• Sports rollie

    The greatest sports upset ever

    Great sports games don’t exist in a vacuum. Your memory of the epic win mingles with some indefinable stage of growing up, or the excitement [&hellip

  • Comedy onionbuddhist

    Buddhist humor, and other myths

    It’s sort of a truism that Buddhists are somewhat hilarity-impaired. I’ve submitted funny articles to the likes of Tricycle and Shambhala Sun, and their reaction [&hellip

  • Arts Captain_Beefheart's_Magic_Band_im_Kesselhaus_(2012)

    Captain Beefheart’s 10 Rules of Guitar Playing

    Here are a couple of highlights, to go with this classic bit of damaged punky blues from 1980. Morris Tepper played guitar for Beefheart in [&hellip

  • Cultures Paul lynde halloween

    The Paul Lynde Halloween Special

    This doesn’t really have anything to do with Daoism, but it’s PAUL LYNDE, plus Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch of the West), KISS (in 1976), [&hellip

  • Deeper tinghua slips

    New set of ancient texts (including Daodejing) discovered

    Our understanding of the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) and other very early Chinese philosophical texts owes a lot to two archaeological finds, the Mawangdui Silk [&hellip

  • Arts catfish by Mike Fisher

    Catfish Blues

    Continuing this series about a great blue song in its various incarnations. The first example was an unreleased 1968 Rolling Stones jam on “Still a [&hellip

  • Sports clayton bigger

    Talking with the good professor

    ESPN’s “Professor” John Clayton has a great podcast called “In the Huddle,” about the NFL of course. The whole episode is fascinating, but I especially [&hellip

  • Arts 5guys

    Still A Fool

    Something a little different — I’m going to trace back several versions of a favorite blues song, known alternately as “Still a Fool,” “Catfish Blues,” [&hellip

Sports

rollie

The greatest sports upset ever

November 30th, 2013 | by msalt

Great sports games don’t exist in a vacuum. Your memory of the epic win mingles with some indefinable stage of [&hellip


Comedy

onionbuddhist

Buddhist humor, and other myths

November 21st, 2013 | by msalt

It’s sort of a truism that Buddhists are somewhat hilarity-impaired. I’ve submitted funny articles to the likes of Tricycle and [&hellip


Arts

catfish by Mike Fisher

Catfish Blues

July 13th, 2013 | by msalt

Continuing this series about a great blue song in its various incarnations. The first example was an unreleased 1968 Rolling [&hellip


Sports

clayton bigger

Talking with the good professor

July 8th, 2013 | by msalt

ESPN’s “Professor” John Clayton has a great podcast called “In the Huddle,” about the NFL of course. The whole episode [&hellip


Arts

5guys

Still A Fool

July 8th, 2013 | by msalt

Something a little different — I’m going to trace back several versions of a favorite blues song, known alternately as [&hellip


Sports

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Fish(Duck) and Chips

June 6th, 2013 | by msalt

Longtime readers may have noticed more than the usual amount of football discussion here at Taoish lately. There’s a reason [&hellip


Sports

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Chip Kelly and The Sucker Play

May 29th, 2013 | by msalt

I’ve written before about The Tao of football coach Chip Kelly, but Charles Fischer at FishDuck.com has another great example [&hellip



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