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		<title>Werner Herzog Voices Discarded Plastic Bag</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Ramin Bahrani&#8217;s new short film Plastic Bag, Werner Herzog voices&#8230;.a discarded plastic bag. Herzog has out-Herzogged himself, again. &#8220;The film traces the epic, existential journey of a plastic bag&#8230;searching for its lost maker, the woman who took it home from the store and eventually discarded it. Along the way, it encounters strange creatures, experiences [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digdug1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8760648&#038;post=1370&#038;subd=digdug1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Anthropology of Dr. Zahi Hawass (Lecture at War Memorial Opera House, 3/8/10)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I came across an ad for Dr. Zahi Hawass&#8217; lecture, &#8220;Mysteries of Tutankhamun Revealed,&#8221; at the Opera House, I was curious. Not about Egypt per se, but about Hawass, the Secretary General of Egypt&#8217;s Supreme Council of Antiquities. He seems to be everywhere, in his Indian Jones hat. He appears in an endless parade [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digdug1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8760648&#038;post=1321&#038;subd=digdug1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maverick&#8217;s Surf Contest Screening at AT&amp;T Park (2/13/10)</title>
		<link>http://digdug1.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/mavericks-screening-at-pac-bell-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love good old-fashioned epic. And nothing fascinates quite like the invitation-only Maverick&#8217;s surf contest, in which 24 of the world&#8217;s top big wave riders compete on one of the largest known breaks. The contest window spans November to March, when winter storms produce monster waves. And when conditions are right, the surfers vote whether to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digdug1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8760648&#038;post=1219&#038;subd=digdug1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Arriving at AT&#38;T Park</media:title>
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		<title>The Spontaneous Building of Shelters in GG Park (2/14/10)</title>
		<link>http://digdug1.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/spontaneous-building-of-shelters-in-gg-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>digdug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Valentine&#8217;s Day, spontaneous hunting and gathering-type activities were observed on the Golden Gate Park bandshell green. The ever watchful Jen walked her dog on the concourse and reported that gardeners had pruned the plane trees and left piles of branches lying on the ground, which people were using to build little shelters. When we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digdug1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8760648&#038;post=1222&#038;subd=digdug1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Families Creating Shelters</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">The Hut That Love Built</media:title>
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		<title>Dear &amp; Yonder at the Red Vic (12/19/09)</title>
		<link>http://digdug1.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/dear-yonder-at-the-red-vic-121909/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wasn&#8217;t sure what to expect when I sat down to watch Dear &#38; Yonder, a documentary on female surfers by local filmmakers Tiffany Campbell and Andria Lessler. Yes, I did expect water. And ladies on surfboards. But many surf docs that I&#8217;ve seen tend to hold up surfers as supermen, and I half-anticipated something similar. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digdug1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8760648&#038;post=1143&#038;subd=digdug1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wozzeck at YBCA: A Terrible Delight (01/30/10)</title>
		<link>http://digdug1.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/wozzeck-at-ybca-a-terrible-delight-130/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Why, why, why did Ensemble Parallèle&#8217;s Wozzeck only run at YBCA for two evenings?  The production, with a reorchestrated score by John Rea, was a terrible delight. I left the theater a little stunned, wishing I could see it again.  Of course, I&#8217;m a sucker for early 20th century opera: atonal, intensely psychological, dark. And Wozzeck is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digdug1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8760648&#038;post=1139&#038;subd=digdug1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lineup at San Pedro Creek</title>
		<link>http://digdug1.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/the-lineup-at-san-pedro-creek/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These wildlife paintings line the bridge path over San Pedro Creek in Pacifica. I pass them when I walk from the Linda Mar Beach parking lot over the bridge to the surf shop, where I rent a board and wetsuit. And I see them again when I return the equipment. The Picasso-y pelican was an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digdug1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8760648&#038;post=952&#038;subd=digdug1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Egret</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Penguin</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Nightmare With Turquoise Eyes</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">A Serious Nightmare.</media:title>
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		<title>Ich will eine Oper bauen! (Short Remarks on SFO&#8217;s Il Trittico)</title>
		<link>http://digdug1.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/i-want-mein-opera-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s kind of how I feel about missing tonight&#8217;s performance of San Francisco Opera&#8217;s  Il Trittico. I can barely stand it, and I&#8217;m not exaggerating that much. This is one of those transcendent productions that seem to come along maybe once a season. At the opening performance on Tuesday, Gavanelli and Racette inhabited their roles [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digdug1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8760648&#038;post=882&#038;subd=digdug1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Lord It&#8217;s the Samurai&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://digdug1.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/samurai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[    When I first saw the ad around town for the Asian Art Museum&#8217;s &#8220;Lords of the Samurai&#8221; exhibition, my heart sank a little. (Really.) The ad seemed to pander to the romantic Western notion of samurai as mysterious, nearly invincible swordsmen. If the AAM was using the samurai as the centerpiece of an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digdug1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8760648&#038;post=693&#038;subd=digdug1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">&#34;Lords of the Samurai&#34; poster. Source: kgoradio.com</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Takashi Shimura as Shimada Kanbei in Seven Samurai. Source: Criterion.</media:title>
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		<title>The Art of War</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>digdug</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[babylon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invasion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nebuchadnezzar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2003 U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq has spawned some seemingly improbable headlines, like “U.S. establishes base on Babylon” and “U.S. hands back Ur”. Upon reading such titles, I envisioned the army traveling back in time to attack the pagan king Nebuchadnezzar at his Hanging Gardens or helping God himself topple the Tower of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digdug1.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8760648&#038;post=182&#038;subd=digdug1&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Mask of Warka. Source: CNN</media:title>
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