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		<title>Music, Lyrics and Song Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week over at Kotaku, I wrote a piece called &#8220;Gameplay and Story are Exactly Like Music and Lyrics&#8221;. It&#8217;s my take on the whole &#8220;gameplay vs. story&#8221; debate, and I believe it&#8217;s a useful one. I&#8217;ve been chewing on the idea for a good long time now, and I was happy to finally get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhamilton.com&amp;blog=4415955&amp;post=5362&amp;subd=murfinsandburglars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Stage Lights Are Beckoning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend at the Brava Theater I did another episode of &#8220;915 Cayuga,&#8221; the live radio/theatrical/musical show that I started last year with my creative partner, the fabulous actor/writer Khamara Pettus. Khamara produces, writes, acts, and directs the show while I serve as musical director, sing and play a bunch of instruments, and write some of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhamilton.com&amp;blog=4415955&amp;post=5331&amp;subd=murfinsandburglars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whistling My Name</title>
		<link>http://kirkhamilton.com/2012/01/31/whistling-my-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Year in Review(s)</title>
		<link>http://kirkhamilton.com/2011/12/17/the-year-in-reviews/</link>
		<comments>http://kirkhamilton.com/2011/12/17/the-year-in-reviews/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[games]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[2011 was a hell of a year. Twelve months ago, I was a fresh-faced blogger who had just taken the reins at Paste magazine, eager to do something new but not quite sure what that would be. Now it&#8217;s December again and here I am at Kotaku, looking back at an insane year of writing, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhamilton.com&amp;blog=4415955&amp;post=5268&amp;subd=murfinsandburglars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hi, Mom</title>
		<link>http://kirkhamilton.com/2011/12/10/hi-mom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kirkhamilton.com/?p=5256</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other week, I had the pleasure of going on Anthony Carboni&#8217;s Revision3.TV show &#8220;New Challenger.&#8221; The show aired in two parts&#8211;the first part was a review/discussion of Saints Row: The Third, a game which I had actually reviewed for Kotaku. In the second part, we did a Q&#38;A, and I took questions from twitter. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhamilton.com&amp;blog=4415955&amp;post=5256&amp;subd=murfinsandburglars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hard At Work</title>
		<link>http://kirkhamilton.com/2011/12/06/hard-at-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[rando]]></category>

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		<title>Play It Again, Samus</title>
		<link>http://kirkhamilton.com/2011/12/03/play-it-again-samus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m thrilled to once again have contributed a feature to the lovely Kill Screen Magazine. This issue&#8217;s theme was &#8220;The Sound Issue,&#8221; so as you can probably imagine, I was excited to come up with something good to write for it. I think I did! My article is a look at how both games and improvisational [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhamilton.com&amp;blog=4415955&amp;post=5236&amp;subd=murfinsandburglars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Months On The Job</title>
		<link>http://kirkhamilton.com/2011/10/23/three-months-on-the-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://kirkhamilton.com/?p=5193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends, honored guests, Pawneeans: I have some time this Sunday and I thought I would look back at my first three months writing for Kotaku. It has been an intense, often overwhelming, extraordinarily educational, stressful and rewarding time. It&#8217;s taken this long for me to even get a sense of what the hell I&#8217;m doing there, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhamilton.com&amp;blog=4415955&amp;post=5193&amp;subd=murfinsandburglars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time! Is Marching On!</title>
		<link>http://kirkhamilton.com/2011/10/08/time-is-marching-on/</link>
		<comments>http://kirkhamilton.com/2011/10/08/time-is-marching-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, that&#8217;s what happens when you begin to blog for a living—your personal blog takes a bit of a breather&#8230; for two months. But today? Today is my birthday, so I&#8217;m taking a break from working to write this. What am I working on, you may ask? Next week, I&#8217;ll be attending the Game Developers&#8217; Conference [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhamilton.com&amp;blog=4415955&amp;post=5180&amp;subd=murfinsandburglars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Voicebox 360</title>
		<link>http://kirkhamilton.com/2011/08/13/voicebox-360/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not every day I&#8217;m in the New Yorker. Actually, it&#8217;s pretty much been zero days up to this point. But this week&#8217;s issue features a fantastic profile of voice-actor Jennifer Hale by my friend Tom Bissell, and it&#8217;s got a quote from me! It&#8217;s just a little quote, but it&#8217;s a good one. I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kirkhamilton.com&amp;blog=4415955&amp;post=5161&amp;subd=murfinsandburglars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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