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		<title>&#8220;Did you and Ginny do it?&#8221; &#8211; a review of &#8220;Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by: Steve Kloves (Screenplay), J.K. Rowling (Novel)
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I just&#8230;aahh. You can&#8217;t see right now, but I just ran my hand through my hair and grimaced as if asked a very uncomfortable and complex question. See, I feel like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelongthoughts.wordpress.com&blog=4257877&post=119&subd=thelongthoughts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I am directly below enemy scrotum.&#8221; &#8211; A review &#8220;Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by: Ehren Kruger, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman
Directed by: Michael Bay
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Peter Cullen, Hugo Weaving, Josh Duhamel, Tyrse Gibbson

About half-way through this movie (thought I can&#8217;t be entirely sure, more on that later) there&#8217;s an exchange between our hero Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and an aging Decepticon-cum-Autobot named Jetfire, which pretty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelongthoughts.wordpress.com&blog=4257877&post=112&subd=thelongthoughts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Traditional Media Flails Madly In Death Throes, Doesn&#8217;t Know How YouTube Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So! Newspapers are dying. Have you heard? Yeah, it&#8217;s getting pretty scary out there for print media, in the wake of easy-to-access information streams from the internet and other computer networks. So the Associated Press, one of the 800-pound gorillas of the news world, is trying to model itself as the internet&#8217;s content sheriff, so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelongthoughts.wordpress.com&blog=4257877&post=95&subd=thelongthoughts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Themes, They Are A-Changin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://thelongthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/the-themes-they-are-a-changin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry, I&#8217;ve still got Watchmen on the brain.
Anywho, I&#8217;ve decided to play around a bit with the themes and set up of the page now that I&#8217;m back and still left with huge amounts of free unemployed time. Hopefully get a nice custom header image at some point, fix some font issues. Things&#8217;ll be a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelongthoughts.wordpress.com&blog=4257877&post=90&subd=thelongthoughts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Would It Make You Smile If I Told You I Was Wrong?&#8217;&#8221; &#8211; A Review of &#8220;Watchmen&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The movie and graphic novel it's based on are set in an alternate 1985 where superheroes are real and have drastically affected the course of history; being instrumental in the conquering of Vietnam and the election of Richard Nixon for multiple terms, as one example. It tells the story of a now-defunct supergroup as the last active member, a mentally unhinged crimefighter named Rorschach, rouses his old comrades to solve a mystery: who killed the Comedian, one of their own, and why?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelongthoughts.wordpress.com&blog=4257877&post=74&subd=thelongthoughts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Hey, I know that robot!&#8221; &#8211; a review of WALL-E</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WALL-E
2008
Directed by: Andrew Stanton
Story by: Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Jim Reardon
Starring: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin
The latest offering from the Disney/Pixar team is yet another triumph of digitally animated movies. No surprise there, really. Since Toy Story in 1995, Brad Bird&#8217;s studio has rarely missed a beat. Some of the pictures are better than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelongthoughts.wordpress.com&blog=4257877&post=59&subd=thelongthoughts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Let this remind you why you once feared the dark.&#8221; &#8211; a review of Hellboy II: The Golden Army</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hellboy II: The Golden Army
2008
Directed by: Guillermo Del Toro
Story by: Guillermo Del Toro and Mike Mignola
Starring: Ron Perlman, Doug Jones, Selma Blair, Seth MacFarlane
It&#8217;s usually kind of hard for me to review comic book movies. On the one hand I consider myself a real critic, having to turn an analytical eye to art and not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelongthoughts.wordpress.com&blog=4257877&post=53&subd=thelongthoughts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing to do but eat and crap&#8221; &#8211; a review of Futurama: Bender&#8217;s Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Futurama: Bender&#8217;s Game
2008
Directed by Dwayne Carrey-Hill
Story by Matt Groening, Eric Horsted and David X. Cohen
Being a fan of all things geeky, humor both surreal and gross, and brightly colored cartoons, I instantly fell in love with Futurama way back in 1999 when the show premiered on Fox. The brainchild of Simpsons Matt Groening and David [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelongthoughts.wordpress.com&blog=4257877&post=50&subd=thelongthoughts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Shiny New Future For America&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 9:36 Eastern Standard Time, on November 4th, the year 2008 of the Common Era, Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States of America.
Hold on a second, I need to read that again.
&#8230;Okay. Okay, I think I&#8217;m okay.
I&#8217;m only 20 years old, and for nearly all my life I have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelongthoughts.wordpress.com&blog=4257877&post=46&subd=thelongthoughts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I For One Welcome Our New Chinese Space Lords&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chinese say they&#8217;re building a propulsion system that could take a crew to Mars in 40 days with no fuel.
It&#8217;s called the electromagnetic drive, &#8220;emdrive&#8221; for short, and it&#8217;s the brainchild of British scientist Roger Shawyer (sorry, no link. Hmm,) who was laughed off the island and into the arms of Xi&#8217;an&#8217;s Northwestern Polytechnical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelongthoughts.wordpress.com&blog=4257877&post=40&subd=thelongthoughts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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