Looks promising:
Back story, etc, via Gawker.
Thanks to eagle-eyed regular contributor Sam DeWitt, and also Danny Fisher, for the heads-up about this Buddha cameo from the forthcoming comedy, The Campaign:
Trailer here.
Two weeks ago on 30 Rock (one of the big Thursday NBC comedies), main character Liz Lemon meditated. This week, on Parks and Recreation (another big Thursday NBC comedy), Ron Swanson, played brilliantly as always by Nick Offerman, did not meditate. Repeat: Did not.
Yes, the “Don’t Tread on Me”-government-hating government worker did go to a meditation center, in a rare moment of deference to his health-nut pseudo-boss Chris (Rob Lowe), who sometimes goes in for spiritual or even New Agey stuff. But Ron’s only along to get chummy enough with Chris that he can keep his plum job of being paid to do as little as possible.
So what did Ron do in there if he wasn’t meditating? Chris may think that a post-sit Ron “radiates mindfulness” but as Ron himself puts it:
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That incredible sentence is just one of several uttered in Thursday night’s episode of 30 Rock, in which none other than Liz Lemon herself takes up meditation.
Does she stick with it? Well… maybe.
But that’s almost beside the point. Why? Well… why not read about the whole episode in this writeup I’ve just published on Shambhala SunSpace?
Check it out; Jeff Bridges — aka, The Dude, El Duderino, etc — will be releasing a book called The Dude and the Zen Master, which Entertainment Weekly reports will explore “the meaning of life, laughter, the movies and trying to do good in a difficult world.” His co-author? Zen teacher Bernie Glassman. This is gonna be good.
Niiice. And why not? The Dude has many Buddhist fans. Are you among them? I am.
(Hat tip to the mighty Ben Hutchison.)
Look, it’s Eddie Murphy, meditating, in his new film, A Thousand Words. The premise sounds okay, but then again, I said that about Mike Myers’ The Love Guru when it was announced, and let’s just say things didn’t turn out that way.
Learn more about both via this Metro story about comedy and spirituality and when they do and don’t mix so well.
PS: It at least has to be better than “Rude Buddha.”
Did you see this thing? I thought it was pretty painful. But click here to see for yourself if you haven’t yet. That is, if you don’t mind potentially squandering a few minutes of precious life.
…and here’s the result:
Don’t know who to credit, but it wasn’t me!
“Dharma-Burgers,” as I’ve said, aren’t some new fast-food sandwich — though they can be every bit as dubious as a Mc-DLT and a super-sized “New Coke.” A “Dharma-Burger” is, actually, any example of Buddhist ideas or imagery employed in the marketing or production of (usually non-Buddhist) services and consumables. Sometimes they’re okay. Sometimes, they’re beyond the pale. What do you make of this one?
That’s right. It’s the sign for a Portuguese strip club called the Buda Bar. (more…)
I often think about the luck I’ve had in getting to speak to the comedian, Mike DeStefano. Mike had been around a long time, then went on NBC’s Last Comic Standing — and almost won.
I got to speak to him a couple of times, one of which was for an audio interview for Shambhala SunSpace. It’s good stuff and I do recommend you checking it out. But if you really want a concise taste of who Mike was, check out this new piece, “Uneasy Rider,” culled from the WTF Podcast for “These American Lives,” a NYT piece curated by Ira Glass about people who died in 2011.
Mike was hilarious, and a beautiful, fearless guy.
(Thanks to the great Sam DeWitt for the heads-up on this one.)
