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	<title>What's Going on @ Sillydog Media</title>
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	<description>Current events, projects, collections and topical arts in conjuction with sillydogmedia.com and the professional life of Marie Richie.  You'll find photos, essays, science writing, journalism, current events and news about the Pacific Northwest.</description>
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		<title>New Holiday Articles on &#8220;Green Christmas&#8221; Practices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a series of 10 of these &#8220;Green Xmas&#8221; articles in preparation for the season, to be featured on the Exquisite Writing business newsletter.
They have handy tips and plenty of ideas for how to simply spend less at Christmas as well as saving the environment, or whatever that means on a population-wide scale.  Most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=90</link>
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		<title>Portland Product Photography at its Finest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yep, I&#8217;m takin&#8217; about me.  You can check out all the bottles over at the New Deal Distillery site.
I tried it out, doing a gig for Lisa of Loft Liqueurs, who I&#8217;m also helping to make said liqueurs in commercial quantities.  Turns out, I do pretty good work, just as Matt had suggested.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=89</link>
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		<title>A Little Slice of Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I was travelling back in the Twin Cities, I had a chance to visit some old haunts.  Why not give them a review.  I know some good secret spots, especially out in the burbs, but I dedided to start w/ that Uptown staple, the ol&#8217; Leaning Tower of Pizza.  You can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=88</link>
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		<title>Portland Has Gone Waffle-Crazy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Portland has always been very pancake friendly.  Take the Hotcake House, for instance.  This is serious business that we are not content to leave up to a national chain, even one with such a fancy name as the International House of Pancakes.
Enter the waffle.  Crepes are soooo 2005.  Hard times call for more flour and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=87</link>
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		<title>Best Frozen Yoghurt in Portland &#8212; Good and Good For You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, the very best is the kind I make at home on top of the oven, overnight.  It&#8217;s just right because I take it off the stove when I want to, and better yet, no waste.However, sometimes you want to have some for dessert.  I&#8217;m not the sort of yuppie that owns a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=86</link>
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		<title>More Exposure For the Swarm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favourite photos ever has been used in another publicaiton, this time, a blog called Coroflot&#8217;s Creative Seeds on networking.  In short, the point of the article is that if you make a great first impression, you can kill it later by not keeping up with your contacts.
It is interesting to note [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=85</link>
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		<title>Knitting While Drunk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a bit of a health-related hiatus, I&#8217;ve put several reviews up on wCities.  I&#8217;ll try to catch up here.
For starters, I finally made it down to the Brooklyn Park Pub a few months ago, to watch a Vikings game.  I cannot tell you what a friendly neighbourhood place this was.  I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=84</link>
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		<title>Apple Moths, Monsanto and NAFTA Collide in San Francisco</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article came to my attention that sparked a bit of a debate over on the Pirates&#8217; list.  I thought you might be interested in what I came up with.  This is the sort of story that could turn into a book.  Are you listening LA Times SF Gate?  Or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=83</link>
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		<title>Marketplace and Marie Meet on Urban Gardening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s now officially a big issue.  A reporter for Marketplace, the most excellent show (with their very own sustainability desk) on NPR that explains business news as it pertains to real people (as it most sincerely does) contacted me about a story:  how has the drastic increase in the price of food affected [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=82</link>
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		<title>Finally Finished</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, pretty much finished &#8212; there are a few touches I could make, but I started building this website early this summer in my &#8220;spare&#8221; time and just now, finally got enough black tea in me to just stay up all night and get it done.



