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		<title>Yes, Paranormal Activity is actually that scary</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the thing about horror movies: I love &#8216;em. I always have and always will, and if there&#8217;s ever a day wherein I stop loving them it will leave me unsure of what to do with myself. Freddy, Jason, Michael, the girl from The Ring, Jigsaw, Pinhead, the folks from The Strangers &#8211; these have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertpress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9059607&amp;post=231&amp;subd=robertpress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Survivor&#8217;s guilt</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my mother asked me if I knew a Paula Mulder, I originally thought it was because I had received an odd piece of mail or something similar. I told her I had never even heard the name, and then went off to Google it in the hopes that something would turn up. This is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertpress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9059607&amp;post=226&amp;subd=robertpress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You can call anything &#8216;art&#8217;: The Rape Tunnel</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe I&#8217;m old-fashioned and somewhat cliche, but I don&#8217;t see any flaws in the argument that much of the &#8216;modern art&#8217; we see nowadays has little, if anything, to do with art. It&#8217;s not a terribly easy argument to make, though &#8211; try to look for a definition of the word and you&#8217;ll see vague [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertpress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9059607&amp;post=220&amp;subd=robertpress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The art of creepy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: Thanks, everyone, for being patient &#8211; this past week was just not very conducive to lengthy blog posts. Or anything at all, really. I&#8217;m putting the finishing touches on my graduate school manuscripts, and it&#8217;s a daunting task. When I was little, I developed a habit of sleeping with the TV on and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertpress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9059607&amp;post=212&amp;subd=robertpress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apologize for the delay, buuut &#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; due to a lot of writing and editing I&#8217;ve been doing as part of the whole &#8216;applying to grad school&#8217; thing, I&#8217;m unable to update this week. I might be able to put a few things together, but we&#8217;ll see. In the meantime, have a good week! Thanks for reading! Posted in Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertpress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9059607&amp;post=210&amp;subd=robertpress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some lesser-known English discrepancies</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The post I made this past Thursday concerning grammar got my wheels turning a bit when it came time to figure out what I wanted to write about today, and though the following may not be terribly interesting to anyone outside of the writing community I feel as if it&#8217;s one of those articles just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertpress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9059607&amp;post=200&amp;subd=robertpress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grammar: What&#8217;s necessary? What isn&#8217;t?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question of grammar &#8211; specifically, its understanding &#8211; came up today on a forum I post at, and I thought I&#8217;d post at least a little of what came out of it. The question was simple: how important is it, as a writer, to understand the many intricate facets of the English language? Is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertpress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9059607&amp;post=195&amp;subd=robertpress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The quiet death of a public library system</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As someone who gave serious consideration to applying for a job at the Free Library of Philadelphia only a year ago, I found this news to be saddening on a number of levels. My personal former interest in the Free Library of Philadelphia aside, the news of libraries closing across the city of Philadelphia is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertpress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9059607&amp;post=182&amp;subd=robertpress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The cautionary tale of Pripyat</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Reactor 4 over the roofs of Pripyat 1&#8243; by Flickr user Timm Suess I talked briefly yesterday about the Ukranian town of Pripyat, and I&#8217;d like to expand upon that discussion today. It&#8217;s a town unlike any other in the world, and one of the great untold stories surrounding the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. Those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertpress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9059607&amp;post=153&amp;subd=robertpress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The modern ghost town of Centralia, PA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The eastern seaboard has tragically few ghost towns, especially within driving distance of New Jersey &#8211; which happens to be, in terms of people per square mile, the most densely-packed state in the nation and thus the least likely to have anything even resembling a ghost town &#8211; so when I first heard of Centralia, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertpress.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9059607&amp;post=148&amp;subd=robertpress&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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