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		<title>Follies of Tim Hortons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking back at a previous article of mine from September 2007, &#8220;What is Tim Hortons Hiding?&#8220;, where I shared about my personal investigation and infiltration of the Canadian coffee-shop giant&#8217;s main Ontario food processing facilities, I recently received some fresh comments on it.   You can see them by scrolling to the bottom of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://firlapalooza.com/?p=450</link>
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		<title>Clash-ical Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post, some may have felt that I was being rather disparaging, in comparing the seemingly random piano-tinkling done by my cat in the video, with the work of German composer Arnold Schoenberg.  However, as proof of Schoenberg&#8217;s less than enjoyable atonalities, there is one incident that comes to mind that I would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://firlapalooza.com/?p=417</link>
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		<title>A Cat Playing the Piano</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently saw an article providing a standard break down of your average posting, entitled &#8220;This is the title of a typical incendiary blog post.&#8220;  First of all, this gave me a handy template for future articles (although I suppose I&#8217;ve been following these guidelines well enough in my own past entries), but it did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://firlapalooza.com/?p=357</link>
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		<title>The Door</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When my wife returned from Hungary recently, she brought back an interesting print of a painting that she had received from a friend, which you can see by clicking here.  It depicts Jesus as a shepherd, gently knocking upon a door.  This is an artist&#8217;s conception of the famous verse from Revelation 3:20, where He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://firlapalooza.com/?p=390</link>
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		<title>Cats and Dogs at Odds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our friend came by to visit us yesterday with her new four-month old puppy, a friendly Golden Retriever named Mia.  Since we already have a fairly complacent ten-year old tom cat at our place (who is just slightly smaller in size than Mia), I was curious how they would interact.
Historically the stereotype has been that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://firlapalooza.com/?p=379</link>
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		<title>A Disappointing Day for Czech-Canadians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s hockey games at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics showcased unfortunate defeats for two country&#8217;s teams, which was felt particularly hard for us, the estimated 98,090 people of Czech descent currently living in Canada.  I didn&#8217;t actually watch the majority of these games, but after some exemplary plays on both sides, the final scores were:
Russia vs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://firlapalooza.com/?p=368</link>
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		<title>Smoking Times Four</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a smoker, but I&#8217;d say one of the neat things about having this habit is how long you can extend a cigarette&#8217;s usage &#8211; a single cigarette can actually be enjoyed multiple times, and by numerous people.  Sure, the best part of the smoke would be the initial user&#8217;s inhalation of the cigarette, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://firlapalooza.com/?p=204</link>
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		<title>Challenging Avatar&#8217;s Box Office Dominance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I currently have no plans to see it, but couldn&#8217;t help but hear that blockbuster film Avatar is doing so successfully.  This, despite a review which said, &#8220;Great entertainment puts plot first, character second, dialogue third, idea forth, music fifth, and spectacle last, as Aristotle noted. Cameron reverses this in Avatar.&#8221;
But, since being released on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://firlapalooza.com/?p=346</link>
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		<title>Happy Cola</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wouldn&#8217;t say that I have a very strong sweet tooth, but occasionally, I come across some candy which is especially tasty to me.  At a friend&#8217;s wedding recently, they had a candy table, where I rediscovered the gelatin-based and quite refreshing gummi colas.  They combine the texture of a gummi candy (gummi bears, of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://firlapalooza.com/?p=236</link>
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		<title>Stelar Sound</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As someone who rarely gains an appreciation for newer music (past articles here indicate how I tend to have steeped myself in Schubert, hymns, and the Red Army Choir, with occasional forays into Johnny Cash and other classic bands), I would not have expected that a fresh new electronica-ish group (who doesn&#8217;t do Commodore 64 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://firlapalooza.com/?p=322</link>
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