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	<title>mike ricca photography &#187; the city</title>
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		<title>trick or freeze</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/10/trick-or-freeze/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/10/trick-or-freeze/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weather]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It snowed today, the earliest New York has received at least an inch of snow <em>in recorded weather history</em>. I'd write more but honestly, not much else really need be said. Besides, after a night out (like a little bit of snow is gonna stop anyone) I'm in dire need of some thawing out.]]></description>
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		<title>only happy when it rains</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/08/only-happy-when-it-rains/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/08/only-happy-when-it-rains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 07:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[street shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hurricane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1983</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
It's raining out. Despite the fact that she isn't even here yet, Irene has officially taken hold of New York City. Stores stripped bare, the streets so empty you'd think the Ascension had happened while you were napping. At home and bored, listening to the rain pelt the streets outside, I decided to hop into a ZipCar and do a little cruising.]]></description>
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		<title>the man who wasn&#8217;t there</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/06/the-man-who-wasnt-there/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/06/the-man-who-wasnt-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[portraits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rain]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1753</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had another shoot just last night, this time with a coworker and friend who wanted some good photos of herself. We had planned on hopping over to a park and getting some nice fun little shots in the sun. The weather, however, had other ideas, for which I'm eternally grateful.]]></description>
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		<title>stu-stu-studio</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/03/stu-stu-studio/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/03/stu-stu-studio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[interiors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[city living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[studio]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Photography can be a pretty expensive endeavor, especially when you're still starting out and slowly building your arsenal. "Do what you can with what you've got" becomes your mantra, and "DIY" quickly joins your panoply of other photography acronyms. My little in-home studio won't work very well for more than one person, and living with a roommate means that I have to set and strike it whenever I need to use it (rather than just keep it up 24/7), but for what it is, it does a pretty good job. And for one-person shoots, it performs admirably.]]></description>
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		<title>new york frame of mind</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/03/new-york-frame-of-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/03/new-york-frame-of-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 02:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cebu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nostalgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reader's digest]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1250</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Like most people who grew up outside of the States, I grew up with a very specific view of the country that lead the world, which I developed through exposure to its greatest export, popular culture. The only difference was that my view was time-shifted by a few decades. And while I recognized that America was made up of fifty states that were home to millions of people living in thousands of cities, it only ever came down to one of them: New York.]]></description>
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		<title>stomping grounds</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/01/stomping-grounds/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/01/stomping-grounds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snowman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upper east side]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jack Frost isn't done having his fun with the Northeast, it seems, and has decided to give it to New York for a little longer. Naturally, this meant I was compelled to run outside with my camera

and shoot the same damn things, all over again. Three snowfalls, three sets of photos from the same park. And I already used up my Waxing Philosophical card on the last one, so that's out.]]></description>
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		<title>fun with chuck and jules</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/01/fun-with-chuck-and-jules/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/01/fun-with-chuck-and-jules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 06:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chuck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hijinks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[julie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chuck and Julie are two of my favorite people around. I have friends I've known longer or friends I know on deeper levels, but when it comes to just simple, unadulterated (keyword unadult) fun, Chuck and Julie are a tough act to follow.]]></description>
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		<title>no do-overs</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/01/no-do-overs/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/01/no-do-overs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ansel adams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1062</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last entry, one of the photos I posted was of the benches along the East River.  I loved the shot, but one thing bugged me—the wire fencing to the right of the image.  It broke the whole "pattern of repeating elements" aspect to the photo.  If I had just moved up two benches, I'd have had no distractions from the seemingly-infinite line of benches and railing.  Problem was, I didn't notice it until long after I'd processed and uploaded the photo; there was nothing I could do about it.  I determined to go out and re-shoot the scene after the next decent snowfall.  To get it right.]]></description>
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		<title>yawn</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/10/yawn/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/10/yawn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[street shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[body paint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manhattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new yorkers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[union square]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=971</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think perhaps New Yorkers' unflappability might be born in part of their disdain for tourists.  Out-of-towners gawk.  New Yorkers, worldly wise and having seen it all, simply go about their business.  And while there might be some merit to not gaping wide-eyed at every little thing you see, if you spend all your time walking around in a cloud of disaffectation you're gonna miss out on a lot of the fun stuff.]]></description>
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		<title>stefanie</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/08/stefanie/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/08/stefanie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[headshots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[filipinos]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=937</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My first real memory of Stefanie is of acting beside her in a Federico Garcia Lorca play, The Butterfly's Evil Spell.  She played the butterfly.  I was the beetle that was hopelessly in love with her.]]></description>
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		<title>life begins at 234</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/07/life-begins-at-234/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/07/life-begins-at-234/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[4th of july]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fireworks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skyline]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=905</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was the 4th of July, my first since moving to New York. Naturally, we decided to do it up right—by going to Jersey.]]></description>
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		<title>endtimes square</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/06/endtimes-square/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/06/endtimes-square/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[key to the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[times square]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=864</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think I'll never be a "real New Yorker" because I actually kinda like Times Square.  It seems that more often than not, simply mentioning the words "Times Square" to a New Yorker will elicit responses of "Dear god, why?" (a coworker actually said that to me once) and a disdain normally reserved for Hoboken, L.A., and the Red Sox.]]></description>
