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		<title>The last of Lost</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/05/the-last-of-lost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 10:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up front: I liked it.
Sunday&#8217;s final episode of Lost, that is&#8230; a show I&#8217;ve been watching with fascination for five years now. (No, not six&#8230; I missed S1 when it aired, but got hooked by the DVDs.)
That&#8217;s not to say that I found it completely satisfying, especially on an intellectual level. But clearly the show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Brooks, daring upholder of shallow conventional wisdom</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/05/david-brooks-daring-upholder-of-shallow-conventional-wisdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 09:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Brooks, throughout his long history as a pundit, consistently seems to love drawing sweeping generalizations from just a handful of anecdotal examples. Sometimes even just one. In his latest column, he&#8217;s resorted to using an imaginary one.
Brooks retells the fable of the ant and the grasshopper through an imaginary middle-American voter he calls &#8220;Ben.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ridley, Russell, and Robin Hood</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/05/ridley-russell-and-robin-hood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 13:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The critical reaction to the new movie Robin Hood, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe in the title role, has been decidedly mixed. It averages a mere 45% from critics compiled on RottenTomatoes.com, many of whom seem to have been cribbing from the same notes. They complain of the movie&#8217;s 140-minute length (apparently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sherlock Holmes: a complete chronology</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/03/sherlock-holmes-a-complete-chronology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last, the grand finale! Over the course of several previous installments (all linked below), diligent effort and careful reasoning have allowed us to structure a timeline of all 60 cases in the Sherlock Holmes canon, to a degree of precision of at least a month or season and a likely year even for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sherlock Holmes: the later years [part II]</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/02/sherlock-holmes-the-later-years-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this point we have very nearly completed our chronology of the Sherlock Holmes Canon. We have spanned his entire career, from his earliest investigations through his disappearance and return to his retirement and beyond. We have determined along the way that his colleague and biographer Dr. Watson married twice, once in 1888 (to Mary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sherlock Holmes: the later years [part I]</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/02/sherlock-holmes-the-later-years-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have reached the midway point of our chronological project, having dated and arranged all the cases of Sherlock Holmes prior to his apparent death in the spring of 1891. The time has come to turn our attention to the later part of his career. Thirty-two adventures of Holmes (novels aside) were published between 1903 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sherlock Holmes: the early years [part II]</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/02/sherlock-holmes-the-early-years-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/02/sherlock-holmes-the-early-years-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the endeavor to derive a comprehensive Sherlock Holmes chronology, we have at the outset resolved (to my satisfaction, at any rate) the question of the number of Watson&#8217;s marriages through a judicious application of Occam&#8217;s Razor. This has allowed us to set up a framework that covers the cases published up through the Great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sherlock Holmes: the early years [part I]</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/02/sherlock-holmes-the-early-years-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/02/sherlock-holmes-the-early-years-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the project is this: to construct a reliable, chronological reading order for the Sherlock Holmes canon, as written by Dr. Watson. The goal is clear: to glean a more complete and robust sense of the life of the Great Detective, and of his friend and colleague, than afforded by any single tale. The methodology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sherlock Holmes:  a chronological Canon</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/02/sherlock-holmes-a-chronological-canon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes has been much in the public eye of late, thanks to the big-budget Hollywood movie starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law. (And it&#8217;s an enjoyable picture; if the overall style is a bit too frenetic and overblown, and a few obvious liberties are taken with the source material, still the filmmakers at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Kent goes to Metropolis</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/12/mr-kent-goes-to-metropolis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I haven&#8217;t posted in several weeks, but no, I haven&#8217;t abandoned this blog, either. I&#8217;ve just been exceedingly preoccupied with other things. More on that at a later date. It&#8217;s starting to ease up, though, so for the moment I at least have the opportunity to offer a short new post.
About? Superman: Secret Origin [...]]]></description>
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