May 2022

I Am The Part-Time Buddhist Pop Culture Guru: Intro Essay (Part 3b)

Examples of Music Writers Who I’m Pretty Sure Aren’t Part-Time Buddhists Rob Sheffield Back in 2004, on a trip to Borders, I spotted a revised edition of the Rolling Stone Album Guide. Never having found the previous editions all that useful, curiosity still got the better of me, and I proceeded, with a healthy skepticism, to

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I Am The Part-Time Buddhist Pop Culture Guru: Intro Essay (Part 3a)

A metaphor to describe my graduate school experience: Imagine jumping, with tremendous enthusiasm, onto a giant, spinning merry-go-round, then being thrown off at a tremendous speed, flying across the room, landing face-first into a brick wall, and slowly sliding down that wall in a cartoon-like fashion, leaving a trail of slimy residue as you did

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