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		<title>Shameless, Wonderful Single-Serving Site of the Day: Is Mercury In Retrograde?</title>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_23428" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 138px"><img src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/pfros-book.jpg" alt="" title="pfros book" width="128" height="193" class="size-full wp-image-23428" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Sorry, novelist Paula Froelich. Someone&#039;s taking your Google Shine.</p></div>Fans of shameless-yet-wonderful single-serving sites, have we got one for you.<!--more-->Yes: via <a href="http://thewirecutter.com/">Wirecutter</a> (and former Gizmodo) editor Brian Lam's Twitter—which he precedes with the wry, astute commentary of "<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/blam/status/143844967104782336">for fuck's sake</a>"—comes <a href="http://www.ismercuryinretrograde.com/">IsMercuryInRetrograde.com</a>. While it may siphon off some of the Google blackmagick of former Page Six gossip (and sometimes <em>New York Observer</em> freelancer) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mercury-Retrograde-Novel-Paula-Froelich/dp/1416598936">Paula Froelich's book sales</a>, we can't help but adore this wonderfully stupid, yet plainly servicey contribution to the world's pantheon of Single-Serving Sites.</p>
<p>And in the event you were wondering: yes, today, Mercury is, in fact, in retrograde. Which accounts for the weirdness. Whatever any of that noise <a href="http://astrology.about.com/od/advancedastrology/p/MercuryRetro.htm">actually means</a>. [<a href="http://twitter.com/weareyourfek">FK</a>]</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_23428" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 138px"><img src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/pfros-book.jpg" alt="" title="pfros book" width="128" height="193" class="size-full wp-image-23428" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Sorry, novelist Paula Froelich. Someone&#039;s taking your Google Shine.</p></div>Fans of shameless-yet-wonderful single-serving sites, have we got one for you.<!--more-->Yes: via <a href="http://thewirecutter.com/">Wirecutter</a> (and former Gizmodo) editor Brian Lam's Twitter—which he precedes with the wry, astute commentary of "<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/blam/status/143844967104782336">for fuck's sake</a>"—comes <a href="http://www.ismercuryinretrograde.com/">IsMercuryInRetrograde.com</a>. While it may siphon off some of the Google blackmagick of former Page Six gossip (and sometimes <em>New York Observer</em> freelancer) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mercury-Retrograde-Novel-Paula-Froelich/dp/1416598936">Paula Froelich's book sales</a>, we can't help but adore this wonderfully stupid, yet plainly servicey contribution to the world's pantheon of Single-Serving Sites.</p>
<p>And in the event you were wondering: yes, today, Mercury is, in fact, in retrograde. Which accounts for the weirdness. Whatever any of that noise <a href="http://astrology.about.com/od/advancedastrology/p/MercuryRetro.htm">actually means</a>. [<a href="http://twitter.com/weareyourfek">FK</a>]</p>
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