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		<title>Horrible Things in 2010 I Kind of Liked</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose I know a few people who had a great 2010 – marriages, kids, jobs, success, blah blah whatever – but for most of us, 2010 was the suckiest suck that ever sucked. This was the year that seemed to heap loss and disease on us, that brought us ever closer to national doom, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOME USEFUL MOVIE QUOTES (Part One)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Granted, my life is weirder than many. But I&#8217;ve found all of these useful in real life (whatever THAT is). “What a pisser.” – Airplane “Well, let’s not start sucking each others’ dicks quite yet.” – Pulp Fiction “Haven’t you ever heard of suspension of disbelief?” – Ed Wood “They found a peanut, all right, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anton Chekhov vs. Vince McMahon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[or, Forever seeking the &#8220;oh shit&#8221; moment It’s a rare but transcendent sight in professional wrestling: the slow epiphany. Here’s how it works (or did when I watched wrestling, anyway – a period of my life that ended roughly 25 years ago): Two wrestlers have teamed up to be on the “bad” side. Often, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOW TO BE A THEATRE DIVA</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 20:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little while ago, I worked on a fantastic community theatre show and had a wonderful time. Seriously, it was one of those perfect storms where great talent met great attitudes, and even the problems were kinda fun (in retrospect, anyway – I’m deeply grateful to those who saved the day more than once). And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DON&#8217;T STOP, THIEF!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 21:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[or, Songs I have been trying to rewrite for years Every writer, every musician, every artist is basically a thief. We don’t mean to be, but we can’t help it. We create because we love, so naturally what we create resembles what we love. Now, there are people who intentionally swipe someone’s words, music, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Worry, It&#8217;ll Get Done</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcasarino.com/?p=196</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[or, An ongoing list of overheard theater fallacies I’m incredibly fortunate – I actually make money in the arts. As the administrator for a community theater and a published playwright, my paychecks are directly related to all things theater. It’s a wonderful thing. It also lends me a particular perspective. I hear from all types, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geeze</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[or, Why it&#8217;s Good to be Old. Unless the Mayans were right (but their calculations were just a bit off), I will turn 40 this year. There was a time when ‘40’ = ‘OLD,’ and not just because I was a child…because 40-year-olds were grownups. They had careers, families, responsibilities, they talked about their cars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Lovely Surprise</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[or, Now THAT&#8217;S how you end a year. God bless Google Alert. Usually it notifies me of an intertubes post from, say, 2006, but today I got a good &#8216;un: IndyWeek&#8217;s Picks for Best Live Theater of 2009 My comments: I am equally honored and humbled. Honored, because North Carolina&#8217;s Indyweek is an excellent publication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Scarer and the Scarecrow</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[or, How to write a musical for fun and profit Check THIS shit out. I&#8217;ll wait. It could be fantastic. Seriously, it could. One of the great things about playwriting is that, in theory, anyone can do it. We&#8217;ve all seen plays, we&#8217;ve all had conversations, and to quote Captain Stillman, the only way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matt goes POP!</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcasarino.com/?p=116</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[or, How to avoid playwriting by spewing a few meaningless opinions Has it always been this way, and I’m just now figuring it out? Or is this a 2009 thing? When did pop/rock become dominated by women? Why is it men are stuck with heavy but banal dirges on finding second chances and being all [...]]]></description>
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