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		<title>Back To The Future</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2012/01/01/back-to-the-future/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[A trippy look backward and forwards, 2011-2012 I got a haircut last night; nothing drastic like a Mr. T Mandinka or a Vanilla Ice high top fade, just a shorter version of what I typically wear. This was as much symbolic as it was maintenance &#8211; I looked on it as shedding the dead ends, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Val&#8217;s Big Adventure</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2011/10/09/vals-big-adventure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 09:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.trippyfood.com/?p=3131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tim Burton exhibit at LACMA, Ray&#8217;s and Stark Bar Los Angeles CA If Tim Burton was a band he&#8217;d undoubtedly be Pink Floyd &#8211; the nonsensical absurdity of Syd Barrett folded into the childhood angst and lament of Roger Waters. The LACMA exhibit is a comprehensive retrospect of Burton&#8217;s art from his formative teenage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gringo Star</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2011/02/21/gringo-star/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[South of the Border Hamer, South Carolina Mention the phrase &#8220;South of the Border&#8217; and thoughts turn to Mexican border towns catering to American tourists with local cuisine and cheap handmade crafts for sale. Hamer, South Carolina&#8217;s South of the Border is not one of these places. This sprawling faux-Mexican roadside attraction is over a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dude, Let&#8217;s Go Bowling</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2011/02/19/dude-lets-go-bowling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trippyfood.com/2011/02/19/dude-lets-go-bowling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[World&#8217;s Largest Bowling Pin Tampa, Florida The prime target in any bowling alley lane is the 1 (or head) pin. A straight smack to the head pin generally sends the remaining pins screaming to the back of the lane in a satisfying cataclysm of battered wood. That head pin stands at attention, smirking, laughing and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Love L.A.</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/12/27/i-love-l-a/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles&#8217; Historic Core District I have to wonder why many writers in Los Angeles have a fixation and focus on whatever is new as opposed to the fascinating remnants of the old guard. Although historically there is not much dating back past the 19th century, there are some beautifully restored reminders of our past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roll The Bones</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/12/12/roll-the-bones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 10:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[McRib McDonald&#8217;s worldwide (when available) From a culinary standpoint, I like to walk on the wild side. It was inevitable that I had to eventually consume the UMO (Unidentified Meat-like Object) that is well known to billions as the McRib. A majority of Americans might question the concept of the McRib as &#8220;bizarre food&#8221;, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The San Diego Boo</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/10/31/the-san-diego-boo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/10/31/the-san-diego-boo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 07:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haunted San Diego San Diego, California San Diego is not usually the first place that pops into mind when considering haunted places in the U.S. Typical spooky destinations usually include Alcatraz; Gettysburg Cemetery; San Jose&#8217;s Winchester Mystery House; Salem, Massachusetts; New Orleans; Charleston, South Carolina; and Fall River, Massachusetts&#8217; Lizzie Borden House, but you would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wish You Were Here</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/09/20/wish-you-were-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mono Lake Mono County, California Mono Lake (pronounced like Sonny Bono, not like U2&#8242;s Bono) in California&#8217;s Eastern Sierra Mountains was formed over three-quarters of a million years ago, making it one of the oldest lakes in North America. Even at its respectable 65 square mile coverage, in its heyday it may have been close [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can I Interest You In A Fiji Mermaid?</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/08/30/can-i-interest-you-in-a-fiji-mermaid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/08/30/can-i-interest-you-in-a-fiji-mermaid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Museum of Jurassic Technology Culver City, California It’s not a museum depicting how CGI was used to bring Michael Crichton&#8217;s novel to life; there is no reproduction of tools used by ceratosaurus, allosaurus and other prehistoric life. So what is it, exactly? Well, imagine a committee was formed to open a repository of knowledge in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crying All The Way To The Bank</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/07/26/crying-all-the-way-to-the-bank/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/07/26/crying-all-the-way-to-the-bank/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Liberace Museum Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas, Nevada is a monument to excess, a flamboyant, gaudy, over-the-top adult Disneyland. It is for this reason that the Liberace Museum is perfectly at home there, a palace in the desert built in honor of the Sultan of Kitsch himself. Unlike stars such as Elvis (Presley, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attack Of The 20-Foot Artichoke</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/07/05/attack-of-the-20-foot-artichoke/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/07/05/attack-of-the-20-foot-artichoke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[World&#8217;s Largest Artichoke, Giant Artichoke Restaurant Castroville, California Castroville, California bills itself as the Artichoke Capital of the World, and as discussed in the article on the Castroville Artichoke Festival, it is well justified. When you have the chutzpah to adopt such a lofty title for yourself, it only stands to reason that you&#8217;ll want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heart Of The Country</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/05/10/heart-of-the-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 16:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Center of the Contiguous 48 States Lebanon, Kansas Use your favorite adhesive and mount a Rand McNally map of the contiguous 48 United States on the wall (if it has all 50, we&#8217;ll just ignore Alaska and Hawaii for now). I&#8217;ll wait. Done? Good. Now take a dart and take your best shot to hit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mystery