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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Author: <a href="mailto:57@wep8.com">toftgeophorne</a><br />Date: Jul  5, 2009  2:46 AM</p><p><p>Hey<br />
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Author: <a href="mailto:vitai.ssim.otrade@gmail.com">Ardeliapamellaz</a><br />Date: Jul  3, 2009  8:07 PM<br />URL: <a href="http://remont1.pp.ua">http://remont1.pp.ua</a></p><p><p>Общий привет! monadology.net  <a>ремонт офисных помещений </a>   перегородок, антресолей и пр., • паркетное покрытие пола (замечу, что линолеум и ла- минат надо укладывать в   <a>сколько стоит ремонт квартиры </a> interesting:    <a>ремонт под ключ </a> помнить также, что красный, фиолетовый и синий цвета возбуждают нервную систему, утомляют зрение. Для жилых  , <a>смета на ремонт квартиры </a> Good luck!</p></p>
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         <title>whoisciaradating commented on "Why I Canceled My World of Warcraft Account"</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Author: <a href="mailto:travisrobertson48@gmail.com">whoisciaradating</a><br />Date: Jul  3, 2009  6:18 AM<br />URL: <a href="http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php?showuser=8854">http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php?showuser=8854</a></p><p><p>According to Bow Wow's <a>who is ciara dating</a> 106 & Park interview, he and Ciara are history and I think <a>who is ciara dating</a> that she may have been the one to end things because he seemed a little bitter about it. I don't know who she is dating now. That photo of her on Nelly's bedside on that Over and Over Again video did cause me to think of the possibility of a relationship between Nelly & Ciara but it was after that that she went public with her relationship with Bow Wow. Yesterday on 106 & Park, Lil Fizz (formerly of B2K) hinted that he would be interested in dating Ciara. Rocsi was sure to call him out on that. Ciara is probably weighing her options and playing it cool right now. She may not <a>who is ciara dating</a> be dating anyone.</p></p>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Author: <a href="mailto:raymokins@gmail.com">dreameNes</a><br />Date: Jul  3, 2009  6:11 AM<br />URL: <a href="http://business.goodnano-av.com/">http://business.goodnano-av.com/</a></p><p><p>Read more hot reports about Business, Form business or Women small business loans <a href="http://business.goodnano-av.com/" rel="nofollow">http://business.goodnano-av.com/</a></p></p>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Author: <a href="mailto:hanma2001@link.net">Devon</a><br />Date: Jul  3, 2009  5:31 AM<br />URL: <a href="http://www.hoptown.org/Members/Medicare">http://www.hoptown.org/Members/Medicare</a></p><p><p>Excuse me. Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.<br />
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<p>Thank you very much :-). Devon.</p></p>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Author: <a href="mailto:46@wep8.com">Enquipenriree</a><br />Date: Jul  2, 2009  1:15 AM</p><p><p>Hey</p>

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         <title>aleph commented on "Ingmar Bergman Movies Are Awesome"</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Author: <a href="mailto:aleph@example.com">aleph</a><br />Date: Jun 26, 2009  3:20 PM<br />URL: <a href="http://diaphora.blogspot.com/">http://diaphora.blogspot.com/</a></p><p><p>Oh, and I just remembered... <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069467" rel="nofollow">Cries and Whispers</a> is also one of Bergman's best, as is <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063611" rel="nofollow">Shame</a>.</p></p>
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         <title>aleph commented on "Ingmar Bergman Movies Are Awesome"</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Author: <a href="mailto:aleph@example.com">aleph</a><br />Date: Jun 26, 2009  3:13 PM<br />URL: <a href="http://diaphora.blogspot.com/">http://diaphora.blogspot.com/</a></p><p><p>If you liked Scenes from a Marriage, you should really see <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157122" rel="nofollow">Faithless</a>.</p>

<p>You might also enjoy <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105436" rel="nofollow">Sofie</a>.<br />
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Author: <a href="mailto:">Avid Fan</a><br />Date: May  9, 2009  2:25 AM</p><p><p>I concur with most of the prior posts. Family Guy has some okay moments (mostly from the earlier seasons) but the style of humor presented is sometimes lazy, as when they break in with the live action musical performances or use excessive flatulence. But the most irritating aspect of the show is their blatant plagiarism of The Simpsons, as when Stewie uses extended arm skin flaps to glide in the sky - a feat that was carried out by "old Jewish man" (2 years before) during the olympic games for the elderly when he leaped from the high-dive board. <br />
It is one thing to borrow and make it your own with distinguishable flare, and another to just steal without adding anything progressive.The writers count on the youth of their fan base to get away with this fraud. <br />
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         <title>Erika commented on "Work Poem"</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Author: <a href="mailto:erika.nesse@gmail.com">Erika</a><br />Date: Mar 10, 2009  1:31 PM<br />URL: <a href="http://www.m14m.net/erika">http://www.m14m.net/erika</a></p><p><p>Hm, I don't mean to say that there's any obligation to embarrass oneself, or to put stuff out there without regard to quality.  It's more that there are things that are not world-class that are worth sharing-- worth doing-- anyway.  You have to take off the critic-hat to some degree to do it though. I mean ok derivative synth-pop by wanna-be pop stars is not likely to be interesting, but there are also things that are strange and easy to criticize that are also quite original and worth doing (like Enya.  Tim has this embarrassment issue with liking Enya too.  I don't particularly like Enya but I don't see it as any different from liking anything else.  Then again one of my favorite songs is by Steve Winwood-- and I am a little embarrassed by that.  But just a little.)</p></p>
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         <title>KDD commented on "Work Poem"</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Author: <a href="mailto:kdd230@gmail.com">KDD</a><br />Date: Mar 10, 2009 12:17 PM</p><p><p><em>…honestly: what’s more embarrassing than a poem written, once-loved, and now seen as poor?</em></p>

