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Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Buddhist Radio LA: Alan Watts (Sun, Thurs)


Alan Watts: "Man and Nature"
Being in the Way Podcast, Episode 8 – Hosted by son Mark Watts
Alan Watts: Being in the Way (amazon.com)
Be Here Now Network(Be Here Now Network) Alan Watts - Being in the Way. In this intimate two-part session, Alan Watts shares distinctive philosophical vantage points outlining humankind’s relationship to the nature all around us.

“All music is purposeless. Is music getting somewhere? If the aim of a symphony were to get to the final bar, the best conductor would be the one who got there fastest. When you dance do you aim to arrive at a particular place on the floor? The aim of dancing is to dance, is the present. It’s exactly the same with our life.” – Alan Watts
  • Man & Nature, Here & Now (0:00)
  • The Three Theories of Nature (11:53)
  • The Undefinable Order of Nature (35:30)
  • Trust, Play, & Purposelessness (45:00)
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Wednesday, July 15, 2026

NEW: Ocean Way Festival, Los Angeles


OC Fair music tries to outdo LA County Fair
Could pop and alt rock fans from LA and the OC ever be interested in seeing acts like Sublime, Jack White, Olivia Dean (Queen of the Summer), Khruangbin, or Coco & Breezy without a long drive through the desert stuck in traffic with building anticipation?

Goldenvoice is betting locals would. There's a new "Coachella" by the same outfit that runs the one in the desert (as well as country and Western themed Stagecoach), but this one is going to be in Santa Monica, the Ocean Way Festival.

Register for access. Tickets go on sale Thursday, July 23rd, at 11:00 am (Pacific Time). Register now to receive a presale code and link to purchase tickets. For help registering, email: register@goldenvoice.com.

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Bruce Lee on Muscle Beach, Los Angeles



In 1971, Bruce Lee was enjoying a day with his wife Linda Lee Cadwell and family at "Muscle Beach," a portion of Venice Beach next to Santa Monica under LAX's flight path, when Kurt Wagner — a 315-pound strongman who could deadlift 750 pounds — publicly challenged his Buddhist/Taoist/Chinese philosophy.

What happened in the next six seconds shocked the entire "Muscle Beach" crowd and changed strength culture forever.

This is the untold story of when raw power met precision, when mass confronted understanding, and when a world-champion strongman learned that everything he believed about strength was incomplete.

🥋 The confrontation that Muscle Beach never forgot
🥋 How a 135-pound man dropped a 315-pound giant in six seconds
🥋 The solar plexus strike that penetrates through muscle
🥋 Why mass without wisdom is just weight to carry
🥋 The strongman who became Bruce Lee's student

Kurt Wagner thought his 315 pounds of muscle made him unstoppable. Bruce Lee showed him that technique, properly applied, can overcome any size advantage — not through luck, not through tricks, but through deep understanding of anatomy, physics, and human movement.

This is the legacy of Bruce Lee teaching that real strength isn't measured in pounds, but in wisdom and understanding.

Joe Rogan: This is impossible 

(The Hidden Record) Only Dr. Joel Wallach (criticalhealthnews.com) knows what killed legendary and superhuman Bruce Lee (Kung Fu, Jeet Kune Do, Chinese martial arts). It was his bad diet, going to extremes, killed by gluten and insufficient micro and macro nutrients.

Friday, September 19, 2025

Thai Fest by the Beach, LA (9/20-21)


Dance of the Muay Thai
SANTA MONICA, California - Join the Happy Weekend outside of Thailand. Bangkok has a twin city with eerily similar long-form names, and it's "the City of Angels," Los Angeles, home to a large and vibrant Thai Buddhist community. The 2025 delicious celebration of Thai food and culture runs through the weekend on the iconic Santa Monica Pier above PCH in coastal Los Angeles. Bring friends and family to enjoy unforgettable memories at Thai Fest by the Beach (Thai Fest by the Beach). It is not just a food fest, but it's where food, culture, and fun unite in harmony to create an extraordinary experience for everyone. What does Thai Fest by the Beach offer? Discover what makes Thai Fest a one-of-a-kind experience — with incredible food, vibrant performances, and fun activities for all ages. More

