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	<title>Population Statistic &#187; Media</title>
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		<title>REPPIN&#8217; THE DMV, WITHOUT THE DRIVE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/30/reppin-the-dmv-without-the-drive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/30/reppin-the-dmv-without-the-drive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advert./Mktg.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Metro Washington has suffered without a streetcred-worthy nickname for long enough, so hipsters in the District and its Maryland-Virginia environs are promoting &#8220;the DMV&#8221;:
Sleek, succinct and inclusive, the name has been in common use for several years among the area&#8217;s &#8212; ahem, the DMV&#8217;s &#8212; hip-hop and go-go music crowd. It&#8217;s familiar to listeners of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE LOST DECADE-AND-A-HALF OF KIDS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/29/the-lost-decade-and-a-half-of-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/29/the-lost-decade-and-a-half-of-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been exactly 15 years since the release of controversial film Kids, which offered up this grit-core imagery of misspent Manhattan youth:
The plot seems inconsequential compared to some of the set pieces: the opening shots of the ‘Virgin Surgeon’ Telly deflowering an impossibly young looking girl; Caspar beating a man twice his age with his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE COPYEDITING KOOL-AID</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/25/the-copyediting-kool-aid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/25/the-copyediting-kool-aid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s true: When you massage the written word for a living, there&#8217;s no happy ending.
The job has its perks &#8212; an accumulation of random knowledge, for instance &#8212; but it also has its side effects when you unintentionally drink the copy Kool-Aid. Once you train yourself to spot errors, you can’t not spot them. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE ACAI-APPLE AD-SCAM BLONDE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/24/the-acai-apple-ad-scam-blonde/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/24/the-acai-apple-ad-scam-blonde/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advert./Mktg.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;m not above triggering an online meme based around images of some anonymous hot chick. And so:
The above two ads have been making the rounds on websites I routinely visit. Nothing particularly special about them &#8212; one&#8217;s pushing the acai berry fad, while the other claims to hook you up with Apple gadgets for low-low [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POSTHUMOUS KAFKAESQUE-ING</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/23/posthumous-kafkaesque-ing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/23/posthumous-kafkaesque-ing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[True Crime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who better than Franz Kafka &#8212; or, at least, his legacy &#8212; to get caught up in a courtroom-setting morass over ownership of the author&#8217;s personal papers?
A protracted legal battle over the contents of four safe-deposit boxes in a Swiss bank, believed by some to contain unpublished works by Franz Kafka or other material shedding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ONLINE EROSION OF THE ART OF THE HEADLINE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/21/online-erosion-of-the-art-of-the-headline/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/21/online-erosion-of-the-art-of-the-headline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The alleged demands of SEO started taking a toll on online news headline-crafting years ago, and now we see the bland results:
Newspapers still have headlines, of course, but they don&#8217;t seem to strive for greatness or to risk flopping anymore, because editors know that when the stories arrive on the Web, even the best headlines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REQUIEM FOR A BOY-CRAZY PEPPERMINT PATTIE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/20/requiem-for-a-boy-crazy-peppermint-pattie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/20/requiem-for-a-boy-crazy-peppermint-pattie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had thought that the model in that York Peppermint Pattie commercial looked familiar: It&#8217;s Alexi from IMBOYCRAZY.COM!
And this is that commercial, spliced together with Requiem for a Dream:

I think the extreme closeup on the pupil in both video-works was the inspirational hook. How else to draw a line between mint-flavoring and heroin? And the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GONE, DEAD, AND WHAT THEY MEAN</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/19/gone-dead-and-what-they-mean/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/19/gone-dead-and-what-they-mean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may seem morose to dwell on the following passage out of Bret Easton Ellis&#8217; &#8220;The Informers&#8221;, but it&#8217;s been in my head for the past few days, so I might as well share it. From the end of the story/chapter &#8220;On The Beach&#8221;:
I walk away from Mona. I know what the word gone means. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FLU-SHOT PATCH</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/18/flu-shot-patch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/18/flu-shot-patch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advert./Mktg.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If the prick of the flu vaccine keeps you from going through with inoculation, a few hundred tiny microneedles on a medicated patch might be more palatable:
The business side of the patch feels like fine sandpaper, [Georgia Tech researcher Mark Prausnitz] said. In tests of microneedles without vaccine, people rated the discomfort at one-tenth to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HALF-BLOODED FANTASY CAMPING</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/17/half-blooded-fantasy-camping/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/17/half-blooded-fantasy-camping/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are fantasy camps, and then there are kid-lit fantasy camps:
Children have always sought to act out elements of their favorite books, becoming part of the worlds that the works create. Now, organized role-playing literary camps, like the weeklong Camp Half-Blood in Brooklyn, are sprouting up around the nation.
