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Thich Naht Hanh is Wrong

I follow Thich Nhat Hanh on Twitter. But, whereas I write my own Twitter posts, I doubt that Mr. Hanh sits in front of his Macbook and types his out for the world to see. My guess is that some minion of his scans his books for pithy statements that fit the Twitter mold and […]

Davy Jones

I’ve never really gone public with this. But I am a tremendous Monkees geek. It must have started early because that’s me at age six or seven with a genuine Monkees guitar — which would be worth a fortune now if I still had it. Alas I do not. But I do have all of […]

My Writing Course

So I’m sitting here trying to think of ways I can continue to buy Fancy Feast for Crum the Cat. Several people have proposed that I ought to start doing dokusan sessions online via Skype and charge money for them. But that idea, frankly, makes me want to vomit. Dokusan, for those who may not […]

The Enlightenizer

For those of you who are not yet listening to the Hardcore Zen Podcast, here’s a taste of what you’re missing: If you want to hear more podcasts, go to http://hardcorezen.libsyn.com/ and start listening today! I’ve been messing around with the iMovie program on my Mac. I once had Final Cut. But the program I […]

What I Really Do

You must have seen a dozen of these “What I Really Do” things by now. Some of them are kind of funny. Most are kind of dull. I thought I’d do one for myself before somebody else did. Click on it and you should get the full sized version. If you’ve never seen one of […]