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<rss version="2.0"><channel><description>The life and times of Rachel Figueroa-Levin, some kind of artist/animal hoarder/kvetcher/budding real estate mogul/micro-blogger/guerrilla/Puerto Rican/Jew  living with a husband and a zoo in Inwood (NY, NY) 

Contact me: rfiglev (at) me.com

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inthewood.tumblr.com</description><title>Living Jewyorican</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @jewyorican)</generator><link>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>Diamond Pet Foods Announces Recall of Premium Edge Adult Cat and Premium Edge Hairball Cat Food</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm192404.htm"&gt;Diamond Pet Foods Announces Recall of Premium Edge Adult Cat and Premium Edge Hairball Cat Food&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Diamond Pet Foods issued a voluntary recall for Premium Edge Finicky Adult Cat and Premium Edge Hairball cat because they have the potential to produce Thiamine Deficiency.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/265017952</link><guid>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/265017952</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:09:08 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Me and Mike and Elwood - the 2007 winner of the Worlds Ugliest...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://13.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktxmhr6KSo1qzdl7qo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Me and Mike and Elwood - the 2007 winner of the Worlds Ugliest Dog contest&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/263653102</link><guid>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/263653102</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:13:03 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Hadassah the sugar glider climbing up the riser pipe</title><description>&lt;img src="http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktxm7pOQTK1qzdl7qo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hadassah the sugar glider climbing up the riser pipe&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/263647971</link><guid>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/263647971</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:07:01 -0500</pubDate><category>sugar glider</category></item><item><title>Tamar the glider hanging out on the shower</title><description>&lt;img src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktxm3b0UDV1qzdl7qo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tamar the glider hanging out on the shower&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/263646179</link><guid>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/263646179</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:04:23 -0500</pubDate><category>sugar glider</category></item><item><title>iveybizaar:

(via neighborhoodr-fidi)
Rebuilding NYC, let’s keep...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktxj0zOf0g1qzmkmuo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://iveybizaar.tumblr.com/post/263590903" target="_blank"&gt;iveybizaar&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(via &lt;a href="http://fidi.neighborhoodr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;neighborhoodr-fidi&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Rebuilding NYC, let’s keep it going!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/263592904</link><guid>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/263592904</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:02:55 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Cesar Romero!</title><description>&lt;img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktw833o1eH1qzdl7qo1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cesar Romero!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/262625402</link><guid>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/262625402</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:03:44 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Parshah Haiku: Vayeitzei</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Vayeitzei- Genesis 28:10-32:3 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jake sees a ladder/&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Opens a can of whoop Ass/&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And begets 12 sons&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;***********&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;READ THIS WEEK’S PARSHAH! &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chabad.org/parshah/default_cdo/jewish/Parshah.htm" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.chabad.org/parshah/default_cdo/jewish/Parshah.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Read Past Parshah Haikus!!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://is.gd/56fLI" target="_blank"&gt;http://is.gd/56fLI&lt;/a&gt; &lt;b&gt;-&lt;/b&gt;toldot&lt;b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a&gt;&lt;a href="http://is.gd/4YT8J" target="_blank"&gt;http://is.gd/4YT8J&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;b&gt;-&lt;/b&gt;chayei sarah&lt;b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a&gt;&lt;a href="http://is.gd/4RJW7" target="_blank"&gt;http://is.gd/4RJW7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt; -vayeira&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a&gt;&lt;a href="http://is.gd/4RJYS" target="_blank"&gt;http://is.gd/4RJYS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt; -lech lecha&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a&gt;&lt;a href="http://is.gd/4RK0s" target="_blank"&gt;http://is.gd/4RK0s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt; -noach&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a&gt;&lt;a href="http://is.gd/4RK38" target="_blank"&gt;http://is.gd/4RK38&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt; -bereshit&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;For those of you who missed previous week’s haiku or are desperately trying to block my poor attempts at pious poetry out of your minds-I’ve decided to write haikus for every parshah in the Torah! (goyim translation: I make a weekly 5-7-5 diddy about sections of ye olde testament)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/261295922</link><guid>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/261295922</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:51:36 -0500</pubDate><category>Haiku,</category><category>Bible,</category><category>Jacob's Ladder,</category><category>Torah</category><category>Parshah</category><category>Poetry</category><category>Jewish</category><category>Jacob</category><category>Israel</category></item><item><title>Affogato (gelato with 2 shots of espresso poured over it)...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://2.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktubs36xHg1qzdl7qo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Affogato (gelato with 2 shots of espresso poured over it) @indianroadcafe&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/261210794</link><guid>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/261210794</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:28:35 -0500</pubDate><category>food</category><category>affogato</category><category>espresso</category><category>gelato</category><category>inwood</category></item><item><title>Look Ma! I'm in the NY Times! </title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/11/29/nyregion/20091129-stops-ss_8.html?src=tw"&gt;Look Ma! I'm in the NY Times! &lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Check out the slideshow 4 a shot of our uptown write-ins 4 &lt;a title="#NaNoWriMo"&gt;#NaNoWriMo&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/260954616</link><guid>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/260954616</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:14:48 -0500</pubDate><category>nanowrimo</category><category>nanowrimo</category></item><item><title>The doodle I doodled this morning</title><description>&lt;img src="http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kttsv8IeRQ1qzdl7qo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;The doodle I doodled this morning&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/260815569</link><guid>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/260815569</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:40:10 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>4 ur viewing pleasure: 60 seconds of my cat purring.</title><description>&lt;span id="video_player_260248772"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" target="_blank"&gt;Flash 10&lt;/a&gt; is required to watch video.]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;renderVideo("video_player_260248772",'http://www.tumblr.com/video_file/260248772/tumblr_ktsvuyYAnw1qzdl7q',400,300,'poster=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_ktsvuyYAnw1qzdl7q_frame1.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_ktsvuyYAnw1qzdl7q_frame2.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_ktsvuyYAnw1qzdl7q_frame3.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_ktsvuyYAnw1qzdl7q_frame4.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_ktsvuyYAnw1qzdl7q_frame5.jpg')&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;4 ur viewing pleasure: 60 seconds of my cat purring.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/260248772</link><guid>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/260248772</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:45:41 -0500</pubDate><category>cat</category></item><item><title>STOP! Sake Time!

