"Barbara O’Brien’s wide-ranging account of Zen history is conveyed with a master storyteller’s ability to keep the forest from getting lost in a myriad of trees. Wearing her scholarship lightly, she blends just the right amount of skepticism about her hagiographic sources with a deep appreciation for the Dharma." — Barry Magid, author of
Nothing Is Hidden and
Ending the Pursuit of Happiness Order here!
That boy could sing! One of the greatest set of pipies in R&R history.
RIP, Freddie.
Google’s tribute to Freddie’s birthday yesterday. This is what the rest of the world saw. Here in the US, we had the regular Google page with an anemic US flag below the search button boxes. (Really, I know the right-wing nutjobs would have screamed if the Freddie animation was on our page, but Google, you should have just ignored labor day and omitted the flag.)
http://www.google.com/
Sorry, that link doesn’t have an animated doodle attached.
Here’s the YouTube of the doodle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe0gIFxYhrk