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  <name><![CDATA[Nick Belardes]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[NICK BELARDES turned TV/online journalist overnight after blogging his way to success. His bizarre trivia book &quot;Random Obsessions: Trivia You Need To Know&quot; just jumped out of a giant Viva Editions birthday cake of sorts in Aug. 2009.

His articles and essays have appeared on the homepage of CNN.com and other news sites across America. As editor for Face News, he also runs a nonfiction group there. His strange noir fiction, &quot;Lords&quot; was an instant cult classic on the infamous Lords of Bakersfield.

His twitter novel, “Small Places” (twitter.com/smallplaces) is the first original literary novel on Twitter. He lives in Bakersfield, California. You can also follow his daily rants: twitter.com/nickbelardes]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Jack Kerouac, V.S. Naipaul, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Mom, Dad, Lauren Baratz-Logsted, D.R. Haney, Rich Ferguson, T.Z. Hernandez]]></influences>    <hometown>San Jose, Calif.</hometown>  <born_at>10/04/1968</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Lords, Part 1]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Random Obsessions: Trivia You Need To Know]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Nick Belardes]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Brad Listi]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Blimperwhirls]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Nick Belardes]]></name>
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  <published>2002</published>  
  
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