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	<title>Popcorn and Pretense</title>
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	<description>Serious commentary on frivolous things</description>
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		<title>Brief resurrection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coming out of a long silence just to mention that right now, I can mostly be found blithering about costuming over here.  I&#8217;m getting ready for Norwescon 32 next week, where in addition to wearing ridiculous outfits I&#8217;ll be a panelist talking about goth stuff.  (Yes, goth stuff.  That&#8217;s a technical term.)
Also, my Flickr account [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ice-princess.net/words/2009/03/30/brief-resurrection/</link>
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		<title>The age of a fangirl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past March, on Sunday morning at Norwescon, as we were packing up to check out of our room, I saw the trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
I&#8217;d been deliberately avoiding the trailer for this movie.  Despite how often I ran across it posted on blogs and forums, despite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ice-princess.net/words/2008/05/21/the-age-of-a-fangirl/</link>
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		<title>Someone somewhere in summertime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was originally written four years ago. The summer-evening nostalgia mentioned in it has been powerful this year, and caused me to revisit it, and I decided it was worth sharing and adding to, since I have four more summers now to speak of.
It&#8217;s officially summer.  Style Council is in the car tape deck, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ice-princess.net/words/2007/07/02/someone-somewhere-in-summertime/</link>
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		<title>Port and Chocolate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When an item popped up in a local weekly a few weeks ago talking about a special tasting evening at a local business, all I had to say to my husband was &#8220;port and chocolate&#8221; and he said &#8220;Make a reservation.&#8221; And thus we signed ourselves up for a tasting this past Thursday at Theo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ice-princess.net/words/2007/05/13/port-and-chocolate/</link>
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		<title>Edward Scissorhands: A musical play without words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever been the &#8220;weird kid&#8221; or felt out of place in a community probably has some affinity for the works of Tim Burton, and most especially for his 1990 film Edward Scissorhands, a sweet, melancholy fable about a gentle but undeniably freakish creature who attempts to live in a &#8220;normal&#8221; suburban world. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ice-princess.net/words/2007/04/26/edward-scissorhands-a-musical-play-without-words/</link>
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		<title>Not dead yet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really and truly had no intent of letting this lie fallow for seven months.  Life got complicated enough that I could use it as a good excuse to not write, but really, it was more about having set up this obligation to myself to write, and suddenly finding the writing not so fun.  That&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ice-princess.net/words/2007/04/16/not-dead-yet/</link>
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		<title>Wine and pines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, we went to Leavenworth.  There were a couple of reasons for this.
The first reason is that my husband is from Florida, and though he&#8217;s lived here for the better part of three years now, he hasn&#8217;t had much chance to really explore the area. And while I&#8217;m a Seattle native and have lived [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ice-princess.net/words/2006/09/17/wine-and-pines/</link>
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		<title>Pirates of the Caribbean:  Dead Man&#8217;s Chest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Note:  There are some things in here that could be considered mildly spoiler-ish if one knows nothing about the film.)
I loved the first PotC movie. I loved it enough to see it multiple times, something that&#8217;s become increasingly rare for me with mainstrem Hollywood releases. I loved it in part because it was so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ice-princess.net/words/2006/08/07/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-mans-chest/</link>
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		<title>Pantry adventures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I invited my mother to dinner on less than 24 hours&#8217; notice. This is distinctly uncommon for me, as entertaining of any sort is usually a massive production that requires several days, if not weeks, of preparation. To add to the uncommonness, I didn&#8217;t really have time to go shopping and had to make do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ice-princess.net/words/2006/08/04/pantry-adventures/</link>
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		<title>The Hidden Blade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yoji Yamada&#8217;s latest film is a follow-up to his previous film, The Twilight Samurai, and hits the same themes:  the changing of the feudal system with Japan&#8217;s opening to the West, the decline of the samurai, conflicts of class, love, and honor.  Munezo (Masatoshi Nagase), a minor samurai, nurses a quiet, secret love [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ice-princess.net/words/2006/07/21/the-hidden-blade/</link>
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