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		<title>FB: A Pocket Reference</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 01:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, one day you found yourself on your favorite social media outlet when you were suddenly overcome with the desire to hit that “let’s be pals” button.  And for whatever reason:  friendliness, pity, a desire to fatten the friend ranks so you can worship at the altar of THEM they agreed. Suddenly, like some scandalous [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigbluemess.com&#038;blog=13056173&#038;post=2113&#038;subd=bdoughty&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Allie Brosh &#8211; Hyperbole and a Half</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 23:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s rare that someone makes me laugh &#8211; truly laugh from some primal part of my soul.  Sure, I&#8217;m good for a polite snicker or even a chuckle. A belly laugh? That&#8217;s rarely me. Then comes along a blogger like Allie Brosh, the popular author of &#8220;Hyperbole and a Half&#8221; and all my apathy, my [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigbluemess.com&#038;blog=13056173&#038;post=1652&#038;subd=bdoughty&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just an Ordinary Day</title>
		<link>http://bigbluemess.com/2013/05/08/just-an-ordinary-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fifi & Mr. Pickles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holt Boggs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our garage is like almost any garage – kind of ordinary in its rectangular-ness mixed with a hint of boring.  It’s a space where only cars and items that aren’t quite loved enough to hangout inside live.  The occasional yard tool loiters aimlessly against the wall. Every day I come home, open the door and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigbluemess.com&#038;blog=13056173&#038;post=2102&#038;subd=bdoughty&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shoutout: WordPress  Gurus &amp; Friends</title>
		<link>http://bigbluemess.com/2013/05/04/shoutout-wordpress-gurus-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 12:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends &#8211; we had an exciting week on this blog, well ok &#8220;exciting&#8221; doesn&#8217;t quite describe it. It was more &#8220;eh, ok&#8221;, but let&#8217;s pretend for me that it was exciting.  We (the royal version who is not particularly regal) learned two things: 1) I can set posts to private without driving the blog completely [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigbluemess.com&#038;blog=13056173&#038;post=2057&#038;subd=bdoughty&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shakespeare!</title>
		<link>http://bigbluemess.com/2013/04/05/shakespeare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I lied when interviewed for our office’s newsletter.  I could tell I was losing the interest of the designated “journalist” as I detailed all of the improv, sketch writing, short filming I had recently done. So when she asked “are you currently doing anything? like now?” I felt I should say, “yes” even though “yes” [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigbluemess.com&#038;blog=13056173&#038;post=2044&#038;subd=bdoughty&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dunes</title>
		<link>http://bigbluemess.com/2013/03/27/dunes-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’ve seen the Twilight saga (it’s ok, this s safe place and any snickering on my part will subside soon enough) and now I present to you “Dunes” &#8211; a parody of the beloved movie franchise written as part of The Institution Theater’s Sketch 201 class featuring the most underused supernatural love interest.  I do [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigbluemess.com&#038;blog=13056173&#038;post=2036&#038;subd=bdoughty&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Donated Dare</title>
		<link>http://bigbluemess.com/2013/03/15/a-donated-dare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I need your help.  Yes, I’m talking directly to you.  Don’t even think about looking over your shoulder.  Well, unless you’ve found yourself at the center of a spy thriller or you’re a conspiracy nut (and by “nut” I mean “thoughtful individual who clearly sees all of those clandestine government plots and truly understands ‘they’re [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigbluemess.com&#038;blog=13056173&#038;post=2031&#038;subd=bdoughty&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Golly Gee Whiz</title>
		<link>http://bigbluemess.com/2013/02/18/golly-gee-whiz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can swear.  It’s not nice or pretty or necessarily called for, but in the heat of the moment I can drop a truck load of locked up bile that would rouse disappointed looks from a long line of long dead ancestors followed by a heated debate on exactly whose side of the family was [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigbluemess.com&#038;blog=13056173&#038;post=2026&#038;subd=bdoughty&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview</title>
		<link>http://bigbluemess.com/2013/01/31/an-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was stopped in the hall today and asked if I’d mind being interviewed for the school paper.  Ok, so it may have been the office newsletter. Potato potato (err… that sounds so much better in my head.) Who can keep up with these things? You’d think saying, “yes” wouldn’t be particularly difficult.  However, I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigbluemess.com&#038;blog=13056173&#038;post=2021&#038;subd=bdoughty&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012 In Review</title>
		<link>http://bigbluemess.com/2012/12/31/2012-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Achievements]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we are at the end of 2012 and what a great year it has been.  While I don’t have a Top 10, I thought I’d run through some of the personal highlights that made this year so great.  Now I fully accept that I may be the only person interested in this, but by [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigbluemess.com&#038;blog=13056173&#038;post=2016&#038;subd=bdoughty&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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