Death By Buddhism Part 2: In Which Brad Admits He Was Definitely Wrong About One Thing and Possibly Wrong About Some Others
MJ Gibbs said: “Here is something I will throw out there. What if Brad had a close public Zen relationship with a student and that student suddenly went bonkers during a retreat? How responsible is Brad for such a thing happening? Should he be criticized or should the student be criticized or both? Plus, what […]
Death by Buddhism?
Yesterday someone sent me a link to a story in the New York Times about a guy who had died when he and his wife were expelled from a Buddhist retreat. There is so much I could comment on this story that it’s hard to know where to begin. So I’ll begin with the title. […]
ULTRAMAN DESTROYER and THE END OF HARDCOREZEN.BLOGSPOT.COM
I just put my Ibanez Ultraman Destroyer guitar up on eBay. The bidding starts at the inconceivably low price of $1500. There were only two (2) of these guitars ever made. I designed it myself for a promotion Tsuburaya Productions teamed up with Ibanez for at the 2005 NAMM show. This is my own personal […]
Stuff Part 3
Last night I reread the previous thing I put up here, “Stuff Part 2.” And I realized that what I wrote could be taken two ways. In one sense it’s about a guy trying to throw away stuff that he’s accumulated in a storage unit. But it could also be taken metaphorically. I’m kind of […]
Stuff Part 2
So I pared the contents of my storage space down to ten of what the US Postal Service calls “large” Priority Mail boxes. They’re really not very large, if you ask me. The dimensions are 12 inches x 12 inches x 5 1/2 inches. Those of you reading in countries where they use the metric […]
