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		<title>Super 8 is exactly what we need</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You need this film. We all do. We hear so much about &#8220;culture wars&#8221; that we tend to forget that art itself (movies, books, games) are also in the midst of an unsung combat. We live in an age when &#8230; <a href="http://www.briantrent.com/wp/super-8-is-exactly-what-we-need/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Steampunk, Truthpunk, and Executive Producers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My steampunk story &#8220;Checkmate,&#8221; published in the most recent issue of Electric Velocipede, has been making ripples. The story&#8217;s theme (war reduced to a chess-like competition on a global scale) first occurred to me twenty years ago, and which subsequently &#8230; <a href="http://www.briantrent.com/wp/steampunk-truthpunk-and-executive-producers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Japan, Friends, and Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Japan is still shaking as I write this. The aftershocks of the worst tsunami in recorded history continue to shiver in the bones of buildings, rattling homes and nerves, and settling into an awful uncertainty of what tomorrow will bring. &#8230; <a href="http://www.briantrent.com/wp/japan-friends-and-facebook/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Athena</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2011 was the first year I got a pet. Technically this isn&#8217;t exactly true, as I owned many fish as a child. Anyone who&#8217;s owned fish knows that this is basically like owning a short-lived three-dimensional screensaver. My parent&#8217;s backyard &#8230; <a href="http://www.briantrent.com/wp/meet-athena/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook updates while entombed by Winter &#8217;11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian Trent believes in being direct and honest with people, especially friends and family. Too many people walk on eggshells and construct Noh plays full of sound and fury. Be open, honest, receptive to critique, and solve problems through one-on-one &#8230; <a href="http://www.briantrent.com/wp/facebook-updates-while-entombed-by-winter-11/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>And so we arrive at the next leg of the journey, 2011&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For me, New Year&#8217;s is as close to a sacred holiday as anything in my life. Another year of journeying through space, learning, thinking, loving, fighting, and evolving. It has been a strange year for me, and for many people &#8230; <a href="http://www.briantrent.com/wp/and-so-we-arrive-at-the-next-leg-of-the-journey-2011/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Published twice in Dark Valentine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amid a wildly busy holiday season, I have had two stories published in Dark Valentine. It&#8217;s a young and terrific magazine of speculative fiction published by Katherine Tomlinson. What&#8217;s more, it has earned me my very first nomination for the &#8230; <a href="http://www.briantrent.com/wp/published-twice-in-dark-valentine/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A few words on friendship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Friendship is the marriage of souls.&#8221; &#8212; Voltaire I have often said that my greatest gift in life has been friendship. For whatever roll of the dice and stir of the social pot, I have been gifted with extraordinary friends. &#8230; <a href="http://www.briantrent.com/wp/a-few-words-on-friendship/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Horror remakes that are actually good&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the spirit of Halloween, my girlfriend and I have been watching some horror classics of the 80s this week. Specifically, remakes that are (gasp) actually better than the originals. As a rule, I am furiously opposed to remakes, reboots, &#8230; <a href="http://www.briantrent.com/wp/horror-remakes-that-are-actually-good/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell to a Generation&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three weeks ago, my last surviving grandparent, Mary Tropasso, was checked into the hospital complaining of pain in her bones. The doctors diagnosed her with bone and lung cancer. Fourteen days later, she was dead. This pic is of both &#8230; <a href="http://www.briantrent.com/wp/farewell-to-a-generation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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