Tale of Two Cities' [Names]

Bangkok (or L.A. East) rocks!
Bangkok's ceremonial name came into use during the reign of King Mongkut [e][12]. The full name reads [20][f]:

Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit (กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยา มหาดิลกภพ นพรัตนราชธานีบูรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์มหาสถาน อมรพิมานอวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยวิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์).
  • The full name of Los Angeles (according to the Guinness Book of World Records) is: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula [30] or "The City of Our Lady [the Virgin Mary] the Queen of the Angels by the River Porciuncula" [29] ("City of Angels"). The original name of the settlement is disputed. Other sources have shortened (El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles, "The City of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels") or have alternate versions of the longer name [31] established by the Townspeople or Los Pobladores. More
LA is bigger than Hollywood
This name is composed of Pali (the exclusively Buddhist language of the Buddha, also known as Magadhi, where the Buddha lived) and Sanskrit root-words.

It translates as [20]: "The City of Angels, great city of immortals, magnificent city of the Nine Gems, seat of the King, city of royal palaces, home of gods incarnate, erected by Vishvakarman at Indra [Sakka]'s behest."

The name is listed in Guinness World Records as the world's longest place name at 168 letters [21][g].


Sakka is Indra is St. Michael
Many Thais who recall the full name do so because of its use in the 1989 song "Krung Thep Maha Nakhon" by Thai rock band Asanee–Wasan, the lyrics of which consist entirely of the city's full name, repeated throughout the song [22].

Today, the city is officially known in Thai by a shortened form of the full ceremonial name, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (กรุงเทพมหานคร), which is colloquially further shortened to Krung Thep (กรุงเทพฯ) or the initialism Ko Tho Mo (กทม.). Krung กรุง is a Thai word of Khmer origin [23], meaning "capital, king" [24], while thep (เทพ) is from Pali/Sanskrit deva, meaning "deity," "angel," or "god."

The Big Mango = Bangkok, Thailand
The name of Bangkok is more commonly translated as "City of Angels," which is also used to draw comparisons with Los Angeles in the United States, a comparably sized city with similar traffic issues [25].

Another nickname sometimes used to refer to the city is The Big Mango, a tongue-in-cheek comparison to The Big Apple for New York City [26]. More

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Deadly winds, fires, and Biden hit LA


Tragedy has struck, and we have been impacted. From the Santa Monica Bay to the foothills, Los Angeles is burning. Even Hollywood has not been spared. January 2025 Southern California wildfires. Is it natural? It's at least partially manmade because of the unnatural drought that uses a ridiculously high ridge of air to keep moisture away. Weather wars are real and have been in use by the military since the U.S. War on Vietnam. Paradise got it, Hawaii got it, why not the most populous city in the most populous state? All around us are scenes of devastation and normality, intermingled in a way that we did not imagine the Apocalypse. We were expecting "The Big One," a massive quake to end all services, civility, and any semblance of law and order. Instead, it's quite nice. People are pleasant, if not the best drivers. Mountains are smoldering, but otherwise most people are just carrying on their day-to-day existence without a visible change, except maybe rushing home to watch the news. The revolution will not be televised but the disasters will. We have an incompetent mayor and an even worse egomaniacal governor. What was anyone to expect? It's the perfect formula for imagining something fishy is going on, something willed. This is not just incompetence. But try to prove it.

