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	<description>watching! thinking! talking! doing?</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on LOLCATS by Liberty</title>
		<link>http://althras.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/lolcats/#comment-179</link>
		<dc:creator>Liberty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>these kittens r soooo cutiepiezzz!!!!!    i love the humor BUT! take pic #2 for example ... if u fink bout it the cats hate this    i mean those people in pic #2 is foprcin kitty 2 pose he doesn't like it. They can make him pose but they can't make him sad. He does that on his own.If we love cats...y do we do we make them do things they hate???</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>these kittens r soooo cutiepiezzz!!!!!    i love the humor BUT! take pic #2 for example &#8230; if u fink bout it the cats hate this    i mean those people in pic #2 is foprcin kitty 2 pose he doesn&#8217;t like it. They can make him pose but they can&#8217;t make him sad. He does that on his own.If we love cats&#8230;y do we do we make them do things they hate???</p>
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		<title>Comment on Here in My Home, Malaysia by Kakashin</title>
		<link>http://althras.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/here-in-my-home-malaysia/#comment-173</link>
		<dc:creator>Kakashin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 02:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think it's a good effort and it'll definitely touch many hearts but they could use better lyrics ^^;;;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think it&#8217;s a good effort and it&#8217;ll definitely touch many hearts but they could use better lyrics ^^;;;</p>
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		<title>Comment on Here in My Home, Malaysia by Thaddes</title>
		<link>http://althras.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/here-in-my-home-malaysia/#comment-172</link>
		<dc:creator>Thaddes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 04:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It's good. I like it. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s good. I like it. :)</p>
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		<title>Comment on LOLCATS by mastercheif</title>
		<link>http://althras.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/lolcats/#comment-171</link>
		<dc:creator>mastercheif</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 01:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>lollololololololololololol</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>lollololololololololololol</p>
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		<title>Comment on Fantasy Rantings - Codex Alera and etc by KY</title>
		<link>http://althras.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/fantasy-rantings-codex-alera-and-etc/#comment-170</link>
		<dc:creator>KY</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 18:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think that his point was that Tolkien pretty much invented fantasy (or rather, adapted it from mythology), so saying, "I like fantasy, but hated Tolkien's writing" doesn't make much sense at all. Now, admittedly, Tolkien takes some amount of patience and imagination to read, most probably because his writing was a return to the traditional classical style, etc etc. I could bore you with more details, but that's all besides the point.

As for the rest, I really like Butcher's Alera series. I think he has tremendous potential as a fantasy author, and his characters and universe show great ingenuity. However he's letting popular opinion influence his books too much. I mean, not every fantasy book has to have a romance (or two, or three, in his case); while, yes, it does help to sell copies, I find it disturbing that such an author should be reduced to selling to people what they want to hear. Furthermore, I wish Tavi never got furies. The whole point of him starting off without them was so that he could be cast as an independent, different character who was forced to rely on the things he's earned, not the things he's been given. Yet with his developing powers, and newfound station, Tavi's self-reliance is now eclipsed by his "predetermined" state in life. Just in general, I wished more authors could be like Tolkien (not in the fact that he could write an incredibly detail-oriented book), but in the sense that they were there to write and didn't compromise their art to pander to the generally ignorant masses who have no attention spans or imagination and just want a heroic thrill and some cheap love scenes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think that his point was that Tolkien pretty much invented fantasy (or rather, adapted it from mythology), so saying, &#8220;I like fantasy, but hated Tolkien&#8217;s writing&#8221; doesn&#8217;t make much sense at all. Now, admittedly, Tolkien takes some amount of patience and imagination to read, most probably because his writing was a return to the traditional classical style, etc etc. I could bore you with more details, but that&#8217;s all besides the point.</p>
<p>As for the rest, I really like Butcher&#8217;s Alera series. I think he has tremendous potential as a fantasy author, and his characters and universe show great ingenuity. However he&#8217;s letting popular opinion influence his books too much. I mean, not every fantasy book has to have a romance (or two, or three, in his case); while, yes, it does help to sell copies, I find it disturbing that such an author should be reduced to selling to people what they want to hear. Furthermore, I wish Tavi never got furies. The whole point of him starting off without them was so that he could be cast as an independent, different character who was forced to rely on the things he&#8217;s earned, not the things he&#8217;s been given. Yet with his developing powers, and newfound station, Tavi&#8217;s self-reliance is now eclipsed by his &#8220;predetermined&#8221; state in life. Just in general, I wished more authors could be like Tolkien (not in the fact that he could write an incredibly detail-oriented book), but in the sense that they were there to write and didn&#8217;t compromise their art to pander to the generally ignorant masses who have no attention spans or imagination and just want a heroic thrill and some cheap love scenes.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Here in My Home, Malaysia by Siew</title>
		<link>http://althras.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/here-in-my-home-malaysia/#comment-168</link>
		<dc:creator>Siew</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 03:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dude. That video gave me goosebumps.

And Jason Lo wearing the Malaysian football jersey. LOL. Thats some patriotism.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dude. That video gave me goosebumps.</p>
<p>And Jason Lo wearing the Malaysian football jersey. LOL. Thats some patriotism.</p>
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		<title>Comment on What does a.m. mean to you? by Wilz</title>
		<link>http://althras.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/what-does-am-mean-to-you/#comment-164</link>
		<dc:creator>Wilz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 05:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A timing is 'bad' if there's a choice. To accommodate this round earth, they had to pick an arbitrary time. So they went with GMT +0, 6-10 p.m. (prime time television). Which is a fairly good, neutral choice in my opinion.

But yeah, the timing is bad for us. What to do.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A timing is &#8216;bad&#8217; if there&#8217;s a choice. To accommodate this round earth, they had to pick an arbitrary time. So they went with GMT +0, 6-10 p.m. (prime time television). Which is a fairly good, neutral choice in my opinion.</p>
<p>But yeah, the timing is bad for us. What to do.</p>
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		<title>Comment on What does a.m. mean to you? by SmokeyPants</title>
		<link>http://althras.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/what-does-am-mean-to-you/#comment-163</link>
		<dc:creator>SmokeyPants</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 05:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It's just bad timing. I'm so not going to watch it during that hours.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s just bad timing. I&#8217;m so not going to watch it during that hours.</p>
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		<title>Comment on LOLCATS by JANET</title>
		<link>http://althras.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/lolcats/#comment-161</link>
		<dc:creator>JANET</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>LOL THIS IS SOO FUNNY</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LOL THIS IS SOO FUNNY</p>
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		<title>Comment on A More Perfect Union by William</title>
		<link>http://althras.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/a-more-perfect-union/#comment-160</link>
		<dc:creator>William</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Worth watching for the political acuity. Frank and funky.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Worth watching for the political acuity. Frank and funky.</p>
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