It&#8217;s for my friend and &#8220;employer&#8221; Kristin Zabawa, a gifted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=80</link>
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		<title>There Are a Few Things in Albuquerque That Don&#8217;t Suck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And, for the most part, you can eat them.  However, just be wary of who gives you advice on where to go.  When Matt&#8217;s parent&#8217;s (whose taste is dubious to begin with) recommended Eloy&#8217;s, I was surprised that it was any good at all.  And by any good, I mean sort of, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Only go to Minneapolis to be a Drunk Asshole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or, at least that&#8217;s what I like to tell people.  Honestly, I don&#8217;t seem to be able to hold enough liquor to actually get that drunk, so I tend to be more of a sipper.  There are plenty of opportunities to get loaded in St. Paul, too, so you can think of it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=73</link>
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		<title>Sisters are Fermenting for Themselves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Portland is blessed with a great many places where you can enjoy wine these days.  I recently did a few reviews of those who are either run or cater to women.  They also both happen to be near my house, which is even better for me, since we all know the Eastside is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=72</link>
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		<title>Alternative Energy Bonanza</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the best things about my job as a freelance writer is that I can do my own personal research on someone else&#8217;s dime, so to speak.  As our plans to move to the south coast get closer to something like a cohesive permaculture design, I need to look into topics I&#8217;ve had only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=71</link>
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		<title>Coffee For the Proletariat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s nothing quite like a liberal coffeehouse – well, I mean honestly, is there another kind? Perhaps in small towns, but they&#8217;re a different sort of place altogether. No, Mao&#8217;s Little Red Book and high levels of caffeination among young artsy types.
I hung out at coffeeshops because I wasn&#8217;t very good at getting out and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=70</link>
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		<title>Late Night Happy Hour and Places I&#8217;d Not Have Found Otherwise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I review &#8216;em as I visit them, since I don&#8217;t write the nice, long sorts of reviews (though I&#8217;d love to) that warrants a food budget, I cannot affortd to go to even as many restaurants that open up in PDX in a given month on a writer&#8217;s budget.  Therefore, when I hear that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=69</link>
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		<title>Immortalized From a Single Trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently had a picture of mine selected for an updated version of the Schmap! Vancouver Map.  I&#8217;m thrilled.
Indeed, I was very impressed with Vancouver when I went there for a convention with Matt a couple of years ago.  Even more, I think it was the first time someone just whisked me away [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=68</link>
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		<title>One of my New Favourite Places</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I reviewed the Press Club for wCities a few weeks ago, and remain smitten with this spot.  It just has a most excellent feel to it, a nice fast wi-fi connection, and a darn decent house red along w/ my personal favourite: crepes.  Oh, yum.
I&#8217;m just in love.
Speaking of love, you may wait [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Photos on Portland Schmap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had several of my photos selected for inclusion in the 3rd edition of the Portland Schmap! Guide.
The one they&#8217;ve marked Lewis and Clark State Park (depite me sending them a letter telling them of their error) is actually Lewis and Clark College, nearby.  Though still, a lovely photo if I do say so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=66</link>
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		<title>More Reviews Ready To Go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, there are so many good restaurants in Portland.  I sometimes wonder if the reason there are more restaurants than places to catch a show or go dancing has something to do with the prevalence of marijuana consumption in this region.  Perhaps it&#8217;s the year-round fresh produce.  Though one&#8217;s choices are somewhat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=65</link>
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		<title>A Few of These Snuck up on Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know, when I wasn&#8217;t looking.
Were Yoko&#8217;s not quite so small, I might have never noticed C-bar.  I think it might not be the best destination bar ever, but as somewhere to have a drink while you&#8217;re waiting, it&#8217;s wonderful.  If I lived closer by, I might bring my laptop down there to work.
I did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=64</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve been very lax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[about getting links to my reviews posted, lately.  Tonight that ends!
As usual I have someone else to thank for getting me out to the Mississippi Pizza Pub, since I don&#8217;t often go north of Belmont unless there&#8217;s a good reason.  They&#8217;re had several musical acts there that I&#8217;ve wanted to see, so that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=63</link>
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		<title>Sites Up - One More in Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got Matt&#8217;s sites up, though I need to fix one of the pages on one and add content on another.
The first is Meet the Greys &#8212; think of it as My 3 Aliens but, w/ cheese.  The other is the one I prefer, but since they&#8217;re selling it to Hollywood, all the cool [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=62</link>
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		<title>Busy Month, I Guess</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;ve pretty much been writing as a profession, I&#8217;ve been rather busy.  I actually did these about a month ago, but it takes a while to get up on the site, and then, well, I&#8217;ve been writing a bunch and sometimes procrastinating a bit.
I&#8217;ve done a few more reviews for wCities.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=61</link>
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		<title>On the Way to the Farm, I Got Distracted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m making a website for Matt.  You know, for Xmas.  I&#8217;m also working on one that I&#8217;m doing in trade for some real lessons and lighting help in a studio situation.  More on Matt&#8217;s studio session later when I finally have time to go through the pics.
In the meanwhile, I&#8217;m just helping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=60</link>
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		<title>My Brush With Florida</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve done several articles now for a client in Polk County Florida.  Though my words have actually been changed quite a bit to fit into a web format, they&#8217;ve survived at least partially intact.
The first crazy project was on sinkholes.  This proved to be a bit more research intensive, in part because I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=59</link>
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		<title>Words Scattered to the Winds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the best things about writing, for me, is getting a chance to reserach and write about things that I would otherwise probably not get into.  I am an avid non-fiction reader and the daughter of a man who reads the encyclopedia for fun, so this is all gravy for me.
Of course, doing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=58</link>
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		<title>Drinky Crow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been writing several reviews of bars and eateries lately for wCities. Last week was no exception.  Firstly I thought I&#8217;d write up the Jolly Roger, a dive-y sports bar where I can watch the Vikes, if need be, on any given Sunday.  Turns out, they also have free reggae music on Friday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=57</link>
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		<title>Abstract Objects for Your Viewing Pleasure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made a new gallery of abstract photos &#8212; many of which I took quite some time ago.  It&#8217;s nice to see them again.