Live KTLA 5 coverage: Wind-driven Palisades Fire in LA destroys homes

(KTLA 5) BREAKING NEWS: Firefighters are battling a fast-moving wildfire that has destroyed an undetermined number of homes (seaside mansions between the Hollywood studios and Santa Monica Bay) in the very affluent Pacific Palisades area of west Los Angeles. Watch KTLA 5 News team coverage. Liveblog: trib.al/tBDjKJ0



It was just wind damage in the morning

'Life-threatening windstorm' over SoCal
High pressure wind Diablo, Santa Ana
(FOX 11 Los Angeles) Jan. 6, 2025: The NWS said winds will reach "dangerous levels" by Tuesday afternoon, hitting LA and Ventura counties. Meteorologists estimated widespread gusts of 50 to 80 mph, with isolated gusts of 80 to 100 mph across the mountains/foothills possible. Red flag warning in effect.
SoCal sees its 'most destructive windstorm' in over a decade

(ABC7) Jan 7, 2025: Potentially destructive Santa Ana winds will blow through Southern California, elevating fire risk to dangerous levels for the next few days. abc7.com/los-angeles-weather-... Gusts up to 85 MPH, with sustained winds over 40 MPH, continuing for a few days.

Bag of wind visits SoCal to sign bill
We must not let Trump ruin this country like I ruined it, tried not to ruin it, y'know what I mean!
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Is it true you tried to hang me on Jan. 6th?
Meanwhile, the weather is being worsened by a bag of hot air (Genocide Joe Biden) on the loose out there, east of Los Angeles, looking for a photo op as he declares public lands around Joshua Tree National Park a new monument dubbed Chuckwalla. Having arrived yesterday to disrupt the traffic, lame duck Biden is trying to leave a positive environmental legacy on top of all the destruction he has wrought with the U.S. War Machine as an old-timer with decades in Washington, DC, doing nothing to commend him or establish a good reputation.

Monday, December 23, 2024

Dangerous surf is up for Xmas in LA


Holiday Tradition: Surfing Santa in Los Angeles
(PhotowalksTV with Jefferson Graham) Nov. 28, 2024: Chiropractor Derek Levy of Hermosa Beach, L.A. County, California, dons the big red wet suit again for his 2024 stint as Surfing Santa. Levy is the cover surfer for the Easy Reader, the L.A. area publication that began putting surfers on its cover in 1978. #santaclaus #christmas #surfingsanta

CHAPTERS
  • 00:00 Surfing Santa
  • 00:13 History
  • 00:57 Easy Reader publisher Kevin Cody
  • 01:24 Photos by Ray Vidal
🔔 Explore the world through this lens on PhotoWalksTV! Subscribe now for breathtaking journeys and photography tips: @photowalkstv. This episode was photographed on a variety of cameras, including the DJI Mini 4 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro and Sony RX10IV.

Friday, September 27, 2024

More blonds for California (Cali Dreamin)


Beloe Zlato - "California Dreamin"
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Friday, September 20, 2024

Trump's Jewish extremist g/f Loomer


Shut up, Pence! Loomer is talking. - That's right
While her name is Laura Loomer, she perhaps should be referred to as "Loomerinski" because of her shocking similarities to Pres. Bill Clinton's girlfriend and sex partner behind Hillary's back, Monica Lewinski. Poor ML did a lot to get a head, uhm, ahead. And where did it get her, a secret payoff? What price for her humiliation. Loomerinski is oldier, savier, and knows how to work Ex-Pres. Trump into a frenzy. All she has to do is stroke his ego, hug, kiss, compliment, stare at, admire, advise, tell racist jokes to, and she'll get a cabinet position in exchange. It was always odd that Pres. Trump handed over the Israeli-Palestinian "conflict" to mute and possibly autistic son Jared, a childhood friend of Chicago Jew and Prime Minister of Israel Bibi Netanyahu, who worked him like an adult toy at a father and daughter Jewish sex shop. (There is one, just one, and we've covered it). Is Trump dumb? We can only judge him by the company he keeps. Sure RFK Jr. seems to be a fan, but actually Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard just see through the current war-loving administration and its next installment. VP Kamala is bad, and they are not willing to swallow her just to spite Trump. And handful of good minds really see evil Trump as the lesser of the two evils.
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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Climbing Mt. Hollywood Sign, Los Angeles

Beloved monument was frequently vandalized by clever artists/activists until a fence went up.
Los Angeles Hamalayas hamming it up for the Hollywood cameras with LA as Katmandu
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Mt. Lee with antenna peak, sign on upper left
It's odd how similar Los Angeles, the capital of the world, and Kathmandu, the capital of Buddhist Nepal, are. Both are buttressed against a great range snowy.

