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		<title>Charity Begins with the Angel in the Home: Bleak House Revisited, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, back to Bleak House. Chapter V contains the delicious description of Krook’s rag-and-bone shop.  It’s so vivid that it makes you see and even smell the place, with its towers of junk always threatening to topple over, like an entire Goodwill store crammed into one tiny room. It’s testament to how the Victorians recycled before the word was even invented. Very little had to be thrown away in Victorian times: if you had leftover junk like bones, grease, clothing, or scraps of fabric, paper, or metal, there was always ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepensivecitadel.com/2010/05/23/charity-begins-with-the-angel-in-the-home-bleak-house-revisited-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Upcoming Propworx Auction is Trekkie Nirvana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On August 12, Propworx will be auctioning off tons of Star Trek memorabilia. Spock&#8217;s ears, Worf&#8217;s latex forehead piece, phasers, tribbles, models of Quark&#8217;s bar . . . The catalog alone will have any self-respecting Trekkie drooling. Never have I so wished I was worth my weight in gold-pressed latinum.
A few of the cooler items up for grabs:


Prosthetic Vulcan ears worn by Leonard Nimoy in the Original Series
Yellow uniform shirt worn by George Takei in the Original Series
Dedication plaques for the Enterprise-E, Enterprise NX-01, Voyager, the Xhosa, and theSao Paulo
A model fragment of the Enterprise-D (as wrecked ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepensivecitadel.com/2010/05/23/upcoming-propworx-auction-is-trekkie-nirvana/</link>
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		<title>Chicken Tikka Masala, Naan, and Basmati Rice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Visiting local haunt Sitar India Palace has gotten us hooked on Indian food. I&#8217;m especially fond of their creamy, satisfying chicken tikka masala, so I decided to attempt this dish at home, with naan and basmati rice to accompany it. The chicken marinated in a brew of spices and yogurt in the fridge for an hour, which was less time than I typically like to marinate things, but an hour did seem sufficient time for the meat to absorb the spicy flavorings. The sauce consisted of a piquant blend of yogurt, tomato sauce, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepensivecitadel.com/2010/05/19/chicken-tikka-masala-naan-and-basmati-rice/</link>
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		<title>No Reservations Pasta with Red Sauce, Take 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I took another whack at the Pasta with Red Sauce recipe featured on the &#8216;Techniques&#8217; episode of No Reservations tonight. It came out a lot better than it did last time, though I&#8217;ve yet to perfect it. On my first try, the tomatoes cooked so far down that they were almost dry, leaving me with barely enough sauce for 9 oz. of pasta. This time, I wound up with a big ol&#8217; pot of sauce that was just a little thinner than I would have liked. Maybe next time it&#8217;ll ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepensivecitadel.com/2010/05/16/no-reservations-pasta-with-red-sauce-take-2/</link>
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		<title>Esther Summerson Makes Me Puke: Bleak House, Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ So I got a Kindle for my birthday last Friday, and reading on it is such a compelling experience that it’s inspired me to revisit a few classic British novels. I’m starting with Bleak House, which I tore through (as much as anyone can ‘tear through’ an 800+ page book) in preparation for my Ph.D. exams more years ago than I care to remember.
Re-reading books after a few years have passed is always interesting: you’re a little older, you’ve had some new experiences, all the cells in your body ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepensivecitadel.com/2010/05/11/esther-summerson-makes-me-puke-bleak-house-revisited/</link>
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		<title>Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior: Reclaiming Indiana Jones for Asia?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Hi Spielberg, let’s do it together,” reads a graffitied message on a wall in one scene from Tony Jaa’s Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior. It’s a invitation for Spielberg to cast him in a film.
That’s one offer Spielberg should be glad to accept. Jaa, a martial arts star of almost superhuman abilities, knows how to an execute a thrilling action sequence. And he and the directors appear share the same fundamental belief about action/adventure films, namely, that it’s fine to suspend logic and plausibility as long as you make things look ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepensivecitadel.com/2010/05/08/ong-bak-the-thai-warrior-reclaiming-indiana-jones-for-asia/</link>
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		<title>Mahjong Rap Video!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mah jong and hip-hop: together at last!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepensivecitadel.com/2010/04/23/mahjong-rap-video-2/</link>
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		<title>Arroz con Pollo . . . Sort of: Spanish Chicken with Saffron Rice</title>
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Tonight I made one of my favorite dishes, Spanish Chicken with Saffron Rice. I use a simplified version of this recipe from Epicurious.com that I got at A Southern Season. They were selling saffron that day, and this recipe is as good a reason as any to splurge on some.
The changes my recipe made to the Epicurious verson were: using 3 lbs. of chicken breast instead of a whole chicken and omitting the peppers and peas. My version also didn&#8217;t specify that you were to cook the rice in the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepensivecitadel.com/2010/04/22/arroz-con-pollo-sort-of-spanish-chicken-with-saffron-rice-6/</link>
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		<title>No Reservations, Lost in Translation: Pasta with Red Sauce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or, in my unique version, oily-yet-delicious tomato sludge.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepensivecitadel.com/2010/04/18/no-reservations-lost-in-translation-pasta-with-red-sauce/</link>
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		<title>Google Is Run By Hank Scorpio</title>
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This blogger&#8217;s experience working at the behemoth that is the Googleplex put me in mind of the Simpsons episode where Homer goes to work for Globex. But does Google offer self-cleaning kitchens?
What happens when Google swallows your life? A new hire at the internet company is blogging the experience, from waking in his Google apartment to taking a Google car to Google dinner and then Googling home via Google.
A Sun veteran, software developer Tim Bray was no stranger to big-company life. But he knew Google enveloped employees on a whole ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepensivecitadel.com/2010/04/15/life-inside-the-googleplex-is-kinda-creepy-google-gawker/</link>
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