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      <![CDATA[@Phlo<br>
On behalf of a grateful city, I thank you!
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:19:00 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Kirantana = comments of the month.
        
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      <![CDATA[Oh, me neither, B., don't get me wrong. Why, I always drink my caipirinhas while dutifully standing guard over my fair city of Memphis high atop the Madison...
        
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      <![CDATA[Sorry, Phlo, I cannot think of a drink that would make me want to wander that far outside the parkways.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:26:21 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[amen phlo!
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:10:23 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Good point, Bruce; sorry to stray across the highway a bit. But really, you gotta try the caipirinhas.
        
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      <![CDATA[Don't forget, this polyglot of teenage humanity was IN the suburbs, deepest Bartlett, to be exact.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:21:53 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[I understand your point about children, Mad Merc. Sigh.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:11:56 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Hey Powergamz you should try Melanie's Soul Food on North Watkins. The parking lot may be sketchy, but not the food!<br>
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Phlo I hear ya.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:33:10 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Sketchy for your stomach, at least. I think I know the place you're talking about.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:23:14 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Stopping for gas on North Watkins? Piffle...
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:47:25 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Phlo]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[What's my Memphis? A city whose citizens don't flee to the 'burbs, but rather stay and fight the good fight to get things the way we want them, whether it's the decline of crime, taxes, corruption, or starving dogs.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:39:33 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Behren]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I feel safer walking through downtown Brooklyn or southside Chi-town at 3 am than I do just about anywhere in Memphis during broad daylight with the exception of maybe South Main district, some of midtown and out in Germantown. <br>
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The people of this city have just given up in so many ways.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:24:33 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Alright...I'm still riding on the "sincerity" thing, but I'm going to go for it. Did you ever have one of those moments when it hit you smack in the face how great this country is?  It happened to me in Sarajevo at the end of the war.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:57:35 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[urbanut]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[If there is reason to hope for a better future for this city, it was there in that theater lobby that night.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:30:59 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Jeff]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I blame Obama.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:14:53 -0600</pubDate>
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