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<description>A list... ...of major projects (thought experiments) I abandoned. 1) Developing a global (universal) literary theory based on the science of narratology--Propp, Todorov, and Genette. (1994 to 2001) 2) The literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin as a whole. (1996 to 1999) 3) The Russian language. (1993 to 1995) 4) Extentialism as a theme in the black American novel--from Richard Wright to Charles Wright. (1991 to 1993) 5)Redology, or the study of the classical Chinese novel The Dream of the Red Room--Hung Lou Meng (&amp;#32005;&amp;#27155;&amp;#22818;). (1994 to 1997) 6) The theme of European modernity in Southern African short fiction--Bessie Head, Charles Mungoshi,...</description>
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<title>Comment by kurisu</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>How about 7) Etymology of the word "pretentious?"</p>]]></description>
<author>kurisu</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064643</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:47:54 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Greg</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>You abandoned all that for creepy posts about various hot chicks you find online, and fixating on Amanda Knox?</p>]]></description>
<author>Greg</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064645</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:48:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Rachael F.</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>I think my brain imploded.</p>]]></description>
<author>Rachael F.</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064650</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064650</guid>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:50:29 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by it smells like poop in here</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>unluckily for us, you have yet to give up being stuck up your own asshole.</p>]]></description>
<author>it smells like poop in here</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064653</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:50:59 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by heywhatsit</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Lazy ass.</p>]]></description>
<author>heywhatsit</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064657</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:52:53 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by adrian</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>i thought about joining a gym once. </p>]]></description>
<author>adrian</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064666</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:55:59 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Ziggity</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>No, <em>I</em> control the means of production! </p>]]></description>
<author>Ziggity</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064674</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064674</guid>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:01:16 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Jeff Stevens</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>7) Amanda Knox's ongoing tabloid tragedy as a twenty-first-century example of the Star Wars cosmology's ultimate representation of the collective death wish of the human mind/meat postmodernist corollary.</p>

<p>I'm one of the Mudede <i>non</i>-haters, and even I couldn't resist. :)<br />
</p>]]></description>
<author>Jeff Stevens</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064675</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:03:01 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Abby</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>@2: also obsessing over Natalie Merchant, which is a totally valid use of anyone's time, right?</p>]]></description>
<author>Abby</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064688</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:10:09 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by NapoleonXIV</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Nobody likes a slacker, Charles.</p>

<p>Finish your projects.  Report back.</p>]]></description>
<author>NapoleonXIV</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064690</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064690</guid>
<category>Arts</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:12:32 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by mattymatt</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2008-02-18-engineers-vs-sociologists.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2008-02-18-engineers-vs-sociologists.html</a></p>]]></description>
<author>mattymatt</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064696</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:14:54 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by violet_dagrinder</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>@10 </p>

<p>Agreed. In fact, you are not allowed to Slog until you've completed all of them. </p>

<p>Get on it. </p>]]></description>
<author>violet_dagrinder</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064699</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:16:17 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by mintygreen</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>"thought experiments?"</p>

<p><br />
Just... stop talking like that. Please. <br />
No one older than thirteen thinks you sound more intellegent for using obscure terms in lieu of the english language. </p>

<p><br />
Also, in regards to this post, no one gives a rat's ass. </p>]]></description>
<author>mintygreen</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064707</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:19:01 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by chet</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Congratulations on the completion of all your major projects since 2002.</p>]]></description>
<author>chet</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064709</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:21:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by city kitty</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>I think the world could use more thought experiments.</p>

<p>Also, mintygreen, intelligent is spelled thusly. Also, it's "with regard to" not "in regards to". Also, the term "thought experiment" is hardly obscure to anyone who has been exposed to philosophy, or anything resembling it. Also, I'm way over thirteen  and I don't think Charles sounds intelligent, I think he is intelligent.</p>

<p>I'm not a overly nutso Charles fanatic, but you know, grow up. </p>]]></description>
<author>city kitty</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064732</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:31:27 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Wackistan</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Wow. I haven't seen that much pretentious bullshit since I was enrolled in a wanky liberal arts college.</p>

<p>Oops.</p>]]></description>
<author>Wackistan</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064736</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064736</guid>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:33:48 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Original Monique</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Richard Wright was HAWT. Definitely do-able.</p>]]></description>
<author>Original Monique</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064744</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064744</guid>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:37:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by max solomon</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>set achievable goals. </p>

<p>such as:<br />
1. slog more pictures of monica belluci. </p>]]></description>
<author>max solomon</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064748</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:40:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by annie</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Isn't Charles Wright a white poet? Who is black novelist Charles Wright?</p>]]></description>
<author>annie</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064773</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064773</guid>
<category>Arts</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:52:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>@19 -- It would appear that two Wrights do make a wrong.</p>

<p><br />
</p>]]></description>
<author>Jubilation T. Cornball</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064779</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064779</guid>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:56:11 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by COMTE</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Good, that's six down.  But, how many more left to go, Chaz?</p>]]></description>
<author>COMTE</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064786</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:57:57 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by charles mudede</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>@19: <a href="http://www.mercuryhouse.org/wright.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mercuryhouse.org/wright.html</a></p>]]></description>
<author>charles mudede</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064788</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064788</guid>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:58:32 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Cat in Chicago</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Extentialism? WTF?</p>]]></description>
<author>Cat in Chicago</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064789</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064789</guid>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:58:33 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by daniel</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Just don't see how these qualify as "thought experiments"... which are hypothetical or imaginary scenarios e.g. the one with the Shroedinger and the cat, or Searle's Chinese Room, etc, etc...<br />
</p>]]></description>
<author>daniel</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064804</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064804</guid>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:05:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>@20 is hereby withdrawn.</p>