Some take their inspiration from the Harry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RE-BEAVIS AND RE-BUTT-HEAD</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/14/re-beavis-and-re-butt-head/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/14/re-beavis-and-re-butt-head/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7872</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Not too long after MTV officially disowned its Generation X heritage, the network is now reviving one of its hallmark properties from that bygone era: &#8220;Beavis and Butt-head&#8221; is joining the 21st Century.
The move to resurrect the hugely popular 1990s animated anti-heroes has been rumored for several days. But yesterday, sources at MTV confirmed that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FUN TO STAY AT &#8220;THE Y&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/12/fun-to-stay-at-the-y/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/12/fun-to-stay-at-the-y/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short-branding comes to the organization formerly known as the Young Men&#8217;s Christian Association. From here on out, it&#8217;s simply &#8220;The Y&#8221;:
The Y’s new name coincides with its efforts to emphasize the impact its programs have on youth, healthy living and communities. Its affiliate in Sioux City, Iowa, for instance, is working to change zoning regulations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JESUS/CHRIST TWIN POWERS, ACTIVATE!</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/11/jesus-christ-twin-powers-activate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/11/jesus-christ-twin-powers-activate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The Hypostatic Union is the theological term for the reconciliation of the holy and the mortal within Jesus Christ &#8212; in short, &#8220;that in Christ one person subsists in two [distinct] natures, the Divine and the human&#8221;.
That duality &#8212; which allowed Jesus to suffer and die in a manner identical with any other person, while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BETTY WHITE, MONTH-TO-MONTH</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/09/betty-white-month-to-month/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/09/betty-white-month-to-month/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Riding a career-revival hot streak that includes a much-hyped &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; host slot and a starring role in a new sitcom, &#8220;Hot in Cleveland&#8221;, Betty White is moving on to time-sensitive wall hangings:
It&#8217;s true. The 88-year-old actress is posing for her own 2011 calendar. Some of the photos are archival, others are Betty with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LEBRON&#8217;S DECISION: MADE-FOR-TV FREE AGENCY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/08/lebrons-decision-made-for-tv-free-agency/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/08/lebrons-decision-made-for-tv-free-agency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basketball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media Online]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
More than a year ago, we were expecting future sports-transaction news to be delivered directly from the players, via social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook.
But when you&#8217;re LeBron James, and you&#8217;re the preeminent free agent of this 2010 National Basketball Association offseason&#8230; Well, why settle for a measly Twitter account when ESPN will give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HAWAII FIVE-OH-NO</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/06/hawaii-five-oh-no/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/06/hawaii-five-oh-no/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[True Crime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[CBS is rebooting classic cop show &#8220;Hawaii Five-O&#8221; for a Fall 2010 revival. But, according to the network, this latter-day &#8220;Five-O&#8221; carries an alphanumeric distinction:
Yep, in what the Eye has billed its &#8220;shortest press release in history,&#8221; the network has informed journos that it&#8217;s not the capital letter &#8220;O&#8221; but instead, the number &#8220;0,&#8221; in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GRASSROOTS ADJECTIVAL SOFTDRINK-BRANDING</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/05/grassroots-adjectival-softdrink-branding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/05/grassroots-adjectival-softdrink-branding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advert./Mktg.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think that tagging sugarwater and snack chips with &#8220;extreme&#8221; labels in their names is a silly, wholly marketing-driven gimmick, consider the experience of Hosmer Mountain Soda. This locally-focused Connecticut softdrink bottler stumbled upon the public&#8217;s attraction to potentially wild food rides:
Hosmer’s ["Dangerous" Ginger Beer] is another new release. Its pepperiness inspired [co-manager Bill] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A TAXING SODA CAMPAIGN</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/04/a-taxing-soda-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/04/a-taxing-soda-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until recently, a “sugary beverage tax” of one-penny-per-ounce seemed destined to become law in New York State. But apparently, counter-lobbying by the American Beverage Association killed the proposed bill, and supposedly more persuasive advocacy by the industry turned the tide:
Next, this TV ad from New Yorkers Against Unfair Taxes, a name calculated to make the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TWILIGHT, ACCORDING TO TWITTER</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/03/twilight-according-to-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/03/twilight-according-to-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
This funny quip has been making the rounds on Twitter this week, and I can&#8217;t think of a more apt summation of The Twilight Saga than this:
Dear Confused Teen Girls: Someone who sparkles and won&#8217;t have sex with you isn&#8217;t a vampire; it&#8217;s a gay guy.
