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	<title>Moot Point</title>
	<link>http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net</link>
	<description>On pop culture and feelings</description>
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		<title>New Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have started a new website. It is called Pop Culture and Feelings.

So far I&#8217;ve written about Glee, the classic M-G-M musical The Pirate, and Taylor Swift.

I don&#8217;t like to pick favourites, but The Pirate one is totally my favourite so far:


  The song is pretty forgettable as these kinds of songs go, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2010/11/03/new-website/</link>
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		<title>On not being perfect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I.  In Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music, Marisa Metzer spends a bit of time talking about the pressure girls feel to be perfect. I liked the book a lot, but this sentence had bells going off for me all over the place: &#8220;The desire to be perfect, while not unique to girls, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2010/05/23/on-not-being-perfect/</link>
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		<title>Taking you there</title>
		<description><![CDATA[


  Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. Madonna is like Nero; she marks the turning point.
  
  &#8211;Joni Mitchell


I think Joni&#8217;s probably right about some stuff here; that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m starting my discussion of Glee&#8217;s Madonna episode with a quote from a totally amazing interview that ran two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2010/04/25/taking-you-there/</link>
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		<title>Cherry Bombs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Besides both being movies I saw this weekend, Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976) and The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi, 2010) have in common that they both open with scenes of a teen girl getting her first period. Carrie is from 1976. That first scene in The Runaways &#8212; which actually opens with a shot of blood [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2010/04/13/cherry-bombs/</link>
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		<title>My Greenberg Letter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Noah Baumbach,

My original plan was to write a standard review of your new movie Greenberg responding to some of the other things I&#8217;d read about it. But I can&#8217;t really be critical and objective about your movies. It&#8217;s not so much that I love them so hard; it&#8217;s more like I relate to them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2010/04/06/my-greenberg-letter/</link>
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		<title>Gimme Sympathy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have long gotten over any conflict between my image of myself as a woman of culture with two degrees and the fact that I am also a woman who watches American Idol on purpose. As I&#8217;ve gotten older, I&#8217;ve gone from being all Frankfurt school about the &#8220;culture industry&#8221; to seeing value in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2010/03/16/gimme-sympathy/</link>
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		<title>Movies I have seen in the past little while</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t really watched that many movies this past while, it&#8217;s been a lot of Olympics this week. We celebrated the gold medal hockey win by making some very tasy lamb curry. (It is from a fine Canadian cookbook!)


The Wolfman (was apparently directed by someone on purpose, okay his name was Joe Johnston, and it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2010/03/01/movies-i-have-seen-in-the-past-little-while/</link>
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		<title>Three Weeks of Movies (January 11-31)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I have had some stuff to do that I don&#8217;t want to jinx by posting about until I have more information. But, movies!


An Education (Lone Scherfig, 2009): So my feeling on this is that Carey Mulligan is delightful, and I walked out with a smile on my face and a skip in my step, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2010/02/01/three-weeks-of-movies-january-11-31/</link>
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		<title>NEW YEAR FEELINGS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry, internet, I totally dropped the ball on NaBloPoMo this year and then completely disappeared. I have an excuse that involved my energy needing to be elsewhere, but I&#8217;m not going to go into it. I&#8217;m not going to lie, I had some amazing stuff happen in 2009 (I went to London and Spain and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2010/01/01/new-year-feelings/</link>
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		<title>So press record, I&#8217;ll let you film me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a post in my head about how amazing Gossip Girl was tonight, and a Glee post I have been trying and failing to write for months now, but I am not in a position to write anything coherent right now for reasons that should stay off the internet.

I am basically just watching this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/2009/11/16/video-phon/</link>
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