(KTLA 5) Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025: KTLA's Jillian Smukler speaks to Dodgers fans the morning after the team's big win. Did the "Boys in Blue" do it or what? - What? - "What"? - Yes, this is still a PC California town. They're not the BiB. - They're not? What are they? They are the Persons in Periwinkle, and don't forget it! - The PiP? What kind of LGBTQIA+ PCcarp is that? That's not going to go over too well at the giant victory parade and Dodger Stadium rally/merch bazaar.
Victory parade and Dodger Stadium Celebration Monday morning
The Los Angeles Dodgers are once again World Series champions, earning back-to-back titles last night with their backs to the wall, the first time it's been done in a quarter century.
Next come the official celebrations. Los Angeles' team will host a victory parade Monday morning, followed by a ticketed rally at Dodgers Stadium. Tickets on sale noon Sunday.
The Big Parade
The victory parade route, DTLA
WHEN: Monday, starting at 11:00 am.
ROUTE: Starting point is Temple Street and Broadway Avenue in downtown (DTLA). Then the parade will move from Temple St. to Grand Ave. to 7th St., then to Figueroa St.
CLOSURES: Fans are being urged and strongly advised to take public transit (Metro) because of street closures, impossible traffic, and very limited public parking.
The big Dodger Stadium rally
Birthday Ghost: Valenzuela
It's one or the other. A ticketed event is planned after the parade -- with food, entertainment, and plenty of World Series merchandise, Shohei Ohtani tee-shirts, Yoshinobu Yamamoto jerseys, commemorative plastic tchotchkes.
The parade will be streamed on the giant scoreboards while the crowd waits for the team to arrive from the victory parade route through DTLA.
Due to street closures, fans will only be able to attend either the parade or the stadium celebration. No exceptions.
WHEN: Parking gates for stadium event will open at 8:30 am, and the stadium gates will open at 9:00 am.
PAID PARKING: Parking will be limited. Fans are encouraged to purchase parking with event tickets that go on sale at noon Sunday. Fans who do not purchase parking with their event tickets will need to show their purchased tickets at the auto gates to enter the parking lot.
HOW TO GET TICKETS: Tickets for the stadium rally go on sale at noon Sunday:
NOTE: The team says club and hospitality areas will be different from regular Dodgers games at the rally: The Dugout Club will have a lighter continental breakfast menu. Baseline Club will not include any food and beverage access. It will be the same for Home Run Seats. Stadium Club will not be opening either.
(Associated Press) Started streaming July 5, 2025 (PST) Watch live as the Dalai Lama celebrates his 90th birthday in Dharamshala, India, high in the Himalayas near China. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning spiritual head of one school (Yellow Hats) of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism says he plans to reincarnate yet again after his death, ending years of speculation that he might be the last incarnation to hold the role. Read more: bit.ly/40r31i7 #live #dalailama#religion
"His Holiness" will attend a public program in honor of his 90th birthday organized by the Kashag of the Central Tibetan Administration on behalf of all Tibetan people at the Main Tibetan Temple in Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India on July 6, 2025.
Korean Harvest Festival is the "Korean Thanksgiving Day" (추석)
Korean culture remains steeped in Buddhism in spite of intensive Christian evangelism.
Real Zen practice in Korea
(KOREA NOW) Watch this video at koreanow.com.Chuseok (추석) is the Korean version of "Thanksgiving," the time to eat a lot of songpyeon, and practice a little seon (zen, chan, dhyana, jhana) or meditation. This Harvest Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the 9th month according to the lunar calendar. The exact day changes each year, but it typically falls on September or October. In 2021 it was on Sept. 21st. Korea enjoys a three-day holiday to be with family and friends making "song pong" dumpling cakes with all kinds of stuffing and eating them until sleepiness sets in.
Los Angeles celebrates Chuseok
(WQ) Look up over Korea Town, Los Angeles (near DTLA), beyond the neon signs of all the restaurants and the glaring headlights of all the traffic, and there's the Hollywood sign. Turn east and it's all the lights from The Miracle Mile (Wilshire Blvd.) Look around, and it's the bling of the beauties blaring Far East Movement in their BMWs and Mercedes.
Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan should make a buddy movie, running through K-Town, you know, to save on travel expenses for their next Hollywood blockbuster. Neighboring Hollywood is literally walking distance from K-Town, where the big studios meet the grimy streets of "This Can't Be Hollywood." What did you expect? I'dunno, something clean, a little glamorous, not smog, homeless bums, vagrant encampments, skanky prostitutes, and all this traffic.
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Started streaming after midnight (Pacific Time) Friday: [Lady Gaga is swimming in the fecal sewer that is the river Seine? That or singing or a mix of the two in light rain as beloved Celine Dion stands by stiffly, looking like G-Joe on the debate stage.]
Lady Gaga goes gay to entertain masses in a kind of Moulin Rouge revue
France aims to wow the world on today with an extravagant Summer Olympics 2024 opening ceremony through the heart of its capital, Paris, which will officially be kicking off a Games fraught with security risks at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions.
(NBC Bay Area) Countdown to 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony
(Cover your right ears, Parisians! There could be shrapnel!) Follow Reuters' live coverage from Paris as the 2024 Olympic Games commence (reut.rs/4dijf0U).
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It's National Sticky Bun Day, Fatties, but that's not why it's called "Fat Tuesday." This is the day Romans (Catholics) fattened up before the religious observance of Ash Wednesday. It's a Lent thing, and other Christian denominations observe it, but not the mainstream Protestants, who try to avoid the pagan holiday holdovers.
(WGRZ-TV) Celebrating Fat Tuesday in Buffalo, NY, Feb. 21, 2023, by getting fat on junk.
Hey, Fat Tuesday Fans, lay off the sugar.
(CNN) —
It’s time to break out the beads and get in any last bites of king cake. Mardi Gras is here!
Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday." It’s also called Shrove Tuesday, Carnival Tuesday, or Pancake Tuesday [and Sticky Bun Day], depending on where the celebration is taking place.
No matter the name, it’s a day of carnal revelry that includes parades, parties, and gastronomic indulgence before the Christian "fasting" season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday (February 22 in 2023).
It marks the last day of the Carnival season, basically a six-week period of partying across the plane of the Christian-Catholic earth.
Mardi Gras is synonymous with Carnival celebrations in New Orleans, Venice, and Rio in the Americas, but the day is marked in similarly festive fashion around the world in countries with large Roman Catholic populations.
However, what began as a holiday rooted in religious tradition has become a cultural phenomenon, leading to parties for the sake of partying, not necessarily in anticipation of 40 days of penance between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday.
Whatever the motivation, here’s everything to know about Mardi Gras to be conversant in the holiday’s history:
The celebration dates back to the Romans
The Butterfly King float makes its way down St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans in 2014.
A group of people shout for beads on Bourbon Street on Mardi Gras day back in 2007.
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According to historians, festivities resembling Mardi Gras go back thousands of years to ancient Roman festivals celebrating the harvest season.
After Christianity arrived in Rome, old traditions were incorporated into the new faith and debauchery became a prelude to the Lenten season.
This fusion resulted in a hedonistic period of boozing, masquerading, and dancing with a heavy dose of religion.
As Christianity spread throughout Europe, so did the pre-Lenten festivities.
Along the way, new traditions were born and some old ones took on new incarnations. One of those Roman traditions became the sweet staple of New Orleans’ Mardi Gras known as the king cake.
During pagan Saturnalia, a winter solstice celebration of Saturn, the "god of agriculture", beans were baked into cakes to celebrate the harvest. Whoever found the bean was named “king of the day.”
[That meant eating a lot of cake looking for it, so maybe that lead to the Sticky Bun Day moniker, like the name Pancake Tuesday.]
In the Middle Ages, Christianity appropriated the tradition for the festival of the Epiphany, also known as Three Kings’ Day. (That's not unlike our newfangled and unpopular American holiday "[Three] Presidents' Day.")
Also known as Twelfth Night, Three Kings’ Day marks the start of the Carnival season each year on January 6th [which in America we now call "Orange Bozo Day," at least in Washington DC.] It commemorates the visit of the three kings -- or wise men or [Tibetan] magi [searching for their Buddhist tulku] -- to the Christ child ["Anointed One" or Kristos] on the 12th night after his birth, for a celebration, gifts, and feasting.
