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Well, from AMAZON.com, that is…

I was playing around with the new Universal Wish List button that Amazon has added to their site (brilliant idea, natch) and pruning items from my Wish List that I had or no longer wanted, when I realized that I had some items listed there that were older than my kids. Some of these wishes were obviously from a time when I had (much) more free time to laze about reading Wittgenstein 😉

So, here is the Oldest Item On My Wishlist, added on Nov, 4 1999 :

I’ve always been fascinated by quantum physics and found Bohm to be especially enlightening and enjoyable to read. I found my way to him through his dialogues with Krishnamurti, who I respect greatly. It is one of my many disappointments that for several years I lived mere hours from the Krishnamurti retreat in Ojai, yet never visited. Perhaps another day…

Here’s a clip of the K man:

Krishnamurti on Channel 4 TV (1) – 1984

EDIT: Here’s the link to part 2 of the interview…

There’s very little TV that I’m willing to set aside time for…but count me among the heroes…
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Just as "accurate" as his George-Bush-As-The-Joker illustration, but without all of the depressing emotional attachments…

// Thanks again, BOING BOING for cutting into my valuable work time.

For some reason, this one really pleased me…

"Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot his whole life, which created an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him frail, and with his odd diet, he suffered from very bad breath.

This made him — a super-callused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis."

🙂

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You can listen to all 2 hr 21 min of Mr. Waits’ July 5th concert in Atlanta.

God Bless You, NPR.

You can all see his great "press conference" here on YouTube: