8 posts tagged “dalai lama”
* The "gold plated Buddhist cell phone for monks"
* What happens when you cross the Buddha with the Michelin man?
* The mighty band Mission of Burma to play Boston-area show for -- what else? -- Burma!
* Cool: cartoonist Joe Matt is a Buddhist
* Noah Levine's Falling Fruit interview: brought to you in part by The Worst Horse
* Rapping monks, nuns hit the catwalk to promote Buddhism
* DharmaCrafts' Dyan Eagles on BusinessWeek.com
* NY Times: "Mindful" scrubbing and vacuuming
* Guardian (UK): Buddhist retreat for caregivers
* Dalai Lama to invade China? Well, in Chris Elliott's mind, he is.
* "Courtney Love: Chanting Buddhist" (via Huffington Post)
Check it all on http://theworsthorse.net
Check out this radio piece from The Onion, in which George Dubya Bush talks about introducing his friend "Mr. Lama" to "the forgiving light of Jesus Christ."
The new issue's 100 is called "Help Yourself: 100 self-help books you can do without." Zen and the Art of Faking a Personal Injury was picked for the graphic (left), but others with Dharma-related titles included:
39: Zen and the Art of the Segway Personal Transporter Maintenance
and:
95: The Dalai Lama Wants You to Have a Jet Ski
These are keeping company with some 98 other self-helpy titles. Among them:
Bill O'Reilly: Who's Lookin' Out for Your Loofah Zone?
The Lonely Planet Guide to Second Life
and, Flavor Flav's Illustrated Kama Sutra
There are of course more, and many made me laugh, but I won't type them up, since so many of them are in poor taste and I just have to assume that you're classier and more sophisticated than I'll ever be.
You can always buy the magazine, of course. Or, subscribe!
(And no, this isn't some kind of paid ad for RADAR. I'm just a fan.)
More RADAR hijinks directly below.
It's a Gawker "Gawker Stalker" entry, in which sightings of various celebrities are reported.
The Dalai Lama has of course been in the NY area lately. Funny to imagine him in an SUV.
YES! DALI OBAMA LAMA! HE'S GOING STRAIGHT TO THE WHITE HOUSE!
D.O.L.! D.O.L.! D.O.L.!
(This message has been paid for and approved by Worst Horses for Dali Obama Lama for President.)
As Konchog Norbu says:
Yep: they spelled "Dalai" wrong. Heck, they didn't even spell "Dali" right! ...Love it.
See our homepage for an exclusive, hi-tech artist's rendering of good old D.O.L.
Yep. Or at least, that's what Radar magazine says. They "inducted" His Holiness into their "Hype Report," (also known as the "Overrated 100"), a "scientific survey of the world's most overrated people, places, & things."
Yaknow, I generally love Radar -- there's a sort of SPY magazine flair to it that is generally missing from the newsstands. I even subscribe.
But really, choosing the Dalai Lama as the 25th most overrated person, place, or thing seems to be little more than a stunt.
...I know, I know: that's the point. Right.
But still. It seems just... dumb. Which SPY (may it rest in peace), for all its snarkiness, never was.
See more from The Hype Report here.
(And while we're talking about SPY, check out the Horse's homage from last year.)
We were browsing a local music store and happened upon Issue Eight of Peel magazine. Good thing we did: it features an interview with none other than Dolla, one of the Horse's favorite street artists.
There are two versions of the magazine. The basic one comes with a bunch of stickers from various artists bound in and is certainly cool. Much cooler, though, is the polybagged "Limited Edition," which includes about 20 additional stickers, including the "Dolla Lama" one shown here.
Very cool. Congrats to Dolla.
Read the Horse's interview with him here.
Reader Norbert Huebner (from Frankfurt am Main, Germany) sent this one recently:
I do not know if this 2005 Dharma Burger is fresh enough for your purposes but I consider it a must-have: the infamous Dalai Lama doll.
The story: The German retailer and designer of toy dolls Marcel Offermann had launched a "Pope" doll in a limited edition of 999 pieces to honor the newly elected pope Benedict. The dolls were manufactured by the renowned traditional toy manufacturer Schildkroet, apparently using existing molds with just custom coloring and clothing. The pope doll gained considerable media coverage and became a much sought after collectors item. In 2005 when H. H. the Dalai Lama turned 70 a "Dalai Lama" doll followed (at a retail price of EUR 165,-).
I do not believe the doll is blasphemic, particular bad taste or something -- to me it's just, well, utterly pointless. Sorry if you know the thing already and I just bored you to death. Of course I am a big fan of TWH which ranks in the top of my dharma bookmarks-- please keep up the great work!
Norbert was kind enough even to provide some weblinks:
The story (and readers' reactions) on Phayul.com:http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=10828&t=1&c=1
Official press images from the Marcel Offermann'site (the author demands a copyright note placed with the picture but nobody seems to bother): http://www.puppenklinik.biz/presse/images/index.html
Thanks, Norbert!
