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	<description>The blog of Matt Cardin—horror writer, scholar, musician, part-time philosopher</description>
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		<title>R.I.P. Holy Horrors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
		
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It&#8217;s been a long road punctuated by sometimes dramatic life events. I feel a soft rush of nostalgia when I recall my initial excitement at the prospect of co-editing this anthology. I experience a kind of numinous awe when I contemplate the fact of time&#8217;s passage and the way this project has intersected and defined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Daemonyx tracks for free listening at MySpace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently uploaded two new songs from my solo music project Daemonyx to the MySpace page for free streaming listening via the provided player. The music is &#8212; variously &#8212; dark, dreamy, beautiful, melancholy, and hypnotic.
One track is titled &#8220;Dystopicana.&#8221; As this would indicate, the song is an exploration of classic dystopian themes of dehumanization [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working on DARK AWAKENINGS, expanding &#8220;Teeth&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been using the summer break to revise and edit the stories and academic papers that will appear later this year in my next book, the horror-and-religion themed Dark Awakenings.  One particularly interesting and oddly gratifying item in this process has been for me to see my short story &#8220;Teeth&#8221; expand into something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet is melting our brains! (Just ask the Atlantic Monthly)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current issue of the Atlantic Monthly (July/August) has an interesting cover story by Nicholar Carr &#8212; &#8220;Is Google Making Us Stoopid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains&#8221; &#8212; about the effects of the Internet revolution on human cognition. I bought the issue at the airport last weekend while waiting for my flight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lovecraft and Me: Fellow wielders of weighty words</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
		
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Apparently, I talk like Lovecraft. That is to say, I use big words and sound like a walking, talking book. This is according to the longtime reports of my family, friends, coworkers, and the several hundred high school students I have taught since 2001. But it&#8217;s the comments to this effect arising out of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Returning from Mo*Con III and resurrecting The Teeming Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s that? I run a blog, you say? And blogs are things that you have to update? Oh, yes. I had forgotten all about that.
Yes, it&#8217;s true, I took an unannounced and unplanned month-long vacation from The Teeming Brain. I hope the suspense wasn&#8217;t too much for those of you who tune in regularly. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hilarious fraud alert: Fundamentalist preacher &#8220;debates&#8221; religion with Oprah</title>
		<link>http://theteemingbrain.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/hilarious-fraud-alert-fundamentalist-preacher-debates-religion-with-oprah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 18:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the funniest and most pathetic fraud I&#8217;ve come across in quite some time.
A couple of months ago,, in March, the Rev. Bill Keller, founder of a Florida-based fundamentalist Christian &#8220;ministry&#8221; named Live Prayer (and yes, it deserves the scornful quotation marks),  publicly challenged Oprah Winfrey to a debate about religion. Here&#8217;s the YouTube [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A meltdown still in progress (Headlines from the Meltdown - May 16, 2008)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 21:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GENERAL COMMENT FROM CARDIN:
The meltdown has not been cancelled
America&#8217;s economic crash and fall from international supremacy are still proceeding nicely, notwithstanding the proliferation of early calls for &#8220;the end of the credit crisis,&#8221; which seems to be bandied around as a psychological euphemism for &#8220;Everything&#8217;s great again!&#8221; and also notwithstanding the proliferation of claims that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s bill has just come due (Headlines from the Meltdown - May 5, 2008)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 16:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GENERAL COMMENT FROM CARDIN:
America&#8217;s bill is due. Are you ready to pay?
For those of you who still don&#8217;t know &#8212; and just where in God’s name have you been? –- Richard Heinberg is a major voice in the collective peak oil/economic meltdown/peak civilization conversation. He&#8217;s awesomely smart, insightful, sensitive, educated, and well informed. In short, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Say goodbye to business as usual! (Headlines from the Meltdown - April 28, 2008)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CARDIN COMMENTS:
Bye-bye to Business As Usual

If there’s a single theme that unites the past week’s crop of news, analysis, commentary, and prophetic utterances, it is that Business As Usual — a term that surely deserves the proper-noun caps by this point — is altogether dead.
Okay, that may be jumping the gun a bit. Presently BAU [...]]]></description>
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