<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - neenie1991's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/</link><description>Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story. - Ashleigh Brilliant</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2012</copyright><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:50:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:07:30 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Does Not Compute: This Is Not An Asylum</title>
<description><![CDATA[Personally, I like change. That might surprise some folks who know me. I used to wear holes through my shoes. I'm not giving up my discontinued model of car.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[tyler]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[tyler]]></source><link>http://tyler.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/01/10290957-does-not-compute-this-is-not-an-asylum</link><guid>http://tyler.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/01/10290957-does-not-compute-this-is-not-an-asylum</guid><category>beta</category><category>petition</category><category>not-news</category><category>meta</category><category>asylum</category><category>code-of-honor</category><pubDate>Wed, 1 Feb 2012 20:48:21 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Romney: 'I'm not concerned with the very poor' (Video)</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carloz]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Carloz]]></source><link>http://carloz.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/01/10288470-romney-im-not-concerned-with-the-very-poor-video</link><guid>http://carloz.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/01/10288470-romney-im-not-concerned-with-the-very-poor-video</guid><category>us</category><category>usa</category><category>politics</category><category>gaffe</category><category>gop</category><category>republicans</category><category>mitt-romney</category><category>republican</category><category>presidential-candidates</category><category>safety-net</category><category>video-clips</category><category>out-of-touch</category><category>class-division</category><category>2012-elections</category><category>concern-for-the-poor</category><pubDate>Wed, 1 Feb 2012 14:53:38 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content medium="video" url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPgSgycAuqE" ><media:thumbnail url="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/aPgSgycAuqE/default.jpg" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>MOTHER - Poem</title>
<description><![CDATA[i hate you i love you i hate you all over againi see you with your paper skingasping for air like&nbsp;some sallow hagfish chained to a blasted heaththere&nbsp;is&nbsp;uneasy, aimless talk&nbsp;you shuffle back to your bubbleback to your safe haveni find you curled up within your&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[YaddaYadda]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[YaddaYadda]]></source><link>http://monsterskin63.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/20/9594046-mother-poem</link><guid>http://monsterskin63.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/20/9594046-mother-poem</guid><category>mother</category><category>poetry</category><category>not-news</category><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:28:22 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Queers, keep yourselves quiet!!! (America knows you're wrong.)</title>
<description><![CDATA[A friend and I were walking in the mall yesterday and I stopped at the water fountain to get a drink.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Irishtim74]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Irishtim74]]></source><link>http://irishtim74.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/22/6917036-queers-keep-yourselves-quiet-america-knows-youre-wrong</link><guid>http://irishtim74.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/22/6917036-queers-keep-yourselves-quiet-america-knows-youre-wrong</guid><category>politics</category><category>revolution</category><category>love</category><category>freedom</category><category>homosexual</category><category>equality</category><category>ignorance</category><category>tolerance</category><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:06:09 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Tracking Down My Online Haters</title>
<description><![CDATA[Normally, this sort of thing doesn't faze me. Write sports for a living (especially online, as I do for SI.com), insults come with the turf. You're dumb. You suck. You're an idiot. You're a moron. I'll never read your crap again. That's the %#$$ #$@@#$ %$$# thing I've ever heard.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[TR-421173]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[TR-421173]]></source><link>http://TR966.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/23/5903563-tracking-down-my-online-haters</link><guid>http://TR966.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/23/5903563-tracking-down-my-online-haters</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>abuse</category><category>internet</category><category>e-mail</category><category>rude</category><category>blog</category><category>anonymity</category><category>facebook</category><category>consequences</category><category>insults</category><category>pornographic</category><category>negativity</category><category>snide</category><category>snarky</category><category>tweets</category><category>repercussions</category><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:52:21 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>How WE would fix Newsvine</title>
<description><![CDATA[Over here, a discussion has been had in response to a seed listing suggestions for improving Newsvine. At over 1000 comments, lots of derailing and a dash of drama, the thread has become all but unusable.

