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		<title>Back from da Region; photothread up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Manzo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good weather here and there! Too much to hope for in November!
Unlike on my past visits I managed to not only visit but also photograph many of my old haunts, starting with a visit to Madvek&#8217;s, a hot dog and burger-centred diner near my elementary school, the moment I arrived. Photothread is here.
Much has changed, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jfmanzo.wordpress.com&blog=1370471&post=788&subd=jfmanzo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Off to da Region</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Manzo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Da Region&#8221;= the Calumet Region of NW Indiana and the southeast suburbs of Chicago. The place of my birth. Going to visit family and also to connect with friends north of Chicago. I depart tomorrow morning (Wednesday) and will be back Sunday night. The weather looks very agreeable for the flight there and for at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jfmanzo.wordpress.com&blog=1370471&post=786&subd=jfmanzo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Die Mauer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Manzo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Wall.&#8221;
About 20 years ago, on what must have been the 9th or 10th of November, 1989, I got a call from my then-boyfriend Timm who asked if I was watching the news. Because, he said, &#8220;The Berlin Wall looks like Swiss cheese!&#8221; I&#8217;m pretty sure I had a TV at the time and must [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jfmanzo.wordpress.com&blog=1370471&post=772&subd=jfmanzo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Halloween- here&#8217;s an H1N1-related treat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Manzo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Calgary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian and I just wrapped up a nice afternoon, following an absolutely delicious lunch at Han&#8217;s in Chinatown (we had our usual, which was braised cabbage with chilis and green onions, and the &#8220;kung pao&#8221; chili chicken. Also ordered an &#8220;egg roll,&#8221; which is a flour pancake rolled around an omelet- a real egg roll). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jfmanzo.wordpress.com&blog=1370471&post=764&subd=jfmanzo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Auf wiedersehen, Geocities.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Manzo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started a website (not a &#8220;blog&#8221; as I almost unintentionally wrote just now) on Geocities back in 1998, and kept it modestly updated until, the site says, 2004, though I can&#8217;t see any evidence of updates for it after around 2001 when I posted pictures of our then-new-to-us condo. I might have updated the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jfmanzo.wordpress.com&blog=1370471&post=756&subd=jfmanzo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Email posting</title>
		<link>http://jfmanzo.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/email-posting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Manzo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been geeking out very much lately with my Nokia E71 smartphone, in part because it&#8217;s become a more mundane (but still incredible useful- I have no idea how I&#8217;ve survived this long without a proper calendar) thing and I will admit to having, yes already, upgrade-itis as I&#8217;d really love a N97 or, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jfmanzo.wordpress.com&blog=1370471&post=749&subd=jfmanzo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Street View</title>
		<link>http://jfmanzo.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/street-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Manzo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It had been a long wait, but finally, we have Google Street View in Canada. Not all of Canada, of course, but if you&#8217;re among those who live in the Vancouver area, in Calgary and west all the way to Lake Louise, in most of the major cities of southern Ontario (including Toronto of course), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jfmanzo.wordpress.com&blog=1370471&post=745&subd=jfmanzo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On vernacular &#8220;ethnic&#8221; foods and my problem with &#8220;authenticity,&#8221; with some insults directed at Japan.</title>
		<link>http://jfmanzo.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/on-vernacular-ethnic-foods-and-my-problem-with-authenticity-with-some-insults-directed-at-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Manzo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been seeing inspiration for lots of stuff today, including a manuscript that I&#8217;d been trying to wrap up this week (sounding like a proverbial broken record here, I know, forgive me, future self), and it occurred to me that a blog post might clear the ol&#8217; writer&#8217;s block. And then I had a BLOGGING [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jfmanzo.wordpress.com&blog=1370471&post=735&subd=jfmanzo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RIP, Mary Travers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Manzo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Travers, of Peter Paul and Mary, died today. She was 72.
I started kindergarten in 1969 and like every child of that generation sang &#8220;Puff the Magic Dragon&#8221; in class. I cried to it then, I cry to it now. But the song (and video) I want post here by way of memorial is even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jfmanzo.wordpress.com&blog=1370471&post=731&subd=jfmanzo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prairies Regional Canadian Barista Competition®, and some taste-y reflections</title>
		<link>http://jfmanzo.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/prairies-regional-canadian-barista-competition%c2%ae-and-some-taste-y-reflections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Manzo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Calgary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the my absence (that&#8217;s to future me more than present you, but if you really missed me, sorry); if you&#8217;ve been checking my twitter feed (here or on twitter) you know that I&#8217;ve been increasingly fond of the act and utility of the micro-blogging thing, especially with my new phone, but tweets aren&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jfmanzo.wordpress.com&blog=1370471&post=722&subd=jfmanzo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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