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		<title>A cultural expedition into the macabre</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have recently been working in London and tried to maximize my time there by walking around as much as I could and visiting a few curious galleries. London always displays a huge cultural offer and, despite the black, dense, unbreathable air and the excessive number of people in the tube and elsewhere, it always [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mjpcuervo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7165586&amp;post=89&amp;subd=mjpcuervo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I put a spell on you</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjpcuervo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creedence Clearwater Revival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I put a spell on you]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Screamin' Jay Hawkins]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When music and words get together to tell a story, they have an advantage over books and films. Unlike the latter, the atmosphere that some songs capture in just three or four minutes can be reproduced easily, over and over again. It takes time and concentration to submerge back into the darkness and the tortured [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mjpcuervo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7165586&amp;post=81&amp;subd=mjpcuervo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The night that terrified America</title>
		<link>http://mjpcuervo.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/the-night-that-terrified-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjpcuervo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apocalyptic thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conspiracy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UFOs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[War of the Worlds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was the 30th of October 1938 when the CBS caused a breakout of mass hysteria. A news bulletin included in the radio programme Mercury Theater on Air was reporting horrifying facts. An alien rocket machine had landed in Grovers Mill, New Jersey. A huge, tentacled creature came out of it and incinerated the crowd [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mjpcuervo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7165586&amp;post=62&amp;subd=mjpcuervo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That urban legend</title>
		<link>http://mjpcuervo.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/that-urban-legend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjpcuervo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthropology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban legends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coca Cola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conspiracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rat droppings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban legend]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was cooking some pasta earlier on and  that urban legend was modifying my actions. As soon as I noticed, I grinned to myself,  laughed at my neuroticism and kept stirring the sauce. You probably will remember it if you are a Coca-Cola fan. I was. One of the rituals that went with it was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mjpcuervo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7165586&amp;post=56&amp;subd=mjpcuervo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blood-stained lips</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I might be a hypochondriac and I could have never been a doctor. Yet one of my favourite subjects is the History of Medicine.  In past times, the difficulties of understanding the mechanism of diseases such as black death, leprosy or tuberculosis gave way to superstitious explanations. This circle of  body horror as a manifestation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mjpcuervo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7165586&amp;post=49&amp;subd=mjpcuervo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The horror of lobotomy</title>
		<link>http://mjpcuervo.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/the-horror-of-lobotomy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjpcuervo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lobotomy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rosemary Kennedy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story has been haunting me ever since I learnt about it. The horrors of the human mind seem nothing compared to a terrifying neurosurgical procedure in vogue during the 1940&#8242;s. Lobotomy is now a part of popular culture (as seen in The Ramones, the Velvet Underground and Tennessee William&#8217;s plays among others). It all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mjpcuervo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7165586&amp;post=38&amp;subd=mjpcuervo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Snake Oil Liniment cure-all</title>
		<link>http://mjpcuervo.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/snake-oil-liniment-cure-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjpcuervo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[belief]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it&#8217;s pretty clear that we can&#8217;t live our lives without the influence of a shaman figure. Be it a priest, a rockstar, a tarot reader, an alternative medicine guru, a charismatic new president or all of them at a time, it doesn&#8217;t really matter. A shaman is a figure that communicates with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mjpcuervo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7165586&amp;post=32&amp;subd=mjpcuervo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bloch and the Evil Twin</title>
		<link>http://mjpcuervo.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/bloch-and-the-evil-twin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 16:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjpcuervo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[carnival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doppelganger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evil twin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freak]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished reading a fascinating and horrifying short story by Robert Bloch, named The Mannikin. I was stunned about how he mixes a certain Lovecraftian atmosphere (men who become more and more isolated after reading about occultism, witchcraft, in-breeding, deformities) with some echoes of 19th century psychoanalitic horror (the diabolical Other Self, in this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mjpcuervo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7165586&amp;post=27&amp;subd=mjpcuervo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We are not alone</title>
		<link>http://mjpcuervo.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/we-are-not-alone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 19:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjpcuervo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UFOs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edgar Mitchell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scully]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming from a former NASA astronaut, the statement &#8216;we are not alone in the universe&#8217; can give me goosebumps. This is what Edgar Mitchell, who was part of the 1971 Apollo 14 moon mission, told after the 5th annual X Conference, a meeting of UFO researchers. Mitchell grew up in Roswell, New Mexico, where a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mjpcuervo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7165586&amp;post=22&amp;subd=mjpcuervo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>James Lovelock and the Revenge of Gaia</title>
		<link>http://mjpcuervo.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/james-lovelock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mjpcuervo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apocalyptic thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anybody who knows me is aware of my interest in apocalypticism.  Climate change talks fascinate me nearly as much as Nick Cave&#8217;s gothic preaching, Carnivale&#8217;s dusty roads full of Tarot symbols or obscure prophets predictions.This is the reason why I went to see James Lovelock at St. George&#8217;s. The main subject was, of course, climate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mjpcuervo.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7165586&amp;post=18&amp;subd=mjpcuervo&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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