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		<title>Midwestern Gothic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Around the time I got back from my trip down South. I heard David Lipsky interviewed on NPR. It&#8217;s embarrassing how little I listen to music in favor of talk radio on NPR. I come from a very verbal family, perhaps it reminds me of being a kid and the comforting feeling I would get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ekrap.com/?p=323</link>
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		<title>Separated at Birth?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Louis Armstrong &#8211; a founding father of jazz Tracey Morgan &#8211; does an annoying schtick of a black person imitating a white person imitating a black person]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ekrap.com/?p=86</link>
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		<title>Miss on the pro side and just miss?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jim Loy has one of the best pool and billiards websites I&#8217;ve seen.  It&#8217;s look and feel is from 1997, which I love, because it proves that content is king. In this article, he  discusses the concept of missing a shot  &#8220;thin&#8221;, here&#8217;s his diagram and description: Here&#8217;s a tough situation; both of you are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ekrap.com/?p=82</link>
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		<title>Kitchen Confidential, circa 1933</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Orwell&#8217;s squalor-porn masterpiece &#8220;Down and Out in Paris and London&#8221;  was a precursor to Anthony Bourdain&#8217;s &#8220;Kitchen Confidential&#8221;.   Both deal in the frisson that comes from learning the dirty origins of  high-class restaurant food.  Orwell has been revered as THE objective dry-eyed chronicler of modern life by writers like Andrew Sullivan, so it surprised [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ekrap.com/?p=79</link>
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		<title>Well, THAT&#8217;S the pot calling the kettle &#8220;beige&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought &#8220;The Boys in the Band&#8221; would be a campy ridiculous movie, redeemed only by its groundbreaking status as one of the first mainstream films that dealt with homosexuality.  Instead I found it to be thoughtful, serious, well-written, and brilliantly-acted.  Its dubious reputation is the result of homophobic film reviewers (the dark side of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ekrap.com/?p=74</link>
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		<title>Whatever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  In the Woody Allen film &#8220;Whatever Works&#8221; a tone-deaf Larry David plays a Woody Allen manque and falls flat.  It doesn&#8217;t help that he&#8217;s plugged into a poorly-written formula comedy.  I love Larry David in &#8220;Curb Your Enthusiasm&#8221; but he appears to be one of those supremely successful orchestrators who, like Madonna, cannot get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ekrap.com/?p=73</link>
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		<title>The Other Don</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally got around to watching some episodes of AMC&#8217;s &#8220;Mad Men&#8221; and I&#8217;m finding it strikingly similar to HBO&#8217;s &#8220;The Sopranos&#8221;.  Both about powerful men, alienated by their own success and  pitted against themselves.  Both feature conflicted wives who have  &#8216;made a deal&#8217; in order to get what they think they want.  I recently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ekrap.com/?p=69</link>
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		<title>Sometimes not a great notion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Last night I caught about 30 seconds of Ken Burn&#8217;s latest paean: &#8220;The National Parks&#8221;, which was quite enough.  I already feel as though I&#8217;ve watched the entire series. &#8220;The National Parks are the enduring treasure of the great experiment that IS the United States&#8230;.&#8221;  Substitute &#8220;Jazz&#8221;, &#8220;Baseball&#8221;, &#8220;The Brooklyn Bridge&#8221;,  &#8220;The Statue of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ekrap.com/?p=67</link>
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		<title>Booking from Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  I&#8217;ve learned a couple of interesting factoids while doing freelancing work at advertising agencies.  While working on design of the &#8220;Who Would You Give a Volvo To&#8221; contest (which I insisted on calling &#8220;To Whom Would You Give a Volvo?&#8221;) the entire firm where I was employed was informed that Ariana Huffington would be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ekrap.com/?p=62</link>
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		<title>World&#8217;s Fair-y Tale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  The 64-65 World&#8217;s Fair marks the crossing of a cultural Rubicon. In 1965 DuPont Corporation sponsored an exhibit called the &#8220;Wonderful World of Chemistry&#8221;, featuring a musical with a song called &#8220;The Happy Plastic Family&#8221;. Two years later, in 1967 the movie &#8220;The Graduate&#8221; was released, with the famous exchange: I just want to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ekrap.com/?p=54</link>
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