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	<description>"To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric" –Theodor Adorno</description>
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		<title>Comic-Con 2010 in San Diego – Saturday, July 23rd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the third week of July, I had the equivalent to Willy Wonka&#8217;s gold ticket in my hands; I had a 4-day pass for the sold out 2010 Comic-Con. Sadly, I had a bout of insomnia and did not sleep very much for a week-and-a-half! Friday night thru Saturday morning, I did not make it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christinepalma.com/blog/2010/08/comic-con-2010-in-san-diego-saturday-july-23rd/</link>
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		<title>BIL 2010 at the MOLAA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the urging of a friend, I attended the BIL 2010 Conference. BIL is 3 years running and is usually situated near the TED Conference (devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading). The event is free and open to all guest presenters. Usually scientists, futurists, technologists, artists, venture capitalists speak on inspirational and oftentimes niche topics. Usually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christinepalma.com/blog/2010/02/bil-2010-at-the-molaa/</link>
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		<title>Los Angeles Art Show 2010 at the Los Angeles Convention Center</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately due to low energy and lack of time, I could only attend the LA Art Show for a few hours to grab this interview and have a quick look around on one of the days that this was here. INTERVIEW: My radio interview with Kim Martingdale (click here for his bio) and others is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christinepalma.com/blog/2010/02/los-angeles-art-show-2010/</link>
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		<title>Ways to Detox from the Sins of Urban Living</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All roads lead to? A Whole Foods&#8217; vitamins and supplements aisle. For me at least. Fall of 2005, I was reading any literature I could find on Bach flower essences. For a certain audience, the lyric description on each brown vial speaks to the whole in a way that modern pharmaceuticals with their legal disclaimers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christinepalma.com/blog/2009/11/ways-to-detox-from-the-sins-of-urban-living/</link>
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		<title>Freedom of the Press Not Just for Approved &#8220;Journalists&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Niles at the online journalism Review has a good article arguing that freedom of the press should not be exclusive to approved journalists. http://www.ojr.org/ojr/people/robert/200910/1787/ He writes: There ought to be no special class of citizen called a &#8220;journalist.&#8221; Anyone who does journalism, even if for just a moment in their lives, ought to enjoy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christinepalma.com/blog/2009/10/freedom-of-the-press-not-just-for-approved-journalists/</link>
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		<title>Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Venezuela&#8217;s Hugo Chavez gave Obama this book as a gift  in April 2009. It chronicles five centuries of Latin America&#8217;s exploitation by the United States of America. In the 20th century section of the book, Eduardo Galeano mentions something interesting in passing.  Robert McNamara, the World Bank president who was chairman of Ford and then Secretary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christinepalma.com/blog/2009/10/open-veins-of-latin-america-five-centuries-of-the-pillage-of-a-continent-by-eduardo-galeano/</link>
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		<title>Red-cloaked Japanese Daruma Doll &#8211; Pencil Study (18&#8243;x24&#8243;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I took a drawing class at a local community college this past Summer to help structure my day and get me out of the house and around more people. I have such a weird sleep schedule, such poor sleep hygiene and ongoing insomnia. It&#8217;s as though I work a graveyard shift. This was one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://christinepalma.com/blog/2009/10/pencil-study/</link>
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		<title>Hello / Goodbye &#8211; Charcole Drawing  (18&#8243;x24&#8243;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another quick and easy drawing. When our teacher was not busy helping students and took some time to draw along with the class, it was immediately humbling, because he is that good. I need to surround myself with more sources of inspiration.]]></description>
		<link>http://christinepalma.com/blog/2009/10/airplane-charcole-drawing/</link>
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		<title>Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! &#8211; Charcole Drawing (18&#8243;x24&#8243;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had lots of practice drawing bedsheets wrapped around mannequins, wrapped with rope, lit with strong dramatic lighting.]]></description>
		<link>http://christinepalma.com/blog/2009/10/bondage-charcole-drawing/</link>
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		<title>Ghost &#8211; Charcole Drawing (18&#8243;x24&#8243;)</title>
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