And certainly ineffective for real discussion purposes.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Viki Babbles Gonia]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Viki Babbles Gonia]]></source><link>http://vikibabbles.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/09/5262251-how-we-would-fix-newsvine</link><guid>http://vikibabbles.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/09/5262251-how-we-would-fix-newsvine</guid><category>ideas</category><category>help</category><category>newsvine</category><category>suggestions</category><category>meta</category><category>how-to-fix-newsvine</category><pubDate>Sat, 9 Oct 2010 18:05:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>S&amp;M, #31 and Me</title>
<description><![CDATA[ 
 Last Wednesday night one of my teeth started having tremors. It's a bad tooth. It was scheduled to be removed once the areas of the extractions I had two weeks ago healed. I had babied it. Coddled it. Talked nice to it. No solid foods. Topical numbing solution. Got through it.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></source><link>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/07/5251409-sm-31-and-me</link><guid>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/07/5251409-sm-31-and-me</guid><category>pain</category><category>dentist</category><category>humor</category><category>fear</category><category>satire</category><category>teeth</category><category>medication</category><category>extraction</category><category>phobia</category><category>personal-narrative</category><category>abcess</category><category>sadist</category><pubDate>Thu, 7 Oct 2010 18:38:38 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/400/neenie1991/5251452.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="600" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/120/neenie1991/5251452.jpg" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Friendship and Reciprocity</title>
<description><![CDATA[ I've been thinking a lot about friendship. The types there are. The meaning. I've never been one of those people that has a large group of friends. I have a few people that I am close to. My best friend and I have been 'together" for over 30 years. There have been rough spots.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></source><link>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/27/5188388-friendship-and-reciprocity</link><guid>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/27/5188388-friendship-and-reciprocity</guid><category>online</category><category>expectations</category><category>writing</category><category>giving</category><category>friends</category><category>honesty</category><category>friendship</category><category>relationships</category><pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:32:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Pluck it, Shave it, Wax it! </title>
<description><![CDATA[ 
 
 It's a subject that needs to be brought into the light. Men do it. Women do it. Some should do it more...or less. Sometimes it's spoken about in passing. Sometimes we talk about it amongst each other. The time has come to open up and tell it like it is. It's grooming.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></source><link>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/07/5061043-pluck-it-shave-it-wax-it</link><guid>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/07/5061043-pluck-it-shave-it-wax-it</guid><category>women</category><category>grooming</category><category>humor</category><category>men</category><category>sexy</category><category>fingers</category><category>satire</category><category>shaving</category><category>toes</category><category>waxing</category><pubDate>Tue, 7 Sep 2010 15:59:20 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/400/neenie1991/5061424.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="88" width="128" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/120/neenie1991/5061424.jpg" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Blogger beware: Postings can lead to lawsuits - latimes.com</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Internet has allowed tens of millions of Americans to be published writers. But it also has led to a surge in lawsuits from those who say they were hurt, defamed or threatened by what they read, according to groups that track media lawsuits.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[spudpundit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[spudpundit]]></source><link>http://spudpundit.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/23/4954626-blogger-beware-postings-can-lead-to-lawsuits-latimescom</link><guid>http://spudpundit.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/23/4954626-blogger-beware-postings-can-lead-to-lawsuits-latimescom</guid><category>blogs</category><category>politics</category><category>bloggers</category><category>free-speech</category><category>blogging</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>american-civil-liberties-union</category><category>criminal-law</category><category>civil-law</category><category>citizen-media-law-project</category><pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:45:18 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Dear Aunt Addy</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Dear Aunt Addy,
  ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></source><link>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/04/4813830-dear-aunt-addy</link><guid>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/04/4813830-dear-aunt-addy</guid><category>neighbors</category><category>personal</category><category>reality</category><category>writing</category><category>humor</category><category>satire</category><category>advice</category><category>column</category><category>aunt-addy</category><pubDate>Wed, 4 Aug 2010 15:34:43 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Fractured Wall</title>
<description><![CDATA[ 
 That hole that's inside me,

 that place with the wall,

 no chink in the mortar,

 no entrance at all.

 Then I discovered,

 protection or no,

 the danger is within,

 and nowhere to go.

