October 21, 2007

Buddha lives! (…in the “I Love New York 2″ house?)

The new season of VH1’s “reality” series, “I Love New York 2″ is under way.
As before, “New York,” the wanna-be socialite skank and star of the show — and I don’t mean to be just totally insulting; I actually think she would consider that description accurate! — gives each of her suitors a nickname. One [...]

October 21, 2007

“Be a lamp unto yourself”: The Heart Sutra lighter.

Frequent contributor Jaime McLeod recently sent this eBay find. As Jaime wrote:
I had to do a double take on this one, but it is real.
Thanks as always, Jaime.
(There are of course zillions of dubious dharma-products on eBay. You’ll find more in the Drive-Thru.)

October 21, 2007

Non-sequitur of the moment.

The other night, during a new episode of Iconoclasts (on the Sundance channel), a promo ran for John Safran’s show, in which he said this:
“If Buddha were alive today, he’d be playing bass in The Strokes.”
Uh… okay.