Date</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/05/03/mystery-date/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 16:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dates Shields Date Gardens, Indio CA I drove up to a fruit stand in Indio, California and asked the proprietor if he had dates, to which he replied, &#8220;No&#8221;. I then asked if he had nuts &#8211; he responded with, &#8220;If I had nuts I&#8217;d have dates&#8221;, then sent me off to Shields Date Gardens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bird&#8217;s The Word</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/04/26/the-birds-the-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ostrich Africa and elsewhere The ostrich is a laughable bird, with wings too weak to lift its body and a light-bulb shaped head on the end of a fuzzy snake of a neck. Of course should you choose to laugh at it, you run the risk of getting kicked into tomorrow. Although they are the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Through The Looking Glass</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/03/15/through-the-looking-glass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fort Bragg, California Glass Beach There are some places on earth that blur the distinction of what is natural and what is man-made; other places where mankind&#8217;s disregard for the environment results in the creation of a place of unusual beauty, where one man&#8217;s trash truly becomes another man&#8217;s treasure. One such place is Glass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, Sandy!</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/02/22/oh-sandy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steele, North Dakota World&#8217;s largest sandhill crane (Sandy) In the race to build the superlative beast, it appears that the contest for world&#8217;s largest sandhill crane is down to a field of one. The 40-foot tall sheet metal avian (&#8220;Sandy&#8221;)  stands watching for tasty cars passing by on Interstate 94 (North Dakota&#8217;s big beast highway) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dirty Socks Hot Spring</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/02/17/dirty-socks-hot-spring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Owens Lake in California&#8217;s Eastern Sierra mountains was once a lush wetland, but since most of the water was diverted to Los Angeles, it is a dry desert bed. At the southeast edge is a small man-made pool fed from an underground spring called Dirty Socks Hot Spring. The combination of the algae and sulfur [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ice Water In Their Veins</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/02/01/ice-water-in-their-veins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall, South Dakota Wall Drug Have you ever been in traffic, maybe in Boston, Chicago or Atlanta and noticed a Wall Drug bumper sticker on one of the cars in front of you? Perhaps you&#8217;ve wondered, &#8220;What is this Wall Drug, and why does a drug store have bumper stickers?&#8221; The fact of the matter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postcards From Hell</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/01/11/postcards-from-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hell, Michigan What could give your bragging about having been to Hell and back more street cred than a trip to Hell, Michigan? Think about the joy of having a point of reference the next time someone says, &#8220;It&#8217;s hotter than Hell today&#8221;, or to truly know what a snowball&#8217;s chance there is. Don&#8217;t let [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Right Is Right And Left Is Wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/01/01/right-is-right-and-left-is-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/01/01/right-is-right-and-left-is-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pasadena, California Fork in the Road The road to life often forks, leaving you to wonder which path to take. At the intersections of Pasadena Avenue and St. John Avenue in Pasadena, California you can only go right, but you may want to linger for a bit to admire the fork itself. Local artist Ken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>These Buffalo Don&#8217;t Have Wings</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2009/12/18/these-buffalo-dont-have-wings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trippyfood.com/2009/12/18/these-buffalo-dont-have-wings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jamestown, North Dakota World&#8217;s Largest Buffalo, white buffalo (Frontier Village) As you may have gathered from the article on Salem Sue (world&#8217;s largest Holstein cow), North Dakota truly is the land of the giants. This becomes apparent in Jamestown, North Dakota, a mere 90 miles west of Fargo (oh, jeez!) when you catch a glimpse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida, Land of The Giant Carnivores</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2009/12/09/florida-land-of-the-giant-carnivores/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islamorada, Florida (World&#8217;s Largest Lobster) Christmas, Florida (World&#8217;s Largest Alligator) North Dakota is home to a fair number of the world&#8217;s largest beasts (at least in sculpture form), but Florida vies for runner-up status with several oversized local carnivores. Two of the more impressive are separated by almost 300 miles of U.S. Route 1 &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watts Up, Doc</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2009/11/30/watts-up-doc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Livermore, California Longest Burning Lightbulb (The Centennial Bulb) In 1901, U.S. President William McKinley was assassinated, succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt; Guglielmo Marconi made the first transatlantic radio broadcast; the first Nobel Prize was awarded; and, oil was discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas. Also this year, a hand-blown, 4-watt electric light bulb was installed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tipping Optional</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2009/11/18/tipping-optional/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Salem, North Dakota World&#8217;s Largest Holstein Cow (Salem Sue) Imagine a top-secret experiment in New Salem, North Dakota where a Holstein cow is saturated with gamma radiation to produce more milk. Suddenly something goes horribly awry, causing the beast to grow to a dizzying 38 feet tall and 50 feet long from nose to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who You Gonna Call?</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2009/11/12/who-you-gonna-call/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trippyfood.com/2009/11/12/who-you-gonna-call/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bodie, California Bodie Ghost Town It is unusual for someone to want to visit a place where nothing happens, or ever will again, but Bodie, California is one of the best preserved ghost towns in the United States. The closest major city is probably Reno, Nevada, but I made the trip from the Los Angeles [...]]]></description>
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