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		<title>WE DON&#8217;T LIVE HERE NO MORE</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve moved on, to our own little piece of the blogosphere at tinygems.org. Check our new location for recent updates, and please update all links and feeds accordingly. Tiny Gems &#8211; now with more unironic love of pop culture, making fun of art, semi-bullshit sociological analysis, and totally ridiculous media theory (on acid)!!! Thanks for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinygems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1585643&amp;post=579&amp;subd=tinygems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Black Magic Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as I don&#8217;t want to like Bat For Lashes (aka British singer-songwriter Natasha Khan) for the total travesty that was her cover of &#8220;I&#8217;m On Fire&#8221; by Bruce Springsteen, I have to admit &#8211; she&#8217;s pretty awesome (for the record, no one should attempt to cover that song after the amazing Electrelane version). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinygems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1585643&amp;post=555&amp;subd=tinygems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Style Alert: British crackheads</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaeltom</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tinygems.wordpress.com/?p=524</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here in Philadelphia, we know a lot about crackheads &#8211; but &#8220;fashion plate&#8221; is rarely the first phrase to come to mind to describe them. Our crackheads typically dress like wizards from &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; when they try to look like Muggles &#8211; that is, they wear some absurd combination of ridiculous found clothing that doesn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinygems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1585643&amp;post=524&amp;subd=tinygems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kick Out the Jams: Strawberry Spring</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nadinevas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In reality, as I write this, I&#8217;m sitting in a tan cubicle at my desk job under fluorescent lights, basking in the sickly glow of the computer screen and its ever-present Excel spreadsheet. In my heart, however, I&#8217;m outside, slinging a busted boombox over my shoulder, wearing gold silk shorts and that Built by Wendy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinygems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1585643&amp;post=517&amp;subd=tinygems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Never say, &#8216;I&#8217;ll be right back,&#8217; because you won&#8217;t be back.&#8221; (The State of the Slasher in 2009, Part Two)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaeltom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems (after Nadine&#8217;s epic, long-awaited analysis of &#8220;The Twilight Saga&#8221;) that we here at Tiny Gems are very interested in talking about teenage sexuality and its representation in popular, youth-focused media. Which means, of course, that I&#8217;m back to the slasher film. We all know the frequently re-hashed tropes of the sexual politics of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinygems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1585643&amp;post=482&amp;subd=tinygems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another day, another GaGa</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaeltom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;you didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d really let you go this long without another Lady GaGa update, did you? But seriously &#8211; has anyone else noted the odd similarities between &#8220;Poker Face&#8221; by Lady GaGa and &#8220;Vomiting Mirrors&#8221; by local punx Clockcleaner (aka &#8220;The Most Hated Band in Philadelphia&#8221;)? ClockGaGa? LadyCleaner? Who knows. In the meantime, check [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinygems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1585643&amp;post=494&amp;subd=tinygems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;The Twilight Saga&#8221; Saga</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nadinevas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Michael Tom was regaling you throughout the month of January with posts about Chris Crocker, Joe the Plumber, and breakdancers kicking babies in the face, I have to admit I felt like a bit of a fraud. 2008 was the year when I finally lost touch with popular culture to a point where I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinygems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1585643&amp;post=323&amp;subd=tinygems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lady GaGa: Experimental Filmmaker</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaeltom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Via Kirsten, via Perez Hilton.) Edit: After posting this, I had a dream that I was a contestant on an MTV reality show entitled &#8220;Lady GaGa&#8217;s My New BFF.&#8221; I can only hope that I have psychic abilities and this was some kind of prophetic dream. For the record, I can&#8217;t say that I won [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinygems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1585643&amp;post=451&amp;subd=tinygems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Did It Better?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nadinevas</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tinygems.wordpress.com/?p=193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Tom Club or Mariah Carey? Subquestion: I listened to one of these songs every day of January 2009. Can you guess which one? Posted in discussion, music, video Tagged: mariah carey, music videos, odb, remix, sampling, tom tom club<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinygems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1585643&amp;post=193&amp;subd=tinygems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Are Not the Same, I Am A Cyborg</title>
		<link>http://tinygems.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/i-am-a-cyborg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaeltom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In her famous essay A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century, Donna Haraway sets up the metaphor of the cyborg as a new way of thinking about feminism. The &#8220;cyborg&#8221; &#8211; both human and machine, both organic and inorganic, both real and fictional &#8211; defies conventional, static categorizations and fixed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinygems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1585643&amp;post=417&amp;subd=tinygems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breanne Trammell&#8217;s Triumphant/Normative Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nadinevas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like Breanne Trammell’s art because she asks questions like, “what if I made art like a dude?” and makes 7 foot tall inspirational bookmarks out of mean things people have said to her and did a video project called “Gossip Gulls,&#8221; which is definitely helping tide me over until March 16th. Breanne is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinygems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1585643&amp;post=379&amp;subd=tinygems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Have Nothing To Add To This</title>
