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		<title>L&#8217;Oreal Paris TIFF Trailer 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A Bit Callous!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bit callous. Doesn&#8217;t everyone find grace high? I just kiss lips! Malt not opera. Posing questions reduces soft touch; uses very winded explanations. You: unzip.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carmenjoyking.com&#038;blog=15236316&#038;post=687&#038;subd=carmenjoyking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Commute</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 02:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Embrace it. You&#8217;ll meet your neighbours, their ecstasy and chagrin. You&#8217;ll finally finish your book. Your mind will wander, conquer. You will lose certain control but keep composure. In your composure, you&#8217;ll be empathetic. In your empathy, you&#8217;ll connect. In<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carmenjoyking.com&#038;blog=15236316&#038;post=875&#038;subd=carmenjoyking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shingles</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Possessed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Possessing myself is the new ideal. I&#8217;m wrapped around me in a gesture of compliance and forgiveness so soft and tender. Full and Feminine. In this new state of self-possession, courage fills me full breaths. In this state, I write:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carmenjoyking.com&#038;blog=15236316&#038;post=791&#038;subd=carmenjoyking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canada&#8217;s Cultural Berlin Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 02:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In visiting Quebec City for the first time a little over a month ago, the damp air, narrow streets and towering cliffs impressed upon me the sensation that I was in an older, more sophisticated Canada: a fortress. Here in la<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carmenjoyking.com&#038;blog=15236316&#038;post=680&#038;subd=carmenjoyking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Made You Up</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made you up. Typical! Several tales ago you ceased to be the mortal human you are; a steady series of walking contradictions. No, you have become a cloudwalker instead, graceful and immortal; a maker of my every wandering thought.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carmenjoyking.com&#038;blog=15236316&#038;post=654&#038;subd=carmenjoyking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New City Montreal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a scene I&#8217;d never have expected of my future dream when I dreamt it ten years ago: I&#8217;m squatting on a large, vibrating machine called a Power Plate. Directly in front of me is my boss, L, in the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carmenjoyking.com&#038;blog=15236316&#038;post=637&#038;subd=carmenjoyking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do I Smell Like 9 to 5 ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 20:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a year of literary exile in São Paulo, Brazil, I’m heading toward a writer’s date at an Atwater Poetry Project reading: a colourful series of local, national and international poets both known and unknown, in Montréal. I contemplate how<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carmenjoyking.com&#038;blog=15236316&#038;post=556&#038;subd=carmenjoyking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Among the Lionesses</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;ve always said that the true nature of [women's] empowerment is knowing that you don&#8217;t have to stay and fight in the male army, you can set up your own regiment,&#8221; said TV News London&#8217;s Roz Morris during our conversation<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=carmenjoyking.com&#038;blog=15236316&#038;post=391&#038;subd=carmenjoyking&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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