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	<description>Kăt • e • kĭn • em, n. The place where Christianity and film meet for coffee.</description>
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		<title>Quotes of the Week: God, games, and player failure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjschneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having just reviewed an anime series where the main character is a self-identified gaming god, and having just decried Roger Ebert&#8217;s argument that video games can never be art, I thought I&#8217;d do a trifecta by highlighting a few articles touching on the theological implications of video games.  The first quote is from an article [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catecinem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19799845&amp;post=659&amp;subd=catecinem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dead horse necromancy: Ebert vs. Video Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjschneider</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Roger Ebert]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A random stranger approached me at the coffee shop last week, inquiring how long I’ve had my laptop.  After the first few minutes of the exchange, mostly touching on older Macs vs. newer Macs (a topic on which I’m about as much of an expert as a dung beetle), it became very apparent that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catecinem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19799845&amp;post=648&amp;subd=catecinem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai (The World God Only Knows) ☕ d. Takayanagi Shigehito, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjschneider</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[animation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kurata Hideyuki]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The premise of Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai, on paper, promises lurid hijinks and innuendo: a dweeby high school student who does nothing but play dating sims accidently strikes a deal with a cute demon girl, and he must now use his gaming skills to seduce a panoply of girls, each of whom fits parameters [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catecinem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19799845&amp;post=644&amp;subd=catecinem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A nice, hot cuppa.</title>
		<link>http://catecinem.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/a-nice-hot-cuppa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjschneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you.  Yes, you.  All of you who have read, commented on, encouraged, supported, and shared Catecinem with others.  A year ago today was my first post; I am humbled and grateful to have had the kind of response I’ve had.  I have no plans on stopping, so I hope you plan to keep on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catecinem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19799845&amp;post=641&amp;subd=catecinem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why you don&#8217;t like not liking characters</title>
		<link>http://catecinem.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/unlikable-characters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjschneider</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Breaking Bad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Swensen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, Dan Swensen posted a brief essay on Surly Muse dealing with one of my favorite topics: the unlikable protagonist.  Broadly speaking, I agree with almost everything Dan says on the subject.  Does a character have to be “likable” or sympathetic?  Absolutely not.  World literature is laden with characters of dubious [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catecinem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19799845&amp;post=633&amp;subd=catecinem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where in the bloody heck have I been?</title>
		<link>http://catecinem.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/mia-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjschneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excuses, excuses, and more excuses: I have them to offer for my sustained absence, but I won’t bore with details.  Suffice it to say that I’m busy trying to better my life situation, and it’s soaking up gallons of time.  Since I’ve been gone, the venerable Dan Swensen has nominated me for something called a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catecinem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19799845&amp;post=630&amp;subd=catecinem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s just a movie!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://catecinem.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/its-just-a-movie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjschneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Behold, my very first attempt at what the whippersnappers call &#8220;vlogging.&#8221;  Inspired directly by the efforts and encouragement of my friend, Alex, over at Confused Gender, this video is first and foremost a brazen attempt to attract more readers by establishing a presence on YouTube.  Secondly, it is a bit of a rant on a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catecinem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19799845&amp;post=622&amp;subd=catecinem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Super 8 ☕ (J.J. Abrams, 2011)</title>
		<link>http://catecinem.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/super-8-%e2%98%95-j-j-abrams-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjschneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously, Mr. Abrams &#8212; enough with the freaking lens flare!  Don’t you hire a professional cinematographer specifically for the purpose of making sure that this kind of thing doesn’t happen?  Do you really want your entry in the figurative Biography of Cinema Auteurs to read: “J.J. Abrams. TV and film producer/creator.  Signature tropes: labyrinthine conspiracies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catecinem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19799845&amp;post=617&amp;subd=catecinem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Watchmen 2 rapes everything you hold dear, apparently</title>
		<link>http://catecinem.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/watchmen2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjschneider</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alan Moore]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via io9 and Bleeding Cool, it looks pretty certain that some form of official Watchmen-related story is going to be made.  The response is as you’d expect.  The io9 category: “PLEASE GOD NO.”  In an earlier article on the topic, Cyriaque Lamar rhetorically asked: A Watchmen prequel would certainly be profitable — and perhaps even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catecinem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19799845&amp;post=612&amp;subd=catecinem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doctor Who Season 24 (1987) ☕ &#8220;Paradise Towers&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://catecinem.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/drwho-paradise-towers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjschneider</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Cartmel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paradise Towers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The indispensable Blogtor Who describes “Paradise Towers” as “an absolute stinker, a sign of the times that spewed it &#8211; but that&#8217;s also what makes it such an intriguing watch. It&#8217;s the decline of the Eighties in front of your very eyes.”  His discussion is nuanced, appreciative, and ultimately disappointed in the final product.  All [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catecinem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19799845&amp;post=606&amp;subd=catecinem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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