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We recently told you about “graticons,” Well, here’s a new one a reader sent:

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..like this one, () ,it is mean to resemble/symbolize two hands, facing each other palm to palm, in gassho.

Not bad, not bad.

First off, sorry for the shoddy photograph. I got a new camera recently and while it’s amazing, I, apparently am not.

Anyway — just wanted to give you a shot from Ethan Nichtern’s appearance at New York’s Rubin Museum of Art. He was there to read from and discuss his new book, One City: A Declaration of Interdependence.

A good-sized group of people made it to the event, which was split between a sort of informal reception in the museum’s K2 Lounge, then the reading up on the 6th floor (he read the book’s incredible prologue,), and then back to the Lounge for booksignings and general cooling out. There were even particularly great-lookin’ One City shirts for sale (proceeds go to the Interdependence Project), which Ethan founded.

AND: if you’ve never been to the Rubin Museum, you’ve GOT to go. Amazing Buddhist/Himalayan art and the people are cool, too.

Can’t believe I hadn’t been there before. Well, it won’t be the last time, I hope!

Here’s a pretty good shot of Ethan. Not that it’s “a great photograph,” but it gives you a feel of what he’s like:

Very smiley and likeable. Almost impossibly sknny.

But like all people, he can turn on a dime. (See below.)

You don’t wanna mess with this guy.

Just back from a trip to NYC, where I found these: “Buddh-Its.”

What is happening to me?

One of our favorite reader/contributors/bloggers, Konchog Norbu, just sent this on:

Oh lord, Hoss. I’m trying so hard to see Britney with pure view as White Tara, but…she doesn’t make it easy.

OK. We’ll admit that she doesn’t. But the Horse still maintains that we’re all responsible for the celebrity deification (and demonization) in our culture.

And above all, thanks to Konchog Norbu!

Thanks to artist Kelli Bickman for sending this photo of her art:

here’s a fun new pic from the HOWL festival this year in tompkins square park, nyc…

i thought you might enjoy.

kind regards and keep up the great work.

thanks, Kelli!

check out more of her work here.

If you saw the Daily Show bit about Bush being a bodhisattva, then you know that the current US president has reached at least some kind of enlightenment.

Thanks to “Kent Brockman” for the tip.

Thanks again to reader Tom Armstrong for another very cool contribution. He writes:

I stumbled on this — posted to a Buddhist blog three years ago.  I couldn’t help noticing a detail in the upper-righthand corner.

Cheers.

Again: good eye, Tom!