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		<title>This Blog is Now an Archive</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry, folks, the Scattering&#8217;s shutting its doors.  I think we all saw this coming.  It was fun.  But if you keep writing super cheap indie science fiction, I&#8217;ll keep reading it!  I just won&#8217;t review it&#8230; and hey, that&#8217;s probably a good thing.<img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=thescattering.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7709979&#038;post=2953&#038;subd=thescattering&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Make Everything Pretentious #1: Blood on the Dance Floor&#8217;s &#8220;Bewitched&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Isabela Morales]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A college acquaintance of mine who falls into the social category of &#8220;I don&#8217;t know him extraordinarily well but it&#8217;s okay to comment on his fb posts if you can reasonably assume that he is posting something outrageous for the explicit reason that he wants people to comment &#8221; (laugh, but I know you know [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=thescattering.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7709979&#038;post=2944&#038;subd=thescattering&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No one&#8217;s ever accused me of being &#8220;sweet&#8221; before</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 06:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Isabela Morales]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; so I guess this proves that there really is a first time for everything.  Imagine that. Just as I was resigning myself to neglecting my little second-tier science fiction review blog as I (in contravention of the traditional American mythology) head East to find my fortune (because I&#8217;m still pretending that there&#8217;s fame and fortune involved [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=thescattering.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7709979&#038;post=2937&#038;subd=thescattering&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nerd Alert! Community Goes &#8220;Ready Player One&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 17:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Isabela Morales]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To inherit the estate of a dead business tycoon, an underdog and his eccentric group of friends must work together to beat a fiendishly difficult video game rife with 80s pop culture references and all the while try to keep a step ahead of an evil corporate cheater. SF fans might recognize this as the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=thescattering.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7709979&#038;post=2915&#038;subd=thescattering&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>!Viva Cristo Rey! Some historical background for the movie &#8220;For Greater Glory&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Isabela Morales]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t seen much publicity for it, but the movie titled Cristiada in Mexico and For Greater Glory in the United States is coming to theaters June 1st.  I imagine a sizable number of moviegoers will fill the seats so they can watch Eva Longoria (or, for ladies who prefer older gentlemen, Peter O&#8217;Toole).  I don&#8217;t imagine that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=thescattering.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7709979&#038;post=2905&#038;subd=thescattering&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tudor Thriller &#8220;Bring Up the Bodies&#8221; Captivates, Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 16:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Isabela Morales]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m far from the only person giving Hilary Mantel a glowing review for Bring Up the Bodies, the second installment in her saga of Thomas Cromwell, the man behind Henry VIII and his ill-starred wives.  The critical acclaim, international readership, and heaps of awards for Wolf Hall, published in 2009, may have surprised everyone (Mantel included), but there&#8217;s been [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=thescattering.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7709979&#038;post=2888&#038;subd=thescattering&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>200,000 Years of Mommy Madness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 18:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Isabela Morales]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Motherhood!  You&#8217;d think we humans would have it figured out after 200,000 years as a species.  Apparently not.  While my mother certainly raised a perfect human specimen, thank you very much, TIME magazine&#8217;s latest cover (and the bemused, baffled, bewildered responses to it) indicates that questions about what it means to be a &#8220;good mom&#8221; [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=thescattering.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7709979&#038;post=2862&#038;subd=thescattering&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 19:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on <a href="https://thescattering.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/the-magicians-by-lev-grossman-the-anti-harry-potter/">the Scattering</a>: <br />In this bleak and empty wasteland of the post-Harry Potter world we live in, it’s inevitable that any book about twenty-somethings at a school for magic will come under the closest scrutiny. That would be daunting for most fantasy writers, but in “The Magicians,” author Lev Grossman relishes in the&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=thescattering.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7709979&#038;post=2861&#038;subd=thescattering&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of Well-Read Internet Trolls*</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 19:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I learned something yesterday: If you’re going to write a blog about as contentious and controversial a topic as the characterization of classic characters in American fiction (and do it with alliteration), you’ve really got to grow a thick skin.  Everyone has the right to disagree.  And that is something I will defend unto my [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=thescattering.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7709979&#038;post=2830&#038;subd=thescattering&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Converse with Silly, Stupid Ladies (Victorian Life Advice 2.0)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Isabela Morales]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take note, gentlemen: this might help you on your next date.  Or not.  Probably not. Our guide to proper 19th-century etiquette, the eminent Cecil B. Hartley, would have been remiss to omit from his 1875 Gentlemen&#8217;s  Book of Etiquette advice on the art of conversation.  And lucky for us, almost all of these guidelines have something to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=thescattering.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7709979&#038;post=2821&#038;subd=thescattering&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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