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	<description>A blog by Michael Rubino</description>
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		<title>Clean Sweep: &#8220;Sentimental Triage&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://abigsandwich.com/2012/06/12/clean-sweep-part-1-sentimental-triage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelrubino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stood on a blue tarp in my parents&#8217; backyard surrounded by 20 years of sentimentality. I had helped empty out our entire basement in cloudless, 90-degree weather. The heat was making me delirious&#8211;for some reason I had agreed to &#8230; <a href="http://abigsandwich.com/2012/06/12/clean-sweep-part-1-sentimental-triage/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abigsandwich.com&#038;blog=19215187&#038;post=317&#038;subd=michaelrubino&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye, Fox Hole</title>
		<link>http://abigsandwich.com/2012/04/27/goodbye-fox-hole/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelrubino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first car was a Mercury Cougar. Not one of the cool late-90s Cougars, either. One of those Gulf War models with crushed velvet seats and emblems that looked like the Thundercats logo. It was a great piece of crap. &#8230; <a href="http://abigsandwich.com/2012/04/27/goodbye-fox-hole/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abigsandwich.com&#038;blog=19215187&#038;post=311&#038;subd=michaelrubino&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wash, Rinse, Revise: Part 2</title>
		<link>http://abigsandwich.com/2012/04/21/wash-rinse-revise-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://abigsandwich.com/2012/04/21/wash-rinse-revise-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelrubino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really enjoy the revision process when writing. I don&#8217;t think that I&#8217;m that great of a writer, so I like to take my time and tame the hasty jumble of words I&#8217;ve strung together. I get a kick out &#8230; <a href="http://abigsandwich.com/2012/04/21/wash-rinse-revise-part-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abigsandwich.com&#038;blog=19215187&#038;post=302&#038;subd=michaelrubino&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wash, Rinse, Revise: Part 1</title>
		<link>http://abigsandwich.com/2012/04/19/wash-rinse-revise-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://abigsandwich.com/2012/04/19/wash-rinse-revise-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelrubino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in grade school, my idea of film making manifest itself in strange ways. I loved taking my parents&#8217; VHS-C camcorder and running around my neighborhood, wearing a female trench coat and dragging along my school chum Richard, &#8230; <a href="http://abigsandwich.com/2012/04/19/wash-rinse-revise-part-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abigsandwich.com&#038;blog=19215187&#038;post=292&#038;subd=michaelrubino&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eat Shops and Ice Box Pies</title>
		<link>http://abigsandwich.com/2012/03/07/eat-shops-and-ice-box-pies/</link>
		<comments>http://abigsandwich.com/2012/03/07/eat-shops-and-ice-box-pies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelrubino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strawn&#8217;s Eat Shop is a big sandwich kind of diner in the city of Shreveport, Louisiana. Situated in an archaic strip of stores across the street from the state&#8217;s oldest college, it&#8217;s the kind of restaurant that I adore. From &#8230; <a href="http://abigsandwich.com/2012/03/07/eat-shops-and-ice-box-pies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abigsandwich.com&#038;blog=19215187&#038;post=273&#038;subd=michaelrubino&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Were Promised Wolf Punches</title>
		<link>http://abigsandwich.com/2012/02/06/we-were-promised-wolf-punches/</link>
		<comments>http://abigsandwich.com/2012/02/06/we-were-promised-wolf-punches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelrubino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are certain types of movies that fall within the &#8220;Mike Rubino Wheelhouse.&#8221; They aren&#8217;t necessarily all works of art, or even considered by a broad audience to be good&#8211;sometimes, but not always. A movie involving, say, a group of &#8230; <a href="http://abigsandwich.com/2012/02/06/we-were-promised-wolf-punches/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abigsandwich.com&#038;blog=19215187&#038;post=269&#038;subd=michaelrubino&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TimBits</title>
		<link>http://abigsandwich.com/2012/01/17/timbits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelrubino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week or so ago, in the midst of a stressful evening, I received a disheartening text message from my brother, Dan: Tim Horton&#8217;s was leaving CONSOL Energy Center. The red and gold donut stands that I visited every time &#8230; <a href="http://abigsandwich.com/2012/01/17/timbits/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abigsandwich.com&#038;blog=19215187&#038;post=259&#038;subd=michaelrubino&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remaking, Relaunching Time Traveling</title>
		<link>http://abigsandwich.com/2011/12/23/remaking-relaunching-time-traveling/</link>
		<comments>http://abigsandwich.com/2011/12/23/remaking-relaunching-time-traveling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelrubino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When James and I launched our old-timey, time-traveling, library-promoting radio serial back in 2005, we didn&#8217;t really know what we were doing. I mean, we knew how to write and make funny voices and cue up sound effects, sure, but &#8230; <a href="http://abigsandwich.com/2011/12/23/remaking-relaunching-time-traveling/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abigsandwich.com&#038;blog=19215187&#038;post=249&#038;subd=michaelrubino&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dusting off the Coffee Cans</title>
		<link>http://abigsandwich.com/2011/12/09/dusting-off-the-coffee-cans/</link>
		<comments>http://abigsandwich.com/2011/12/09/dusting-off-the-coffee-cans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelrubino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the movie, when the band gets back together, there is always that scene of them returning to the old stomping grounds. They flip on the breakers to the dusty theater or rehearsal space and memories of previous success come &#8230; <a href="http://abigsandwich.com/2011/12/09/dusting-off-the-coffee-cans/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abigsandwich.com&#038;blog=19215187&#038;post=236&#038;subd=michaelrubino&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>He Critiqued, They Drank</title>
		<link>http://abigsandwich.com/2011/11/10/he-critiqued-they-drank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelrubino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dear friends James and Marissa run a classy beer blog called He Drank, She Drank. Knowing that I can be pretty snobby about design, and beer labels, they had me write a guest post critiquing two labels of my &#8230; <a href="http://abigsandwich.com/2011/11/10/he-critiqued-they-drank/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=abigsandwich.com&#038;blog=19215187&#038;post=233&#038;subd=michaelrubino&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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