3 posts tagged “radar”
On the back page of each issue of RADAR, you'll find a humorous list called The Radar 100."
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.
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.
RADAR, a Worst Horse fave (despite its recent ranking of the Dalai Lama as the 25th most-overrated cultural phenomenon of the day) has launched its new "Fame-o-Meter." In it, various people, places, and things are rated in terms of the amount of online searches done about them.
It appears that Buddhism has driven some 88 million online searches in the past 7 days, and some 377 million in the past 30. Somewhere between Scientology and Judaism, in both cases.
Islam is the big winner, but you have to wonder if what's going on in Burma isn't, at least in some small way, a positive thing in that it's making people curious about the Dharma.
It appears that Buddhism has driven some 88 million online searches in the past 7 days, and some 377 million in the past 30. Somewhere between Scientology and Judaism, in both cases.
Islam is the big winner, but you have to wonder if what's going on in Burma isn't, at least in some small way, a positive thing in that it's making people curious about the Dharma.
...the Dalai Lama?
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.)
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.)