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		<title>the air up there</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/06/the-air-up-there/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/06/the-air-up-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empire state building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engagement party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rooftop]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=846</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Shot an engagement party for a lovely couple on Friday night.  It was held on the rooftop of a building in the Lower Midtown/Koreatown area.  The shot above is the view from the south side of the rooftop.  You can actually see the Brooklyn Bridge, a good three miles away.  I can't begin to imagine what it'd be like to have that view waiting for you every morning.]]></description>
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		<title>ounce of prevention</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/06/ounce-of-prevention/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/06/ounce-of-prevention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[guests]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[portfolio]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=830</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Updates have been few and far between lately on account of me still wrestling with my library of over 36,000 photos.  I'm hoping to use "this photography thing" to help supplement my main income, or at the very least bring in enough money to pay for itself.  God knows photography is no cheap endeavor, and it'd be nice if it pulled its own weight once in a while.]]></description>
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		<title>bay to breakers</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/05/bay-to-breakers/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/05/bay-to-breakers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 21:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[events]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[costumes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[halloween]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[san francisco]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=808</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the eight years I lived in the Bay Area—three of which spent living in the heart of downtown San Francisco—I never once attended Bay to Breakers.  Friends and coworkers often participated, to the point of thinking up fun and crazy costumes (usually group-themed), but I never did.  I wish I could provide some valid excuse but really it just boiled down to laziness.  Weekends were my sleep-in days, Sunday the holiest of holy Days of Sloth, and I'd be damned if anyone was gonna get me out of bed before ten or eleven in the morning, let alone at seven o'clock.]]></description>
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		<title>conEd</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/coned/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/coned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[street shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[night]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[smoke]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=692</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No accompanying text tonight. I've had the longest day in recent memory and I just want to go to sleep.]]></description>
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		<title>cinderella</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/cinderella/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/cinderella/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cinderella]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=689</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere in New York, a princess is missing her slipper.]]></description>
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		<title>tandem</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/tandem/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/tandem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love my GF1 a little more each day. I was able to get down nice and low for this shot thanks to the electronic viewfinder, that can angle up at 90º. Even if I had shot this using the main LCD--which grants some level of leeway when it comes to shooting angles--I still would've had to position myself awkwardly to get the capture.]]></description>
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		<title>from the hip</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/from-the-hip/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/from-the-hip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been playing with shooting from the hip again lately. It's a bit of an art, because not only do you have to properly frame and compose the shot, but you have to keep the camera still, which is tougher than you'd think because you also have to shoot clandestinely. Well, maybe not "have to," but it's part of the fun of shooting from the hip--capturing people when they don't realize they're being captured.]]></description>
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		<title>donebrella</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/donebrella/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/donebrella/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[umbrellas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New Yorkers don't seem to like umbrellas very much. Or perhaps they just don't like owning or carrying them. Whenever a decent amount of rainfall hits, they all buy cheap $5 street corner umbrellas, use them for a day, then toss them into trash cans when it stops raining. I call them "donebrellas." ]]></description>
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		<title>natuzzi</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/natuzzi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interiors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alliteration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[event]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natuzzi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soho]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=663</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently approached to cover an upcoming event at Natuzzi SoHo, a showroom for what is apparently the largest leather furniture manufacturer in the world. I stopped by earlier tonight to scout the location and get the lowdown on the location, layout, and lighting (alliteration in the house, what up). ]]></description>
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		<title>sesame skid row</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/sesame-skid-row/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/sesame-skid-row/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[self-portraits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[muppet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tempest]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=659</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is Rick. My sister took me to FAO Schwartz to put him together, a birthday gift months in the making. Like me, he enjoys a good Irish whiskey from time to time. Perhaps too much.]]></description>
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		<title>on colden pond</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/on-colden-pond/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/on-colden-pond/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[central park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harmonica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=644</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have never seen as many people out with cameras as I did today. At one point I saw about five or six people on the same small bridge, all looking out over one of the railings, shooting The Lake. It was kinda ridiculous.]]></description>
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		<title>the upside to blizzards</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/the-upside-to-blizzards/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/the-upside-to-blizzards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subway]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=642</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If someone had told me sooner that a perk to working on heavy snow days was virtually empty trains, I'd have done it a long time ago.]]></description>
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		<title>epic beard man</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/epic-beard-man/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/epic-beard-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beard man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[penn station]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today's update will be little more than this shot of a random traveler spotted in Penn Station. He's not the real Epic Beard Man, but as the original is more of a Beard Man who happens to be Epic and this guy is more of a Man who happens to have an Epic Beard, I figure the distinction is enough to let it pass.]]></description>
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