		<link>http://tinygems.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/i-have-nothing-to-add-to-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nadinevas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Via In Touch Magazine and Gawker.) Posted in fashion, pop culture Tagged: beyonce, breakfast pastries, celebrities, hair, lady gaga<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinygems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1585643&amp;post=405&amp;subd=tinygems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Night &#8220;He&#8221; Came Home (The State of the Slasher in 2009, Part One)</title>
		<link>http://tinygems.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/the-night-he-came-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaeltom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Myers has already been there, Jason Voorhees gets in this week, and Freddy Krueger will be there soon &#8211; of course, I&#8217;m talking about your local multiplex. The classic slasher is back in a big way, as CHUD.com writer Devin Faraci notes in a recent article. Slasher films, such as the Friday the 13th [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinygems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1585643&amp;post=385&amp;subd=tinygems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Special Offer, A Guaranteed Personality</title>
		<link>http://tinygems.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/personality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nadinevas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something I&#8217;ve been pondering alot lately: how can I reconcile a genuine belief in astrology with my frankly-quite-fanatical atheism? I don&#8217;t necessarily want to believe in astrology, but I relate SO, SO strongly to being a Scorpio. It says nearly everything there is to know about me. I&#8217;m dating a Pisces who is constantly on my case [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinygems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1585643&amp;post=365&amp;subd=tinygems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From the Department of Recent Obsessions: Kickin&#8217; it old school</title>
		<link>http://tinygems.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/from-the-department-of-recent-obsessions-kickin-it-old-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaeltom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am turning 23 soon, trying to go to grad school or find a real, full-time job in the film industry within the next year, and basically trying to look and act like a real human being. But I also have a tendency to watch videos of early British punk and oi bands &#8211; and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinygems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1585643&amp;post=357&amp;subd=tinygems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama nation</title>
		<link>http://tinygems.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/obama-nation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaeltom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and just in case you didn&#8217;t know, someone has created a web site for the timeless question: &#8220;Is George W. Bush still president?&#8221; Posted in internet, politics, pop culture Tagged: barack obama, bush, inauguration, political fandom, regime change<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinygems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1585643&amp;post=346&amp;subd=tinygems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Punk&#8217;s Not Dead</title>
		<link>http://tinygems.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/punks-not-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nadinevas</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tinygems.wordpress.com/?p=332</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think my favorite part of today was when PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA gave a shoutout to the &#8220;non-believers&#8221; and everybody in da club cheered! Unironically proud to be an American again this afternoon. Posted in culture, design, politics Tagged: atheism, barack obama, t-shirt design, up the punx<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinygems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1585643&amp;post=332&amp;subd=tinygems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jumpin&#8217; jumpin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://tinygems.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/jumpin-jumpin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaeltom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Light Energy Studio is a company that sells &#8220;innovative decorative home furnishings, unique sculpture, lighting, furniture and art,&#8221; including all manner of LED floors, &#8220;plasma sculptures&#8221; and &#8220;infinity mirrors.&#8221; If you have no idea what any of that means, that&#8217;s fine. Thankfully, they have a walk-through of &#8220;The Vortex Club&#8221; &#8211; a nightclub design ted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinygems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1585643&amp;post=280&amp;subd=tinygems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re in the money</title>
		<link>http://tinygems.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/were-in-the-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaeltom</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tinygems.wordpress.com/?p=267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An article in the New York Times film section asks an interesting question &#8211; in light of the deepening recession (today, the Times reported that unemployment has hit a 16-year-high at 7.2%), how should Hollywood present itself in the upcoming awards season? The article cites Hollywood&#8217;s &#8220;long if not proud history of tone-deaf behavior&#8221; in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinygems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1585643&amp;post=267&amp;subd=tinygems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pouring some out for our homies: the pop-culture fallen of 2008</title>
		<link>http://tinygems.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/pouring-some-out-for-our-homies-the-pop-culture-fallen-of-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaeltom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although it&#8217;s a bit late for a year-in-review, I&#8217;d like to remember a few pop-culture phenomena that we (probably) won&#8217;t be seeing much more of in 2009. Sometimes, I wonder if there is a retirement home for faded internet memes, vanished non-celebrities, and other cultural referents so out-of-date as to be beyond irony &#8211; something [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinygems.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1585643&amp;post=202&amp;subd=tinygems&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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