Christians in Spain, Latin America, and the United States mark the occasion with lots of drinking, lots of boobs and nudity, shiny beads, parades, gifts, and family feasts.
Thousands of people gather each year in Mexico City to polish off a mile-long Rosca de Reyes, or “king cake,” a staple of the holiday.
Elsewhere, families prepare the crown-shaped dessert at home.
The cake has a trinket or baby figurine baked inside it to symbolize Christ and is eaten throughout Carnival festivities.
Just as in Roman times, the person who finds the trinket is crowned “king or queen of the Carnival,” a distinction that carries various duties depending on the culture, from preparing tamales (pronounced [tuh-mall\ not \tuh-mall-lee\) for the next family party to riding on a parade float.
Shrove Tuesday is basically the same thing
Elaborate masks are another long beloved tradition of Mardi Gras.
Along the way, Shrove Tuesday emerged as the last day of Shrovetide, the week preceding the start of Lent. [Yuletide is the other big tide or "season."]
The word Shrovetide is the English equivalent of Carnival, which comes from the Latin words carnem levare, meaning “to take away the flesh.”
“To shrive” means to hear confessions, according to Catholic theologian Father William P. Saunders.
“While this was seen as the last chance for merriment, and, unfortunately in some places, has resulted in excessive pleasure, Shrovetide was the time to cast off things of the flesh and to prepare spiritually for Lent,” he wrote in CatholicCulture.org.
To prepare for Lent, Christians prepared pancakes to deplete their stock of eggs, milk, butter, and fat, giving rise to Pancake Day in England.
As the tradition spread through Europe, it became Mardi Gras in France, where waffles and crepes are prepared as part of a lavish feast.
Mardi Gras in the New World
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Following a long tradition, revelers pack Bourbon Street USA during Mardi Gras day back in 2016.
European colonists and slave traders brought the pre-Lenten festivities to the Americas, where they became huge celebrations throughout the Carnival season.
Celebrations in Trinidad and Tobago and Haiti include musical competitions, elaborate costumes, feasts, and cultural shows at various points leading up to Mardi Gras, or “Carnival Tuesday.”
French settlers brought Mardi Gras to New Orleans and the Louisiana territory. The Galette des Rois, or “king cake,” came too, becoming a symbol of New Orleans’ brand of Mardi Gras.
The first recorded Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans is believed to have held in 1837. Over time, balls, parties, and parades have spread out to take place throughout Carnival season, organized by social clubs called “Krewes.”
The celebration took on even more meaning for New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
A group of people shout for beads on Bourbon Street on Mardi Gras day back in 2007.
The tradition of “parade throws” is thought to have originated in the 1920s with the Rex Krewe, the city’s oldest social club, whose colors of purple (justice), gold (power), and green (faith) have come to symbolize New Orleans’ Mardi Gras.
After starting with necklaces, they moved onto coins called doubloons stamped with their logos, and other krewes adopted the practice.
Contrary to popular belief, there is no need for nudity to attract throws. Local historians say the trend emerged in the latter 20th century as Mardi Gras attracted more college-aged revelers.
While New Orleans is practically synonymous with Mardi Gras, doesn’t have a lock on the celebrations in the United States.
Another Gulf Coast city about 170 miles to the east – Mobile, Alabama – also has a long history with Mardi Gras, with lots of fashionable balls and special events leading up to the big day [and San Francisco on the West Coast].
There can be heated debate between the two cities on which has bragging rights to claim the first celebration.
Other cities, mostly along the Gulf Coast area, also have notable Mardi Gras celebrations, including Lake Charles, Louisiana, and Galveston, Texas.
(Zudita) Cake are some of those genius types, y'know, too good for my own good. Does them good, though, selling thousands and thousands of records. They deserve it. It's not just the hits but the brilliance, too:
Cake: "Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle"
LYRICS: Well, your CD collection looks shiny and costly.
How much did you pay for your bad Moto Guzzi?
And how much did you spend on your black leather jacket?
Is it you or your parents in this income tax bracket?
Now tickets to concerts and drinking at clubs,
Sometimes for music that you haven't even heard of.
