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<rss version="2.0"><channel><description>The second time I done it on my own.</description><title>Alex Balk</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @alexbalk)</generator><link>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>And so the circle is complete. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/257274963/tumblr_ktolpwQoPI1qz7m40&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;And so &lt;a href="http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/death-of-uncool" target="_blank"&gt;the circle is complete.&lt;/a&gt; Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/257274963</link><guid>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/257274963</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:17:56 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Oh, what the hell, may as well embrace it: Suck it, amateur girl...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktoatjDuaX1qz7m40o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh, what the hell, may as well embrace it: Suck it, amateur girl videos, my fuck steak brings all the boys to the yard! Number one! USetc!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/257051070</link><guid>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/257051070</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:22:31 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Yeah, Balk, that’s one hell of a legacy you’re...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://20.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktmwddIHkz1qz7m40o1_r1_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, Balk, that’s one hell of a legacy you’re building for yourself there.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/256075924</link><guid>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/256075924</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:12:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Okay, that's a pretty solid bio.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;“Eric J. Herboth is a freelance writer, journalist and artist living in rural central Germany. Over the past ten years he has contributed essays, criticism and analysis to a number of publications, including LAS Magazine, where he is the managing editor. He received degrees in aeronautics and aviation from Saint Louis University as a minor, and is an FAA licensed commercial pilot. He is also a professional bicycle mechanic and retired beekeeper, and &lt;a href="http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/booked-up-with-eric-j-herboth-john-gribbins-in-search-of-the-multiverse" target="_blank"&gt;once urinated on then-St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bruce Sutter.&lt;/a&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/256031417</link><guid>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/256031417</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:29:28 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>And now you never have to think about baseball again.</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/la-he-erectile-spray23-2009nov23,0,7820727.story"&gt;And now you never have to think about baseball again.&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/256021830</link><guid>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/256021830</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:19:44 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>I don’t know why I never remember how great this song is,...</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/255930668/tumblr_ktmpcxkob81qz7m40&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don’t know why I never remember how great this song is, because, really, how great is this song?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/255930668</link><guid>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/255930668</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:41:21 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Oh yeah: Alex Pareene and Natasha Vargas-Cooper on 'The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/flicked-off-alex-pareene-and-natasha-vargas-cooper-on-the-bad-lieutenant-port-of-call-new-orleans"&gt;Oh yeah: Alex Pareene and Natasha Vargas-Cooper on 'The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/255880582</link><guid>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/255880582</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:41:22 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>The only thing more horrific than this video is the knowledge that someone, somewhere, is going to jerk off to it.</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/how-to-make-and-eat-the-perfect-cranberry-sauce-for-thanksgiving"&gt;The only thing more horrific than this video is the knowledge that someone, somewhere, is going to jerk off to it.&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/255806828</link><guid>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/255806828</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:13:59 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Miracles do happen.</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2744048/Severed-hand-man-holds-pint.html"&gt;Miracles do happen.&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/255789930</link><guid>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/255789930</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:54:05 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>I chortled.</title><description>&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/5da64d"&gt;I chortled.&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/255740196</link><guid>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/255740196</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:56:07 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Now's the time for your tears.</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.theawl.com/19529"&gt;Now's the time for your tears.&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/255687701</link><guid>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/255687701</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:51:41 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Oh boy.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktl1mwabG21qz7m40o1_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh boy.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/254769404</link><guid>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/254769404</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:20 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Political Correctness Gone Mad: The War On Racist Christmas</title><description>&lt;p&gt;“Officials in the northern Italian town of Coccaglio are visiting the homes of foreign residents and expelling those with expired residency permits. The initiative, which is called ‘White Christmas,’ has caused a national uproar, but city officials claim their words &lt;a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,662832,00.html" target="_blank"&gt;have been taken out of context&lt;/a&gt;.”&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/254626198</link><guid>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/254626198</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:43:34 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Cooking the Books, with Emily Gould: Making Malfatti with Amy Sohn</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cooking-the-books-with-emily-gould-making-malfatti-with-amy-sohn"&gt;Cooking the Books, with Emily Gould: Making Malfatti with Amy Sohn&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/254533992</link><guid>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/254533992</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:53:19 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Audio</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/254512866/tumblr_ktkohz181y1qz7m40&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/254512866</link><guid>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/254512866</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:27:35 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>"The foggy mystery of Palin’s popularity burns off sometimes; sometimes I am able to see in..."</title><description>“The foggy mystery of Palin’s popularity burns off sometimes; sometimes I am able to see in bright light why she is beloved. She is beloved because she willing to tell Americans that just because they are ignorant does not mean they are wrong.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;In case you missed it, Rudolph Delson did &lt;a href="http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/reading-sarah-palin-live-with-rudolph-delson" target="_blank"&gt;an utterly amazing job&lt;/a&gt; at live-reading &lt;a href="http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/reading-sarah-palin-live-with-rudolph-delson-part-two" target="_blank"&gt;Sarah Palin’s &lt;i&gt;Going Rogue&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; this weekend. Check it out.&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/254367484</link><guid>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/254367484</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:26:31 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>David Cho discusses Destructive Internet Browsing. Yes, that David Cho!</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/david-cho-sarah-palin-and-destructive-internet-browsing"&gt;David Cho discusses Destructive Internet Browsing. Yes, that David Cho!&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/251088197</link><guid>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/251088197</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:24:46 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Need I add "must read"? I think not: Mary HK Choi and Natasha Vargas-Cooper on 'New Moon'</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/mary-hk-choi-and-natasha-vargas-cooper-on-new-moon-teenage-female-desire-manifest"&gt;Need I add "must read"? I think not: Mary HK Choi and Natasha Vargas-Cooper on 'New Moon'&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/251030893</link><guid>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/251030893</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:04:03 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>The Awl turned into a cooking blog so rapidly and unexpectedly that even we were surprised.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;“Now take the rest of your cheese and spread it over the top in a nice solid layer. ‘Bread crumbs are great for extra cr—OUCH!’ Yes, I just drove a meat fork through your hand. Bread crumbs do not go on top of macaroni and cheese. You know what bread crumbs are good for? Putting inside a meatloaf. A meatloaf is a loaf that contains many other things besides meat. But &lt;a href="http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/half-baked-fundamentalist-macaroni-and-cheese" target="_blank"&gt;macaroni and cheese consists of macaroni and cheese.&lt;/a&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/250976509</link><guid>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/250976509</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:44:27 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Charles Gray’s “He was a low-down, cheap little...</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/250870495/tumblr_kteyv4zuXS1qz7m40&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Charles Gray’s “He was a low-down, cheap little punk” should be sampled into everything.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/250870495</link><guid>http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/250870495</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:25:52 -0500</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
