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Been traveling a bit this weekend, and haven’t had a chance to write anything amazing and wonderful, so I thought I’d post a few things I came across while doing the web. Brooklyn-centric bloggers, Brooklyn Based, have a got a nice piece on local “placentophagy,” or the practice of eating […]
You’ve got four days left to sign up for my “Start Yr Own Religion” class at 3rd Ward located in the quaint village of Bushwick deep within the greater hamlet of Brooklyn. It’s fun for the whole family and will allow you to finally organize into one cohesive faith all […]
The New York Times reports that international meditation guru, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (not to be confused with the singularly shri’d nimble-fingered sitar player of the same name), has been meandering around Times Square promoting the launch of his I Meditate NY initiative, “A meditation movement empowering New Yorkers to […]
First, did you know there was a State Senate hearing in Manhattan last Friday? I know, right? Sounds riveting. But, did you know that this hearing was to discuss how to keep NYC safe? And, did you know that the New York Times is reporting that apparently this meeting fell […]
“[Recuperation] also happens irrespective of the startling content of the style: punk clothing and insignia could be bought mail-order by the summer of 1977, and in September of that year, Cosmopolitan ran a review of Zandra Rhodes‘ latest collection of couture follies which consisted entirely of variations on the punk […]
On the heels of the recent “voodoo fire” in Brooklyn, but hopefully in light of our recent coverage of the actual tradition and practice of vodou in Brooklyn, comes this tragic story from Reuters: “An elderly woman was sentenced on Wednesday to up to three years in prison for failing […]
My recent piece on the cost of tuition at the Friends Seminary in Manhattan has gotten enough play to warrant a response. So here goes…. So far, much of what I have read in response to “The High Cost of Simplicity, Angry Quakers, and the Fallacy of Neutral Money” has […]
Charlie’s got a one-man stand-up “show” thing he’s on tour with right now, which basically involves him walking out on stage to a packed house of heckling “fans” who barely give him an inch while he tries to tell stories about f-ing prostitutes and smoking crack. The event seems to […]
Every once in a while I turn on my adult brain and consider the future. This hypothetical future often involves wondering where I would send my kid to school if I decide to buy a kid from the kid store. Naturally, I’ve looked into Quaker schools as a way of […]
Haven’t had a chance to check this out yet, but apparently there’s a recently erected chrome statue of Andy Warhol “walking” through Union Square, and according to Vanishing New York, the statue is becoming somewhat of a Hindu murti, complete with offerings from the devoted. Now, depending on where […]
Back when I originally encountered the May 21 as Judgment Day idea I assumed it to be fringe. So many people have given different dates for when the world is going to end, and with such a potpourri of ways in which this is going to happen, I just assumed […]
Did you even know there was an April Fools Day Parade in New York City? Well there is one and it’s happening this Friday, April 1st at 12 noon beginning at Fifth Ave. and 59th St. Rain or shine. A little history of the festivities from the website: The New […]
If you’ve read Alan Moore‘s Promethea than you already know that we all participate in, share, and manifest this thing we might call the Big It, each one of us in her/his own time and unique way. Yesterday I had a passing taste of that, one of those “The Universe […]
I was really showboatin’ this past Saturday. Check it: 8:00am Practiced Yoga Started the day out at Ashtanga Yoga New York (AYNY) taking the led-primary as part of their “Mini-Retreat” Saturday special extravaganza. Haven’t been taken through the first series by an instructor in a while. Was good to have […]
There’s something particularly great watching Jiddu in the first part of this video. He’s so young! While you can hear his “pathless path” ideas starting to form, he’s still very stiff. He’s definitely assured of his message, very much so for such a young buck, but the whole thing is […]
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