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Happy Thanksgiving America and Zen That's Not Called Zen
First, the Suicide Girls Radio interview I did is online now. Listen to it by going to:
I feel like it gets better as it goes along, so feel free to skip ahead.
Next, my good friend Marrrrrkus in Finland (home of delicious pippari) told me about a couple articles on li'l ol' me that I had not seen before:
The Brad Warner Paradox
Brad Warner Vs. the Dalai Lama
I don't even know what "Brad Warner Vs. the Dalai Lama" really even has to do with me other than the opening quote. It's mostly a discussion about God.
Then there's Elephant Journal's nice review of my new book. The new book in question is, of course, Sex, Sin, and Zen: A Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between. It's selling like hot cakes here in New York City. I wish it was selling like books, though...
So tomorrow is Thanksgiving and my sister is on her way to NYC so we can go watch the Macy's parade. Yoiks! This is my second Thanksgiving this year, since I was up in Canadia last month when they had theirs. I think they add a "u" to the word "Thanksgiving" up there, but I'm not sure.
A guy asked me recently about what he called the "Microsoft-ization of Zen." I'm not exactly sure why he used this term. He meant the way there are lots of people out there hawking products that are essentially Zen, but without actually calling it "Zen." They carefully avoid using words like "Buddhism" or "dharma," even though most of their schtick comes straight out of Zen books. Sometimes straight out of my Zen books!
I've noticed this too and it bugs me. I'm well aware that using words like "Zen" or "Buddhism" or "dharma" will essentially cut your potential audience by at least half. Hell, when I make even the smallest mention of Dogen in these pages I get half a dozen comments about how I'm just promoting the "cult of Dogen" rather than "actual Buddhism." I'm gonna try to address that topic another time, though.
But all these dudes out there hawking Zen but not calling it Zen, why would that bug me? It bugs me because they seem to want to imply that you can just decide to be more "in the moment" and it'll happen. Or they offer some new miracle method to get you there "quickly, easily and effectively" (the verbatim claim of one such method I just came across). Those methods don't work, of course. Though they might provide some kind of short term thrills.
It's like if you woke up one morning and realized you were fat. Not only you. You realized your whole society was made up almost exlusively of people who were at least 200 pounds overweight and that every service, entertainment, occupation, etc. in the entire society was geared toward making already fat people more fat. You couldn't just decide not to be fat in such a society. You'd need to spend a lot of time, effort and energy just figuring out how one could lose weight. Your senses might be so dulled by the environment that you wouldn't even be able to recognize someone of healthy weight. Your friends would all describe such a person as dangerously ill.
Methods like Big Mind® and their ilk strike me as the all-cupcake-diets of this imaginary landscape. Some blubbery guy tells you that the best way to get to a healthy weight is to eat as many cupcakes as possible because what you really want is not to be 200 pounds overweight but three or four-hundred pounds heavier than you are now.
Anyway, yeah, the whole idea of cribbing from Zen without really understanding what it is and hiding the source of your inspiration lest it scare away paying customers irks me. And I'll admit it, one of the reasons it bugs me is because I can't do it myself and therefore I make way less money than the people who do. It would feel far too dishonest. Whatever minor insights I have come through Zen Buddhist practice. If I were to deny that I'd be cheating.
Anyway, plenty of people don't think I have any insights at all. I got an email the other day that said "You are an egoist and have no wisdom to offer!" Gee, thanks. That's sweet.
OK. So whatever.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving, America! See you down at the parade!


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My niece Amy was always the quiet one at the table. Through years of rude, noisy family dinners, she listened more than she talked. She was calm and reserved. Sometimes it was hard to know what she was thinking. Now I know. She was thinking she wanted to dance through the streets of the New Orleans French Quarter when she got married, followed by a brass marching band.
Who would have guessed?
There's something counterintuitive about a wedding in New Orleans. Just think about the piety of a wedding ceremony juxtaposed with the revelry of Bourbon Street.
But the Bourbon Street scene wasn't what Amy and Jeff saw when they got engaged in the Crescent City last year and decided that was where they had to be married. These two young people, confirmed Brooklynites, saw the romance and character of the French Quarter, the elegance of the Greek Revival architecture and the grace of the Garden District mansions. They heard the soulful jazz drifting out of nearly every club and they smelled the dizzying aromas of etouffee and gumbo floating throughout the city. They ran along the Mississippi and stopped for beignets at Café Du Monde.
That's what love is, isn't it? They forgave the city its shortcomings and fell deeply in love with the place, even as they fell in love with each another. At their engagement (seen on video), Jeff got down on one knee as a street band played "It's a Wonderful World," and Amy said yes. So the date was set and they began the nearly full-time job of planning a destination wedding for more than 100 guests.
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Your Vote 2012: The Social Climate Amid fevered debate about the legalization of Gay Marriage; the existence of a "post-racial" American society; and the future of the Death Penalty; this program will seek to frame the election through the prism of changing societal attitudes. Field-reported from Iowa, where gay marriage was legalized in April 2009, the program will examine the impact of President Obama's shift on the issue on voting patterns in an important battleground state. In a state where the death penalty is no longer on-the-books, are Crime and Punishment important battleground issues? And in a predominantly "white" state, how are America's massive demographic changes (more Latinos now being born daily than whites) playing out on the hustings?. D


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Johnny Pesky: A Red Sox legend
Johnny Pesky: A Red Sox legend
In April 2005, Red Sox owners bestowed a World Series ring on Red Sox legend Johnny Pesky after the team ended its 86-year title drought.
For generations of Red Sox players, Pesky was a source of baseball knowledge. Here, Manny Ramirez gave Pesky a bear hug at spring training in 2002.
Pesky became a Red Sox legend for playing eight years for the club and for his lifetime association with the franchise.
Pesky, whose No. 6 was retired in 2008, served as a player, coach, manager, broadcaster, special adviser, and goodwill ambassador for the Red Sox, with whom he started in 1942.
Pesky, with fellow Red Sox legend Dwight Evans, was one of the team's honored guests at Fenway Park's 100th anniversary in April 2012.
Pesky served as an adviser to Red Sox coaches and players, including Roger Clemens, for many years.
Pesky became a fixture at spring training, where he worked with young players. Here, he conferred with Nomar Garciaparra in 1995.
