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		<title>Atop the famous Woolworth Tower</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maestro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture Vulture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Comden and Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love this &#8211; Gawker&#8217;s pic of the day is a shot of a darkened Manhattan, circa 1943, due to power shortages to conserve energy.  A kind of Earth Hour in reverse &#8211; as there was really no choice. Cast your mind back to what a power outage of this size would have done to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love this &#8211; Gawker&#8217;s pic of the day is a shot of a darkened Manhattan, circa 1943, due to power shortages to conserve energy.  A kind of Earth Hour in reverse &#8211; as there was really no choice. Cast your mind back to what a power outage of this size would have done to Gotham&#8217;s inhabitants in an age before TV, Internet, and all the other mindless and sometime useless palava we take for granted these days.</p>
<p>Comden and Green&#8217;s lyrics (about New York) never seemed more prescient;</p>
<p><em>A town&#8217;s a lonely town<br />
When you pass through<br />
And there is no one waiting there for you<br />
Then it&#8217;s a lonely town<br />
</em></p>
<p><em><img class="alignnone" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/7/2009/02/504x_newyork.jpg" alt="" width="504" height="396" /></em></p>
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		<title>Cruise talks &#8216;itler on the &#8216;istory of WW2*</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maestro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flicks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History Channel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[German]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hitler]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Suri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valkryie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry but I can&#8217;t let this one go without commenting. The latest spray from the head of the Church of Cruiseology in reference to Germany&#8217;s former Chancellor and the bete noire of Bryan Singer&#8217;s little Nazi piece, Valkryie;
&#8220;I always wanted to hill Hitler &#8211; I hate that guy&#8221;
10/10 for insight Tom - mmm you are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"><img src="http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/11/09/stauffenberg_071107095109443_wideweb__300x375.jpg" alt="Stauffy - the Real Deal" width="300" height="375" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Stauffy - the Real Deal</p></div>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry but I can&#8217;t let this one go without commenting. The latest spray from the head of the Church of Cruiseology in reference to Germany&#8217;s former Chancellor and the bete noire of Bryan Singer&#8217;s little Nazi piece, Valkryie;</p>
<p><em>&#8220;I always wanted to hill Hitler &#8211; I hate that guy&#8221;</em></p>
<p>10/10 for insight Tom - mmm you are just dazzling aren&#8217;t you with the way you (mis) view history. And this:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe somebody didn&#8217;t stand up and try to stop it&#8221;</em></p>
<p>From someone who has studied history at university level, and German history at that, I find remarks like this banal, inane and almost incomprehensibly stupid.</p>
<p>Where is the genetic link that assumes anything an actor says, especially one as egomaniacal and self serving as Mr Cruise is intelligent?</p>
<p>In this case, the next time I hear anything from a Cruise &#8211; make it Suri, not Tom.  She&#8217;s bound to be far more enlightening and coherent (although how long she will retain her &#8220;fathers&#8221; prettiness genes is a moot point, since we don&#8217;t hear much of Chris Klein^ these days). These days, Tom is looking more like Katie&#8217;s slightly smaller twin sister with a pseudo lesbian bowl hair cut)</p>
<p>^ Chris Klein was Katie&#8217;s squeeze before Tom and <a href="http://nosysnoop.wordpress.com/2006/09/07/chris-klein-the-biological-father-of-suri-cruise/">Suri&#8217;s rumoured real father</a></p>
<p>*with apologies to Kath Day-Knight (if you don&#8217;t get this, in one hilarious moment, she describes the &#8220;History Channel&#8221; as the &#8216;itler Channel&#8217;</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="itler itler itler" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/images/320/kath.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="220" /></p>
<p>Meanwhile &#8211; for something totally hilarious on Nutjob Mapother (Nutty&#8217;s real surname) and his latest historical rantings, check out this little exchange on <a href="http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=4151928">FARK</a> &#8211; some brilliant postings here that will have you in stitches.</p>
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