--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: <snip> > [Dean Sluyter, author of "Cinema Nirvana"] also made half > a dozen blog posts on Huffington Post back in 2009: > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-sluyter
I just read all six of Dean Sluyter's posts on Huffington Post. They're very much worth a look: Emily Dickinson and the Buddha vs. the WWF http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-sluyter/emily-dickinson-and-the-b_b_251383.html http://tinyurl.com/nudqxh ----- The Dharma of Celebrity Death http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-sluyter/the-dharma-of-celebrity-d_b_243756.html http://tinyurl.com/mlvkta ----- It's Official: Nobody's Cool. (Kerouac Posthumously Blows It) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-sluyter/its-official-nobody-is-co_b_205371.html http://tinyurl.com/q6l6nm ----- Your Junk Drawer vs. Nirvana http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-sluyter/your-junk-drawer-vs-nirva_b_201204.html http://tinyurl.com/r7f5uc ----- Spirituality Belief [In case it doesn't show up properly, the character between the two words is a "does not equal" sign.--JS] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-sluyter/spirituality-belief_b_185899.html http://tinyurl.com/dat2b4 ----- Lord Shiva Kicks Ass: The Liberating Power of Loss http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-sluyter/lord-shiva-kicks-ass-the_b_179628.html http://tinyurl.com/d4ot2e It strikes me that Sluyter is sort of the anti-Barry. These posts are very much like Barry's "cafe raps" in some ways, extended musings on a variety of different thoughts inspired by current observations of the world and informed by a lifetime of experience and spiritual study and reflection. He makes many of the same points, in fact, that Barry does. But Sluyter's posts are very different from Barry's in other ways. They're all beautifully, cleanly, colorfully, tightly, *coherently* written; and he does not engage in either putdowns or self-exaltation. He's consistently humble, compassionate, and loving, as well as wonderfully eloquent. A great antidote. I wish he'd written more of them. (I posted the above this morning, but it hadn't shown up as of 2:45 this afternoon.)