Pesky, right, with Ted Williams, left the Red Sox after his rookie season to spend three seasons in military service. He returned in 1946 and led the team in hits in three straight seasons.
In 2005, Pesky lost his wife of 60 years, Ruth. "She was a hell of a gal," he said of her.
In 2006, as the Red Sox celebrated Pesky's 87th birthday, they officially named the right field foul marker "Pesky's Pole."
Pesky, who hit thousands of fungoes to Red Sox players over his decades with the team, will likely forever be linked as one of the faces of the franchise.
Pesky talked hitting with Jim Rice. Rice played for the Sox from 1974 to 1989.
Pesky was named interim manager of the Sox toward the end of the 1980 season.
Pesky is seen in action in an old timers' game in 1989.
Pesky, center, appeared with former Red Sox players Eddie Pellegnino, left, and Charlie Wagner at Fenway Park in 1995.
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Martha Speaks "Martha In Charge/Truman And The Deep Blue Sea" Martha in Charge - Helen comes down with laryngitis, and she's sent to bed to recuperate. Truman and the Deep Blue Sea - Truman can't believe his luck when Alice invites the gang to go whale watching . . . . until he realizes that he has to actually get on a boat.G
5:00 am
NOVA "Decoding Neanderthals" A team led by geneticist Svante Paabo announces in 2010 they have reconstructed much of the Neanderthal genome, and the analysis shows modern humans and their Neanderthal cousins interbred widely outside Africa. The film looks at these findings and a range of new evidence for Neanderthal self-expression and language.G
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Rick Steves' Europe "Denmark: Beyond Copenhagen" Rick visits Aarhus with its ruddy affluence, charming open-air museum and well-preserved ancient bog man. Roskilde is impressive with its royal burial church and the best Viking ship museum anywhere.G
6:30 am
Smart Travels - Europe with Rudy Maxa "Europe Just for Fun" As more travelers return to Europe for multiple visits, many are on the lookout for another dimension in travel. Occasionally they want to skip historical sights and museums in favor of a trip-or a day- just for fun. They're ready for absolute R&R; looking to break up serious sightseeing with hot-air-balloon trips, mountain luge rides, country hikes or days at an amusement park. D
7:00 am
The Desert Speaks "Tracks in the Shifting Sand" Explore one of the largest dune fields in North America at the Imperial Sand Dunes National Recreation Area. The Algodones Dunes in Southern California stretch across more than two hundred square miles and are visited by more than 1.4 million people each year, most of whom use some sort of off-road vehicle. A state highway splits the northern part of the dune field between wilderness and recreational area, but the task of monitoring the usage creates problems of its own. D
7:30 am
Ciao Italia "Tasty and Easy Chicken/Pollo Saporito E Facile" It tastes a lot like chicken because it is - made especially delicious when Mary Ann prepares her signature Chicken Thighs in Beer, simmered until totally terrific. Then she stuffs chicken breasts with a creative combination of fresh spinach and creamy gorgonzola, and then bakes them until fork tender and table ready. Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to here. D
8:00 am
Taste of History "Escape to Deshler Morris House" In the fall of 1793, Yellow Fever was running rampant in Philadelphia. President Washington decided to move the government's operations north to Germantown, a settlement miles away from the plague-ravaged city. He set up his offices in a charming rented home, Deshler Morris House. D
8:30 am
Simply Ming "Fish Broth" Fish is on the menu in this episode of Simply Ming that goes on the road to the Azores. Stopping off at the picturesque Island of Pico - Ming learns the secret behind a famous national dish when he meets up with a local chef. Together they meet the fishing boats as they come in with the days catch. D
9:00 am
The Jazzy Vegetarian "Rockin' Moroccan Stew" Host Laura Theodore prepares oven baked "Rockin' Moroccan Stew," which features a rainbow of veggies delicately infused with flavorful sweet and spice. Paired with "Quick Quinoa," it makes a hearty meal for any night of the week. Then "Fig, Kale, and Tomato Salad," brings a welcome change to everyday greens. D
9:30 am
Martha Stewart's Cooking School "Fish Monger" If you love to eat seafood but balk at preparing it at home, you'll welcome this lesson. Dave Pasternack, a renowned seafood chef based in New York City, joins Martha for a beginner's class on buying, butchering and storing fish. They then demystify boning a round or flat fish and cleaning a squid. D
10:00 am
Austin City Limits "The Shins/Dr. Dog" This show highlights two alternative rock groups. The Shins play from their latest recording Port of Morrow while Dr. Dog performs selections from Be the Void.G
11:00 am
Sesame Street "Finishing The Splat" Oscar has a plan to paint a painting that is so grouchy and horrible it will make everyone on Sesame Street mad. He makes several messy brushstrokes on the canvas, but Alan finds it to be very expressive. How can Oscar make the painting messier? He observes Maria squeezing a squeeze bottle too hard and mustard splattering onto her sandwich, making a mess. D
12:00 pm
Dinosaur Train "Buck-Tooth Bucky/Tiny's Tiny Friend" Buck-Tooth Bucky - When Don finds a mystery tooth in Dad's old tooth collection, Dad decides to take the kids on an investigation. They discover that the tooth belongs to a dinosaur called Masiakasaurus, a creature with a mouthful of protruding buck teeth! Tiny's Tiny Friend - Tiny gets upset when she finds a miniature mammal named Cindy Cimolestes has moved into her "Tiny Place," a hole in a tree near the family nest. Buddy ends up using his sharp eyes to help Cindy find a new home that more perfectly fits her small size. D
12:30 pm
Super Why! "The Foolish Wishes" Whyatt gets to pick one toy from the Toy Store but there are just too many choices! Will he select a race car, a comic book or even a Giant Magic Bubble Potion? The Super Readers meet a farmer and his wife who face an even more difficult decision - how to use three magic wishes. They need to figure out how to make a decision and help the impulsive farmer before he wastes all his chances on foolish things. Or will the couple ends up living out their days in a house made of sausages? Educational Objectives: To learn about choices, practice alphabet skills and the magic of spelling and use the power to read to change the story and save the day!. D
1:00 pm
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Jumping on the Moon/Sneezy Riders" Jumping on the Moon - Nick and Sally are trying to jump high enough to touch the moon, but "what goes up must come down" says the Cat. That's gravity! And to show them just what gravity is, that means a trip to the moon! That's where they meet Astronaut Audrey who takes them for a space walk to learn all about gravity. Sneezy Riders - Sally and Nick are playing hide and seek, but Nick keeps sneezing! How can they stop it from happening? Good thing Cat's friend Cluey Looey will be able to help them! At Muddyfeet Waterhole they discover that Louie is having the same problem! Nothing a trip inside Louie's nose can't solve! Inside a super shrunken Thingamajigger, Nick, Sally and Cat discover what causes sneezing and what they can do to avoid it from happening!. D
