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	<description>never bored</description>
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		<title>No One Knows About Persian Cats</title>
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Just as NY Times reports armed militias entering Tehran, I still want to end this year and the 2000s decade on a note of hope—not the kind of Hope that has a “TM” symbol next to it—but the rare kind of hope that Kurdish Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi inspires in the 2009 film No One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ponnie.org/2009/12/31/no-one-knows-about-persian-cats/</link>
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		<title>Top Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top stories: Iran and Michael Jackson. Like the 80s all over again, but in reverse: Michael&#8217;s demise, but Iran on the rise.
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		<link>http://www.ponnie.org/2009/06/26/top-stories/</link>
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		<title>Michael Ramirez, a.k.a. douchebag.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a little late discovering Michael Ramirez, but&#8230;what a douche. I love how racists recycle their crap and think it&#8217;s ok to use it against someone else in another time &#038; place. Keep it up guys. At this rate we&#8217;ll never attain peace before the actual cockroaches take over the planet.

see > Omid Memarian.
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		<link>http://www.ponnie.org/2009/02/19/michael-ramirez-aka-douchebag/</link>
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		<title>Two concepts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re not directly related, but came up in my reading of Priti Ramamurthy (U. Washington) writing on transnational feminism.
&#8220;Commodity fetishism&#8221; (Marx) refers to the idea that commodities can assume an independent life so that the relationship among things, and between people and things, accompany, conceal, or displace the actual state of relations between people (Burke [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ponnie.org/2009/02/17/two-concepts/</link>
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		<title>Where adulthood goes to die</title>
		<description><![CDATA[J&#8217;adore corny, bubbly synth music (esp. 80s) about dark subject matter. My friend Spanky at KALX &#038; I decided once that bars &#038; pubs are where adulthood goes to die. In the alternative we&#8217;d like to see a nocturnal, goth theme park (with purple neon-lit waterslides) where you can still get wasted if you wish, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ponnie.org/2009/01/29/where-adulthood-goes-to-die/</link>
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		<title>Busted Rhymes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when a rapper named Busta does an idiotic song called &#8220;Arab Money&#8221; and during live shows samples Qoranic verses in for the &#8220;A-rab money&#8221; bit.
In keeping with the theme of Iranian hip hop, Revolution of the Mind from Oakland took a moment to dole out some F-U&#8217;s. (Note: strong language and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ponnie.org/2009/01/26/busted-rhymes/</link>
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		<title>Go-Bama!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s always more that a person can do and do it better, but I gotta say, I&#8217;m pretty proud of the new president at the moment. He&#8217;s done a lot already, and it doesn&#8217;t involve golf:
1. saying unequivocally that the US will not torture
2. closing Guantanamo w/i one year
3. immediate closure of secret CIA prisons [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ponnie.org/2009/01/26/go-bama/</link>
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		<title>800 atheist buses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not a band.
Being surrounded by the imperatives of a religion that you don&#8217;t believe in can be grueling. In Dallas, Texas, one can find a church (a very large church) on every corner of an intersection in some parts of town. That fact reflects the fundamentalist Christian beliefs that pervade Dallas as a culture [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ponnie.org/2009/01/07/800-atheist-buses/</link>
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		<title>Decent trends in Iranian hip hop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hip hop in Iran and Farsi hip hop in general are nascent musical forms that too often suffer from the same ailments as the trajectory of the commodities market: cheaper, faster, more standardized. Then Deev comes along, and makes a few changes, resulting in Iranian hip hop to be proud of&#8230;

On the more experimental and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ponnie.org/2009/01/01/decent-trends-in-iranian-hip-hop/</link>
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		<title>Lego the music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I Facebooked this &#8220;lego music&#8221; specimen as covered by Seb at Cyclic Defrost recently.
It&#8217;s too good not to keep sharing.
This video is an example of what&#8217;s being called the &#8220;legofication&#8221; of pop music, i.e. pop music is so generic and standardized in its structure (not to mention pop videos in their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ponnie.org/2009/01/01/lego-the-music/</link>
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