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		<title>Surf&#8217;s Up!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
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The Atlantic&#8217;s famed &#8220;nor&#8217;easters&#8221; are the great double-edged sword of a surfer&#8217;s life on the Outer Banks.  Their constant pounding slowly erodes the beach and breaks down the sandbars, and they can blow for days, making the ocean too rough to surf, swim, or do anything but wait.  In the wintertime, they bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sketches of Summer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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Even if you live here year-round, you know that the Outer Banks is a summer place.   Much as we love our uncrowded and beautiful off-season, we all know that we owe everything to Summer, for without it this place would not survive.  Summer is when the Outer Banks comes alive, when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surf/Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;ve been wanting to do a project around the surf culture on the Outer Banks for years: something that captures the essence of lives spent following stormclouds and obsessing about wind forecasts and tide timetables to catch a few hours of good swell&#8230;something that expresses what it feels like to live on this strip of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Towers of Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
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This past September 11 marked the 7th anniversary of, well, September 11.   I happened to be in New York with not too much to do on that day, so I made a visit to ground zero to pay my respects to the dead.   I almost wish I hadn&#8217;t.  The site [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crescent City Blues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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A couple of weeks ago I went down to New Orleans, following some hunches and thoughts about Carnival towns.  I&#8217;d been reading a lot of literature about the Crescent City, some Andrei Codrescu, Tom Piazza, Lafcadio Hearn, etc&#8230;and the more I read the more intrigued I got about the whole New Orleans mystique and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venice Impressions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
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Water, design, decay, light, and shadow&#8230;the visual attractions of Venice are a synthesis of human imagination and construction, the unrelenting forces of nature, and the slow creep of time that fuses them together into strange and new art forms.   You could spend a lifetime exploring the patterns of decay on her walls; or studying the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Glory of the Republic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
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My friend and colleague Edoardo Luppari, with whom I worked this past Carnival season in Venice, has a lot of interesting things to say about his home city.   He sees a sort of yin/yang duality that allows Venice to be at once a very public, spectacular world city; and at the same time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Masquerade</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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Okay, so the last upload didn&#8217;t work so well, sorry about that&#8230;we&#8217;ll try again.   I have about 100 &#8220;selects&#8221; from Carnevale, and maybe instead of putting them all in one post, I&#8217;ll split them up, and maybe offer a little commentary.
But first, I need a little help.   I&#8217;m going to enter some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carnevale 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carnevale in Venice has come and gone and I had planned to post updates all along, but I kind of got swept up in it all, staying up late and sleeping late, getting lost in Venice, etc.  They say that this year was not so good for Carnevale, the weather was bad for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Move</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
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Time to move on, time to get goin&#8217;&#8230;Nothing beats the midwinter blahs better than a trip.   At the moment I&#8217;d like to think my destination is some sun-and-surf drenched island populated with willing bikini-clad nymphs, but I think I&#8217;ll get over that fantasy once the boat pulls up to Piazza San Marco and [...]]]></description>
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