diff --git a/planet/shell/dj.py b/planet/shell/dj.py
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+++ b/planet/shell/dj.py
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+import os.path
+import urlparse
+
+from planet import config
+from tmpl import template_info
+
+def run(script, doc, output_file=None, options={}):
+    """process a Django template file """
+
+    # this is needed to use the Django template system as standalone
+    # I need to re-import the settings at every call because I have to 
+    # set the TEMPLATE_DIRS variable programmatically
+    from django.conf import settings
+    settings.configure(
+        DEBUG=True, TEMPLATE_DEBUG=True, 
+        TEMPLATE_DIRS=(os.path.dirname(script),)
+        )
+    from django.template import Context
+    from django.template.loader import get_template
+
+    context = Context()
+    context.update(template_info(doc))
+
+    reluri = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(output_file))[0]
+    context['url'] = urlparse.urljoin(config.link(),reluri)
+
+    t = get_template(script)
+    f = open(output_file, 'w')
+    f.write(t.render(context))
+    f.close()
diff --git a/themes/django/bland.css b/themes/django/bland.css
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+++ b/themes/django/bland.css
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+body { 
+ margin: 50px 60px;
+ font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;
+}
+
+h1 { 
+ font: normal 4em Georgia, serif;
+ color: #900;
+ margin-bottom: 0px;
+}
+
+.updated, .entry-tools { 
+ font: .8em Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
+ margin-bottom: 2em;
+}
+
+#channels { 
+ float: right;
+ width: 30%;
+ padding: 20px;
+ margin: 20px;
+ margin-top: 0px;
+ border: 1px solid #FC6;
+ background: #FFC;
+}
+
+#channels h2 { 
+ margin-top: 0px;
+}
+
+#channels ul { 
+ margin-bottom: 0px;
+}
+
+.entry { 
+ border-top: 1px solid #CCC;
+ padding-top: 1em;
+}
+
diff --git a/themes/django/config.ini b/themes/django/config.ini
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+++ b/themes/django/config.ini
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+# This theme is an example Planet Venus theme using the 
+# Django template engine. 
+
+[Planet]
+template_files:
+  index.html.dj
+
+template_directories:
+
+bill_of_materials:
+  bland.css
diff --git a/themes/django/index.html.dj b/themes/django/index.html.dj
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+++ b/themes/django/index.html.dj
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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
+     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+<head>
+  <title>{{ name }}</title>
+  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+  <link rel="stylesheet" href="bland.css" type="text/css" />
+</head>
+
+<body>
+
+<h1>{{ name }}</h1>
+
+<p class="updated">
+  last updated by <a href="http://intertwingly.net/code/venus/">Venus</a> 
+  on {{ date }} on behalf of {{ author_name }}
+</p>
+
+<div id="channels">
+  <h2>Feeds</h2>
+
+  <ul>
+    {% for channel in Channels %}
+    <li>{{ channel.title }} by {{ channel.author_name }}</li>
+    {% endfor %}
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
+{% for item in Items %}
+{% ifchanged item.channel_name %}
+<h3>{{ item.channel_name }}</h3>
+{% endifchanged %}
+
+<div class="entry">
+  {% if item.title %}<h4>{{ item.title }}</h4>{% endif %}
+
+  {{ item.content }}
+  
+  <p class="entry-tools">
+    by {{ item.channel_author }}  on 
+    {{ item.date }} · 
+    <a href="{{ item.id }}">permalink</a>
+  </p>
+</div>
+{% endfor %}
+
+</body>
+</html>
+