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Wild Kratts "Whale of a Squid" Chris and Martin are taking Aviva's sub prototype out for a test drive when it gets sucked into a battle between a Sperm whale and Giant squid, spiraling down into the depths. The brothers want to follow, but their damaged sub can't take that kind of pressure. Aviva develops whale and squid Creature Power Suits, so the brothers can go where no sub has gone before. D
2:00 pm
Sara's Weeknight Meals "Pantry Raid" Friends drop by at the last minute, but even on a weeknight, it's not a problem for Sara because she just pulls ingredients from the pantry. No need to go to the store with Linguine with White Bean, Sun-Dried Tomato and Olive Sauce, decadent Nacho Pie made healthier with home-made tortilla chips and surprisingly Savory Waffles topped with a Poached Egg in Hollandaise. D
2:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Venice and Its Lagoon" Rick samples sumptuous art treasures, and explores back-street wonders. He cruises its lagoon, stopping in fiery Murano for glass, pastel Burano for lace, and murky Torcello for a sense of where Venice was born. Part 2 of 2G
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Song of the Mountains Jimmy Fortune. D
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My Hero "Little Green Man" Faced with watching a dog for friends, George orders an ear-piece from Superhero Monthly to allow him to talk to it.G
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Are You Being Served? "Dear Sexy Knickers" The junior sales staff begins fraternizing. But, Mr. Lucas' note to Miss Brahms is intercepted by Mrs. Slocombe.G
6:00 pm
As Time Goes By "An Old Flame" Jean takes a parental interest in Harry, Sandy's policeman boyfriend, until she receives a phone message from an old flame.G
6:30 pm
The Thin Blue Line "Rag Week" When Rag Week begins, members of the Gasforth police deal with university students' pranks and bank robbers.G
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The Red Green Show "The Ghost of Possum Lodge" Mike discovers a ghost in the lodge and gets Red to help him catch it. Then Red uses an arc welder to protect his van from parking lot dents.G
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Keeping Up Appearances - The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket "Singing for Emmet" Hyacinth is still eager to impress Emmett with her prowess as a singer, especially now that he is divorced and has moved in next door with his sister Liz.G
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Old Guys "The Old Flame" Sally devastates Tom and Roy when she falls in love with an old flame, Mark, from her past. When Roy befriends Mark, Tom fears he's losing his best friend as well as all chance to get closer to Sally. Meanwhile, Amber and Sally bond over shared interests.G
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My Family "A Very Brief Encounter" Susan's old university friend Margot comes to Susan and Ben for support while she is going through a divorce. Ben agrees to help Margot make her estranged husband jealous, which somehow leads to Ben and Susan hiding in a closet.G
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My Hero "Little Green Man" Faced with watching a dog for friends, George orders an ear-piece from Superhero Monthly to allow him to talk to it.G
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Are You Being Served? "Dear Sexy Knickers" The junior sales staff begins fraternizing. But, Mr. Lucas' note to Miss Brahms is intercepted by Mrs. Slocombe.G
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As Time Goes By "An Old Flame" Jean takes a parental interest in Harry, Sandy's policeman boyfriend, until she receives a phone message from an old flame.G
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The Thin Blue Line "Rag Week" When Rag Week begins, members of the Gasforth police deal with university students' pranks and bank robbers.G
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The Red Green Show "The Ghost of Possum Lodge" Mike discovers a ghost in the lodge and gets Red to help him catch it. Then Red uses an arc welder to protect his van from parking lot dents.G
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Keeping Up Appearances - The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket "Singing for Emmet" Hyacinth is still eager to impress Emmett with her prowess as a singer, especially now that he is divorced and has moved in next door with his sister Liz.G


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While Jacob Crawford says math tends to be his thing, the local eighth-grader feels he's pretty good at history as well.
While Jacob Crawford says math tends to be his thing, the local eighth-grader feels he's pretty good at history as well.
And his knowledge of history has earned him a spot in the regional competition for the National History Bee. The Richard W. Warren Middle School student learned the news earlier this week.
"I was a bit surprised," Crawford said.
Crawford said he didn't have much time to prepare or study for an online qualifying exam. His score on the test ranked in the top 120 for the region, enabling him to advance to the regionals.
The regional finals will be March 1 in Wichita.
The top students from each of the 35 regional competitions will advance to the national championship, which will be June 1 in Atlanta, according to the website for the National History Bee.
Last year's national championship was televised. And the winner received a $50,000 scholarship.
Elementary and middle school students are eligible to compete in the National History Bee, according to the website.
There also is a separate division for high school students.
Crawford said he learned about the National History Bee from his social studies teacher, Tom Resovich.
The teacher said he asked other students about registering for the competition but they were unable to participate.
Crawford took the online qualifying exam Jan. 31, the last day the test was available. He took the exam at Warren Middle School.
"I stayed after school for a week before the test to prepare," he said.
He said the test had 80 multiple choice questions. And there was a time limit for answering each question.
Crawford said a correct answer was worth two points. An incorrect answer resulted in the subtraction of a point. A question that was left blank resulting in no points being added or subtracted.
He said the regional competition will have more a quiz show setup in which students can buzz in with their answers.
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JAPAN RETREAT and AM I A MONK?
I'm back from the retreat at Tokei-in temple in Shizuoka Japan. A fun time was had by all.
Usually we get about 20 people at these things. But with the change from September to July we didn't have so many participants this year. But that's no big thing. In fact it was kind of nice to have just nine people. It makes things a lot more manageable and provides an opportunity for everybody to get to know each other. I thought it was great. And the weather, which I'd feared would be intolerably hot and humid, was actually better than it usually is in September. You shoulda been there!
I've been on this computer all morning trying to sort out where I'll be going after I get back to the USA. Anybody got a cheap apartment they want to rent to a guy who's hardly ever around? Seriously. I'll consider pretty much anywhere in the world. Hit me up.
