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The news is always depressing. Here are two non-depressing things: A new column from David Brooks today: The Neural Buddhists. And a new blog, unrelated to the above: Things Younger Than John McCain Now that you feel better, send some metta to China and sentient beings everywhere…

Finally!  I’ve been watching this kid’s videos all year….(he’s doing a dance a day…he’s up to 357)  and finally some Velvet Underground. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9_PhFy7XvY   This guy is taking 365 portraits….I was 337.  I think I look tired and perplexed, but maybe I was….. What am I doing everyday this year? art x 365 = ?…

So I’m doing my Monday post a tad early this week, because I need to nap and catch up on a few weeks lost sleep. Then I need to go to my friend Evan’s passover seder, which is probably going to be about 60% hardcore traditional seder, 30% hipster reverie, and 10% Buddhist infusion. I…

Now that I know everyone’s top ten albums, what about books? If I was packing and could only bring ten books, I’d pick the following…wrapped in sheets of poems numerous as styrofoam peanuts, of course… (Rilke! Rumi! Sexton! Whitman! the Beats!) And if I contradict myself…well, you know what Walt says…. 1.  Catcher in the Rye …

As mentioned by I.D. Project Board Member and all-around homie Jerry in class on Monday Night, the video and story: “This is the video from Beijing to the song that my boyfriend [wrote in NYC] in 2002. The song is called Taboo and it’s about how much we love playing the board game Taboo with…

Hey Everyone… I just saw this amazing movie/documentary called “The Dhamma Brothers”. It is the story of the Alabam prison system introducing intensive Vipassana meditation retreats into their prisoner treatment programs. I had seen “Doing Time, Doing Vipassana” which is about the introduction of meditation into prisons in India… also amazing and I highly recommend…

It’s a rare day that things in the office where I work are slow, but this week couldn’t be more dead. My boss is at the London Book Fair. Her assistant is “busy” re-naming files on our network drive. And I’ve incurred three centuries’ worth of reincarnation as a silverfish for the manuscript rejection letters…

I was in Memphis this weekend, teaching meditation workshops with Mr. David Nichtern. A lot of folks in Memphis are into meditation, so that was super inspiring. Who woulda thought? I’m not going to do another political post until after the Pennsylvania primary, but let me just say that Hillary’s new strategy, to make it…

I’m a buddhist, yeah, but I’ve been a sports fan longer. And as uncommon as sports talk seems to be among buddhists, I’m gonna indulge. I know, I know, everyone tunes out and goes to the cushion, thinking lofty thoughts about literature and politics. But what illustrates the moment-to-moment flow of physical existence more vividly…

Now that I’m working with elementary school girls, I’m immersed in current girl culture, where tamogochis have been replaced by Miss Bimbo and Barbie looks wholesome next to Bratz. For those out of middle school, Miss Bimbo is an online game where players create an avatar and compete to be the “reigning bimbo.” According to…
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