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		<title>GREENBERG: In the Green Zone</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[GREENBERG: In The Green Zone

Posted by: John Marks
Originally posted on the Purple State of Mind website
 

by JOHN MARKS
We talk constantly about terrorism in this country, but we give relatively little time to the concept of terror itself. What lies at the heart of that experience? What is the most terrifying thought for most people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AVATAR: James Cameron’s Insurgency</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AVATAR: James Cameron’s Insurgency
Posted by: John Marks on 12/04/2009 @ 9:49 am  (http://john.purplestateofmind.com/?p=836)


Is James Cameron’s new movie Avatar sympathetic to the Taliban? If it is, will anyone over here care? Am I insane? Here’s why I ask.
Once, long ago, watching the third movie in the original Star Wars trilogy Return Of The Jedi in Madras, India, I began [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEW MOON: What I Saw At The Vampire Revolution (Spoilers)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW MOON: What I Saw At The Vampire Revolution (Spoilers)
 Posted by: John Marks on  					11/22/2009 @ 10:19 am 
 
I knew virtually nothing about the plot, except that the story involved vampires, werewolves, abs and abstinence, but yesterday afternoon, after reading of the astonishing box office grosses for the vampire romance New Moon—a projected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012: WE HEART DOOM by John Marks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2012: WE HEART DOOM
Posted by: John Marks on 11/17/2009 @ 9:48 am 

Disaster movies are all about missing the bullet. We never identify with the body falling out of the building. We always inhabit the eyes of the living, who watch as the body plummets. In this, we obey the camera. The building topples, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BOOKLIST: TOP 10 RELIGION VIDEOS OF 2009</title>
		<link>http://windriderforum.org/2009/11/booklist-top-10-religion-videos-of-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOOKLIST: TOP 10 RELIGION VIDEOS OF 2009
 Purple State Of Mind 
Posted by: John Marks on  					11/11/2009 @ 1:50 pm 


Here are the top ten religion videos of 2009, according to Booklist, the magazine of the American Library Association. Purple State Of Mind is third from the bottom.
Top 10 Religion Video: 2009.
Beauregard, Sue-Ellen (author).
FEATURE. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: A FAN GETS IRRITATED, AND I WONDER WHY</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: A FAN GETS IRRITATED, AND I WONDER WHY

Okay. For those who don’t know, the most interesting phenomenon in movies right now is the success of Paranormal Activity, a home-made ghost story filmed for an alleged $15,000 and bought by a studio for $300,000. It now looks like the movie will make more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BOOKLIST: PURPLE STATE OF MIND NAMED ONE OF THE TOP TEN RELIGION DVD’S OF THE LAST YEAR</title>
		<link>http://windriderforum.org/2009/10/booklist-purple-state-of-mind-named-one-of-the-top-ten-religion-dvd%e2%80%99s-of-the-last-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOOKLIST: PURPLE STATE OF MIND NAMED ONE OF THE TOP TEN RELIGION DVD’S OF THE LAST YEAR
by John Marks
(from John&#8217;s blog on the Purple State of Mind website)

We just got word. In its November issue, Booklist, the magazine of the American Library Association, names Purple State Of Mind one of the top ten religion DVD’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE: THE YEAR’S MOST MYSTERIOUS MOVIE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE: THE YEAR’S MOST MYSTERIOUS MOVIE
by John Marks
(from John&#8217;s blog on the Purple State of Mind website)

How to articulate what I felt when I walked out of the theater after seeing Spike Jonze’ Where The Wild Things Are?
Here are a few of the thoughts that passed through my mind.
Is it possible for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marks and Mark Joseph &#8211; Pretty Darn &#8220;Windy&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://windriderforum.org/2009/08/marks-and-mark-joseph-pretty-darn-windy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marks and Mark Joseph &#8211; Pretty Darn &#8220;Windy&#8221;
(entry from John Marks&#8217; blog on www.purplestateofmind.com.)

When it comes to the mix of faith and pop in popular culture, we tend to ignore the faith and embrace the pop. Anyone who loved the music of Johnny Cash and saw the generally decent biopic Walk The Line had to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Hynes Reviews District 9 and Moon</title>
		<link>http://windriderforum.org/2009/08/marks-reviews-district-9-and-moon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Hynes Reviews District 9 and Moon
(entry from John Marks&#8217; blog on www.purplestateofmind.com)
By James Hynes
This weekend I saw two ambitious indie sci-fi movies, Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 and Duncan Jones’s Moon. Leaving aside their relative levels of commercial success (District 9 looks like it might be a sleeper hit, while Moon seems to have barely registered [...]]]></description>
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