Disheartening to realize that that dreamy bloodsucker is really a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LE PROBLEME DES LOISIRS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/01/le-probleme-des-loisirs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/01/le-probleme-des-loisirs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m watching Marie Antoinette on Sundance Channel.
I dare you to not love the alt-rock soundtrack. Completely anachronistic to the movie&#8217;s setting in 18th-Century royal France, yet all the more memorable for that incongruity. From the opening strains of Gang of Four&#8217;s &#8220;Natural&#8217;s Not In It&#8221;, through to Bow Wow Wow&#8217;s &#8220;I Want Candy&#8221;, Siouxsie and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEGA-GIBSON VS. TIFFANOID</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/27/mega-gibson-vs-tiffanoid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/27/mega-gibson-vs-tiffanoid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Back in the &#8217;80s, we always knew that the rivalry between bubblegum-pop queens Debbie Gibson and Tiffany would inevitably culminate thusly:
[Syfy Network] promises an epic battle between the former teen pop idols, who will star in “Mega Python vs. Gatoroid.”
Gibson will play a fanatical animal-rights activist who frees illegally imported exotic snakes from pet stores, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>APPLE STANDARD TIME (IN ADS)</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/21/apple-standard-time-in-ads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/21/apple-standard-time-in-ads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advert./Mktg.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
If you squint hard enough, you&#8217;ll see that the screen time displayed in the above iPhone image reads 9:42 AM. Apparently, that&#8217;s a theme:
I’ve noticed that in all the commercials, print ads and outdoor ads for the iPad, the time is always shown as 9:41 a.m. Then I noticed that the time in all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE DOGS OF PROSE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/20/the-dogs-of-prose/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/20/the-dogs-of-prose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writer Rosecrans Baldwin theorizes that a novel isn&#8217;t a novel without an obligatory barking dog:
Having heard the dog&#8217;s call, it seemed like I couldn&#8217;t find a book without one. Not &#8220;The Death of Ivan Ilyich&#8221;. Not &#8220;Shadow Country&#8221;. Not &#8220;Ulysses&#8221;. Not Robert Penn Warren&#8217;s &#8220;All The King&#8217;s Men&#8221;, or Monica Ali&#8217;s &#8220;Alentejo Blue&#8221;, or Stephen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CADDYSHACK AS BIRTHDAY-FASHION TRADITION</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/17/caddyshack-as-birthday-fashion-tradition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/17/caddyshack-as-birthday-fashion-tradition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I turn 39. And the question before me is an unconventional one:
Just how many Caddyshack-inspired t-shirts should one man own?
I have my friend Kirby to thank for that puzzler. Last year, he sent me a nice little Bushwood Country Club tee, which I got a chuckle out of. Perhaps going with what works, this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I WANT MY M-TWEET-V</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/16/i-want-my-m-tweet-v/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/16/i-want-my-m-tweet-v/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Since it doesn&#8217;t play music videos anymore, MTV is prepping for the next generation of content-filtering talent: An officially-designated, in-house &#8220;Twitter jockey&#8221;, or TJ.
