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

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Examples of Music Writers Who I’m Pretty Sure Aren’t Part-Time Buddhists Rob Sheffield Back in 2004, on one of my ever-exciting trips to the local Borders, I wandered past a nondescript black wooden shelf when I happened to discover a revised edition of the Rolling Stone Album Guide. Never having found the previous editions particularly useful, […]

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

Here is one final metaphor I’d like to employ to describe my graduate school experience: Imagine jumping, with tremendous enthusiasm, onto a giant, spinning merry-go-round, then very quickly 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,