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• Comic book heroes arent just bulletproof - theyre recession-proof

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 800
  Filed under: Columns , Investing , Media , Time Warner , Walt Disney The comic book industry may not able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but it has withstood the worst economic decline since the Great Depression fairly well. According to industry estimates , sales to specialty retailers rose 1% to ...
  1 week ago

• Act Normal: Is Buddhist monasticism escapist?

  
  Wildmind Buddhist Meditation — Authority: 121
  Robert T. Edison was born and raised in Nottingham, England. When he was fourteen years old he began to practice Buddhism. At eighteen he became a monk and went to Thailand where, for a decade, he spent his time in monasteries. He became the first Buddhist monk in Iceland when he moved there in 1994 and founded a ...
  1 week ago

• 2012 Movie Review

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  By Greg Jorgensen** out of ***** Let’s face it – we’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who goes to see Roland Emerich’s new disaster opus expecting a tight story, plot twists or a deep investment in character development. People go to see these types of movies for the same reason shows like Destroyed in Seconds ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thru Fragments of Cinema: History

  
  control y — Authority: 100
  The achievement of HBO’s miniseries John Adams is a visual one. History can be difficult to portray on film. Too often what you get on screen is a display of technical prowess with characters that feel like toy soldiers and overdressed dolls. On the other end of the spectrum is a backlash to this style – a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ogiue Maniax: The Otaku Diaries Take a Look at Careers, Escapism, Hobbies

  
  Anime Nano! — Authority: 171
  The Reverse Thieves have their fifth Otaku Diaries entry up, leading off with a beautiful poem by Hisui. Aside from the poem though, I recommend you check it out and the rest of the Otaku Diaries entries, as I’m a fan of fan analysis (no pun intended), and even with the limited sample size I [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Escapism is Not Freedom

  
  Fan To Pro - The Blog of Professional Geekery — Authority: 137
  I meet way too many people who confuse escapism with freedom. This is a deadly confusion for ones career and ones life. Escapism is when we run away, when we numb the pain, or when we avoid things.  Escapism is not always constructive.  At best it rests, recharges, and inspires us.  At worse it lets us ignore ...
  3 weeks ago

• many movies

  
  badgerblog — Authority: 137
  Italian 70s slashers, arid arthouse, a very funny movie about zombies, and a revenge action drama. With upcoming film trailer commentaries and a special "rudest movie patron of the month" report. ############## Pieces _Pieces_, Colony Theatre, part of the Cinema Overdrive grindhouse-like series. 1970s Italian ...
  4 weeks ago

• Thank You for the Homebody Rescue Center

  
  LEA KELLEY SAYING THANK YOU FOR... — Authority: 421
  This is their new radio advertisement… (in a smooth English accent) Do you work from home? Do you leave your house only to buy supplies and get annual check ups? Do weddings, funerals, graduations, and other social events drop off your calendar with flimsy excuses like “ I need to stay home and watch ...
  5 weeks ago

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