The recruitment effort, which is officially called “Follow Me: The Search for the First MTV T.J.,” is planning to announce its first 18 candidates this week, culled from viewers with strong Twitter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IMPERIAL BEDROOMS: MORE LESS THAN ZERO</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/15/imperial-bedrooms-more-less-than-zero/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/15/imperial-bedrooms-more-less-than-zero/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One year after I learned about it, today was the release date for Bret Easton Ellis&#8216; latest opus, &#8220;Imperial Bedrooms&#8221;. It&#8217;s nothing less than a direct sequel to his groundbreaking debut novel, &#8220;Less Than Zero&#8221;.
And I scooped it up first thing this morning. Via the Amazon Kindle app for iPhone. This would be my very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MARLBORO&#8217;S SUBLIMINAL-OPTICAL RACECAR BRANDING</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/13/marlboros-subliminal-optical-racecar-branding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/13/marlboros-subliminal-optical-racecar-branding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To get around the European Union&#8217;s ban on tobacco advertising, major Formula 1 sponsor Marlboro decided on a high-speed stealth presentation of its product colors:
In January, Ferrari presented the new Scuderia Marlboro F1 single-seater. (Ferrari is the only Formula One team with a tobacco brand in its formal title, Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro.) At first glance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CHRIS FARLEY, THE MISSING GROWN UP</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/11/chris-farley-the-missing-grown-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/11/chris-farley-the-missing-grown-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I see that upcoming new release Grown Ups features Kevin James in the role of The Fat Guy (not really his character&#8217;s name, but it might as well be).
Meanwhile, the rest of this comedy&#8217;s main-character ensemble is: Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade, and Rob Schneider. Those four share a common history as former cast-members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HI-DEF, SPORTING HIGHER RATINGS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/09/hi-def-sporting-higher-ratings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/09/hi-def-sporting-higher-ratings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Both the National Hockey League and National Basketball Association are enjoying double-digit percentage-point increases in ratings this month, and there&#8217;s an interesting contributing factor:
Ratings for major sports events have been strong this year, including the record set for the most-watched Super Bowl. TV executives think it&#8217;s no coincidence the increases coincide with Americans&#8217; rapid adoption [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LOST FILMS FOUND, VIA THE TYRANNY OF DISTANCE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/06/lost-films-found-via-the-tyranny-of-distance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/06/lost-films-found-via-the-tyranny-of-distance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 01:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The discovery in New Zealand of several long-lost American movies from the silent-film era is interesting because of the dumb-luck logistical reason for these surviving prints&#8217; existence:
Many foreign films remained in New Zealand after their commercial lives were over because the studios didn’t think the return shipping was worth the expense. “It’s one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOLLYWOOD&#8217;S NEWSPAPER (PROP) OF RECORD</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/05/hollywoods-newspaper-prop-of-record/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/05/hollywoods-newspaper-prop-of-record/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much like the much-reused Wilhelm Scream sound effect, movie and television productions seemingly pass around the very same for-show-only newspaper:
Someone on Reddit  recently put together a compilation of photos from various television shows, commercials and movies, showing how one newspaper prop gets around and is reused, and reused again. I don’t know the story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY YAHOO PUBLISHER PAYOUT: $5.85</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/03/my-yahoo-publisher-payout-5-85/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/03/my-yahoo-publisher-payout-5-85/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I received my first-ever payment check from Yahoo! Publisher Network. It&#8217;s also my last-ever check from them, as Y! shuttered its answer to Google AdSense not long ago.
My grand total? Five dollars, eighty-five cents.
That&#8217;s four years after signing up to be a Network partner. But my tenure was short-lived: I swapped in the YPN [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A GIRL WITHOUT A MERCURY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/03/a-girl-without-a-mercury/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/03/a-girl-without-a-mercury/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Yesterday, Ford Motor Company officially announced it was killing off its 72-year-old Mercury line.
Which means that everyone&#8217;s favorite Mercury Girl disappears along with the brand. Not that Jill Wagner particularly needs the car-commercial gig these days, as she&#8217;s moved on to other acting projects. Still, her stint as automotive spokeswoman was a notable mini-phenomenon.
Which makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STANLEY CUP 2010: STRONG, FOR OPENERS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/01/stanley-cup-2010-strong-for-openers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/01/stanley-cup-2010-strong-for-openers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
My previous concern over this past weekend&#8217;s Stanley Cup Final schedule on NBC seemed unfounded. By the numbers, Game 1 and Game 2 turned in great ratings, with a 2.8 and 4.1 share respectively.
