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		<title>The Wheel in the Sky Keeps on Turning&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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It is my hope that the catchy classic rock song title of this post will get so stuck in your head that it will serve to detract from the lack of an amazing reappearance to my website I am about to make.  I had planned all sorts of PR-worthy stunts related to my return to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ban Stupid People, Not Dogs</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2009/ban-stupid-people-not-dogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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After spending some time browsing the pets section on Craiglist, I want to lay with my pit bulls and cry.  It is incomprehensibly saddening to see the things people do to this misunderstood breed.  Area shelters across the US are jam-packed with pit bulls. Backyard breeders with no regard for the welfare of these dogs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Otterly Cute</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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Hoping to write more later, but in the meantime&#8230;   

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		<title>The Ultimate Mark Gormley Collection</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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At least he is doing something&#8230;
I wonder if he is accepting nominations for the Mark Gormley fan club?

A stellar acoustic track with mind blowing animation; complete with really short shorts.

Makes me want to find things with little wings.

There has to be other people out there who love this guy as much as I do.

Where is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: Bye Bye Bush</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2008/bye-bye-bush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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		<title>H.D. Coli</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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My roommate is not known for his attention to detail, and this includes keeping on top of expiration dates and removing rotting food from the fridge.  Knowing this, about once a week I spend some time going through the contents of our community refrigerator &#8211; removing hairy strawberries, watching cheese age before my eyes, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yet Another Wrench</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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Staying positive is somewhat difficult when it always seems that people are unintentionally/intentionally doing things to throw wrenches in your path.  We made the decision to sell the GTI, a car Butterfinger has had since 0 miles, to give us a one-up on our impending move.  We thought we had made the decision to give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cake Wrecks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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Looking for a way to waste the rest of your Friday afternoon?  Need a distraction from counting the minutes on the clock until you can crack open a cold one and eat some beef jerky?  I just may have something for you!  Cake Wrecks is a glorious site featuring the absolute worst in cake construction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Retards</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2008/social-retards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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As soon as we walked into the house, I knew we were in for it.  Like a pair of bumbling social retards, we entered the sparsely populated house, making a beeline to socialize with the two folks with whom we are most comfortable &#8211; the friend who invited us, and his dog.  Butterfinger was decked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vacationitis</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2008/vacationitis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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I wish I could say I had all kinds of fun adventures and spent a whole week soaking up the rays on the beach, but the truth is that I spent most of my vacation laying on the couch, visiting the toilet, and rotting my brain with television.  My delusions of drinking grandeur were shattered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of the Internets</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2008/the-power-of-the-internets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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You can never understand the power of the internet until you post something you do not necessarily want the world to see.  I frequently post my many blog posts to a number of social bookmarking and community oriented sites, but never have I experienced a response as great as what I will refer to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dread Head</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2008/dread-head/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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Today is Monday.  I have not combed my hair in about 5 days, and it is starting to take on a strange, matted appearance, and I am really toying with the idea of dreading it up and seeing what happens.  I hate combing my hair, and honestly dread (no pun intended) performing this task each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out of the Wild</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2008/out-of-the-wild/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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Butterfinger is back.  I picked him up at the airport last Thursday with the dogs in tow.  Dirty, stinky, sunburned, exhausted, and happy; really, really happy.  He spent the greater part of this past month as a nomadic person in Pennsylvania working for food, and helping where he was needed.  Upon our return to PA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Punk Rock Mommy</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2008/punk-rock-mommy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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While I never met Andrea, I was introduced to her blog a few months ago through a friend in the Philadelphia area holding a fund raiser in her honor.  Punk Rock Mommy is Andrea&#8217;s weblog, and was created by her to document the journey of a wife and mother of six&#8217;s battle with Inflammatory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian The Lion</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2008/christian-the-lion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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I know I have already shown this video to some of you, but I just think its such a wonderful story; you can not help but smile and/or cry (I know I do every time I watch it!).  It is also a welcome respite from the video last week featuring psychotic Dimitri&#8217;s telephone messages. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Aftermath</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2008/the-aftermath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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Much to my dismay, I dropped off my two little Hershey Kisses at the airport this morning.  Just a word to the wise &#8211; 6 am flights are never a good idea, especially on a Wednesday morning following a Taco Tuesday outing that lasts into sunrise.  The ride back from the airport was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dimitri</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2008/dimitri/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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This little gem is courtesy of my friend Rosemary&#8230;


According to the email text being passed around with this recording, some friends were out one night in the San Francisco Marina district, and were hanging outside of the bars trying to find a cab. One of the girls, Olga, ends up meeting this guy Dmitri, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guapo&#8217;s Geyser</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2008/guapos-geyser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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It was roughly 10 pm on Friday evening.  Mounds&#8217; girlfriend and I were already a bottle of wine deep, and decided to head a block or so down the street to quench the insatiable thirst that had overcome us on a quiet start to the weekend.  Being the caring doggy mommy I am, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rumor Control</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2008/rumor-control/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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Ahh, the beauty of whisper down the lane.  I have always enjoyed this game in the silly sense, you know, where you start off by saying you had the best bacon omelette at the newest breakfast nook, and by the time the words go full circle, you have had a passionate affair with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White Wedding</title>
		<link>http://startupfiance.com/2008/white-wedding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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This is going to be a quick one, especially seeing as it is now 1 am, and I have not had more than 3-4 hours of sleep each night since about Tuesday.  Please pardon my temporary absence, but I have been back on the east coast celebrating the union of two of my dearest [...]]]></description>
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