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	<description>Purposeful Solipsism, Nostalgic Ephemera</description>
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		<title>White Elephant Blog-a-thon: Taoism Drunkard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
It's time again for the annual traditional self-flagellation of usually-respected film critics (and hangers-on such as myself) known as the White Elephant Blog-a-thon--usually held on April Fool's Day, writers on film the world over gather to subject themselves to metaphorical, and occasionally literal, footballs in the groin in the name of... science?
Everyone submits a bad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://patchworkearth.net/2010/06/white-elephant-blog-a-thon-taoism-drunkard/</link>
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		<title>Comics Column #6 is Up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at The House Next Door, courtesy of Slant Magazine: Comics Column #6, a collection of fourteen capsule reviews with very little in the way of a thematic through-line. G.I.Joe! Justice League! Krazy Kat! Unknown Soldier! MSPaint Adventures! Kill Shakespeare! Fullmetal Alchemist! And a whole pile of other stuff, comics and comics-related. Go check it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://patchworkearth.net/2010/06/comics-column-6-is-up/</link>
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		<title>Turnabout Insomnia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Mrs. and I were up long past dawn wrapping up the final case in the Phoenix Wright trilogy. I'll... probably... do a write-up on the series at some point, for somewhere, if only to justify our obsession as research. But I'm up at this hour now, unable to sleep, so I'm finally able to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://patchworkearth.net/2010/05/turnabout-insomnia/</link>
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		<title>My Bags are Packed, Etc&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's always nice when really smart people have nice things to say about you--both Dirk and Jog paid me very kind compliments today (re: the return of the Comics Column), particularly given that the final product found its way online riddled with my typos and lazy grammar mistakes. Thanks to both of you.
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Speaking of Moore [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://patchworkearth.net/2010/05/my-bags-are-packed-etc/</link>
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		<title>The Comics Column Returns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just in time, before I'm out of state for a week, my sort-of-lauded, mostly-ignored Comics Column at The House Next Door (care of Slant Magazine) returns, with essentially a continuation of my previous column--
Comics Column #5b: The Fragrance of Nostalgia
In which much hay is made out of two failed comic book movies, one from Hollywood [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://patchworkearth.net/2010/05/the-comics-column-returns/</link>
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		<title>Hey, cartoonists&#8211;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FACT:
If you aren't trying to be this good every day:
...Then get the fuck out, because we don't need you.
Krigstein, "Master Race" (h/t Joe Bloke)
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		<link>http://patchworkearth.net/2010/05/hey-cartoonists/</link>
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		<title>Review &#8211; Batman: Dark Knight, Dark City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know, I held off as long as I could with The Unwritten. Other people have spoken out against the book, and opinion has dropped quickly on the title since its launch, and there have been some serious flaws--the first arc was a mishmash of character introductions and both of the following arcs would get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://patchworkearth.net/2010/05/review-batman-dark-knight-dark-city/</link>
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		<title>New: Comic-Con: Comic-Free?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at Mediaelites, I took a quick glance at the San Diego
Comic-Con nonsense with my trademark brand of pessimism:
The only problem seems to be the second half of that name. Comic-Con just sounds so… nerdy. At least, that’s how Comic-Con International seems to view it, as their efforts to push the comic book content out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://patchworkearth.net/2010/05/new-comic-con-comic-free/</link>
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		<title>All right, actually, just one more&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I always get itchy posting a lot of links in a row, but after pointing to those two articles, I'd be remiss in not pointing out just one more: Chris Sims over at ComicsAlliance came in swinging today with this one: The Racial Politics of Regressive Storytelling--a look at how superhero comics, DC in particular [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://patchworkearth.net/2010/05/all-right-actually-just-one-more/</link>
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		<title>I am superfluous</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are times when you look at what everyone else is doing, and wonder what the point is in trying to keep up. I highly recommend you check out these two articles to see what some great critics are up to:

Matt Zoller Seitz, founder of The House Next Door, drops by Salon to point out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://patchworkearth.net/2010/05/i-am-superfluous/</link>
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