<p>Carry on, Mudede.</p>]]></description>
<author>Jubilation T. Cornball</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064810</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064810</guid>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:10:44 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Tim Appelo</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Charles, don't throw out the Bakhtin with the bathwater.</p>]]></description>
<author>Tim Appelo</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064835</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064835</guid>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:21:47 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Tim Appelo</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>City Kitty has good points, but "thusly" is not a proper word--the word is "thus."</p>]]></description>
<author>Tim Appelo</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064842</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064842</guid>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:24:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Jeff Stevens</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>A list...</p>

<p><a href="http://www.afterimagegallery.com/friedlandermingus.htm" rel="nofollow">1922-1979</a></p>

<p>...of major projects (thought experiments) I abandoned.</p>

<p>1) Developing a tentatively ontological West Coast-apologist theory of Ornette Coleman's original (and now perhaps forever lost) rationale for the creation of harmolodic theory (1963-1980)</p>

<p>2) Initiating a global competition for the most scintillatingly obscure Situationist anti-ideological writer credibly citable in an alternative newspaper essay (1989-1995)</p>

<p>3) The Uzbek language, as spoken by Ted Rall between 2001-2007 (1998)</p>

<p>4) Nubian music-birthing theory, as represented musically by George Clinton and associates (1969-present)</p>

<p>5) A final solution to the question of whether the original 1962 film version of <i>The Manchurian Candidate</i> was a mockery of (a) American anti-communist hysteria or (b) Marxism its very self (1953-1957)</p>

<p>6) Asking of Anthony Braxton his very self: Is jazz the teacher and funk the preacher, or vice versa? (2011)</p>

<p>Please note that I was born in 1966, and have since forgetten the date(s) when I heartlessly threw the above-cited projects under the bus.<br />
</p>]]></description>
<author>Jeff Stevens</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064940</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064940</guid>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:42:20 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Jeff Stevens</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>A list...</p>

<p><a href="http://www.afterimagegallery.com/friedlandermingus.htm" rel="nofollow">1922-1979</a></p>

<p>...of major projects (thought experiments) I abandoned.</p>

<p>1) Developing a tentatively ontological West Coast-apologist theory of Ornette Coleman's original (and now perhaps forever lost) rationale for the creation of harmolodic theory (1963-1980)</p>

<p>2) Initiating a global competition for the most scintillatingly obscure Situationist anti-ideological writer credibly citable in an alternative newspaper essay (1989-1995)</p>

<p>3) The Uzbek language, as spoken by Ted Rall between 2001-2007 (1998)</p>

<p>4) Nubian music-birthing theory, as represented musically by George Clinton and associates (1969-present)</p>

<p>5) A final solution to the question of whether the original 1962 film version of <i>The Manchurian Candidate</i> was a mockery of (a) American anti-communist hysteria or (b) Marxism its very self (1953-1957)</p>

<p>6) Asking of Anthony Braxton his very self: Is jazz the teacher and funk the preacher, or vice versa? (2011)</p>

<p>Please note that I was born in 1966, and have since forgetten the date(s) when I heartlessly threw the above-cited projects under the bus.<br />
</p>]]></description>
<author>Jeff Stevens</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064943</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:44:35 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Jeff Stevens</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>7) Beseeching Amy Kate Horn to finally fix at long last the above-exemplified technical weirdnesses of the SLOG comment-posting system. (July 2008)<br />
</p>]]></description>
<author>Jeff Stevens</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064945</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1064945</guid>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:48:08 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by PopTart</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Can we vote on something you should abandon? Because if we can I'm going to vote for the weird Amanda Knox posts. They kind of creep me out.</p>]]></description>
<author>PopTart</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1065007</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1065007</guid>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:03:25 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by CP</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>I'd vote for the Amanda Knox posts, if I knew what his point was. Maybe I showed up in the middle of that theme.</p>

<p>And yes, fixating on Natalie Merchant pictures is a valid use of my time, about oh, once a month or so.</p>]]></description>
<author>CP</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1065017</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1065017</guid>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:16:08 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by um</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>what a fucking waste.</p>]]></description>
<author>um</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1065051</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1065051</guid>
<category>Arts</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:06:35 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by heh</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>oh my favorite is </p>

<p>Developing a global (universal) literary theory</p>

<p><br />
you know, just in case you dumbasses don't understand the term 'global'</p>]]></description>
<author>heh</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1065053</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1065053</guid>
<category>Arts</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:08:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by demolator</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>You forgot to include the project about making an interesting movie.</p>]]></description>
<author>demolator</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1065087</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1065087</guid>
<category>Arts</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:25:15 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by raisedbywolves</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>A list of projects I abandoned:</p>

<p>1. Making fun of Charles Mudede's incredibly creepy Amanda Knox posts on the SLOG</p>

<p>...oh wait...</p>]]></description>
<author>raisedbywolves</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1065174</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/no_more#c1065174</guid>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:22:56 -0800</pubDate>
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