So I guess back-to-back Saturday-Sunday championship games aren&#8217;t essential for National Hockey League viewership. Then again, it&#8217;s important to remember the context:
We&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OIL-CAPPING CREATIVITY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/30/oil-capping-creativity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/30/oil-capping-creativity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 03:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top Hat. Junk Shot. Top Kill.
I&#8217;m starting to suspect that British Petroleum* is purposely whiffing on these attempts to plug up its undersea Gulf of Mexico oil well leak, just so it can keep its code-name conjurers employed. What&#8217;s the next snappy failure-label, &#8220;Crude Hole&#8221;?

*Yes, I&#8217;m pointedly using the company&#8217;s official, xenophobia-inducing name, instead of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KANSAS CITY: GREY LADY TRAINING GROUND</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/29/kansas-city-grey-lady-training-ground/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/29/kansas-city-grey-lady-training-ground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 23:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in April, when the New York Times announced the opening of a Kansas City bureau, I thought it was a curious move. In an age of tanking revenues, it&#8217;s encouraging that the nation&#8217;s highest-profile newspaper would expand, versus contract, on-the-ground reportage. But &#8212; in Kansas City? Not internationally, not even in boomtown-areas like Florida [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHATCHOO TALKIN&#8217; ABOUT, AVENUE Q?</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/29/whatchoo-talkin-about-avenue-q/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/29/whatchoo-talkin-about-avenue-q/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 20:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gary Coleman is now dead, but his &#8220;Avenue Q&#8221; character lives on:
“Avenue Q,” which won the Tony Award for best musical in 2004, as well as Tonys for [writer Jeff] Whitty and the composers, Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, has included a character called Gary Coleman since its debut.
Introduced in the show’s opening number, “It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MELD-BRANDING HOCKEY AND COFFEE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/28/meld-branding-hockey-and-coffee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/28/meld-branding-hockey-and-coffee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 17:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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When we combine Starbucks with the National Hockey League, the word-mashup of &#8220;StarPucks&#8221; is an inevitable outcome.
Two possibilities come to my mind for using this puckishly-cute StarPucks label:
- As a cross-promotional campaign. Both entities like to position themselves as higher-end pursuits for discerning consumer bases (versus going after mass-market appeal, ala McDonalds or the NFL), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SMIRNOFF ICING</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/26/smirnoff-icing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/26/smirnoff-icing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 03:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Fortune Magazine is to be believed, there&#8217;s a new drinking game sweeping the nation:
&#8220;Icing&#8221; &#8212; or &#8220;getting iced&#8221; &#8212; is a drinking game that&#8217;s rapidly gaining popularity amongst office workers, tech and media types, and college students. The rules are simple: If a person sees a Smirnoff Ice, he or she must get down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STANLEY CUP 2010: BAILING ON BACK-TO-BACK OPENERS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/24/stanley-cup-2010-bailing-on-back-to-back-openers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/24/stanley-cup-2010-bailing-on-back-to-back-openers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 03:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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This year&#8217;s National Hockey League Stanley Cup Final will have the Chicago Blackhawks and the Philadelphia Flyers. What it won&#8217;t have is a repeat of last year&#8217;s Saturday-Sunday scheduling of Games 1 and 2 on NBC. Instead, this Saturday&#8217;s Game 1 will be followed by Game 2 on Monday, setting the pattern for an every-other-day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WITHER THE THINK-PIECE?</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/23/wither-the-think-piece/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/23/wither-the-think-piece/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 17:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In journalistic jargon, a think-piece is defined thusly:
noun &#8211; an article analyzing and giving the background of a news event, often with the author&#8217;s opinions and forecast for the future.
There&#8217;s no shortage of such in-depth scribbling being produced nowadays; some of the best examples are curated at Longform.org and other sites. But I never hear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STERGER VERSUS STERGER</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/23/sterger-versus-sterger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/23/sterger-versus-sterger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 16:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It somehow completely passed me by that &#8220;Jenn&#8221; from Versus&#8217; sports-talk roundtable show &#8220;The Daily Line&#8221; is none other than Jenn Sterger. That&#8217;s the same Jenn Sterger who was thrust into fame four years ago, as the FSU Cowgirl.