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		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=56</link>
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		<title>Dogs After Midnight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just had a review of Zach&#8217;s Shack go up on wCities.
Thoguh I don&#8217;t live in the Hawthorne neighborhood exactly, I visit fairly regularly and will think of them first if I&#8217;m in the area after midnight for some damn decent eats.  They do veggie dogs on whatever at no extra cost.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=53</link>
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		<title>Quantum Computing, In and Out of Reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or, reality as we know it, anyhow.
I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to have written several articles recently on topics of science and para-science (ones that, sadly, I cannot share with you just yet &#8212; soon) that are of particular interest to me.  A recent one that is a bit more of the mainstream science varity, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=52</link>
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		<title>Doomsday Vault Gets a Grant from Bill and Melinda Gates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, you know we&#8217;re not talking about a small amount of money &#8212; US $30 million, in fact.
This particular grant is specifically designed to support clonally produced crops that the tropical world is especially dependent upon, such as taro and cassava.  No matter how you feel about the edibility of any such crops, you&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=51</link>
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		<title>Organics as Preventative Medicine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[and more to the point, why it&#8217;s not in the current interest of the current U.S. Executive administration to support the science that&#8217;s mounting on Organics.  It reminds me to a little controversy that people used to have about climate change.
In my new role as science blogger @ News ETA, I wrote another article, this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=49</link>
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		<title>New Science Blogging Gig</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been picked up as a paid journalist for a new, rated, citizen news site called News ETA.  I&#8217;ll be in charge of contributing some high end content for the science and technology section of the website.  My first article is on a space theme, discussing the controversy surrounding the spectrographic discovery of water vapour [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=48</link>
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		<title>Something for Every Night of the Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started writing a new series of articles for wCities by where I review places that have a special day.  For instance, Roots Brewery has $2.50 pints every Tuesday, and that&#8217;s nearly half off regular prices.  Those in the know go on Tuesdays.  Now, thanks to me, you&#8217;re in the know too.
On [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=47</link>
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		<title>Beer and a Show</title>
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		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=46</link>
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		<title>Get a Crepe, Some Beer and Play Pinball Like You&#8217;ve Gone Mad!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a few more reviews up on wCities, this time for four more of my favourite places in town.
I told Matt that next time we went out for fancy dinner, we&#8217;d have to go to The Farm Cafe, again.  As a vegetarian, I am more thrilled than I can say to find a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=45</link>
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		<title>For the Public Good</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote a book called &#8220;For the Public Good:  Starting an Eduational or Research Non-profit Organization.&#8221;  You can read excerpts of it online.  I still don&#8217;t know where to get ahold of one of these eBooks, but I&#8217;ll let you know as soon as I find out.
When I started, I thought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=44</link>
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		<title>A Few More Fine Places in Portland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote a few Point of Interest reviews for wCities.  I thought the Sapphire Hotel was a very good choice, and began really craving an adult beverage.  Instead of hoofing it all the way down to the hotel, we stopped in @ the Twilight and had a very Twin Peaks sort of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=43</link>
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		<title>Keep Internet Radio Alive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a piece that started out as a letter to my congresspeople, urging them to take action on a recent fees ruling by the Library of Congress that internet radio stations will be required to pay incredible fees that are sure to put them all out of business &#8212; fees that broadcast stations do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=42</link>
