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		<title>I Just Wanted the Internets To See This</title>
		<link>http://www.elissa.weichbrodt.org/2008/10/23/lucite-cowboy-hat-austin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noel accompanied me to Austin where I gave a paper at the University of Texas Graduate Student American Studies Annual Conference. The conference was not-so-great, but Austin certainly lived up to its billing of being very, very weird. We wandered along South Congress, popping at will into stores that existed solely to disseminate kitsch to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost in the &#8216;Burbs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oxygen Starved Musings]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week and a half ago I was in Houston, helping with preparations for the imminent Weichbrodt-Hudson nuptials. Every time I am in Houston I am filled with renewed trepidation over the in-laws neighborhood. It&#8217;s lovely, of course, but it&#8217;s also a Houston suburbs&#8217; subdivision. Despite having visited numerous times over the course of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Which We Meet Some Sumo Wrestlers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, some friends from Hawaii, Gavin and Hannah, recently moved to Ames, Iowa so that Gavin could attend vet school. To be perfectly frank, there&#8217;s not a whole lot going on in Ames, so the Ganzers took a Labor Day road trip to the Gateway City. Now, if you have ever thought, &#8220;Self, why would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raising Kids Without Race</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elissa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[This Ivory Tower]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Towards the end of the semester, discussion in my 1930s class rabbit-trailed to more contemporary debates that left me uneasy and rather at odds with the practical outworkings of contemporary theories on race. At it&#8217;s pithiest incarnation, the question was such: should the white, adoptive parents of a Guatemalan child raise that child to know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Fortnight&#8217;s Preparation for a Pacific Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 03:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back when my predilection for historical fiction was deep and true, I used to revel in the unending descriptions of &#8220;preparations&#8221; for heading west. I can&#8217;t entirely explain this fascination, but I adored the lists of supplies and the painstaking details of curing meat and finishing quilts. I had no idea what 10 yards of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Spaghetti and E-mail Grow Free</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Small, Shiny Things]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By now, many of you likely know that our friends at Coptix pulled an April Fool&#8217;s joke on most of the free world. Despite the clear opportunistic brilliance and attempt at self-parody, the prank&#8217;s targets were far from amused. I guess some folks are fairly embarrassed by the whole kerfuffle, but I don&#8217;t think bitter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elissa&#8217;s Great Northern Adventures, part ii, or, &#8220;What If Your Great Grandmother Thinks You Married a Pagan?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought the visit was going so well. G-grandma and I seemed to have bonded; once I located a voice pitch which agreed with her hearing aid, we played gin, discussed Ukranian egg painting, and hashed out assorted family ethnic backgrounds. And then, then came Christmas Eve. On Sunday evening we all sat down to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elissa&#8217;s Great Northern Adventures, part 1.5</title>
		<link>http://www.elissa.weichbrodt.org/2007/01/08/elissas-great-northern-adventures-part-15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someday, children, when you visit the upper peninsula of Michigan and go to your husband&#8217;s great-grandmother&#8217;s old lakeside resort, you may find that the new owner, in a lapse of taste, has installed an oversized wooden lounge chair on the front lawn. If, at this time, you happen to be wearing a large, furry hat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Joy on Hwy 24</title>
		<link>http://www.elissa.weichbrodt.org/2007/01/04/finding-joy-on-hwy-24/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Behold, an attempt to match the outstandingly cheesy mottos of small Illinois and Indiana towns with an equally cheesy blog post title. Noel and I spent Christmas with his family in the northern reaches of the country, Cedarville, Michigan in the Upper Peninsula. Instead of sticking to interstates on our drive up, we temporarily ventured [...]]]></description>
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