<p>Probably having a poem that one considers amongst the least of one's work published in an anthology, thereafter to be mocked for all time. :)</p>

<p>I would post something publicly again if I felt it worthy but I can no longer see my work as anything other than projecting less than satisfactory images from the cloudy recesses of my mind. Or as Wilde put it "...art, being to a certain degree a mode of acting, an attempt to realise one's own personality on some imaginative plane out of reach of the trammeling accidents and limitations of real life..." Once you start writing for the applause of other people you stand the chance of becoming immersed in the mire of repetition of style and content.</p>

<p>I agree with Nate about the subject matter being an important aspect of the willingness to share publicly. I wrote a lament for Daniel Pearl some time ago and felt that that poem should be shared despite its technical limitations.    </p>

<p>As to coffee, well, it's the closest I get to any form of addiction. </p>

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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Author: <a href="mailto:">Neil</a><br />Date: Mar  7, 2009  1:31 PM</p><p><p>A couple of points, in disjointed and random order.</p>

<p>I've been talking on my blog recently about the feeling of wanting positive feedback, but not wanting to put oneself forward, and I think maybe this is related.</p>

<p>Does the embarrassment come from trying to do something "hard" and failing, while doing something "easy" and succeeding has less chance of being seen as foolish?  I haven't written poetry in years, and probably would be hesitant about posting any of it because I judge myself unskilled in that area.  But in areas that I think I do well in, I have no problem posting, in so far as I fear embarrassment, but I worry that I'm only posting to sooth my savage ego.  I want the strokes and I want them now.</p>

<p>When we offer something up, either to our friends or the world, we are releasing it into the world and no longer have control over it.  Maybe this is really what is scary?</p>

<p>Why should a poem, any more than a short video, be any more likely to be charming rather than uninteresting? </p>

<p>As a personal matter, I dislike watching "embarrassing" situations, either in movies or on tv or on the internet.  While some people claim shows like "The Office" are the highest form of comedy, for me, they are unwatchable because I am so uncomfortable watching the characters in those situations.  I don't watch a lot of amateur YouTube videos for much the same reason.  Other people link to them because they are "funny" but what they are laughing about is the fact that someone is, in their mind, humiliating themselves.  It doesn't work for me.</p></p>
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         <title>Nate commented on "Work Poem"</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Author: <a href="mailto:">Nate</a><br />Date: Mar  7, 2009 10:50 AM</p><p><p>I'm not sure that I disagree with either of you, Erika or Neil, but have you never had experiences on the internet where you feel embarrassed for the openness with which a person promotes his or her rather awful creations?  Some of the amateur campaign videos for Secretary Clinton come to mind (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FvyGydc8no" rel="nofollow">one</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxtN0u23Tdc" rel="nofollow">two</a>).</p>

<p>There's something strange about the way the Internet combines attributes of communication between friends of like minds in a living room and global distribution. Are there some things we should keep between friends?  There <em>was</em> a calculus at work in my decision to post this, as much as, to a certain degree, I cut it short.  I liked it more and believed it to be objectively better than others I haven't posted and felt, at least loosely, comfortable with its quality representing me to visitors to my website.  Is it the necessity of that calculus that makes it so potentially embarrassing?  It makes me potentially vulnerable not merely to the crime of writing bad poetry, but of not having the taste to know that it's bad.</p>

<p>I suppose I'm edging toward questions about whether there is something different about things that are <em>embarrassing</em> from things that are merely non-professional.  Erika, your 12-second videos strike me as good examples of things that encompass very little risk: they're either charming or uninteresting, but not possibly embarrassing.  The self-limitation to twelve second helps that, as does the adroit balancing of subject matter to production values.  Isn't there a knack that we very much admire, after all, of doing folk art well?  Simple songs on an acoustic guitar very frequently work; imitation pop sung to a synth often makes us ache in embarrassment for the singer.</p>

<p>The subject of my poem made me more willing to post it: I felt there was something appropriately modest about its scale and import that made it less potentially embarrassing.  Its form is unambitious: it's neither rigidly metric nor rhymed.  I even prefaced it by making sure that you knew I'd not spent very much time on it, even though I then edited it several times over the next couple of hours.</p></p>
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