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		<title>Thomas Ligotti&#8217;s horror aesthetic mirrored by &#8212; Rob Zombie?</title>
		<link>http://theteemingbrain.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/thomas-ligottis-horror-aesthetic-mirrored-by-rob-zombie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My readers know it&#8217;s no secret that I&#8217;m compulsively fascinated by the work of literary horror master Thomas Ligotti. As I&#8217;ve explained here in the past, I&#8217;m also compulsively fascinated by horrorific musical icon and now horror cinema auteur Rob Zombie, for reasons that are more obscure to me. The two fascinations would seem to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theteemingbrain.wordpress.com&blog=263902&post=1212&subd=theteemingbrain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Collapse goes mainstream: MSM attention to new film COLLAPSE is attention-worthy itself</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started reading Mike Ruppert about five years ago. As is true for many other people, the man played a major part in my personal introduction to peak oil theory and its global implications &#8212; &#8220;global&#8221; both literally and metaphorically, not only in terms of PO&#8217;s worldwide and cross-national scope and impact but in terms [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theteemingbrain.wordpress.com&blog=263902&post=1193&subd=theteemingbrain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zombies, Digital Media, and Cultural Preservation in the New Dark Age</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“How secure is our civilization’s accumulated knowledge?”
That’s the question posed in a recent essay by Richard Heinberg, one of the most consistently brilliant, reasonable, and nuanced writers about the ecological and cultural-civilizational ramifications of peak fossil fuels and economic calamity.  In “Our evanescent culture and the awesome duty of librarians” (Post Carbon Institute, Oct. 7), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theteemingbrain.wordpress.com&blog=263902&post=1185&subd=theteemingbrain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lovecraft&#8217;s Longing &#8211; Part Two (final)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My two-part article &#8220;Lovecraft&#8217;s Longing,&#8221; which I wrote for Art Throb, and whose first part I announced in a previous post, is now finished and published. In Part Two I explain how, in the words of the introduction,
Lovecraft was “about” more than just the horrors of bodily corruption and cosmic monstrosity that cling so tenaciously [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theteemingbrain.wordpress.com&blog=263902&post=1180&subd=theteemingbrain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Full Website now live</title>
		<link>http://theteemingbrain.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/full-website-now-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MattCardin.com is now live. Many thanks to Cesar Puch for his excellent design!
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		<title>MSNBC explains how Goldman Sachs stole billions from U.S. taxpayers with government help</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unbelievable. Not the news that Goldman Sachs used its no-strings-attached government money from Hank Paulson&#8217;s bank industry bailout last fall to earn inconceivable amounts of money in a titanically underhanded manner, but the fact that mainstream media heavyweight MSNBC would feature such a raw exposé as this one:

The quick version (quicker than watching the still-quick [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theteemingbrain.wordpress.com&blog=263902&post=1116&subd=theteemingbrain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lovecraft&#8217;s Longing: Article for Art Throb</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I wrote a post about the launch of Art Throb, a Web-based arts initiative headed by my Salem-based sister that chronicles the creative life of the Massachusetts North Shore. Now I have become one of the writers for this venture.
Dinah, my sister, invited me a couple of months ago to contribute [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theteemingbrain.wordpress.com&blog=263902&post=1145&subd=theteemingbrain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MattCardin.com and Dark Awakenings both imminent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three very topical news updates:

Work on MattCardin.com has been proceeding very well. Web designer and fellow horror author-and-editor Cesar Puch has done an outstanding job with the site design. The content includes excerpts from Dark Awakenings plus a full story from Divinations of the Deep; streaming access to the full Daemonyx album along with extensive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theteemingbrain.wordpress.com&blog=263902&post=1140&subd=theteemingbrain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>9/11, writer&#8217;s block, and creative rebirth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a July column for NPR about the enduring meaningfulness of Ray Bradbury&#8217;s Fahrenheit 451 for her life and work, Alice Hoffman revealed the following:
After 9/11, I experienced serious writer&#8217;s block. Like so many, I had lost faith in the future. If our world was so perilous, if buildings could tumble and planes fall from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theteemingbrain.wordpress.com&blog=263902&post=1121&subd=theteemingbrain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Those who love life do not read</title>
		<link>http://theteemingbrain.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/those-who-love-life-do-not-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From &#8220;The Myth Maker&#8221; (Guardian, June 4, 2005), an edited extract of the English translation of Michel Houellebecq&#8217;s H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life (which, I can attest, is an astonishingly powerful and moving book):
Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theteemingbrain.wordpress.com&blog=263902&post=1112&subd=theteemingbrain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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