Anyhow, I'm sick of being behind the computer so I'm gonna make this another short one (notice that I deftly resist saying "That's what she said" here. It is because of my tremendous will power!).
About the previous post, people keep thinking I'm saying there's no value at all to the sutras. I'm not. They are very valuable. But Buddhists view their so-called "sacred texts" in a way that is utterly different from how such texts are viewed in most religions.
I think that when I say "Buddhist texts are not the inerrant word of God" or words to that effect, people tend to stick "...and therefore we can discard them" at the end of that statement in their minds. They do this because that's the way we've been taught to look at the scriptures of the Western religious traditions. Either they're the inerrant word of God or they're trash. That's why religious people get so bent out of shape when anyone questions their scriptures.
But there's a huuuuuuuuge middle ground between "inerrant word of God" and "trash." This is the ground that Buddhist sutras occupy.
Somebody quoted Nishijima saying:
"In Buddhism there are fundamentally two ways that can be used to pursue the truth. One is practising Zazen and the other is reading the scriptures (sutras). But some people deny that there is any value in reading Buddhist scriptures and place too much emphasis on the value of practicing Zazen. They insist that Buddhism does not consist of philosophical theories. They say that practicing Zazen only is sufficient to attain the truth and that Buddhist scriptures are useless and in fact harmful to this purpose. Master Dogen, however, did not think so; he esteemed the value of reading the scriptures. He thought that reading the scriptures was an indispensable part of attaining the truth. So he wrote down the true meaning of reading the Buddhist scriptures in this chapter. In his opinion, Buddhist scriptures are not only the Buddhist sutras, but also the Universe itself which shows us and teaches us the true meaning of our lives."
Then someone else said, "That sounds like the Old Nishijima, before the 'all you need is to straighten the spine and balance the Autonomic Nervous System' Nishijima." There is no "all you need is to straighten the spine and balance the Autonomic Nervous System Nishijima." His view on the value of Buddhist philosophy has not changed at all. He busts his ass even at age 90 to try to explain Buddhism in a philosophical way.
I feel the same way as Nisjhijima about the sutras and the writings of Dogen. Or else why would I have written a whole book trying to explain Dogen? Duh!
Also on the "things that bug me" tangent, there's a guy in Europe saying to some of the Dogen Sangha people there that monks in the Japanese Zen tradition don't deserve to call themselves monks because they're not celibate and don't follow the Vinaya regulations to the letter.
To that I can only answer in the words of the great 60s cult band The Monks, "I'm a monk, you're a monk, we're all monks!"
There are a lot of people who feel this way about Japanese-style Buddhist monks, and a lot who don't. The guy who said this comes from the Korean Zen tradition, where this is a thorny issue. When Japan occupied Korea from the early 20th century until 1945 they changed the rules there and allowed Buddhist monks to marry. When the Koreans threw off the shackles of Japan, some of the Buddhists decided to go back to the old celibate system and some did not. This caused some friction that remains today. Those who reject the non-celibacy thing do so because they see it as a corruption brought over by the nasty Japanese. Those who stayed with the non-celibate style see the easing of regulations concerning celibacy as a good and natural progression of Buddhism.
For Westerners, the idea of non-celibate Buddhist monks doesn't seem so outlandish. We had the Protestant Reformation a few hundred years ago that allowed Christian clergy to marry and generally not be celibate. And Rabbis and Imams have never been required to be celibate. So we generally don't worry ourselves too much when we hear about non-celibate Buddhist monks. But in Asia it's still controversial. And some Westerners who have lived in Asian cultures have picked up on this as well.
It would be different if non-celibacy for Buddhist monks in the Japanese tradition was something that was made up just to placate Westerners, or if it was something weirdos like me had invented. But that isn't the case. There is about 150 years of tradition behind it. In fact non-celibacy for Buddhist monks goes back a long ways before the Japanese government made it official in the 1860s. How do you think the sex based meditation exercises in the Tibetan Tantric tradition developed?
In any case, I'm a bit uncomfortable with the term "monk" myself, but not because I'm not celibate. I think the word "monk" tends to make Western people envision something like Catholic-style monk-hood. For example, it makes them imagine people who enter a monastery and live there for the rest of their lives. But that's not the case in Zen and never has been.
I use the word "monk" sometimes for lack of anything better to call myself. Gradually people are coming to understand what a Zen monk is. I also use it because once my teacher, Nishijima Roshi said to me, "You're a monk." So I accept his definition.
This is a pretty convoluted subject and maybe I'll get into it in a more detailed way one of these days.
Here's a good article on this subject by James Ford.


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Apology to Jay Garfield
A couple days ago I wrote to Jay Garfield and said, "When I submitted Nishijima Roshi's translation of Mulamadhyamakakarika to Monkfish Books, the title was Mulamadhyamakakarika. Nishijima Roshi had translated this as Song of the Fundamental Way. Monkfish Books said they didn't think that was a marketable title and asked if they could use the Sanskrit as the subtitle and re-title the book Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way. I was aware of MMK having been referred to by the English title Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way. So I OK'd the title change without checking any further as to its source. I had believed it to be just the standard English language title of the piece the way Bhagavad Gita is often called The Song of God or Maha Prajna Paramita Sutra is usually called The Great Heart of Wisdom Sutra.
"I should have checked. The only translations of MMK that I have are the ones by Inada and Kaluphana. I don't have yours (Garfield's translation of Mulamadhyamakakarika is also titled Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way). By which I mean no insult. I'm sure it's a terrific book. But I am just not a collector of books on Buddhism. I only have the Inada and Kalupahana translations because Nishijima Roshi gave them to me.
"In any case, I am now completely mortified by what has happened with regard to the title of the book. I am truly sorry for having accidentally copped your title. It wasn't meant to confuse the marketplace. It was just due to my own ignorance that this occurred."
I spoke with Paul Cohen of Monkfish Books about the matter yesterday. We have come to the following decision. The eBook version of the translation, which has not yet been released, will be published under the new title The Balanced State: A Heretical Retranslation of Nagarjuna's Root Stanzas of the Middle Way. When the current printing of the paperback (which is quite small) is sold out the book will be reprinted with that title. Furthermore the description of the book on Amazon will be rewritten as soon as possible so that the first line is, "This is not a standard translation of Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika." I plan to refer to the book from now on under its new title (though I'll include the current title in parenthesis until the reprint becomes available).