She looks different nowadays. And not just because she tends to wear more clothes on Versus than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY FAIR NEWSMAN</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/21/my-fair-newsman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/21/my-fair-newsman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 13:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly thirty years after first seeing it, the &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; 1984 skit &#8220;News Bar&#8221; still makes me chuckle. Especially the brief, My Fair Lady-like musical numbers:
Edwin Newman [singing]:
They read the news with foot in mouth, instead of tongue in cheek,
Why can&#8217;t the anchors learn to speak?
Brad Hall: &#8220;Iranians&#8217; pains come mainly from Khomeini!&#8221;
Edwin Newman: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BUILDING OUT OF A BURST BUBBLE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/20/building-out-of-a-burst-bubble/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/20/building-out-of-a-burst-bubble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 03:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the solution for all the extra housing inventory left over from the real estate market collapse? Simple: Build even more houses.
Land and labor costs have fallen significantly, so the newest homes are competitively priced. Some of the boom-era homes, meanwhile, are in developments that feel like ghost towns. And many Americans will always believe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CBS&#8217; HARD-CHARGING STANDSTILL</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/20/cbs-hard-charging-standstill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/20/cbs-hard-charging-standstill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 14:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CBS added a prime-grade bit of corporate-speak to our lexicon yesterday:
The [schedule] changes, and the five new shows, are part of what Kelly Kahl, senior executive VP for CBS primetime, calls &#8220;aggressive stablity.&#8221;
&#8220;Every year the goal is to make the schedule stronger,&#8221; Kahl says. &#8220;To make the schedule stronger, you have to put new shows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SHIT MY SHATNER SAYS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/19/shit-my-shatner-says/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/19/shit-my-shatner-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 03:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Well, that was quick. Less than a year after Twitter account @ShitMyDadSays was launched, it&#8217;s been turned into a network sitcom, set to debut this Fall on CBS.
Absorb that for a moment. Because here comes bombshell No. 2:
William Shatner himself is starring, as Dad. Yeah. (As always, I&#8217;m hoping some of the Shit He Says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GREY LADY GOES UPSTATE GANGBUSTERS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/14/grey-lady-goes-upstate-gangbusters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/14/grey-lady-goes-upstate-gangbusters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 23:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My hometown of Newburgh was the scene of some intense crime-fighting action yesterday, as the FBI rounded up scores of Bloods, Latin Kings and other hardened local gang members.
Yes, it&#8217;s a sobering thought, that the little town in which I grew up is, improbably, host to an urban-proportioned criminal element. Not that this sorry state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THIS GOES OUT TO&#8230; THE ETHER</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/13/this-goes-out-to-the-ether/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/13/this-goes-out-to-the-ether/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 19:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do old-fashioned caller-requested song dedications on the radio have a place on the Web? The mind behind Thisgoesout.to thinks so:
There is an alchemy to song dedications — canned ingredients combined to express earnest and deeply felt emotion. The music is often saccharine. The words of love and longing tend toward the generic, delivered in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>48 HOUR PUBLISHING PEOPLE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/07/48-hour-publishing-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/07/48-hour-publishing-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 12:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming from a professional background which included regularly toiling every 30 days to help put out a monthly business magazine, the thought of jam-blasting a full-sized print edition in a mere two days is a bit mind-boggling:
Here&#8217;s how it works: Issue Zero begins May 7th. We&#8217;ll unveil a theme and you&#8217;ll have 24 hours to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A METROPOLIS RESTORED, AND TRANSFORMED</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/05/a-metropolis-restored-and-transformed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/05/a-metropolis-restored-and-transformed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 03:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow, it&#8217;s taken some two years for the restored full-length, two-and-a-half hour version of Fritz Lang&#8217;s signature silent film Metropolis to hit theaters.
And what will hit the screen will be, apparently, a wholly different movie:
 For example, the “Thin Man,” who in the standard version appears to be a glorified butler to the city’s all-powerful [...]]]></description>
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