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		<title>This Is One Of The Creepiest Things I&#8217;ve Ever Read</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I&#8217;ve been going through &#8220;The Only Game in Town,&#8221; an sports essay collection from The New Yorker, and unsurprisingly, it&#8217;s usually great. I highly recommend it. But this disturbing pair of sentences thoroughly grossed me out:
The camera loves Tara [Lipinski] for some of the same reasons that the camera loved JonBenet Ramsey. That particular [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently, I&#8217;ve been going through &#8220;The Only Game in Town,&#8221; an sports essay collection from <em>The New Yorker</em>, and unsurprisingly, it&#8217;s usually great. I highly recommend it. But this disturbing pair of sentences thoroughly grossed me out:</p>
<blockquote><p>The camera loves Tara [Lipinski] for some of the same reasons that the camera loved JonBenet Ramsey. That particular combination of woman and child is something you don&#8217;t see every day.</p></blockquote>
<p>Maybe it creeps me out because it&#8217;s hard to argue against. Even though JonBenet Ramsey was <em>six years old</em>, that goddamn fucking awful child beauty pageant shit did its best to make her look like a fully-grown woman.</p>
<p>I feel like this is the type of minutia Tumblr is meant for. So, in an attempt to length this blog post a bit, let it be known that Haruki Murakami&#8217;s piece in the collection about his personal experience with running makes me never want to read any of his books. It&#8217;s probably the translation, but the prose and tone was equivalent to an 8th-grader&#8217;s autobiography.</p>
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