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		<title>variety, the spice of hooplife</title>
		<link>http://hoopgoddess.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/variety-the-spice-of-hooplife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ariane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My hooping playlist gets renewed every half year or so and is currently twelve hours of eclectic: Amadou&#38;Mariam, Balkan Beat Box, Basement Jaxx, Gorillaz, Hot Chip, K’naan, MIA, Moloko, Thievery Corp, and assorted others (ok, Shaggy’s in there—I cop to it)… but I realized last week that I’ve been really limiting my freedom of expression [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hoopgoddess.wordpress.com&blog=2101340&post=438&subd=hoopgoddess&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rumpus Interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ariane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From TheRumpus.net, an interview by Julie Greicius
Rumpus: Right! The book. Let’s talk about this book. You and this mortal HoopGirl have written a guidebook to sex.
Conrad: Actually, it’s a guide to hooping, the modern form of hula hooping.
Rumpus: Oh come now. Let’s take a look… “activate the muscles in your legs to power your pelvic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hoopgoddess.wordpress.com&blog=2101340&post=419&subd=hoopgoddess&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the bit about sanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ariane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From my girlfriend Julie, who is flying back east this morning because of a family emergency:
 
&#8220;About to board, hula hoop stashed in my bag like a great tube of prozac, like a little personal fence I can put up when ever the crazies get too, well, crazy.&#8221;
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		<title>Jitterbug Hooping</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday being Father’s Day, I spent a couple extra moments talking to the photograph of my dad on my altar. In the photograph, which was taken around 1942 on O’ahu, near Pearl Harbor, he looks serene, bemused, and as though he’d rather be someplace else. That was, apparently, his general take on his time in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hoopgoddess.wordpress.com&blog=2101340&post=402&subd=hoopgoddess&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Making of HOOPING, Part IV: The Great Butt vs Buns Debate of &#8216;08</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ariane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(See Part I, Part II, and Part III here.)

You&#8217;re probably wondering what this image of Richard Simmons is doing here. He&#8217;s here because he&#8217;s what popped into my mind every time I came across the word buns in the manuscript of the HOOPING book.
Buns, you see, is HoopGirl&#8217;s preferred word for the rear end. Well, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hoopgoddess.wordpress.com&blog=2101340&post=390&subd=hoopgoddess&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Late Breaking Symmetry</title>
		<link>http://hoopgoddess.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/late-breaking-symmetry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ariane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hoopgoddess.wordpress.com/?p=386</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Around the turn of the year between 2006 and 2007, I started seeing a hooper. A male hooper. A straight male hooper. This, not so rare a species as you might think, and generally a hot specimen of maledom, at that. With, um, strong core muscles. I called him Tiger, but let’s call him K.
So [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hoopgoddess.wordpress.com&blog=2101340&post=386&subd=hoopgoddess&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HOOPING book launch party, SF</title>
		<link>http://hoopgoddess.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/hooping-book-launch-party-sf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ariane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Countdown, takeoff, wheeeee! I haven&#8217;t come down yet, and the book (and Christabel) will be flying for some time yet&#8230;
What a gorgeous night we had at the ever-so-festive Make-Out Room in San Francisco&#8217;s Mission district to celebrate the birth of our baby. I kept on whirling around to see yet another body I had to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hoopgoddess.wordpress.com&blog=2101340&post=367&subd=hoopgoddess&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Making of HOOPING, Part III</title>
		<link>http://hoopgoddess.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/the-making-of-hooping-part-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 03:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ariane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(See Part I and Part II.)

The book&#8217;s out and about now. I&#8217;ve eagerly showed my first copy off to anyone who seems interested, in all my worlds (writing, family, hooping, worldchanging). Folks frequently comment on the JOY emanating from its pages. It is a happy-feeling book, isn&#8217;t it. One diligent peruser flipped through every single [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hoopgoddess.wordpress.com&blog=2101340&post=361&subd=hoopgoddess&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>you win some, you hoop some</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 15:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ariane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a stressbunny with work right now! Here&#8217;s me blowing off steam at the mid-point of a 14-hour day&#8230;! xxHG

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		<title>wholly hoop innovators!</title>
		<link>http://hoopgoddess.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/wholly-hoop-innovators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 23:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ariane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love these men. Taking the art to new heights, they are.

To my unrelenting disappointment, I had to have a surgery the morning of The Flow Show, and so had to miss this and all the amazing performances. I was there in spirit.
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