Neither the folks at Monkfish nor I intended the current title as a way to deceive buyers or to ride on the coattails of the phenomenal success of Garfield's translation (I think it's now being made into a film with Robert Pattison from Twilight as Nagarjuna and Scarlett Johansson as his love interest). Paul Cohen's philosophy was that there were already several translations of MMK on the market but there was no agreed upon standard English rendering of the title. However, Garfield's title was very close to a straight rendering of the Sanskrit into English and it would do.
Here is how the Sanskrit title breaks down — mula: (noun) a root; basis, foundation, madhyamaka: (noun) middlemost, karika: (noun) concise statement in verse of doctrine. This has been variously translated as Root Stanzas of the Middle Way, Fundamental Verses of the Middle Way and so on. Given the fact that karika refers to verses about doctrine or philosophy, which is often seen as a kind of wisdom, one could argue that Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way is an acceptable, though somewhat loose English rendering of the Sanskrit title. Still, Garfield originated that title and I should have avoided using it*.
Even so, Nagarjuna's poem is reaching the point where it's about time an agreed upon standard English title emerged. As far as Paul Cohen was concerned, Garfield's title was already that. So why confuse the matter by re-titling the piece yet again? The idea that this title was chosen to cash in on a book that wasn't really a runaway success to begin with (no offense to Prof. Garfield intended) is ridiculous. The idea that I was lazy and ignorant about the matter does have some merit however.
The contents of the book will not be changed. They do not need to be changed. In the currently available version of the book my foreword makes it very clear that I do not know Sanskrit and cannot vouch for the reliability of the translation. In part I said, "The other writers who worked on the book before me left the project over disagreements they had with Nishijima's interpretation of Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika. They said it was wrong, a mistranslation." That's in the first paragraph of the book.
Further along I said, "At the outset of my work on this book, Nishijima did try to get me to study Sanskrit. But I was already having enough trouble mastering everyday Japanese. Learning Sanskrit, a dead language that's a bear to learn and that I would only use for this one rewriting job, just didn't make sense. In any case, it didn't seem to be necessary for the task at hand. I decided my task in this book was simply to help convey what Nishijima has gleaned from his reading." I'm not sure how I could have been any clearer than that.
Nishijima's introduction, which follows this foreword, is very unambiguous about how he came to the conclusions he did regarding his translation. He admits being completely self-taught in Sanskrit. He tells you that he ignored all other translations both in English and Japanese. He cites exactly which dictionaries and grammar guides he used for his work. Furthermore, the book provides the original Sanskrit and word-by-word translations making it possible for readers to check the validity of Nishijima's word choices for themselves. You cannot possibly be more honest than that.
And, as I've said before, it's a very good book. Nishijima spent fifteen years slaving over his translation (here is a paper he presented in San Francisco in 1997 about his work on it**). This is not a lazy piece of hastily thrown together half-informed writing.
I was among the many people who advised Nishijima Roshi that he'd be far better off issuing this book as his reflections on Nagarjuna's work rather than as a translation. No one could argue against that. But he insisted it should be presented as a translation.
I think he knew exactly what he was doing. It may not have been what others, including me, thought he ought to be doing. But he was under no illusions that his translation would be accepted by scholars as accurate. He told me very clearly that he knew it would not. He expected hostility. He was ready for a fight. That's precisely what he wanted. He was quite explicit about that during our many conversations on the subject.
Why did he want such a thing? I wish he were well enough to answer that. But I can speculate. Nishijima Roshi has a bit of a punk rock attitude. That's what I like about him. If you tell a punk rocker he can't make an album unless he spends $20,000 at the Record Plant to work for six days with Steve Lillywhite on getting just the right snare drum sound he'll tell you to fuck off. Then he'll buy a $25 used cassette boom box at a Salvation Army store, set it up in front of his band, take the results to a local pressing plant, print up 500 copies and hand one to you while flipping you the bird.
The concrete results of this real action will force you to rethink your approach to recording in a way that no amount of reasoned theoretical argument ever could. It sure as hell worked in the music industry. The people in power said records like that would never sell. Now they've all lost their jobs and can't afford any more cocaine. Aw.
I think that Nishijima Roshi wanted to force people to re-examine Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika. He believed this was so important that he was willing to risk trashing his own reputation to make it happen.
* Interestingly there is a book called The Sun of Wisdom: Teachings on the Noble Nagarjuna's Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way published by Shambhala in 2003 that also uses Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way as the English translation of Mulamadhyamakakarika. The description says, "The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way was written in the second century and is one of the most important works of Nagarjuna, the pioneering commentator on the Buddha's teachings on the Madhyamika or Middle Way view." There's no mention of Jay Garfield as the originator of the translation of the title. There are no one-star reviews condemning the author for using it either. Maybe Paul Cohen was right after all...
** If that link doesn't work for you scroll down to the article titled Japanese Buddhism and the Meiji Restoration.


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In this console application, I'll demonstrate two possible mechanisms to retrieve data from the
retrogames MongoDB database. One of the possibilities consists of creating your own C# classes to represent the documents in the solution and perform the necessary mapping tweaks. So when you read a document from the database, you get back a C# object, known as a POCO (short for "Plain Old C# Object") instance. The driver transforms the BSON document into the POCO instance through deserialization. When you create a new POCO instance to add a new document to the database, the driver transforms the POCO instance you created to a BSON document through serialization. (When you chose to go this route, you might have some issues with the underlying schema flexibility. There is another alternative that preserves the schema flexibility and doesn't require your own domain classes by working with plain
BsonDocument instances,I'll dive into that option later.)
For this example, I'll focus on creating the domain classes. First, add a new interface,
namespace RetrogamesConsole { using System; using MongoDB.Bson; public interface IMongoEntity { ObjectId Id { get; set; } } }
IMongoEntity interface defines an Id field of the
MongoDB.Bson.ObjectId type that represents a BSON
ObjectId. Next, add a new class,
MongoEntity, that implements the previously created
IMongoEntity interface:
namespace RetrogamesConsole { using MongoDB.Bson; using MongoDB.Bson.Serialization.Attributes; public class MongoEntity { [BsonId] public ObjectId Id { get; set; } } }
MongoEntity class uses the
MongoDB.Bson.Serialization.Attributes.BsonIdAttribute (BsonId) attribute to specify that the
Id field must be mapped to the
_id field for each document during serialization and deserialization.
