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	<title>Irked Magazine &#187; addiction</title>
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		<title>TORONTO EVENT: Only two more days to catch the Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival!</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/9740/toronto-event-only-two-more-days-to-catch-the-rendezvous-with-madness-film-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addictions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The UpDown Report]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, The UpDown Report, Addictions


The Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival, happening as we speak in Toronto, explores cinematic representations of mental health and addiction.  Film and video programs are followed by post-screening panel discussions with people who receive mental health and addiction services, as well as writers, directors, actors, health care professionals and academics.

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Here&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anna Quon Book News (and bonus concert footage!)</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/6659/anna-quon-book-news-and-bonus-concert-footage/</link>
		<comments>http://irkedmagazine.com/6659/anna-quon-book-news-and-bonus-concert-footage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Books & Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baby Beluga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Invisible Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration Songs novel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration Songs the book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nova scotia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raffi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toronto]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Books &#38; Book Reviews

Details about Anna&#8217;s book tour&#8230;after the jump!

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Quoting Anna Quon&#8217;s website:

8.16.2009: It&#8217;s been a year since I wrote here and William is indeed running, talking and living it up. he&#8217;s very attached to his mum and dad, and when Soonya left the house one day leaving me to babaysit, William lay down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How&#8217;s THIS for a daily mantra&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/6514/hows-this-for-a-daily-mantra/</link>
		<comments>http://irkedmagazine.com/6514/hows-this-for-a-daily-mantra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bum Deal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2009 Homeless Count]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[courage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mercy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Public Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Bum Deal, Interviews
The internet is a gloriously diverse library (in which you don&#8217;t have to whisper!), and we recently &#8220;surfed upon&#8221; a short audio clip that was recorded several months ago, during the 2009 Homeless Count. WNYC News (New York Public Radio, very worth checking out) was speaking with a gentleman who&#8217;s striving to be honourable, right-minded and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ken Flagg: Still wishin&#8217; he had a crack baby</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/4670/ken-flagg-still-wishin-he-had-a-crack-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addictions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Irked Audio, Themes, Addictions

Awesome (and polarizing) song after the jump&#8230;


Ever heard a piano quiver? Listen now to the gleefully disturbed, delightful-yet-melancholy song &#8220;Crack Baby&#8221;—a sharp critique of middle-class malaise off Ken Flagg&#8217;s 2006 album Paralysis &#38; Denial:


EXCITING NEWS: Ken Flagg has a new album scheduled for release in 2009!
Listen to more Ken Flagg tracks here!

Ken Flagg&#8217;s mini bio:

Born and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mercy Now: Mary Gauthier</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/679/mercy-now-mary-gauthier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Irked Videos, Irked Audio
“I know in my heart that I should be dead. Most of my friends are dead. The way I lived, I had no respect at all for my own life. So I&#8217;m living on borrowed time—and there&#8217;s liberation in that.”
—Mary Gauthier
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Her voice is at once soothing and haunting.
&#8220;Falling out of love is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Turkey, by Karen Stuebing</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/486/cold-turkey/</link>
		<comments>http://irkedmagazine.com/486/cold-turkey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addictions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art Gallery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Addictions, Art Gallery 

Cold Turkey &#8211; by Karen Stuebing

Cold Turkey
by Karen Stuebing 
Drug addiction is a huge problem in Southern West Virginia and other parts of Appalachia. In my little neighborhood alone, I can take you for a short drive and point to every third house: &#8220;That guy&#8217;s a dealer,&#8221; &#8220;He&#8217;s strung out,&#8221; &#8220;She uses.&#8221; This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recovery, by Karen Stuebing</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/452/recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://irkedmagazine.com/452/recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is about recovery. As bad as that was, this is the hard part. The recidivism rate for narcotic addiction is over 90%. 

How do I become one of that small percentage that makes it? How do I overcome depression and cravings? How do I avoid situations where there are drugs when half the people I know are on them? I can walk 20 feet and be at another addict’s door. 

I decided to use my camera to chronicle this part. It took me awhile to pick it up again. When I did I knew I really had entered into the recovery phase. 

This is my journey and I'm putting it out there for the world to see. I want to be one of the winners.

<a href="http://irkedmagazine.com/wanderingagoraphobe/leah/452/recovery">CLICK HERE</a> to read full post.
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