Behind Los Angeles to the north is Angeles National Forest, and LA County seems to continue behind this great forest, headwaters, and occasionally snowy peaks. Just like the view of the Himalayan range north of Kathmandu, it's not possible to tell which one is Mt. Everest.

Wow, that's Everest from below? No, on the left.

Old timey Hollywood Land sign (circa 1930)
That's odd since, allegedly, it's the tallest mountain in the world. It's actually probably about the fourth or fifth tallest, behind Mt. Sumeru (which may have sunk and become the current tallest) Mt. Mauna Kea, K2 above ancient Gandhara (the Buddha's country Afghanistan-Pakistan), and one that allegedly bulges at the equator to be the tallest when measured from the center of the planet.

List of mountain peaks by prominence. The iconic Hollywood sign rests on the scrub brush slopes of Mt. Lee in Hollywood along Beechwood Canyon, the street the first Theravada Buddhist temple in Los Angeles was set up by the Sri Lankan community (farther south right next to Hollywood Blvd.)

The name of the mountain (Mt. Lee) separating Hollywood from The Valley is not "Mt. H Sign," and Mt. Everest isn't the name of the peak in Nepal. Its actual name is Sagarmatha ("Goddess of the Sky") in Nepal and Qomolangma ("Holy Mother") in Tibet.

Bonkers history of (and treacherous journey to) both sides of the Hollywood sign
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Griffith Park Observatory's clear view of the sign
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"Which one's Everest?" #1 question on flight to summit

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Jimmy Kimmel: Kamala boost, Trump loose


Trump's wild debate conspiracies, former Republican leaders for Democrat Kamala, MAGA fashion show, and iPhone prank
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Sept. 18, 2024: The Golden Bachelorette premiered on ABC and there are a bunch of great characters in it, things are looking up for Kamala Harris as a new poll has her leading by 6 points, Trump is still busy trying to convince everyone that he won the debate by throwing around tons of conspiracies, 111 former Republican national security officials and members of Congress published a letter today endorsing Kamala, after the attempt at an assassination attempt on Sunday the Secret Service has again informed Trump that if he wants to continue to play golf they need to boost their presence, the mayor of Springfield, Ohio, is saying that a visit from Trump would be an extreme strain on local resources, Trump supporters held what they called “The America First Patriotic Designer Showcase” in Long Island last night, and JKL tricks pedestrians into believing their old iPhones are the new iPhones. #Kimmel


Audience members leave rally as Trump gives incoherent answers on manufacturing, food: A Closer Look
(Late Night with Seth Meyers) Sept. 18, 2024: Seth Meyer takes a closer look at Trump giving a series of incoherent answers when asked at a town hall how he would save manufacturing jobs and bring down grocery prices. Anger at Taylor Swift, Kamala, and everyone who crosses him.

Friday, August 23, 2024

FREE living in Santa Monica, Los Angeles

City streets are one thing, the beach another. Walk toward Pacific Ocean at Santa Monica Bay

WTF happened to Santa Monica, California?!
(Graham Stephan) Aug. 14, 2024: Let's talk about what is happening throughout the City of Santa Monica and larger Los Angeles in general. This is California? These are the problems the cities are facing and my thoughts on the entire situation. Enjoy it or shut the front door. Please add me on Instagram (GPStephan). Watch "German in Venice" video: WTF Happened to Santa Monica, California...