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		<title>Chllin&#8217; w/ February</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, you know me, just hangin&#8217; around&#8230; .
My normal computer just decided to work today after being down for over a month, leaving me to work and search for work on my 10-year-old laptop computer, that did its gallant best.  However, it could take as long as 10 min to load some webpages, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=40</link>
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		<title>A Heavy Metal Surprise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the best of lists, it&#8217;s the worst of lists&#8230; . Craigslist.org is a wonderful thing, but you do have to be careful. I&#8217;ve had a few clients that I wrote for on &#8216;ol CL not be forthcoming with communication or payment. As such, I posted the articles in question online myself.
The most recent one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=39</link>
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		<title>I Am So Very Pleased</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing breeds success like success, eh?  It looks as if I&#8217;ll be doing a June show of my photography and writing at the Roots Organic Brewery that I recently reviewed for wCities.
Not only am I excited about this as a photographer but also, because I&#8217;m looking forward to doing some writing on the virtues [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=38</link>
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		<title>Bigger, Louder and Steppin&#8217; Out - We&#8217;re Going to Build a Moon Base and More</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;m about 30 posts into it now, so I might as well tell you about my big news:  I&#8217;ve gotten a gig as the blogger of a website about NASA&#8217;s Constellation Program.
Briefly, it is the successor to the Space Shuttle program (and pretty much everything else), thanks to a 2004 speach by GW. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s &#8216;Shroom Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another photo of mine has been featured on a weblog, this time to illustrate a recipe from a local cooking show called A Fork in the Road.  You know you want some Shitake Mushroom and Wild Rice Stuffed and Planked Whole Michigan Whitefish.  Mmmm&#8230;I do like me some fish, and mushrooms make just about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=36</link>
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		<title>A Few of my Favourite Places in Portland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the nice things about doing restaurant (or as they&#8217;re called @ wCities, point of interest) reviews is that I get to pick where I write about.  As such, I pick the places I think are wonderful and it turns into an easy write.
I suppose if I were to write reviews for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Best Buy Restaurants in Portland, Oregon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s one thing near and dear to my heart, it&#8217;s a good deal.  While Portland is full of what I&#8217;d call mid-priced eateries of exceptional quality, the local papers seem to think a $10 plate of spaghetti is a good deal.  I don&#8217;t.  Then again, I&#8217;m poor.  To add my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December 2007 &#8212;  Brought to you by Rizzo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This portrait of Rizzo as a young rooster was chosen to be the December model for The Henhouse&#8217;s annual chicken calendar.  What a great way to end the year!
Of course, you can still get 14 months of chickeny goodness from my very own calendar, &#8220;Chickens!&#8221;  Get yours printed on demand today from Lulu. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baby Klingon Remixed</title>
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A photo of mine was remixed lately and used to illustrate a quote about crime in &#8220;virtual worlds,&#8221; such as Warcraft and probably about a hundred others I&#8217;m not hep to.  Didn&#8217;t South Park cover this?  I think that&#8217;s the merging of worlds I&#8217;m most concerned about.
Check out the remix by lynetter in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=33</link>
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		<title>It Had to Happen Sometime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It might as well be now.  I got my very first rude editorial comments from the editor of a college recommendation website this weekend.  Up until now, I&#8217;ve been treated pretty well as a general rule.
I think the lesson here is that while there are a few amazing jobs on craigslist.org, a great [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=31</link>
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		<title>camilla-2nd-day</title>
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I ended up writing an rather lengthy description of how Camilla came to be here on my FlickR site.  I thought you might enjoy it.

