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     <copyright>2005 Leslie A Talbot</copyright>
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     <title>Hey!  My Friend Wrote a Book!  Now What?</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[Some friendly hints from a not-so-new author]]></description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title>From the Desk Of...</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[A few more friendly reminders from the Mistress of the Universe]]></description>
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     <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title>Oh, Crap.  Not AGAIN.</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[From &quot;I Sizzle&quot; to &quot;I Fizzle&quot; in one short month.  In whose twisted universe - other than mine - does this happen?]]></description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 17:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title>...But Not a Drop to Drink</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[With all the wonderful, delicious beverages available in the world, why in God’s name would someone want to waste her thirst on water? ]]></description>
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     <pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title>Majority Retort</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[If you really want to know why the majority of American women, despite being barraged daily with the almost relentless pressure to couple up at any cost, have thrown up our hands and said “Forget it!  I’ve got better things to do with my time!” just take a look around.  ]]></description>
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     <title>These Books Were Made for Stalkin&amp;apos;</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[I’m not a shoplifter.  I&amp;apos;m merely a stalker.]]></description>
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     <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title>Frequently Asked Questions About My Book</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[Singular Existence will be in YOUR bookstore on January 2, 2007.  Not only that, it’s now available for pre-order on Amazon.com!  ]]></description>
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     <pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title>Hot Child in the City</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[Okay, okay.  Somebody has to say it, and that somebody might as well be me:  ENOUGH with the summer, already.]]></description>
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     <title>It&amp;apos;s Hard Out Here For a Wimp</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[I am, without a doubt, the most cowardly human being on God&amp;apos;s Green Earth.]]></description>
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     <pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title>From The PDA Of...</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[I have noted numerous occasions in which your behavior has extended far beyond the boundaries of what could be considered common decency by any reasonable standard. ]]></description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title>A Time To Kill</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[Hello.  My name is Leslie, and I am an employer&amp;apos;s worst nightmare.]]></description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title>From Here to Infiniti</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[Reason Number 9,999,999 why India is kicking America’s ass in the global economy.]]></description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title>Lemon Aid 2:  The Nightmare Continues</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[“Mel” was a skinny, toothless, scraggly-haired man of indeterminate age who looked like a serial killer and smelled of grease and cigarettes.  But Mel was my Savior.  He held the keys to my liberation in his grubby, sweat-stained paws.  To me, he was a god.    ]]></description>
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     <title>Lemon Aid</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[I think my car has an attachment disorder.  Either that, or it’s just trying to kill me for sport.]]></description>
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     <pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title>Nere To The Throne</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[The advent of the low flush toilet is the biggest disaster to strike Corporate America since the Crash of 1929.]]></description>
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     <title>Pat Peeved</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[Clean-cut, articulate, and unabashedly principled, my Future Husband laid out his case against Scooter Libby with devastating precision while I hurriedly ticked off china patterns in my Williams-Sonoma catalogue.]]></description>
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     <pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2005 01:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title>Animal Husbandry</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[There is something very wrong in a world where it costs law-abiding city dwellers $295 a month to provide sustenance to the neighborhood rat population.]]></description>
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     <pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 21:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title>I&#039;d Like To Thank The Academy...</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[Singular Existence: The Book is coming to a bookstore near you in January, 2007!  Yay me!]]></description>
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     <pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title>My Little Crony</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[The qualifications for securing a high-ranking government position do not appear to be particularly onerous. Not only will my Administration surpass all others in both patronage and fashion sense, I&#039;ll even appoint people who were reasonably competen]]></description>
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     <title>I&#039;ll Take The Low Road</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[Every national tragedy gets to this point.  The media step back,  and start the talk of &quot;healing,&quot; and &quot;heroism in the face of disaster.&quot;  Well, don&#039;t get too comfortable, folks.  Because I have yet to weigh in.]]></description>
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     <title>Manifesto Destiny</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[Even though I&#039;m probably the last person in the world you should be coming to for advice on how to get married, I can give you the next best thing:  advice on how to be single.]]></description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title>Raisin Cain</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[ In the Gallery of Foods That Serve No Discernible Purpose On This Earth, the raisin carries the dubious distinction of not only being the world&#039;s most useless food, it is also The Food Most Likely To Deter One From Eating Other Foods.]]></description>
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     <pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title>Midnight in the Garden of Oz</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[I wondered idly whether my plants ever talked about me behind my back. I imagined most of the discussion would revolve around how wretched the conditions in the garden are.  Then it hit me: my garden is nothing more than a poorly run prison for plants.]]></description>
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     <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2005 22:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title>Carrying Costs</title>
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     <description><![CDATA[Carry on, my wayward one!]]></description>
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     <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2005 22:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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