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		<title>2010 MLB Predictions (NL edition)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More of the annual exercise in faulty prognostication]]></description>
		<link>http://chrismagyar.com/?p=277</link>
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		<title>2010 MLB predictions (AL edition)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The annual exercise in faulty prognostication]]></description>
		<link>http://chrismagyar.com/?p=269</link>
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		<title>Gentlemen Broncos</title>
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If we politely ignore Nacho Libre, this movie is the true spiritual follow-up to Napoleon Dynamite for Jared Hess, and it accordingly suffers from sequelitis.Told in the same sweetly halting and awkward universe as ND, Gentlemen Broncos follows the travails of home-schooled teenager Benjamin (Michael Angarano) as he attempts to get his sci-fi scribblings published. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrismagyar.com/?p=266</link>
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		<title>Three ideas for someone to steal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I cook up ideas to make the world better. Rather than go nuts trying to come up with the money, expertise, and time to execute them and thereby become wealthy enough to hire a house cleaner, I usually just keep them to myself. These ideas rot away in my memory and disappear. How selfish! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrismagyar.com/?p=263</link>
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		<title>Jude the Obscure</title>
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Thomas Hardy&#8217;s final novel scandalized England for its views on divorce, but there&#8217;s something more shocking at work in its dreary prose. Jude Fawley &#8212; the hardscrabble protagonist who dreams of an autodidactic escape from rural poverty &#8212; constantly undoes himself by tragic flaws that are ambiguously ingrained and external. Is he brought down by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrismagyar.com/?p=255</link>
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		<title>How my crazy poodle has taught me to be more assertive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cricket is certifiably insane. I have expert confirmation of this fact. Sometimes, when she attacks and bites people or works herself into an aggressive tizzy, it isn&#8217;t funny in the least. But when she is under control, as she more or less has been for the past few months, her eccentricities can be amusing, even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrismagyar.com/?p=250</link>
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		<title>Alice in Wonderland</title>
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Or, as the script would have it titled, Um in Underland. Now, I&#8217;m a Tim Burton apologist, so I&#8217;m inclined to forgive this movie for many faults, but&#8230; he&#8217;s always in debt to his screenplays. Sadly, sometimes the screenplays can&#8217;t pay the bills, either. This one falls completely flat in the third act. The idea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrismagyar.com/?p=238</link>
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		<title>1987 meets 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been fantasy baseball drafting time around here. I&#8217;ve got all my teams lined up already, and now I&#8217;m just biting my nails through Spring Training hoping nobody gets hurt. I&#8217;m also reading up, belatedly, on who&#8217;s expected to have a breakout year. That&#8217;s what initially drew me to MLB&#8217;s official fantasy preview. But my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrismagyar.com/?p=229</link>
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		<title>The Invention of Lying</title>
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Ricky Gervais is a master of the comedic reaction shot, which means he cast himself perfectly in this brilliant script about the only man in the world who knows how to lie. Even in the early stages of the movie, when the world is completely honest &#8212; and in this world, honesty seems to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrismagyar.com/?p=217</link>
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		<title>5 obscure bands I would sign if I owned a label</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm pretty sure these MP3s are fair use and freely given. Please don't sue me.]]></description>
		<link>http://chrismagyar.com/?p=198</link>
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