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	<title>Etcetera</title>
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	<description>pretension + flotsam</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The last night of the season</title>
		<link>http://etcetera.maufrais.us/2007/05/19/the-last-night-of-the-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2007 10:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Wachs</dc:creator>
		
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<category>basketball</category><category>nba</category><category>phoenix</category><category>phoenixsuns</category><category>suns</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;People over here are worried about it, just lying on the couch not saying anything. Ted&#8217;s brother is crying.&#8221;
I was soaking in the tub, talking on my cellphone, icepack resting on my head, exhausted from my last vomit session of the night. While almost 25, I spent a large portion of my day awkwardly riding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If a gorilla cries in a forest does anyone hear it?</title>
		<link>http://etcetera.maufrais.us/2007/05/17/if-a-gorilla-cries-in-a-forest-does-anyone-hear-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 08:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Wachs</dc:creator>
		
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<category>basketball</category><category>davidstern</category><category>nba</category><category>phoenixsuns</category><category>phx</category><category>stern</category><category>suns</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For more than 24 hours there had been nothing but disgust from Phoenicians and basketball fans around the world directed at the NBA for ruling to suspend Boris Diaw and Amare Stoudemire a game each for neither starting or escalating a confrontation that barely occurred during Monday night&#8217;s game. Most everyone agreed it was ludicrous, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And the apathetic shall rise!</title>
		<link>http://etcetera.maufrais.us/2007/05/16/and-the-apathetic-shall-rise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 18:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Wachs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
If you&#8217;ve followed my foray into chronicling the past couple of months, I apologize for not wrapping up loose ends and/or sharing about my last week or so. Pictures and posts will be forthcoming, promise.
But there are more pressing matters, let us address them: The NBA has managed to make furious not only fans worldwide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The first guest of the Midland Youth Hostel</title>
		<link>http://etcetera.maufrais.us/2007/04/26/the-first-guest-of-the-midland-youth-hostel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Wachs</dc:creator>
		
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<category>backpackers</category><category>bucharest</category><category>bucuresti</category><category>hostel</category><category>hotel</category><category>midlandyouthhostel</category><category>romania</category><category>travel</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent around two hours getting lost, roaming Bucharest with a 14 kilogram bag strapped to my shoulders. The first hostel I checked was closed for renovations so I walked across town to the Lonely Planet-approved Elvis Villa. There would be an idiosyncratic Aussie Elvis impersonator and free beer supposedly awaiting my arrival.
&#8220;Are you Israeli,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I want to make it big in Romania: Notes on a 25.5 hour bus ride.</title>
		<link>http://etcetera.maufrais.us/2007/04/24/i-want-to-make-it-big-in-romania-notes-on-a-255-hour-bus-ride/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Wachs</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
<category>austria</category><category>bus</category><category>deathondelivery</category><category>romania</category><category>slovakia</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[HOUR 1:
People in Prague apparently just found out about love. In the metro I saw to adult lovers gaze into eachother&#8217;s eyes on opposite sides of the door before the train took off. They did little waves and mouthed I love yous. Now, even though there&#8217;s half an hour before disembarking, similar lovers are having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ano/Ne: Praha, České republice</title>
		<link>http://etcetera.maufrais.us/2007/04/22/anone-praha-ceske-republice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Wachs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was fairly disappointed in Praha (Prague) from the start. Exhibit A: One of the start attractions in town is Black Light Theatre; as in the whole stage is illuminated by black lights. Furthermore, the main production for this main attraction is Cats.
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		<title>The Old-New Shabbat</title>
		<link>http://etcetera.maufrais.us/2007/04/21/the-old-new-shabbat/</link>
		<comments>http://etcetera.maufrais.us/2007/04/21/the-old-new-shabbat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Wachs</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Shabbat]]></category>
<category>prague</category><category>praha</category><category>shabbas</category><category>shabbat</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prague has turned into a pilgrimage sight for Jews, I suppose mostly on account of the whole golem thing. What has sprouted up is a cottage industry of Judaic tourist schmaltz (booths peddling mezzuzahs and dragon necklaces side-by-side, Jewish tours around town, and entrance fees to the old synagogues and cemetary). I understand that you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The personal politics of my head exploding.</title>
		<link>http://etcetera.maufrais.us/2007/04/21/the-personal-politics-of-my-head-exploding/</link>
		<comments>http://etcetera.maufrais.us/2007/04/21/the-personal-politics-of-my-head-exploding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Wachs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So I felt obligated to write about the whole Jew in Germany thing. Unfortunately, it all came out in rambling, horribly written, oh-my-God-I-want-to-shoot-myself-in-the-face, non-sequential chunks.
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		<title>Ja/Nein: Berlin, Deutschland</title>
		<link>http://etcetera.maufrais.us/2007/04/21/janein-berlin-deutschland/</link>
		<comments>http://etcetera.maufrais.us/2007/04/21/janein-berlin-deutschland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Wachs</dc:creator>
		
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<category>berlin</category><category>chinese</category><category>deutschland</category><category>germany</category><category>thai</category><category>vegetarian</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did not plan on coming to Berlin during my trip in the planning stages. Everywhere I went people kept on telling me how amazing the city was and eventually the chorus could not be ignored. Shocked I became when I found out that Berlin is&#8230;well, it&#8217;s like an American city! Or at least like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sprechen sie Shabbat?</title>
		<link>http://etcetera.maufrais.us/2007/04/21/sprechen-sie-shabbat/</link>
		<comments>http://etcetera.maufrais.us/2007/04/21/sprechen-sie-shabbat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Wachs</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After a ridiculously affordable&#8211;and hearty!&#8211;veggie meal, I walked to the Daniel Liebskind designed Judisches Museum. Considering I&#8217;m Jewish, in Berlin, and Shabbat would start later on in the evening a visit seemed mandatory.
Being the contrarian/jerk that I am, I wasn&#8217;t totally smitten with the building. I&#8217;m also not an architecture critic, and likely it is [...]]]></description>
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