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<title><![CDATA[The amazing Scotty: The future is clear and entertaining]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Once again, as media outlets take a "special look back" at events that shaped the previous year -- really an opportunity for journalists to write a bucket-load of year-in-review stories in advance and spend a week or two polishing their resumes and looking for a more inviting career path, like bomb-disposal technician -- I instead choose to use my superpowers to predict what lies ahead in 2009.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: My Super Powerful Year in Preview, Part II]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/dec/31/scott-hollifield-my-super-powerful-year-preview-pa/entertainment/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Attentive readers — that would be those who are not at this point staring into space, wondering why they were reading this eight seconds ago — may recall last week's column, Scott's Super Powerful Year in Preview 2009, Part I. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:53:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Monkey Stories: They're thieves, gangsters, snitches]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said, "Scott, what were the top monkey-related stories of the year?"]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: My Super Powerful 2009 Year In Preview]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Once again, as media outlets take a "special look back" at events that shaped the previous year - really an opportunity for journalists to write a bucket-load of year-in-review stories in advance and spend a week or two polishing their resumes and looking for a more inviting career path, like bomb-disposal technician — I instead choose to use my super powers to predict what lies ahead in 2009. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Special report: Top monkey-related stories of '08]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/dec/18/scott-hollifield-special-report-top-monkey-related/entertainment/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said, "Scott, what were the top monkey-related stories of the year?" 
I wouldn't have any money, but I would have the beginning to a column on the top monkey-related stories of 2008, as compiled by me, Media General's senior simian correspondent, and the Monkey Action News Team, those like-minded readers who send in monkey reports from around the globe. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:29:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Survey says -- We're just too darn sexy]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/dec/11/scott-hollifield-survey-says----were-just-too-darn/entertainment/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Fifty-seven percent of us are sexy, or so we American men believe. 
Obviously, most us don't have access to a full-length mirror. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:39:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Customer needs assistance... Hello? Anybody?]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[I was where I did not want to be: standing in a big discount store late on a Sunday afternoon smack dab in the middle of shopping season waiting on customer assistance that would never come. 
It started with a promise that was, at the very least, of debatable origin. 
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:24:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Once again, it's time to monkey around]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/nov/28/scott-hollifield-once-again-its-time-monkey-around/entertainment/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[It's heartening to know during the holiday season, when I need to knock out a column as quickly as possible to spend at least a little time with my dysfunctional family, that monkeys are still doing their part to make this world a better place. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Cabinet pop quiz just too much]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/nov/21/scott-hollifield-cabinet-pop-quiz-just-too-much/entertainment/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[As much as I admire President-Elect Barack Obama, I'm reconsidering my offer to serve in his administration. It's not because of ideological differences, it's because I wasn't aware of the written exam. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:09:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: I'm ready to be Secretary of Something]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/nov/13/scott-hollifield-im-ready-be-secretary-something/entertainment/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[As an objective journalist, it would be unethical for me to publicly lobby for a high-level cabinet position in the Obama administration. 
That's why I hired Cousin Junior, owner and operator of Cousin Junior's Small Engine Repair, Discount Taxidermy and Certified Lobbying Services, to do it for me. I now turn this column over to him. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:37:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Accident points to digital revelation]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/nov/07/scott-hollifield-accident-points-digital-revelatio/entertainment/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[I found out which is my most important finger, and it wasn't the one I thought.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:14:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Thank you Joe the Plumber and Abdullah the Butcher]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/oct/31/scott-hollifield-thank-you-joe-plumber-and-abdulla/entertainment/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[As this historic presidential campaign ends, let us take a moment to salute the Average Joes who stood up to be counted and were reduced to catchy first names and occupations in a cynical effort to win votes with a folksy tone. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:31:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Atom smasher debut not so smashing]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/oct/24/scott-hollifield-atom-smasher-debut-not-so-smashin/entertainment/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Maybe the bearings are shot. 
Hundreds of dignitaries, diplomats, researchers and others with big brains and bigger titles gathered in Geneva on Tuesday for a gala wing-ding to formally celebrate the world's biggest scientific gizmo, an atom smasher called the Large Hadron Collider. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:50:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Here's your crackpot political form letter]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/oct/16/scott-hollifield-heres-your-crackpot-political-for/entertainment/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[With Nov. 4 approaching faster than a Wall Street downturn (then upturn, then downturn again, then...), there is precious little time remaining to pen a ridiculous, often hate-filled crackpot political letter to the editor packed with idiotic half truths and outright lies. 
Lucky for you who have procrastinated, I'm here to help. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:46:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Bailout means good, buttery rubdown]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/oct/09/scott-hollifield-bailout-means-good-buttery-rubdow/entertainment/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Ever had "aromatic fig and cassis body butter applied after a warm, tension-releasing back compress?" 
Me neither. But it's part of the Mediterranean spa treatment at St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort in California, where the hard-working executives at AIG, their wallets bulging with freshly minted tax dollars, had ample opportunity to get all body buttered up at their recent gathering]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:11:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Horace says American authors lack write stuff]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/oct/02/scott-hollifield-horace-says-american-authors-lack/entertainment/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Normally, I pay little attention to who wins the Nobel Prize in Literature. With my English major days far behind me, I rarely seek out any book that "uncovers the precipice of everday prattle in the quest for the melancholic soul of the female experience," a description constructed entirely from the one-sentence blurbs about the last three winners at nobelprize.org. 
But I admire those who do wade into the intellectual deep end of the creek, and often ask them for help with crossword puzzles. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:17:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: I recollect the Great Southeastern Gas Shortage]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/sep/25/scott-hollifield-i-recollect-great-southeastern-ga/entertainment/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[I was waiting in line at the truck stop along with every other knucklehead swept up in the panic of the Great Southeastern Gas Shortage of Early Fall 2008 when my mind wandered, as it often does, and I flashed forward 30 or 40 years. 
In my daydream, I was a grizzled old coot sitting on the front porch of the Happy Valley Retirement Home for People Who Used to Work at Something Called a Newspaper, passing the time with my two grandsons, Lester and Earl. 
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:22:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Naked and unruly can lead to shocking experience]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/sep/18/scott-hollifield-naked-and-unruly-can-lead-shockin/entertainment/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[A warning to readers who are contemplating getting naked and unruly: You could be Tasered. 
As one of the few professional journalists who has not been laid off (as of this writing), I try to spot important trends in the news - failing financial institutions, government watchdogs doing the dirty boogie with the watchdogees, previously unknown bespectacled Alaskan women rocketing to the forefront of national politics - and explain them to you, the reader, in a way that leads you to believe I know what I'm talking about when nine times out of 10 I don't. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:36:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scott Hollifield: Doggone it, mass marriages just plain wrong]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.statesville.com/content/2008/sep/15/scott-hollifield-doggone-it-mass-marriages-just-pl/entertainment/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[It's time some courageous person exposes the global epidemic of mass dog weddings. 
I'm waiting. 
I'm still waiting. 
All right, I'll do it. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:41:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pooches uniting in doggy matrimony]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[It's time some courageous person exposes the global epidemic of mass dog weddings.
I'm waiting.
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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