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	<description>a Ruins Explorer and SF / Fantasy Author in Japan</description>
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		<title>Vanilla Ice Second &amp; more Japangrish</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps you&#8217;ve always wondered. Perhaps you used to protest to your friends until they branded you the group&#8217;s uncool pariah- &#8220;No, but listen, a Vanilla Ice comeback really WOULD be awesome.&#8221; At which point you probably broke into song: &#8220;Alright,...]]></description>
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		<title>Hackman Gachapon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 03:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can buy odd things in a Gachapon. Perhaps attention too often goes to the wadded-up knicker-vending machines (so sought-after these days), and not often enough to those cute little machines sitting so innocently right at your kids&#8217; eye level....]]></description>
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		<title>Orange Injection Candy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drugs designed for kids often taste like candy. I remember getting to love the taste of the cold remedy Sudafed, and looking forward to taking it- lovely goopy syrupy sugar. If I could&#8217;ve chugged it freestyle, I very well might...]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s sexy Coca Cola</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/09/japans-sexiest-coca-cola/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not often this site gets sexy. Occasionally you&#8217;ll get your dabblings in Coppertone bikini girls or your Girls Generation Cheetos, but never explicitly sexy. Here though we&#8217;ll get explicit. We&#8217;ll get sexy. If you&#8217;re a minor, avert your gaze....]]></description>
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		<title>Girl&#8217;s Generation Cheetos</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/09/girls-generation-cheetos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 01:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Girls Generation is a big news 9-member pop group from South Korea. They are currently breaking into Japan and other Asian countries in a major way. This can be seen in their cute same-looking legs gracing the covers of many...]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet Tomato Jello</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/08/summer-of-the-tomato/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomatoes are the great pretenders; spies who ply both sides of the aisle like double-edged moles in a John le Carre novel. One day they&#8217;re cropping up as vegetables, hidden amidst a salad, getting all the juicy low-down on what...]]></description>
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		<title>Kizuna: Fiction for Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/08/kizuna-fiction-for-japan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/08/kizuna-fiction-for-japan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kizuna: Fiction for Japan is a charity anthology of 75 stories from authors all around the world, with all proceeds going to benefit the orphans of the disaster-stricken Tohoku area, through the charity Smile Kids Japan. It includes a story...]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s abandoned animatronic John Wayne</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/06/japans-abandoned-animatronic-john-wayne/</link>
		<comments>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/06/japans-abandoned-animatronic-john-wayne/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Haikyo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s abandoned wild west theme park Western Village (closed in 2007) is filled to the tip of its ten-gallon hat with animatronic cowboy dolls. A Stagecoach-era John Wayne with cyborg heart exposed stands by the park entrance, silent now that...]]></description>
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		<title>Western Village: Japan&#8217;s Abandoned Cowboy Theme Park</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/06/japans-abandoned-wild-west-town/</link>
		<comments>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/06/japans-abandoned-wild-west-town/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Western Village is a quantum pocket of the Old West Disneyfied and transplanted wholesale from the American collective unconscious, replete with a $29 million replica Mount Rushmore, Western saloon, ghost house, jail, post office, shooting gallery, actual fake Rio Grande,...]]></description>
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		<title>Jan Jornmark Sweden&#8217;s premier urbexer</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/06/jan-jornmark-swedens-premier-urbexer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2011/06/jan-jornmark-swedens-premier-urbexer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MJG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back Sweden&#8217;s premier urban explorer Jan Jornmark got in contact with me about doing some haikyo together in Japan. He was on tour for his third book (on the heels of two bestsellers of mostly Swedish ruin- you...]]></description>
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