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		<title>Maybe Feed Feint?</title>
		<link>http://brianhodges.net/2010/08/15/maybe-feed-feint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Y&#8217;ever been on Facebook (duh, of course you have) and done an honest-to-god double-take because one of your staunchly Liberal friends posted a link for a Tea Party rally, or your born again Christian brother made his status: &#8220;Strippers and Jager seemed like a good idea at the time&#8221;?  Only after looking closer do you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brave New Bliss</title>
		<link>http://brianhodges.net/2010/08/14/brave-new-bliss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am I ridiculously shallow or something?  Whenever I read a book that depicts what is meant to be an ironically utopian future, one where everyone is happy, I fail to grasp the irony.  Books like “Brave New World” and my most recent read “Uglies” or even a more familiar piece of art to most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shriek on You Crazy Computer</title>
		<link>http://brianhodges.net/2010/08/10/shine-on-you-crazy-computer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I pulled into the Philadelphia International Airport the other day, I had the radio cranked to the local awesome rock station WMMR, who happened to be in the middle of a block of Pink Floyd.  And as I drove slowly down the Departing Flights avenue, chock full of people getting out of cabs and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheerio Doc Brown</title>
		<link>http://brianhodges.net/2010/07/20/cheerio-doc-brown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a recent Saturday night, Lauren was at work and I let Allison stay up late with me on the couch.  As we watched the Graham Norton Show on BBC America, Allison took note of their English accents and wondered why they &#8220;sounded funny.&#8221; I told her that the people on this show were from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leave Miley Alone!  Leave&#8217;er ALONE!</title>
		<link>http://brianhodges.net/2010/06/14/leave-miley-alone-leaveer-alone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brianhodges.net/?p=378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I should come clean right off the bat.  I freakin&#8217; LOVE Miley Cyrus.  I think her music is catchy.  I think her TV show is pretty damn hilarious.  I think she&#8217;s a cute kid and, if her performance a few weeks back on Dancing with the Stars is anything to go by, she&#8217;s going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Have a Confession To Make</title>
		<link>http://brianhodges.net/2010/04/12/i-have-a-confession-to-make/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For several years, I thought Obi Wan Kenobi was describing the destruction of Alderaan as &#8220;millions of OYSTERS crying out in terror and suddenly silenced.&#8221;  For those three of you who don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m talking about, the real word is supposed to be &#8220;voices.&#8221; Now, what&#8217;s weirder to me, weirder than the fact that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Veggie, not the Urine</title>
		<link>http://brianhodges.net/2009/09/01/the-veggie-not-the-urine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allison and I have been reading &#8220;The Tale of Despereaux&#8221; before bed for the last few nights. First off, it&#8217;s an amazing book so far. I find I&#8217;M getting to the ends of chapters and saying to Allison, &#8220;You wanna read just one more?&#8221; But the name of the human Princess in this book&#8217;s name [...]]]></description>
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		<title>She&#8217;s Dumb-tastic</title>
		<link>http://brianhodges.net/2009/03/17/shes-dumb-tastic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brianhodges.net/?p=313</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing how your kids will just randomly give you new and completely amazing reasons to love them.  And new and amazing examples what unique individuals they are.  The girl received the movie Dumbo for Christmas and has watched it several times since.  But when she asks to watch it, she doesn&#8217;t ask to watch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They Kill Spiders Don&#8217;t They?</title>
		<link>http://brianhodges.net/2008/12/31/they-kill-spiders-dont-they/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brianhodges.net/?p=63</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple years ago, armed with three juice boxes and a Ziploc bag full of Cheerios, Lauren and I took our niece to see Piglet’s Big Movie.  It was cute and fun and all.  The only thing that bothered me was that about five minutes from the end, there’s a point where you think Pooh and Piglet are dead!  Seriously, the entire cast cries for like thirty seconds because they assume Pooh and Piglet have just plummeted over a waterfall to their deaths.

I couldn’t believe they would put something that intense and traumatic into a kids movie.  But then I had a conversation with my sister about the movies we loved growing up, and it occurred to me that if kids were traumatized by Pooh and Piglet’s temporary demise, they would get royally screwed up by the things we used to watch.

Take for example Charlottes Web.  What a depressing ninety minutes that was.  A pig who fights to not be slaughtered only to have his best friend die in the end.  Now I know the movie was based on a book so I can’t really blame the filmmakers.  But then again, in E.B. White’s version you didn’t actually see Charlotte die.  It was just kind of understood.  But in the cartoon she sings the saddest most nostalgic song ever, and then on the last note, exhales her terminal breath and wilts.  Cut to a close up of Wilbur crying.  “Charlotte?  Charlotte?  CHARLOTTE!”  Then, as if that wasn’t bad enough, all of Charlotte’s children run away!]]></description>
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		<title>Mothers, please don&#8217;t beat your babies</title>
		<link>http://brianhodges.net/2008/01/24/mothers-please-dont-beat-your-babies/</link>
		<comments>http://brianhodges.net/2008/01/24/mothers-please-dont-beat-your-babies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Girl and I were just chilling out tonight, listening to the Happy Feet soundtrack while we cleaned up her room, when she suddenly says: &#8220;This is the one where they don&#8217;t beat baby girls.&#8221; That made me stop for a second. I was trying to remember a place in the movie where the penguins [...]]]></description>
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