First there was the Muppet Show’s Animal meditating with James Coburn. Now there’s this, also by way of Brad Warner’s Facebook page.
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Kinda an extra-mishmashy set of ideas, but hey.
Nice find via Brad Warner’s Facebook page: James Coburn tries to teach Animal to meditate. Or at least to relax, relax, relax.
Considering that meditation has played an ongoing and meaningful role in the Occupy protests — note for example the related coverage my colleagues and I have been posting on the Shambhala Sun blog — it will be interesting to see how Buddhists respond to this Conan segment from Thursday night, in which Triumph the Insult Comic Dog takes on Occupy Wall Street and a meditator gets in his line of fire. …You’ve been warned. But will you laugh anyway?
There’s been lots made of the Steve Jobs/Buddhism connection. Thanks to eagle-eyed friend and reader Sam DeWitt for sending on this latest example. Sam writes:
“Walter Isaacson, author of the new biography Steve Jobs, was interviewed on The Daily Show. He talks about Steve Job’s ‘Zen stare,’ in which he would not blink when staring down an opponent — or something like that. Buddhism is also mentioned a few times in the interview, and it is just all-around fun. (It is The Daily Show after all).”
See what Sam is talking about, watch here. (In Canada? Then go here, and watch the third segment of October 25th’s show.) Thanks as always, Sam!
Last night, Chef Jose Andres joined Coco to talk rum and other concoctions. While we’re told by the Conan’s Facebook page that “Buddha” appears in the segment, that’s not quite right. It’d be more accurate to say that it’s Hotei, aka, the “fat Buddha,” or the “happy Buddha” who makes the cameo here, at around the 5:20 mark. Also appearing are lots of disembodied replicas of his body parts — all made of Jell-O.
This is not the first time Hotei and rum have made a pop-culture appearance together; see the entry for Pyrat rum on this page of the Dharma-Burger archives. But it’s almost certainly the oddest.
Here on the Horse we often discuss Dharma-Burgers, or manifestations of the ongoing collision of Buddhist imagery and ideas with pop-culture. Such occurrences can run the gamut: sometimes they can be subtle, fleeting nods, and sometimes they can wallop you over the head. Sometimes they’re funny, and sometimes they’re not. Blogger Scott Mitchell (The Buddha is My DJ) sends on a remarkable new example. See what you think of it.
Thanks, Scott! And thank you, Mr. Pizza!
Check out this single-panel from “Bizarro” cartoonist Dan Piraro:
It comes from his blog (and of course is published in a bazillion papers, etc) along with Piraro’s personal comments about meditation: Sample: “This cartoon was the brainchild of a friend of mine from my previous life back in Texas. It immediately made me chuckle because I hate contest shows and love meditation.”
Visit Bizarro online here. And see also: “Ya Gotta Love this Zen Comic.”
Ladies and gentlemen, set your sights upon a vision unlike any you’ve ever seen before. That’s right, it’s a Thai Buddhist monk planking.
And it’s apparently a problem that needs to be addressed.
At any rate, this wins for Photo of the Day. Hands down.
In the opening scene from Wednesday night’s new South Park the boys are watching a Terrance and Phillip cartoon set on some sort of Buddhist location:
What happens in the T&P cartoon? Well, suffice it to say that Phillip turns to Terrance and says, “Take that, Dalai Terrance.” And if you can’t guess what happens next, perhaps we should just leave it unsaid.
And then the show veered off in a total ‘nother direction, as it does. That was it for Buddhist Terrance and Phillip.
