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	<title>Sweep the Sunshine</title>
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	<description>the mundane is the edge of glory</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>One morning, I woke up and I was suddenly twelve feet tall</title>
		<link>http://sweepthesunshine.com/2008/03/22/suddenly-twelve-feet-tall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yasmine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
Last Wednesday, I went to a Mohja Kahf poetry reading at Mudraker&#8217;s in Berkeley (it was rocking, by the way!), and ended up seeing some old buddies and making a couple of new friends. One guy I shook hands with towards the end of the evening exclaimed, &#8220;You have a really firm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Because if I&#8217;ve done nothing else in five years of blogging, I&#8217;ve at least indulged in drug references as a form of public service</title>
		<link>http://sweepthesunshine.com/2008/03/17/crack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yasmine</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[All-Star Crackstar Squad]]></category>

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From an IM conversation with a friend:
M: bas yaara, sorry for boring you
Yasmine: dude, not at all, hope i helped in some way

M: I need some crack
Yasmine: crack is always good
  just stay away from the real deal crazy estuff
  i don&#8217;t want to have to tell your ummy i introduced you to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything here is a reflective surface, even dirt, even fire, even skin</title>
		<link>http://sweepthesunshine.com/2008/03/12/everything-here-is-a-reflective-surface/</link>
		<comments>http://sweepthesunshine.com/2008/03/12/everything-here-is-a-reflective-surface/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yasmine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Not mitthai, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
I&#8217;ve spent the last month or so on what we flickr rockstars have all, in regards to our respective deadlines and dramas and to-do lists, been referring to as Getting Important Things DONE. What this means, of course, is that I&#8217;ve been distracting myself by spending far too much time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The next best thing to putting stamps on sunshine</title>
		<link>http://sweepthesunshine.com/2008/02/28/putting-stamps-on-sunshine/</link>
		<comments>http://sweepthesunshine.com/2008/02/28/putting-stamps-on-sunshine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yasmine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Evening at the Berkeley Marina, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
Back in mid-January, my friend A sent me a very short, simple note with the subject line reading, Salaam, crackstar, telling me his father had recently died.
Doomed to be forever affiliated with my disgruntled, fist-shaking references to &#8220;that poetry slam we never went to,&#8221; A is one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Headwrapping 101</title>
		<link>http://sweepthesunshine.com/2008/02/22/headwrapping-101/</link>
		<comments>http://sweepthesunshine.com/2008/02/22/headwrapping-101/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yasmine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TARGET dressing rooms have rocking red walls, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz. 
Last June, my buddy A left me a voicemessage late one night after having watched the film, Paris je t&#8217;aime, which actually consists of eighteen short films by 21 directors, each of the stories taking place in different arrondissements (municipal boroughs) of Paris. Walking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s spelled like this - and they call me &#8216;yaznotjaz&#8217; for a reason</title>
		<link>http://sweepthesunshine.com/2008/02/22/yaznotjaz-for-a-reason/</link>
		<comments>http://sweepthesunshine.com/2008/02/22/yaznotjaz-for-a-reason/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yasmine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Rockstar &#038; sunshine &#038; scribbles, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
The past couple of months, I kept getting emails reminding me that the sweepthesunshine.com domain needed to be renewed by February 17. So, I took care of that - on Valentine&#8217;s Day, no less, because I really do lowve you, internetS, and especially Blogistan - and we&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yeh watan hai hamara</title>
		<link>http://sweepthesunshine.com/2007/12/27/yeh-watan-hai-hamara/</link>
		<comments>http://sweepthesunshine.com/2007/12/27/yeh-watan-hai-hamara/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yasmine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m en route to Toronto for the RIS conference, wasting time in Charlotte, NC, during my little (5 hours long!!!! multiple exclamation points!!!!) layover, thanks to a delayed flight. Canada, why must all travel to/from your frozen tundra drive me insane?
Meanwhile, Benazir Bhutto has been killed in Pakistan. Blogistan is already on it (SepiaMutiny also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re puttin&#8217; too much on it, your attitude ain’t even wanted</title>
		<link>http://sweepthesunshine.com/2007/12/27/youre-puttin-too-much-on-it/</link>
		<comments>http://sweepthesunshine.com/2007/12/27/youre-puttin-too-much-on-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yasmine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you grow up wth scissors like these when you were a kid? Me either, by yaznotjaz.
We haven&#8217;t talked about hair in a while, so this would probably be a good time to tell you how, a couple of weeks ago, I decided my sideswept bangs needed to be trimmed. What I had forgotten, unfortunately, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What do you mean he don&#8217;t eat no meat?!&#8221; *shocked* &#8220;Oh, that&#8217;s okay. I make lamb.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://sweepthesunshine.com/2007/12/21/oh-thats-okay-i-make-lamb/</link>
		<comments>http://sweepthesunshine.com/2007/12/21/oh-thats-okay-i-make-lamb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yasmine</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Rockstar and Crescent]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What do you mean he don&#8217;t eat no meat?!&#8221;, by yaznotjaz
Re. the post title: Oh, I lowve that filum.
&#34;Akhtar de umbarak sha!&#34; as we say in Pukhtu.
And &#34;Eidi ni umbarak hoviya!&#34; as we say in Hindko.
And I&#8217;m not quite sure what the Urdu-speakers say. Probably something simple and formal like, &#34;Eid mubarak!&#34;
Oh, wait, that&#8217;s Arabic. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doorway into thanks, &#038; silence in which another voice may speak</title>
		<link>http://sweepthesunshine.com/2007/12/18/the-doorway-into-thanks/</link>
		<comments>http://sweepthesunshine.com/2007/12/18/the-doorway-into-thanks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yasmine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hands in supplication, by yaznotjaz
Last night, the Pakistani satellite channel, ARY-Digital, showed the Hajj pilgrims, a sea of white, at Arafat and Muzdalifah. I watched the television while eating dinner, the volume turned up loudly so that the pilgrims&#8217; invocation echoed throughout the house:
Labayk Allahumma labayk, labayka la shareeka laka labayk. Innal-hamda, wa&#8217;naimata, laka wal-mulk, [...]]]></description>
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