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		<title>Whining, Complaining, Pissing &amp; Moaning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Larger, more view-happy version here). Does our planet need yet another poster? Will the cosmos finally be made whole by its inclusion? In the innermost reaches of my head and heart, I must have thought that it would because after two plus years of promising to both myself and others that I would make this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://metalmother.com/motherboard/index.php/2011/12/whining-complaining-pissing-moaning/</link>
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		<title>New</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first ever visit to the previous offices of the New York Times on 43rd street began with a pigeon emptying its bowels on my head. I was early for a portfolio review with Brian Rea, the then art director of the Op/Ed page, and rather than bum rush him first thing in the morning, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://metalmother.com/motherboard/index.php/2011/11/new/</link>
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		<title>Big, Fat, Juicy, (Incomplete) Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Long time, no post. The past few months have had me mired (albeit willingly) in an ark sized boatload of new projects—the deadlines of which have conveniently stacked up upon one another in a seemingly unending row. I&#8217;ve been a longtime adherent to the belief that opportunity never presents itself at a moment of convenience [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://metalmother.com/motherboard/index.php/2011/09/big-fat-juicy-incomplete-update/</link>
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		<title>Comparisons-in-Chief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Art direction by Kelly Doe —————————————————————————————————————————— A new cover piece for the Week In Review is above, questioning the utility of comparing Barack Obama to any number of previous presidents. Going clockwise from the top left we have: 1. JFK 2. George H.W. Bush 3. Jimmy Carter in his library 4. LBJ 5. Some guy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://metalmother.com/motherboard/index.php/2011/05/comparisons-in-chief/</link>
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		<title>The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson &#8211; Riverhead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Art direction by Helen Yentus —————————————————————————————————————————— 1. This book is equal parts hilarious and alarming. It should be read. I&#8217;m a slow reader and I polished this one off in two days between juggling work at Motown as well as other freelance assignments. 2. Jon Ronson wrote the book. He also wrote The Men Who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://metalmother.com/motherboard/index.php/2011/05/the-psychopath-test-by-jon-ronson-riverhead/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;and another one.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Art direction by Josh Cochran —————————————————————————————————————————— Another Op/Ed for this week—this one on the balancing act between raising taxes and generating government revenue. For a person who spends an (un)healthy amount of time behind a desk, it feels as though I&#8217;ve spent the past few weeks running very, very fast. ——————————————————————————————————————————]]></description>
		<link>http://metalmother.com/motherboard/index.php/2011/05/and-another-one/</link>
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		<title>Times Roundup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Art direction by Nicholas Blechman —————————————————————————————————————————— Two for the Times were done this past week. The first (above) for the Book Review is an illustration paired with a critical account of the new tome about the history of Goldman Sachs and how they have miraculously, (or more accurately), suspiciously survived and emerged still resilient through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://metalmother.com/motherboard/index.php/2011/05/times-roundup/</link>
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		<title>Ezra Furman and the Harpoons &#8216;Mysterious Power&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Art direction: Ezra Furman / Cover photo by Christopher Benbow —————————————————————————————————————————— In acknowledgment of the fact of there being no lazier means to describe a newer band&#8217;s sound than by comparing that sound to other bands who have come before, I&#8217;ll say that if you find merit in the music of the Violent Femmes, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://metalmother.com/motherboard/index.php/2011/04/571/</link>
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		<title>The November Criminals by Sam Munson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Art direction: John Gall —————————————————————————————————————————— The November Criminals by Sam Munson is a first-person account of resident smart-ass Addison Schacht: a self-loathing, pot peddling, hyper-articulate high school senior who enlists his best friend Digger (who he emphatically swears is not his girlfriend) to help investigate the mysterious death of a fellow student who was neither [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://metalmother.com/motherboard/index.php/2011/04/the-november-criminals-by-sam-munson/</link>
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		<title>Spidey&#8217;s Second Act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Art direction by Kelly Doe —————————————————————————————————————————— At this point, it&#8217;s difficult to feel anything but pity for the creative forces behind the Spider-Man musical. My relative ambivalence towards Bono, U2 and musicals aside, wrangling a struggling creative endeavor with so many working parts, with so much money already spent, while under near constant public scrutiny [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://metalmother.com/motherboard/index.php/2011/03/spideys-second-act/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: The Executive Unbound</title>
		<description><![CDATA[—————————————————————————————————————————— “The Constitution…no longer corresponds to “reality.” Congress has assumed a secondary role to the executive, and the Supreme Court is “a marginal player.” In all “constitutional showdowns,”…the powers that make and judge law have to defer to the power that administers the law.&#8221; Going by the review, the book&#8217;s principal conceit is that all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://metalmother.com/motherboard/index.php/2011/03/book-review-the-executive-unbound/</link>
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		<title>Save 50/50</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to Christopher Sergio and Catherine Casalino for distributing this petition to preserve the AIGA&#8217;s 50 Books/50 Covers competition, which was only recently, unceremoniously discontinued. Publishing is unarguably going through more than a few simultaneous growing pains right now, but sacrificing the inspired ideas and visual narratives that come out of designing books and book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://metalmother.com/motherboard/index.php/2011/03/save-5050/</link>
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