Sake to me?</title><description>&lt;img src="http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktsfralVlV1qzdl7qo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;STOP! Sake Time!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sake to me?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/259893806</link><guid>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/259893806</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:59:22 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Stair art at 181st A train station</title><description>&lt;img src="http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktseakglL11qzdl7qo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stair art at 181st A train station&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/259865695</link><guid>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/259865695</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:27:00 -0500</pubDate><category>wahi</category></item><item><title>The doodle I doodled this morning</title><description>&lt;img src="http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kts9cg3Brk1qzdl7qo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;The doodle I doodled this morning&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/259771205</link><guid>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/259771205</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:40:54 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Cecil, Mike, and Dad take a Thanksgiving nap</title><description>&lt;img src="http://5.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kts5c3hBkx1qzdl7qo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cecil, Mike, and Dad take a Thanksgiving nap&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/259693938</link><guid>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/259693938</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:14:18 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Heading to the Island…

Staten Is as Staten does</title><description>&lt;img src="http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktq4y49cwc1qzdl7qo1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Heading to the Island…&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Staten Is as Staten does&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/258364639</link><guid>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/258364639</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:10:45 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Henry Hudson Bridge and Marble Hill look cool in the fog #inwood</title><description>&lt;img src="http://20.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktopz0e3OH1qzdl7qo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Henry Hudson Bridge and Marble Hill look cool in the fog #inwood&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/257369096</link><guid>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/257369096</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:49:39 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>“The Blue Danube Waltz” as conducted by The Great...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jd8nfEdo59I&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jd8nfEdo59I&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;“The Blue Danube Waltz” as conducted by The Great Gonzo&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/257284765</link><guid>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/257284765</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:28:17 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Nanowrimo

Update: the last word of my novel is -booyah. :-)

I...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://2.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kto9pb38Ld1qzdl7qo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;h1&gt;Nanowrimo&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Update: the last word of my novel is -booyah. :-)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I would like to thank my uptown nanowrimo group, my Twitter and Facebook buddies, Motti, and darling husband Mike.  Without you guys I wouldn’t be able to call myself a ::shudder:: novelist. A bad novelist- but a novelist. Yay!!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/257029803</link><guid>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/257029803</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:58:14 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>nanowrimo update. I’m at 49,999 words I shit you not.

As...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://9.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kto9609mCC1qzdl7qo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;nanowrimo update. I’m at 49,999 words I shit you not.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As soon as I add the final word I will be done.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Now I can spend Thanksgiving wrapped in a smallpox blanket editing my novel drunk on whiskey! Hooray!!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/257019935</link><guid>http://jewyorican.tumblr.com/post/257019935</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:46:00 -0500</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