You ought to check out the large version of this pic &#8212; the foot scales are especially nice, I think.
Camilla is from Washington originally and came with the wild bird. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Sushi in Portland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gentle reader, I know you love sushi as much as I do.  Oh, I can taste the salmon melting in my mouth, just thinking about it.
Yes, yes, I know what you&#8217;re thinking:  &#8220;What sort of vegetartian eats fish?&#8221;  This one, apparently.  That I&#8217;ve been one for over 13 years now is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Takes Moxie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just had the first in what promises to be a long series of &#8220;Point of Interest&#8221; reviews posted this morning.  But, let&#8217;s back up a bit.  I think the story of how I got to this point is a good example of how a girl goes about getting gigs.  It just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wine By Joe Photos Finally All Up!</title>
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Finally!  I finally got around to finishing up the WBJ project last night as I was avoiding some dull writing.

Check out the Vino &#8216;06 set on my FlickR page or view the slideshow in Flash-vision (sorry, no Wolfmother soundtrack).  I recommend taking them one at a time to get all the super-insightful commentary, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=28</link>
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		<title>Will Wonders Never Cease?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a fantastic little app I just found.  It&#8217;s called Trippermap!
Sadly, WordPress doesn&#8217;t seem to like the flash-java interface very much, or I&#8217;d show it to ya here.  You can see a screen cap, though.
I&#8217;ve been bummed out that I&#8217;ve not put the requisite GPS tags on my photos to generate proper maps. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=27</link>
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		<title>Guantanamo</title>
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I did, in fact, see the pictures of protest all over the world yesterday, marking the anniversary of Bush Administration lawyers using this base (rented from the supposedly hated Cuba, I might add) to give our own legal system the finger.  However, it was by sheer coincidence that I posted this pic from last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=25</link>
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		<title>Word of the Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my photos has been selected to illustrate today&#8217;s vocabulary building world, mite, on a social networking site called Word Mingle.
An exerpt form my writeup of this photo:
Varroa mites have had a major impact on North American hives. Apiculturists have kept the tiny pest just at bay for nearly 20 years now, but you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=24</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Restaurants in Portland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you had to pick only 10 places to eat in Portland, what would you choose?  Well, it is pretty darn hard, so I just picked some fancy ones I&#8217;ve been taken to in the last year or so, or those I&#8217;ve actually salivated over their menus.  I personally like to spend fewer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=23</link>
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		<title>Biological Control and Exotic Invaders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like alot of things in life, it all started with a ladybug.  The lowly lady beetle (for they are not true bugs at all &#8212; those are distingushed by a cross on their backs like a shield bug or lygus bug), or lady bird in the UK, is one of the best loved and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=21</link>
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		<title>Photographers Document Climate Change Worldwide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago I started a group on FlickR, asking people to contribute photos that documented the impact of Global Climate Change in their lives.  Over 225 people and 500 photos later, things are really rolling with some amazing and frightening images.
I wrote a little article I thought you might enjoy with links [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=20</link>
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		<title>Vagabond Opera at the Doug Fir Lounge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a chance to see Vagabond Opera, a band I really get a kick out of at a club I&#8217;d never been to before in the form of the Doug Fir Lounge.  This is sad because it&#8217;s not very far away from my house at all, but everyone kept warning me off the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=19</link>
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		<title>Lesbians Love Portland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or so I hear&#8230;
I recently penned an article for Arizona-based Outlook Magazine about what to do in Portland if you happen to be a lesbian.  Well, you know, Portland is sort of the town to be a lesbian in, so that&#8217;d be pretty much everything.  I had to cover quite a few places [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=18</link>
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		<title>Power to the People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been writing articles lately that I&#8217;ve posted to online news sites.  You might find some of them interesting.  For example:
At the Blogger News Network, I&#8217;ve posted an article about recent changes in FDA policy regarding allowing meat and milk products from Clones into the food Supply.
Read More:

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		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=16</link>
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		<title>You&#8217;ve Said a Mouthful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Often when posting photos, I give a lengthy description.  Sometimes I really go off and find myself writing quite a little piece.  I decided to gather a bunch of those works together into a handy bundle.  Check &#8216;em out.



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		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=15</link>
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		<title>The Chickens are Here</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hooray!  I finally got my 14-month chicken calendar up and ready for anyone to purchase at Lulu.com
I think it&#8217;s my best published project yet, but I&#8217;m very partial to my lovely birds.  As the director of Buckaroo Bonzai said of my chcken pics, &#8220;those birds have real attitude &#8212; they should be in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=13</link>
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		<title>The Freshest of the Fresh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my continuing effort to make viewing my recent work as enjoyable as possible, I&#8217;ve put up a nice little gallery of my freshest images.

One bite and you&#8217;ll taste the difference.

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		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=12</link>
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		<title>Long Time, No Sea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am now a firm believer in morning sunshine and a little &#8220;free&#8221; time to clear the head.  I had somehow managed to loose my username for this &#8212; not thinking that I could just look the problem up on wordpress documentation and find the answer in short order.  Sheesh!

Well, it&#8217;s been a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=11</link>
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		<title>New Gallery of Portland, Oregon Photos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of a project, I&#8217;ve assembled some pictures that really say Portland to me in a handy-to-use slideshow.


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		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=10</link>
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		<title>Photography Exhibition @ PDX East Coffehouse to Feature &#8220;Science in Action&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Come see my photos up on the wall @ PDX Coffeehouse East on Belmont.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=9</link>
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		<title>Portraits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I put a new portrait gallery up on FlickR.       

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		<link>http://www.sillydogmedia.com/current/?p=5</link>
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