 It fractured, saw daylight,

 for only a breath.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></source><link>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2010/06/18/4529366-fractured-wall</link><guid>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2010/06/18/4529366-fractured-wall</guid><category>pain</category><category>heart</category><category>writing</category><category>love</category><category>growth</category><category>friend</category><category>personal-narrative</category><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:37:34 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/400/neenie1991/4529380.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="92" width="141" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/120/neenie1991/4529380.jpg" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>DWF...Looking for Love!</title>
<description><![CDATA[ 
 Hello gentlemen! The time has come for me to get back out in the dating and loving world! I got some advice from the interweb and decided to take a big breath and get to it! They say to be honest, be specific and be positive. NO problem. I call it like I see it. I do.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></source><link>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2010/06/08/4481430-dwflooking-for-love</link><guid>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2010/06/08/4481430-dwflooking-for-love</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>divorce</category><category>ads</category><category>reality</category><category>humor</category><category>love</category><category>singles</category><category>satire</category><category>personals</category><category>honest</category><pubDate>Tue, 8 Jun 2010 18:51:26 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Dearest Lydia, </title>
<description><![CDATA[ 
 Dearest Lydia,]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></source><link>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2010/04/27/4210995-dearest-lydia</link><guid>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2010/04/27/4210995-dearest-lydia</guid><category>florida</category><category>humor</category><category>friends</category><category>company</category><category>satire</category><category>funny</category><category>dread</category><category>visitors</category><category>snark</category><category>bitches</category><category>selfish</category><category>old-friends</category><pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:16:09 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Stranger I Knew</title>
<description><![CDATA[ I was sitting at the computer killing time. Playing solitaire. I don't recall. The house was quiet. The radio playing softly in the background. A cigarette burning in the ashtray. I didn't hear him come up behind me. I felt it. He put a knife to my throat.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></source><link>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2010/03/17/4030699-the-stranger-i-knew</link><guid>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2010/03/17/4030699-the-stranger-i-knew</guid><category>violence</category><category>police</category><category>family</category><category>pain</category><category>crime</category><category>victim</category><category>mental-health</category><category>personal-narrative</category><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:53:45 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>In Deep Water...</title>
<description><![CDATA[ I am swimming. The little dock many yards behind me. I can see the shore. The forest. The beach. Friends. I can hear their laughter, see them running around, playing with a brightly colored beach ball. Some laying on the hot sand, some goofing off on the edge of the water.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></source><link>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2010/03/03/3974179-in-deep-water</link><guid>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2010/03/03/3974179-in-deep-water</guid><category>mental-health</category><category>depression</category><category>bipolar</category><category>sadness</category><category>personal-narrative</category><pubDate>Wed, 3 Mar 2010 19:17:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Rumors On The Lastest Newsvine Fight</title>
<description><![CDATA[Shhhh........This is secret and no one is supposed to know. However, it just so happens that so-and-so called what's-his-face a bugger head.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[USAF Vet-923294]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[USAF Vet-923294]]></source><link>http://bad4.newsvine.com/_news/2010/03/01/3966136-rumors-on-the-lastest-newsvine-fight</link><guid>http://bad4.newsvine.com/_news/2010/03/01/3966136-rumors-on-the-lastest-newsvine-fight</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>newsvine</category><category>humor</category><category>meta</category><category>usaf-vet</category><pubDate>Mon, 1 Mar 2010 22:05:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>&quot;Going Primal: The Psychologist&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Part 1 of a sporadic saga. Part 2 is here

 A while back, not very recently, I had a rather disturbing experience involving a gun, my girlfriend, and a bloody mess in my bedroom. I&rsquo;m not going to go into the details here.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[believer-369603]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[believer-369603]]></source><link>http://ddickinson-1.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/26/3956187-going-primal-the-psychologist</link><guid>http://ddickinson-1.newsvine.com/_news/2010/02/26/3956187-going-primal-the-psychologist</guid><category>life</category><category>suicide</category><category>discovery</category><category>ghosts</category><category>spirits</category><category>psychology</category><category>visions</category><category>bear-butte</category><category>wounded-knee</category><category>survival-spirituality</category><pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:56:23 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Get Over It! </title>
<description><![CDATA[ ***** NOTE:  Because some people found a term used in this article offensive, that term has been changed.  No other edits have been made. *****

