis Beacon. Grammy-winner for a much-parodied spoken word recording. Bonus in the NYT version: Air Force jet pilot.
Not planning to blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flying to Reno later today</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/flying-to-reno-later-today.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
		
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Pirate on stilts at wine festival.
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		<title>Farewell to David Hiller</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/farewell-to-david-hiller.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[J-friends who read this blog all probably have different takes on your legacy as you leave. Thank you, at least, for liking the Chicago Game (and possibly adopting it) when the Medill professors hated it and singing along to Sweet Home Chicago after the profs sat on their hands.
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		<title>When did Indiana Jones become Tom Brokaw?</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/when-did-indiana-jones-become-tom-brokaw.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The margaritas after the movie helped. There was no lost order resulting in half-price food, like there was the last time we were at the Ballston Chevy&#039;s. There was no crime scene next to our table like there was the time before that. But both would&#039;ve also been helpful.
Who would&#039;ve thought making another Indiana Jones movie was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress, I think I&#039;m gonna like you</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/wordpress-i-think-im-gonna-like-you.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/wordpress-i-think-im-gonna-like-you.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Vino the Kid may have put it best, &#034;A guy like you, I&#039;m surprised you&#039;re not using it.&#034; A guy like me, a 20-something blogger with a slight CMS obsession and a childhood of writing and Legos? In retrospect, yeah, I&#039;m surprised I wasn&#039;t using it too. WordPress is as solid as promised.
It looked great when Dagny [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return to Fisherman&#039;s Wharf</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/return-to-fishermans-wharf.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Blogged here three years ago about the restaurant closing. The fam was very happy to have their hush puppies, fish and bread again a week ago in Wanchese. The warm bread was instant sense memory for me. The restaurant has reopened under new old management &#8212; the Daniels family back at the helm, the Virginian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follow-up: Diamond&#039;s owner found</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/follow-up-diamonds-owner-found.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Stetzers have good karma for life. The Post has the happy ending to the found-ring story, and Mervis Diamond has plenty of online updates and a picture of the finale. &#034;With the help of our IT man Andrew and Zed, we&#039;ve gone through our records of the last 20 years and compiled a list [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How am I supposed to feel about the Oriole Bird?</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/how-am-i-supposed-to-feel-about-oriole.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/how-am-i-supposed-to-feel-about-oriole.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The two mixed things about the first row of the Red Porch.

I have his autograph. If you want to talk about adulation, he&#039;s up there with Ripken for me. There&#039;s an upper tier of sports mascots in my mind, and he&#039;s entrenched. And now he&#039;s the enemy. He cheers for the enemy, a team I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come on, baby, talk to me</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/come-on-baby-talk-to-me.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The beginning of the conversation&#039;s so awkward. No one knows what to say, and everyone&#039;s looking to build on fragments. The magic is right there in Waitress, finally topping the queue this week. Busy week, for sure, everything else in this space has been written in advance, sorry.
But your accent can twist one way and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No astronauts but still a good night</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/no-astronauts-but-still-good-night.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Texas wine was pretty good. Texas margaritas were unique for unknown reasons. (No salt?) Mini ribs, tostadas and cheesecakes went along well, as did dam employees who read USAT online and shared their mini table. Jess had tickets to the Lone Star State&#039;s pre-Folklife reception where promised astronauts went unseen, but we had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New friends in the blogroll</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/new-friends-in-blogroll.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Added recently: Casey and Steve Kiehl&#039;s Crumbler, a somewhat anonymous Sazerac Attack and Ryan Thornburg&#039;s Future of News. 
All of the blogs run in different directions and are worth your time to visit regularly. I&#039;m always excited to have more thoughts from friends to link here. A quote Ryan found helps explain: &#034;Herodotus&#039;s mind is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The two best things about the first row of the Red Porch</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/two-best-things-about-first-row-of-red.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
		
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The view across the field and the view next to your seats. You escape from the crowd some and move further into the game. The neighboring bullpen belongs to the visitors, but relative casualness is surprising and worth witnessing. On the field, we didn&#039;t have anyone crash into our wall or get to lunge at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting the toppling bookmark tower</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Molly Knight tipped her hat months ago in her blog to Kelly Clarkson&#039;s Ave Maria performance for the visting pope. The rendition was solid and likely had more drama on a screen bigger than YouTube&#039;s, but it got me thinking about the song&#039;s spot in my limited classical collection: Pavarotti in &#039;94, beautiful. (Also: Cousin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Bluetooth makes you a more productive driver</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/why-bluetooth-makes-you-more-productive.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Neil video descripton: &#034;Neil demonstrates that he can shave, look at a Playboy centerfold and tie a tie while driving. But not all at the same time. What a wuss.&#034;
Meanwhile, British Dan Neil drives the Porsche 911 Carrera GT2. &#034;Golf is not mysterious,&#034; he begins. &#034;I understand absolutely why someone would play it once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The new Eddie Murphy movie disappoints me already</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/new-eddie-murphy-movie-disappoints-me.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And I liked the trailer. An unpopular position, I have no doubt. But why would you build an enormous cardboard head and not save room for people to stick their heads out the enormous cardboard ear? Why?

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		<title>No Gastbusters to be found in Boston</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/no-gastbusters-to-be-found-in-boston.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.patrickcooper.com/2008/07/no-gastbusters-to-be-found-in-boston.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last few weeks, I had a bad feeling. Cito Gaston couldn&#039;t return to the field without something going wrong for Mike Mussina.
At first, it appeared Gaston&#039;s return would not allow Mike to win another game, ever. Mike broke his disaster streak last fall against the Jays, and Cito needed revenge. The run-support issues that [...]]]></description>
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