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		<title>Gruning&#8217;s</title>
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Wet walnuts, that was the key. The cold, frosted stainless steel of the sundae dish provided the context, and the ice cream itself, either chocolate or vanilla (back then the most gourmet flavor was perhaps the plasticy Rocky Road, available only at Baskin Robbins), was the body. 

But it was the wet walnuts, a goopy, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dalahus.com/2008/07/05/grunings/</link>
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		<title>The Top 10 Pompous Arena Rock Songs</title>
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The criteria: 1) The song must be over four minutes long. Anything shorter is just a pop song. Pompous Arena Rock Songs require length for that epic quality, man. 2) The song must have been played in an actual arena by the original band. This is how we can disqualify songs like Hey Jude and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dalahus.com/2007/11/29/the-top-10-pompous-arena-rock-songs/</link>
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		<title>The Bridges of Central Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An old friend from high school, Paul Gaykowski, has co-authored a wonderful new book, The Bridges of Central Park. Nearly two-years in the making, it chronicles, in a &#8220;then and now&#8221; format, the popular, hidden, nifty or just plain ignored bridges that dot Central Park. The book is printed on a substantial coated stock, overflowing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dalahus.com/2006/09/11/the-bridges-of-central-park/</link>
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		<title>Annie Get Your Politically Incorrect Firearm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1977 or so, the South Mountain School 6th Graders staged a production of Annie Get Your Gun. At that time the idea of letting children enact gunplay or portray ethnic stereotypes  (nevermind its sexual politics) was far from considered inappropriate. But fairness was in the rule-book, so students from the younger grades were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dalahus.com/2006/08/20/annie-get-your-politically-incorrect-firearm/</link>
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		<title>James Betelle, Where Are You?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year on this site I wrote a little essay about The Pinewood Derby. Since writing it, nagging thoughts persisted; what had happened to my school since I was last there, nearly 30 years ago? Is it as I remembered? Is my grafitti still on the bathroom wall?* My foray into answering these questions led [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dalahus.com/2006/08/09/james-betelle-where-are-you/</link>
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		<title>Raisins Don&#8217;t Belong in Cookies.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like raisins. Really I do: in cereal, on stuffed cabbage, even straight from the box if need be. But I loathe them in oatmeal cookies. They&#8217;re just wrong being there, It feels like I&#8217;m biting into chewy little insect parts or something. I always thought this was a peculiar quirk of mine, but apparently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dalahus.com/2006/03/26/raisins-dont-belong-in-cookies/</link>
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		<title>I Was Always Scotty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a Star Trek fan. And when I say &#8220;Star Trek&#8221;, I refer to the television series that ran from 1966 to 1969, not the various incarnations that followed (except some of the movies). As a kid growing up in the 70s, Star Trek was a Saturday evening ritual (6 o&#8217;clock on Channel 11, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dalahus.com/2005/07/20/i-was-always-scotty/</link>
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		<title>The Pinewood Derby</title>
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Elementary school in the 1970&#8217;s still had the vestigial patina of post-war civic high-mindendess, so along with the book fairs, assemblies (when it was still ok to sing Christmas carols) and field trips to the local police station (we were fingerprinted!), the Cub Scouts came calling. I was never much of a joiner, but somehow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dalahus.com/2005/04/26/pinewood-derby/</link>
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		<title>Will Code for Diapers!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The link in the Navigation bar formerly known as Resume is now called Professional. This is the beginning of an expansion plan to include visual examples of my work, along with whatever else might be suitable for prospective clients. I&#8217;ve also added it to the main navigation in the masthead. It&#8217;s a work in progress, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dalahus.com/2005/03/30/workin-for-the-man/</link>
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		<title>Fargen Around the World</title>
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On my first trip to France, in the late winter of 2001, I had the supposedly clever idea of bringing along one of my little wooden Dala horses (they&#8217;re all named Fargen), and taking pictures of it at and about the various landmarks of Paris and vicinity. The result would be a cheeky travelogue from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dalahus.com/2005/03/20/fargen-around-the-world/</link>
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