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And a BIG congrats to Lauren - great job, you won. Your pictures were awesome (thanks to your fancy camera....) and I can't wait to visit San Fran to see the real thing. Congrats again.-ATE

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This is my entry for (FINALLY) the final day of the photo contest. See Lauren's entry HERE.(ATE (C) View of Washington DC looking at the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument from the top of Arlington Cemetery)-ATE

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In honor of our President's Nobel win, this is my photo for the day. You can see Lauren's picture HERE. Also, thanks for the birthday wishes, Lauren!(ATE (C) Original Shepard Fairey Obama "HOPE" poster at The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery)-ATE

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Here is my entry for the photo contest, day 8. Click HERE to see Lauren's entry for the day. I chose this picture today because it represents not only the very cool museum scene here in DC, but also the importance of the news media on the city.In other news, my birthday is on Friday!(ATE (C) Political Analyist George Stephanopoulos tapes his final thoughts for ABC News' Sunday show This Week on

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This is my picture for day 7. View Lauren's day 7 photo HERE.(ATE (C) Homeless man sleeps in Liberty Park, Washington DC)

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Here is my entry for the photo contest, day 6. See Lauren's picture HERE.(ATE (C) Rotunda, Cannon House Office Building. Capitol Hill, Washington DC)-ATE

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This is my picture for the photo contest, day 5. I'd post the half-way-through-the-contest numbers, but I don't think it would look too good for me... I am, however, making a decent showing. See Lauren's day 5 picture HERE. Vote!(ATE (C) Unnamed war vet sells political buttons near The White House)-ATE

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Day 4 post. See Lauren's Day 4 photo HERE.(ATE (C) Chinatown, Washington DC)-ATE

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This is my entry for the contest, day 3....(ATE (C) Kids skateboard at a park/statue outside the Prettyman US Courthouse, 10/3/09)View Lauren's Day 3 post HERE.-ATE

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You know the drill. Here's my entry for day 2. You can see Lauren's entry for day 2 here.(ATE (C) Cupcakes from Georgetown Cupcake - best cupcakes ever, and actually, an important part of DC)Thanks for voting! See my day 1 entry here.-ATE

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Vote for me by commenting on this post. View Lauren's Day One post HERE.(Photo (C) ATE - Trashed Protest Signs at Night in Lafayette Square, Washington DC, Oct. 1, 09)

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Hello everyone, especially if you are new to my blog. Welcome. If you're coming here, you've probably heard about this "event" from Lauren, so thank you for participating and thanks, Lauren for being a PR "beast". If you don't know what's going on, or the rules, please click HERE, and read Lauren's EXCELLENT explanation of what we're doing.Now let the games begin. (Vote for me by commenting on my

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A couple weeks ago I had a craving for cornbread, so I decided to do something about. I had always wondered what went into it, and I knew it was an easy thing to make, so, as I live in a city with literally zero grocery stores, when I could finally convince my friend with a car to take me to Maryland for a grocery store, I picked up a can of corn meal and bought the ingredients listed on the back

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First, it's not "D.C." - it's "DC" - note the periods. I've been corrected. Numerous times. But, really the coolest part of living in this city, as opposed to where I'm from (Denver/Boulder) is you never know just who you're going to run into on any given day. For example, today I was going to lunch at my favorite restaurant in the city with my friend and his parents who are in town visiting, and

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An old friend of mine, and someone who I actually haven't talked to in a really long time, posted on her Facebook profile this morning that she had just gotten out of jail, so naturally, I clicked, and this was what I found:"Among the arrested was Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Sadie Gurman who was taken into custody while filing reports for the Post-Gazette's web site and print edition. Ms.

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Thom Yorke, Radiohead guy, has recently released two new songs, Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses with the double "a" side, The Hollow Earth. I've listened, and it's that spacey Radiohead that a lot of people are really into. Meh, me - not so much. It's not bad, not awesome. Check it out for yourself if you can.-ATE

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I was listening to the new Jay-Z album, (which I really like, and I'm not a big "rap guy") The Blueprint 3 just now, and a beat in one of the songs reminded me of a song I haven't heard in ages, which I used to love. It's Lupe Fiasco, Kanye and Pharrell rapping over Thom Yorke's The Eraser, from his album of the same name. The track is called, "Us Placers". Although this song came out a couple

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Two things on the topic of music today. First, over the summer I saw one of my favorite bands, The Decemberists, perform at The Fillmore in Denver, CO. They performed their new album, Hazards of Love from beginning to end, and it was excellent. A friend of mine emailed me a video today of a part of the encore of the show - Lavendar Diamond's Becky Stark, and My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden (

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MTV is awful but I love it. ... I'm obsessed with The Real World. I've been watching it since I was a kid, and it's the first show on MTV I ever really got into.... It's so appealing.As for everything else on MTV, I've had enough.-A.T.E.UPDATE: (9/14/09)I'm heavily editing the original post about MTV and The Real World, as through my job today, I had to work with a cast member, producer, camera

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I've wanted to start a blog for a long time, and I thought I never would. One of my best friends writes an excellent blog, and she's told me to start one for a long time now, and she's right. It's time.My biggest problem was I didn't know what I wanted to write about, so I decided it would be about, well, everything. I want to start this thing off by just jumping into a random post. I'm not going

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