If you take a look at the previously explained Text View for the
games collection in MongoVUE, you will be able to determine the fields required in a C# class to represent a
game document. The following lines show the JSON text of the existing document as shown in the Text View:
/* 0 */ { "_id" : ObjectId("513a90ec507f318c7d15c744"), "name" : "Invaders 2013", "release_date" : ISODate("2013-04-02T03:00:00Z"), "categories" : ["space", "shooter", "remake"], "played" : true }
Add a new class,
Game, that inherits from
namespace RetrogamesConsole { using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using MongoDB.Bson; using MongoDB.Bson.Serialization.Attributes; using MongoDB.Driver; [BsonIgnoreExtraElements] public class Game : MongoEntity { public Game() { Categories = new List<string>(); } [BsonElement("name")] public string Name { get; set; } [BsonElement("release_date")] public DateTime ReleaseDate { get; set; } [BsonElement("categories")] public List<string> Categories { get; set; } [BsonElement("played")] public bool Played { get; set; } } }
Game class uses the
MongoDB.Bson.Serialization.Attributes.BsonElementAttribute (BsonElement) attribute to specify the BSON document's field name, which has to be mapped to the property. Thus, the underlying serialization process knows that the value for
release_date is mapped to the
ReleaseDate property. In this case, I've used different names and cases in the class; therefore, it was necessary to annotate it with attributes to configure automatic serialization. However, if you use the same names in the document's fields and in the class, you won't need to add annotations.
There are other attributes that allow you to override the automatic serialization behavior for the different types. For example, you can force the BSON representation of a .NET type to BSON Int64 by using the following annotation:
When you use annotations, your domain classes are not independent of the persistent layer. To avoid that situation, it is also possible to configure serialization in code instead of using attributes. For example, the following lines are the equivalent serialization configuration of the previously shown attributes for the
Game class that use the methods of the
MongoDB.Bson.Serialization.BsonClassMap class:
BsonClassMap.RegisterClassMap<Game>(g => { g.AutoMap(); g.SetIgnoreExtraElements(true); g.SetIdMember(g.GetMemberMap(x => x.Id)); g.GetMemberMap(x => x.Name).SetElementName("name"); g.GetMemberMap(x => x.ReleaseDate).SetElementName("release_date"); g.GetMemberMap(x => x.Categories).SetElementName("categories"); g.GetMemberMap(x => x.Played).SetElementName("played"); });
The following lines show the code for
Program.cs, which uses the
FindOne method to retrieve the first document in the
games collection that includes a
name field with the value equal to "
Invaders 2013." I haven't included all the necessary exception handling code in order to keep the example as simple as possible. The driver transforms the BSON document to an instance of the
Game class through deserialization (taking into account the annotations), as shown in Figure 10:
namespace RetrogamesConsole { using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; using MongoDB.Bson; using MongoDB.Driver; using MongoDB.Driver.Builders; using MongoDB.Driver.GridFS; using MongoDB.Driver.Linq; class Program { public static void Main(string[] args) { //// Warning: The following code is an example without the appropriate //// Exception handling var connectionString = "mongodb://localhost"; //// Get a thread-safe client object by using a connection string var mongoClient = new MongoClient(connectionString); //// Get a reference to a server object from the Mongo client object var mongoServer = mongoClient.GetServer(); //// Get a reference to the "retrogames" database object from the Mongo server object var databaseName = "retrogames"; var db = mongoServer.GetDatabase(databaseName); //// Get a reference to the "games" collection object from the Mongo database object var games = db.GetCollection<Game>("games"); var gameQuery = Query<Game>.EQ(g => g.Name, "Invaders 2013"); var foundGame = games.FindOne(gameQuery); } } }
Figure 10: Inspecting the Game instance (foundGame) retrieved from the MongoDB retrogames database in Visual Studio 2012.
Understanding the Different Query Builder Alternatives
The previously shown code is equivalent to the following JavaScript commands in the MongoDB shell:
use retrogames db.games.findOne({ name: "Invaders 2013"})
The code gets a thread-safe client object with a simple connection string that doesn't specify a port because the server is running in
localhost using the default port:
27017. It isn't necessary to call any methods to either connect or disconnect to MongoDB because the driver automatically manages a connection pool. The code simply gets a reference to the MongoDB server object and uses it to get a reference to the
retrogames database.
The following three lines get a reference to the
games collection object, use the typed query builder (
Query<Game>) to build a query that the driver will translate to an equivalent MongoDB query at runtime, and finally call the
FindOne method with the typed query (
gameQuery) as a parameter:
var games = db.GetCollection<Game>("games"); var gameQuery = Query<Game>.EQ(g => g.Name, "Invaders 2013"); var foundGame = games.FindOne(gameQuery);
The typed query builder is both type-aware and type safe; therefore, it allows you to use the properties defined in your domain classes to build the query. It is also possible to use the untyped query builder, but it requires you to work with the underlying field names. For example, the following lines use the untyped query builder to generate the same results as the previously shown lines:
var games = db.GetCollection<Game>("games"); var gameQuery = Query.EQ("name", "Invaders 2013"); var foundGame = games.FindOne(gameQuery);
The methods provided by the untyped query builder require an element name; so if you provide the wrong element name, the query's execution will fail. Coding in the untyped query builder is definitely error-prone.


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Appoquinimink High School students, faculty and staff are joining with biology teacher Brian Conley's friends and family to raise awareness of brain tumors and to help fund new research.
Appoquinimink High School teacher Brian Conley is facing a difficult road ahead.
The 40-year-old biology teacher has undergone surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and drug treatment since doctors discovered a malignant tumor in his brain in January.
Yet it's a journey he isn't making alone.
Students, faculty and staff at the high school are joining with Conley's friends and family to support the father of two by helping to raise awareness of brain cancer and collecting funds for new research.
"Mr. Conley is just one of those teachers who everyone loves and respects," said Brianna Barkus, an environmental science teacher, who has spearheaded the fundraising efforts at Appoquinimink High School. "After he told everyone about his diagnosis, we really wanted to show him how much we support him, while also giving the kids a chance to feel like they can actually do something."
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Seniors completed a similar walk on Wednesday, followed by juniors on Thursday and freshman on Friday.
