Category: Notes
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A giving Tuesday post
The Tuesday after (the U.S.’s) Thanksgiving is popularly known as “giving Tuesday” (#givingTuesday) a day to support causes and non-profits and all the good stuff in the world rather than giving more money to the billionaire narcissists who keep trying to ruin it. So this is just a quick post to remind folks that in…
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Some thoughts on the new boss
In the fall of 1998 I was working in a warehouse in Oakland and living with some friends in San Francisco. My room was basically a closet at the back of the apartment, but it had a loft with room for a futon and enough space for a small desk and my Macintosh Performa. What…
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Unconnected updates
Several things, unconnected to one another. It’s been well over a month since I posted something. The blog’s been on my mind. I am interested in fulfilling my desires from the beginning of the year to write more and write more often. But the last few months have been unexpectedly challenging. Full. Full is a…
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The book: the Making of American Buddhism
So I wrote a book. A book about Japanese American Buddhists in the 1950s & their possibility-making labor that helped make American Buddhism a thing. I came up with a title that’s exceedingly clever. And that title’s been nixed by my editor. A thread 🧵 and a plea for help 1/ — scott mitchell (@djbuddha)…
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bookshop
I am fairly convinced that Amazon is, or will become, Buy-n-Large. When Wall-e first came out, my sense was that the filmmakers were not-so-subtly critiquing big-box chains like Walmart. But, let’s be honest. If the future were anything like that movie (and to be clear, it wouldn’t be, because if there was no ongoing photosynthesis…
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the ride
I have officially signed up to participate in the AIDS LifeCycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles in June 2023. Participating requires me to raise at least $3500. And one of these things they tell you to do is to let people know why you’re riding, what the ride and the cause means to you.…
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Kisa Gotami
One of my favorite contributors to the Berkeley Bussei is Hiroshi Kashiwagi. I don’t talk about him nearly enough in The Book, but only because I don’t talk about anyone nearly enough. (Turned out to be not that kind of book, but that’s a different story.) But lucky for us, I can talk about him…
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Everything is awful
Everything is awful. Here are some things that aren’t. For starters, here are my cats. It’s my unbiased opinion that there still are not enough cat pictures on the internet. We have yet to reach peak cat-picture internet. So here is my contribution. I want to point out that the black-and-white, Beezus, is the newer…
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The Book: Mid-Century Modern Buddhism
As I’ve hinted at in several posts over the last six months, I wrote a book. (If anyone can find that version of the “this is fine” dog meme but he’s saying “I wrote a book,” please drop a link in the comments.) And I’ve promised more details. So, here they are. I wrote a…