The other day I wrote this to my "Independent" friend Perrie...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[MalamuteMan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[MalamuteMan]]></source><link>http://stevef.newsvine.com/_news/2010/01/11/3740833-get-over-it</link><guid>http://stevef.newsvine.com/_news/2010/01/11/3740833-get-over-it</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:02:22 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Neenie's Fruitcake</title>
<description><![CDATA[ On another thread neenie heard me talking about how much I like fruitcake and how I have to buy them at the store because I don't know anyone that makes them. Well that led to a challenge.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[frostyone]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[frostyone]]></source><link>http://frostyone.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/17/3644325-neenies-fruitcake</link><guid>http://frostyone.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/17/3644325-neenies-fruitcake</guid><category>season</category><category>kids</category><category>odd-news</category><category>fruitcake</category><category>tradition</category><category>christmas</category><category>neenie</category><pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:30:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/400/frostyone/3644329.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/120/frostyone/3644329.jpg" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;almost too good to eat&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/400/frostyone/3644333.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/120/frostyone/3644333.jpg" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;I got two!!&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>I am Now a Welfare Queen</title>
<description><![CDATA[In the eighteen months since the company at which my husband worked for almost 13 years closed, I have had as many as four jobs as a time. This makes it quite hard to be the mother of three children, two of whom have special needs. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[It's Gretchen!]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[It's Gretchen!]]></source><link>http://adventureswithgretchen.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/08/3603852-i-am-now-a-welfare-queen</link><guid>http://adventureswithgretchen.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/08/3603852-i-am-now-a-welfare-queen</guid><category>economy</category><category>poverty</category><category>welfare</category><pubDate>Tue, 8 Dec 2009 05:02:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Winter Clown</title>
<description><![CDATA[Disconnected.  This is how I feel right now.  This happens every year for me.  It's very common for people who suffer from depression or bipolar.  Every year seems like it's the worst.  Because you're in it.  
It's a dark place amid Christmas lights,  smiling  faces,  giving.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></source><link>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/07/3601749-winter-clown</link><guid>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/07/3601749-winter-clown</guid><category>winter</category><category>health</category><category>family</category><category>alone</category><category>friends</category><category>mental-health</category><category>holidays</category><category>depression</category><category>bipolar</category><category>psychology</category><category>sad</category><category>clown</category><pubDate>Mon, 7 Dec 2009 19:35:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/400/neenie1991/3601773.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="450" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/120/neenie1991/3601773.jpg" width="120" height="135" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs">fl|ccatt|http://www.flickr.com/people/pinksherbet/|D. Sharon Pruitt</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>It's a Doorstop! It's an Anchor! It's a Fruitcake!</title>
<description><![CDATA[Johnny Carson once said, "The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></source><link>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/01/3571399-its-a-doorstop-its-an-anchor-its-a-fruitcake</link><guid>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/01/3571399-its-a-doorstop-its-an-anchor-its-a-fruitcake</guid><category>contest</category><category>holiday</category><category>gift</category><category>fruitcake</category><category>tradition</category><category>celebrate</category><category>christmas</category><category>joke</category><category>baking</category><category>treats</category><category>personal-narrative</category><pubDate>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:04:26 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/400/neenie1991/3571435.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/120/neenie1991/3571435.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs">fl|ccatt|http://www.flickr.com/people/sylvar/|[Flickr User]</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Brain Dance</title>
<description><![CDATA[He's slouched against the buff colored wall. Hiding behind the curtain that is his hair. His hands alternately clenched, dirty fingernails digging into his palms, or jammed into the pockets of his worn, unwashed jeans. His frayed, faded flannel shirt is buttoned crooked.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[neenie1991]]></source><link>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/30/3567656-brain-dance</link><guid>http://neenie1991.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/30/3567656-brain-dance</guid><category>death</category><category>grief</category><category>family</category><category>alone</category><category>homeless</category><category>crime</category><category>mental-health</category><category>schizophrenia</category><category>mental-illness</category><category>misunderstood</category><category>stigma</category><category>brain-disorder</category><category>personal-narrative</category><pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:14:48 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/400/neenie1991/3567711.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="397" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/120/neenie1991/3567711.jpg" width="120" height="119" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs">fl|ccatt|http://www.flickr.com/people/moriza/|Mo Riza</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Motorcycle Attack of The 50-Foot Zombie Crackhead Homo Atheist Socialist Fundamentalist Neocon Zionist Feminist Muslim CIA NWO TreeHugging Terrorist From Outer Space</title>
<description><![CDATA[The old-fashioned horror movies just don't cut it anymore.  'Back in the day', the Wolfman, Dracula, the Mummy and Frankenstein really spooked people because those were archetypes that resonated with the fears of a simpler time. But not any more...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[swamijim sez]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[swamijim sez]]></source><link>http://swamijim-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/16/3505370-motorcycle-attack-of-the-50-foot-zombie-crackhead-homo-atheist-socialist-fundamentalist-neocon-zionist-feminist-muslim-cia-nwo-treehugging-terrorist-from-outer-space</link><guid>http://swamijim-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/16/3505370-motorcycle-attack-of-the-50-foot-zombie-crackhead-homo-atheist-socialist-fundamentalist-neocon-zionist-feminist-muslim-cia-nwo-treehugging-terrorist-from-outer-space</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>gay</category><category>lesbian</category><category>humor</category><category>liberal</category><category>films</category><category>movies</category><category>aliens</category><category>conservative</category><category>science-fiction</category><category>monsters</category><category>parody</category><category>sexuality</category><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:58:38 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>