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Conley's Crew also is the name of a team of teachers, friends and well-wishers who will be taking part in a 2-mile Delaware Brian Tumor Walk at the Riverfront in Wilmington on April 27. A second team made up of Conley's family, friends and co-workers at Goldey-Beacom College in Wilmington, where he works as a cross-county track coach, will be participating in the walk under the name Team Conley.
In the week leading up to the walk, the school also will be selling $1 water ice treats under the name, Conley's Crushed Ice.
Conley's brother and sister-in-law, Kevin and Tina Conley, also are sponsoring the first-ever Cancer Sucks 5K at Silver Lake Park on April 14 to raise additional funds for the National Brain Tumor Society. Registration costs $10 and begins at 8 a.m., followed by a 9 a.m. start time.
Additionally, family and friends will be participating in the 20th annual Angels Among Us 5K and Family Walk fundraiser for the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center in Durham, N.C., where Conley is currently taking part in clinical drug trials.
A Newark High School graduate described by friends and co-workers as humble and modest, Conley declined to be interviewed for this article out of respect for the thousands of cancer victims who have not benefitted from the support he's received.
Instead, he provided the text of a recent post on his Facebook page, titled The Luckiest Unlucky Man.
"I am lucky because I know what it feels to be loved by more people than I can count," he wrote. "This is my journey. I could not have changed it, nor would have I wanted to trade this disease with anyone."
For more information about the National Brian Tumor Walk teams or to make a donation, visit the Conley's Crew or Team Conley pages under the Delaware Brain Tumor Walk tab at www.braintumor.org.
Donations also can be made toward Team Conley's participation in the Angels Among Us 5K at www.angelsamongus.org.
Brain Tumor Facts
- Brain tumors are the second leading cause of cancer related deaths in males between the ages of 20 and 39.
- More than 600,000 people in the United States are living with a brain tumor.
- Nearly 70,000 new cases of primary brain tumors are expected to be diagnosed in the United States this year, including 4,300 in children younger than 20.
- Each day, about 500 people are diagnosed with a primary brain tumor or a metastatic brain tumor.
- May is Brain Tumor Awareness Month.
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Legislators' tour planned to highlight problem areas at Killens Pond water park.
Rusted support structures. Failing walls. Aging subsystems.
Sounds like a crumbling building in a city slum.
But it's not. These words describe parts of one of Kent County's most popular tourist attractions, the Killen's Pond Water Park. The water park, part of the Killen's Pond State Park near Felton, brings in more than 100,000 visitors each season.
But now its future is being called into question.
"It's 17 years old," said Park Manager Darren Lawson. "It's starting to wear out. If we don't do something now, it will cost more later."
"There are some safety concerns that we're addressing," Lawson added, "but we'll ensure they're fixed and it's safe before we open.
"If people see that we're open, they can rest assured that it is safe."
The water park is open from May 25 through Labor Day.
Short term fixes
Killens Pond State Park, a 66-acre parcel surrounding an 18thcentury mill pond, has been open since 1965. In addition to the water park, it features camp grounds, play areas and picnic grounds.
Concerns about the water park center on the pool, which was built in 1982, updated in 1997, but now requires major repair work to its walls. Other areas of concern include the water slides, the steel support structures for the slides and the piping and pumps used to carry water to fill the pools.
"The edges of the pool are concrete, like the edges of a sidewalk," Lawson explained. "After a while they start to crumble and water gets behind the walls. Expansion and contraction affects the pool wall, causing it to crack."
The fix – albeit a short term one – involves removing part of the wall, backfilling it with soil, and replacing the wall, Lawson said.
Repairs made last year to one of the water slides were poorly done, creating rough patches that could scratch or otherwise injure sliders, Lawson said. One slide meets standards, but the status of the second is still up in the air, he said.
Lawson also will have a structural engineer examine the water slide's support beams to ensure they are safe.
"We're only open three months, but the towers are outdoors all year long," he said. "They're affected by the chemicals and the elements. We've done the upkeep we're supposed to do, but at this point we need to know it's safe."
Money needed
Lawson's father, Delaware state Sen. Dave Lawson (R-Marydel), a member of the General Assembly Joint Finance Committee, has pledged to do what he can to find the necessary funding for the decaying tourist attraction, and has scheduled a tour of the facility for lawmakers on Monday, April 22.
"It's not really an issue of neglect," Sen. Lawson said in a statement. "Things wear out and we're at that point now where things are starting to deteriorate."
It's also an issue that has attracted the attention of the nonprofit Friends of Killens Pond State Park, group of volunteers dedicated to protecting the land within the park and ensuring its preservation and improvement.
According to Lawson's office, the state Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control has allocated $255,000 to the park in Fiscal Year 2014, much of it earmarked for "critical facility repairs." That's not enough, according to the Friends, who feel at least $335,000 is needed to make necessary repairs just to the water park.
"It's gotten Band-Aids and patches, trying to keep it going," said Friends President Tom Feurer. "They've tried to fix it up but it's gotten to the point where they need to replace things."
Darren Lawson adds that to bring the park back to its former status would require the General Assembly allocate several million dollars. That includes adding some sorely needed new attractions.
"What we need to bring it up to par is to bring in something new," he said. "Our attendance has been dropping; for a lot of people, it's a case of 'been there, done that.'
"If we want to keep this thing going and build our attendance up, we need to do something new."


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Katie Lassinger, formerly of Saxonburg, and Gene Lattus Jr., formerly of Natrona Heights, were united in marriage Sept. 22 at Heinz Memorial Chapel in Pittsburgh. The Rev. David Anderson officiated. A reception followed at the Laube Hall in Freeport.
The bride is the daughter of Terry and Susan Lassinger of Willis, Texas. Parents of the bridegroom are Gene and Mary Lattus of Natrona Heights.
The honor attendants were Brittney Lassinger of Willis and Cortney Shipley of Chicora. Bridesmaids included Julie Hook and Rosemary Lattus, both of Natrona Heights, Tricia Spohn of Butler and Brooke Lindell of Pittsburgh.
The flower girl was Emmerson Lookabill of Vienna, Va.
Performing the duties of best man was Adam Lattus of Natrona Heights. Ushers included Chad Rapp of Pittsburgh, Adam Jonczak of Natrona Heights, Chad Lassinger of Willis, Greg Lattus of Herndon, Va., and Jake Lattus of Oakton, Va.
The ring bearers were Luke and Logan Lattus of Natrona Heights.