The collapse of Los Angeles

Los Angeles collapsed! Uncovering America's urban disaster 🇺🇸
(Adventure Elliot) Aug. 15, 2024: LOS ANGELES, California is one of the world's wealthiest places yet one of the poorest at the same time. Let's go downtown (DTLA) to meet up with Colby (AviatorUSA.com), a local LA business owner, to get the scoop on what's going on. Graham Stephan and Peter Santenello Los Angeles.

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Let's visit the real Los Angeles (video)


Los Angeles: The City of Broken Dreams
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Hollywood is woke AF, so try to fit in.
There's a place in LA to go to get dreams broken more quickly than anywhere else. It's called Sunset Boulevard. That's where the musicians congregate and before long end up working at Guitar Center selling equipment they can play but can't get anyone interested in paying them money to see them play. It's called the music business. So bring some of the right k karma, showmanship, and business savvy, or stay home. This very same street, which leads all the way west to Santa Monica Beach from the Hollywood Hills just above it, is the former site of a lot of above ground prostitution. Now turning tricks has moved to the Valley and, apparently, Figueroa and other seedy street. And while visiting Hollywood, why not try your hand at acting? This very street has lots of little restaurants where screen legends were allegedly discovered. One never knows who's watching, so dress up, the flashier the better.

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Monday, June 17, 2024

'My Kink is Karma': Chappell Roan, Bonnaroo

Chappell Roan performing at 2024 Gov Ball Music Festival in NYC (Astrida Valigorsky/Getty)
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Chappell Roan draws Bonnaroo crowd after festival organizers made last-minute switch to bigger stage
(Pink Pony Club Chappell Roan wants to leave the South and go to Santa Monica to be stripper/singer

She has the voice for it in "Good Luck, Babe"

I don't know this Chappell bich. I'm Dave!
(CNN) — It’s all rise for Chappell Roan, 26.  The emerging pop star (not to be confused with the established comedian who's always getting in trouble with our trans community) drew in a major crowd at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Tennessee over the weekend, validating festival organizers’ decision to move her performance to a bigger stage to accommodate anticipated crowds.

Roan said NO way to White House Pride. I'll do it
when we have liberty, justice, and freedom for all

Dave Chappelle is comic genius.
Some Chappell (singer not the comedian) supporters even began camping out around 3:30 am to claim their spots before her set, according to The Tennessean. CNN has reached out to Bonnaroo to confirm the number of people in attendance for Roan’s performance.

Bonnaroo’s move came days after came after Roan, whose given name is Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, drew an unexpectedly large crowd at New York City’s Gov Ball Music Festival, where she appeared on stage in head-to-toe green body paint dressed as the Statue of Liberty.

The lesbian singer, 26, who signed her first record deal as a teen, recently expressed some of the pressure she has felt with her growing popularity.

Chappell Roan at 2024 Bonnaroo Music Festival in Tennessee (Erika Goldring/Getty)
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“I just want to be honest with the crowd,” Roan, visibly emotional, said during a concert in North Carolina last week, according to a video posted to YouTube.

("Good Luck, Babe") Look, I can actually sing! I'm deep and complex, too!

“I just feel a little off today because I think that my career has just kind of gone really fast, and it’s really hard to keep up.” Roan’s music has an ’80s synth-pop sound with smooth vocals and colorful stage style.
  • [She's the new Sabrina Carpenter, Taylor "Nazi Barbie" Swift, Dopa Kat, Catty Purry, Nicki "Barbie/Roman" Minaj, Sasha "Beyonce" Fierce, Flavor-of-the-Week...]
Hit on by Uber driver on way to CR show in TN

Her 2023 debut studio album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, currently sits in the No. 12 spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart. She also has three songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, according to the music charting site, including “Red Wine Supernova,” “Hot and Go!” and her latest single, “Good Luck Babe!” More

Kayleigh Rose Amstutz's secret? Chappell Roan's a female drag queen.
Rock 'n roll will kill you, Kids. Stay in Tennessee. And don't take drugs. :)