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	<title>Tropical Zen</title>
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		<title>Followers: Learn to Lead!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Would you like more control over whether you get to dance at a milonga? Then come join us as we explore how easy it can be to learn to lead.]]></description>
		<link>http://tropicalzen.com/2009/10/25/nov09ftl/</link>
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		<title>Leading No-Brainers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like focusing on leading moves that the follower can&#8217;t ignore, or has to work really hard to not follow. I think that most of my dancing time will be spent dancing with women who are not as good at following as I am (following or leading) and probably also with less musicality. This is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tropicalzen.com/2009/04/10/leading-no-brainers/</link>
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		<title>Grunt Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My teachers think I should teach.
If I want to teach, I will (among other things) have to do the grunt work of dancing with all the old, not-so-pretty, bad dancers in every community I land in. Everywhere I go where my face is new, until I have a Name for myself and also land in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tropicalzen.com/2009/04/08/grunt-work/</link>
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		<title>Obligations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing most people in the Puerto Vallarta tango community don&#8217;t realize is that no one is obligated to dance with them, and they are not obligated to dance with anyone either. If they actually practiced this, a bad leader would finally realize that he is a bad dancer and needs to become better, because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tropicalzen.com/2009/04/07/obligations/</link>
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		<title>Milonga v. Practica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night, Tuesday, I went to the practica at Cheryl Burke studios, this huge chain of dance studios and met Marc, one of the gay tangueros here in SF. We had some wonderful dances, and he introduced me around to other people there, including Christy Cote (part of Tango Con*Fusion, the all-women&#8217;s tango performance group). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tropicalzen.com/2009/04/01/milonga-v-practica/</link>
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		<title>Orange Practica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I went stag to the Orange Practica in Berkeley, met Homer and Cristina, and had a great time dancing. It works well for me to show up for the class right before the practica, then I get to meet people in class who like my dancing, and I get to find out who I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tropicalzen.com/2009/03/30/orange-practica/</link>
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		<title>Unfortunate Kicking Incident</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new digs are nice. My sublet is an older duplex, tall and skinny, typical SF in the Mission. Nice neighborhood, too; still a little grimy around the edges, just enough that it doesn&#8217;t feel fake. San Anselmo sometimes feels a bit too planned out, too little-boutique-shop/suburbia for my complete comfort, so it&#8217;s a nice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tropicalzen.com/2009/03/29/unfortunate-kicking-incident/</link>
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		<title>Fleeing Planned Suburbia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just moved in to SF proper. We'd been up in the north bay area, miles from anywhere useful in a suburb that seemed built by Crate &#38; Barrel. I thought I'd be happy to live in a town where there were no chain stores, but these are all upscale boutiques: fashion clothes for dogs, woo-woo-yoga for a prettier soul, Art galleries, that kind of thing. It's damn annoying and really expensive.]]></description>
		<link>http://tropicalzen.com/2009/03/27/fleeing-planned-suburbia/</link>
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		<title>Dancing with an Actual Person</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Their teaching style is wonderful. Really. Think Jaimes Freidgen&#8217;s level of teaching skill, coupled with a deep kindness and the ability to make it all so very clear you wonder why you hadn&#8217;t gotten it before. They will tell you that whatever it is you&#8217;re doing, it&#8217;s right for something; maybe not this lead, maybe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tropicalzen.com/2009/03/19/dancing-with-an-actual-person/</link>
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		<title>Overwhelmed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m overwhelmed with tango. One lesson every day, sometimes milongas and practicas, we&#8217;ve just moved from San Anselmo in to San Francisco. I haven&#8217;t met any gay tango dancers yet but I hope to soon, and there&#8217;s a gay tango festival the first weekend of July that I want to attend.
I&#8217;m really enjoying Beatrix and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tropicalzen.com/2009/03/18/overwhelmed/</link>
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