The bride is a 2001 graduate of Knoch High School and a 2005 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh.
She is employed as a dental hygienist.
The bridegroom graduated from Highlands High School in 1998 and Gannon University in 2002.
He is an officer in the U.S. Navy.
The couple is making their home in San Diego and will be taking a honeymoon trip to Tahiti in March.


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Posted on June 19, 2009
People have asked whether I have found other tales of life and love on the loading dock. (In boxes of books, child; we don't let people live and love on the loading dock. It steams up the security camera.)
A person of observation and imagination could make up dozens, really. It is important to keep remembering that the books which are dropped off are usually those the person has finished with. Without knowing what the donor kept one doesn't really have the whole picture.
But sometimes a part of the picture is all I need.
Those huge boxes of videos tell me who's gone all DVD.
Books arriving in banana boxes tell me who doesn't read my highly informative blog. And when you use leaf bags…no, that's a story for another day.
I know where you went in Mexico last summer. Thank you for ripping out all the pages for the places you planned to visit…and then stapling them back into the books when you got home. AND then giving me the books.
Several of my colleagues were upset to find me offering a wedding album for sale. It obviously originated in the mid-70s, and since you don't have to be me to come up with a story, they jumped to the most obvious unhappy conclusion. My suggestion that it could have been a sample in a wedding photography studio didn't go over, so I said, "Well, can't you look on the bright side, at least? Maybe they both died." Try to boost someone's morale and all you get is dirty looks.
We had five boxes come in filled with books on how to play bass guitar. Tucked in at the bottom were about six books on attending law school and two on raising children. Another bass player gone over to the dark side, I guess.
I've blogged already, of course, about the man with the big collection of books on the Battle of Gettysburg, who was apparently in search of some that would back up what his father told him about it. I didn't find anything to tell me whether he had succeeded.
I cheated. I Googled the man who gave us all the books on postwar Philippine history, to find out if there was a story. Turns out he was in the Philippines during the war—counterintelligence—and kept up on the subject for sixty years thereafter.
Three or four music reviewers drop off their excess CDs at the Newberry Library, and I must report that about half of these musical gems are unopened. That tells a story.
Unopened belly dancing kits tell a fairly clear story, too.
I love the dog-training manuals that come in with one corner chewed off
Four generations of books inscribed to boys on their Bar Mitzvahs tells me several things about ya, not least something about how you regard your ancestors. (How many other people would lovingly preserve a novel by Israel Zangwill just because Great-Grandpa got it when he turned 13?)
And those books on how to catch a man which are dogeared…double dogeared…underlined…highlighted…. Well, yes, I know: that tells me only part of the story. But, um, I'm not Paul Harvey. In this case I don't really need to know the rest of the story.


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Thanks in part to global social networking and the rising popularity of crowdsourcing, regular old consumers are getting the chance to become hot shot creative directors for big-name bands.
Riding on this "open call" trend, Talenthouse, a creative collaboration platform, is making a name for itself by connecting bands with fans. From designing a poster for Rod Stewart to submitting graphic art for Paul McCartney, its contests and campaigns allow the public to lend their talents to a wide array of creative projects.
Even craftier than Talenthouse's contests are the legions of crowdsourced videos, album covers, t-shirt designs and other artsy services that directly benefit popular musicians while also giving unknown artists a few seconds of fame.
YouTube is a big player in the video aspect of this phenomenon; it played a role in the likes of Radiohead getting a marketing boost from a distinctly different cover of "Paranoid Android." A homage to the British band, the video was created by a fan who pieced together clips of 36 other fans to create a "full-length mashup."
When you combine social media with HTML5 and turbo browsers, you get an all-access invite to interact with musical artists. Here are just a few ways fans and bands are merging on the high-tech highway.
Crowdsourcing and the creative collective
The many faces of crowdsourcing are endless, literally. Dutch band C-Mon & Kypski is collaborating with 34,267 (and counting) fans to help make the music video for its song "More is Less." Enthusiasts go to the One Frame of Fame site, submit a webcam snapshot of themselves, and the result is a massive, virtual reel-to-reel of fan involvement. (The video is updated every hour.)
When the Canadian duo Violent Kin needed a music video for their song "Human Nature," they went directly to the people who know them best: their fans. With a $1,000 budget for prize money, the electro-rock outfit leveraged crowdsourcing to get a video they could be proud of while interacting with their adoring fans.
Violent Kin is riding a wave in technology and fan interaction that hasn't even crested yet. Why wrangle with the messy innards of a public relations/media company when you can go directly to the people who know you best - your fans - and get good creative collateral and lots of love in the process?
Interactive Elements
As HTML5 emerges and multimedia capabilities continue to improve, musical artists are pushing the boundaries to connect with fans in more unique and unusual ways.
To avoid piracy, Manchester Orchestra gave listeners a look at its new album via a web-based puzzle, complete with "cheat codes." And Ok Go lets users choreograph a dance of kaleidoscopic proportions based on messages they type into its All Is Not Lost Website.
The Wilderness Downtown project takes things a step further by integrating the Google Maps API Street View into its online interactive film. First, you type in an address, say your childhood home, and once it loads, the Arcade Fire's "We Used to Wait" cues; windows begin to open with satellite and street views of said address, essentially creating a music video out of your life.
The end of the world as we know it?
So, all of this creativity shooting back and forth - is it good for starving artists or simply a fancy way to glean cheap labor? What if you're a full-time, freelance graphic designer or videographer who depends on accounts like the ones Talenthouse essentially auctions off?
Some say collective talent sourcing is here to stay and get used to it, while others warn about "digital sharecropping." Nicolas Carr coined the term to describe "the distribution of production into the hands of the many and the concentration of the economic rewards into the hands of the few."
How will this augmented engagement affect the music industry? The Kaiser Chiefs turned its fans into producers, giving them the chance to choose 10 of 20 tracks for a customized album (within parameters) that could then be sold for a margin of the profits. It sounds like fun, but detractors also question the consistency and "purity" of the band's original concept.
One thing is for sure: Static videos are probably a few steps away from being considered dinosaurs. If you've ever watched a music video of your favorite song and thought, "I could do better than that," now is the time to create one. It doesn't matter if you're a musician, writer, producer, composer, singer or videographer, there's no longer a barrier between you and the creative process of your musical idol.