And how much did you pay for your rock 'n roll t-shirt
That proves you were there, that you heard of them first?
How Do You Afford Your Rock'n'roll Lifestyle?
How Do You Afford Your Rock'n'roll Lifestyle?
How Do You Afford Your Rock'n'roll Lifestyle?
Butthole Surfers "Pepper"
Ah, Tell Me.
How Much Did You Pay For The Chunk Of His Guitar,
The One He Ruthlessly Smashed At The End Of The Show?
And How Much Will He Pay For A Brand New Guitar,
One Which He'll Ruthlessly Smash At The End Of Another Show?
And How Long Will The Workers Keep Building Him New Ones?
As Long As Their Soda Cans Are Red, White, And Blue Ones.
And How Long Will The Workers Keep Building Him New Ones?
As Long As Their Soda Cans Are Red, White, And Blue Ones.
Aging Black Leather And Hospital Bills,
Tattoo Removal And Dozens Of Pills.
Your Liver Pays Dearly Now For Youthful Magic Moments,
But Rock On Completely With Some Brand New Components.
How Do You Afford Your Rock'n'roll Lifestyle?
How Do You Afford Your Rock'n'roll Lifestyle?
How Do You Afford Your Rock'n'roll Lifestyle?
Excess Ain't Rebellion.
You're Drinking What They're Selling.
Join "Going West" (Hsi Lai) Buddhist Temple for a reflective evening under the Harvest Moon. By gleaming moonlight nuns will show how Mahayana Buddhism relates to the Chinese Moon Festival. Participate in small discussion groups with temple monastics, while enjoying tasty moon cakes and hot jasmine tea. The program also includes: live music, meditation, and a candlelight ceremony. Open to all. See you there!
The glorious harvest moon refulgent with yin energy (donnalewisconan)
Father and son make lantern
The Mid-Autumn Festival celebrates harvest, family reunions, and hope for another year of good fortune.
Some believe the celebration’s roots originated from the Chinese rebellion against the Mongols, who detested moon cakes. The Chinese rebel leader, Zhu Yuanzhang, had a hard time organizing a coup because large gatherings were outlawed, reports ChinaTravel.com. So the rebels baked a slip of paper into moon cakes. It ordered insurgents to attack on the 15th day of the 8th lunar year. Thus the Chinese eat moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival to celebrate this successful overthrow.
Tea with dense, sickly sweet cakes.
Thanksgiving [means] the centerpiece for this Chinese and Vietnamese harvest celebration doesn’t include a bulky dead bird. During Zhongqiu Jie, or the Mid-Autumn Festival, people give family, friends, and colleagues moon cakes, a small but filling pastry embossed with a description of its innards or the name of a bakery. Others have patterns of clouds, the moon, or a rabbit [a lucky symbol of the moon]....
“It’s almost like a Christmas fruitcake. It’s a traditional gift...,” said Becky Sun, a Pacific Asia Museum spokeswoman. “Adult children give them to parents and seniors. Friends and business partners give them to each other...” More
The Miserly Treasurer
Ken and Visakha Kawasaki (trans), Illisa Rebirth Tale (Jataka 78)
The miser didn't enjoy his riches either
This story was told by the Buddha while at Jetavana Grove about a tremendously rich royal treasurer.
He lived in a town called
Sakkara near the city of Rajagaha and had been so tightfisted that he
never gave away even the tiniest drop of oil that could be picked up with a
blade of grass. Worse than that, he wouldn't even use that minuscule
amount of oil for his own satisfaction. His vast wealth was actually of no use
to him, to his family, or to the deserving people of the land.
Moggallana, however, led this miser and his wife to Jetavana,
where they served a great meal of cakes to the Buddha and a large number of monastics. After hearing words of thanks from the Buddha, the royal
treasurer and his wife attained stream-entry.
That evening the monastics gathered together in the Hall of Truth.
"How great is the power of Ven. Moggallana!" they said. "In a
moment he converted the miser to charity, brought him to Jetavana, and
made possible his attainment. How remarkable is the elder!" While they
were talking, the Buddha entered and inquired as to the subject of their
discussion.
When they told him, the Buddha replied, "This is not the first
time, monastics, that Moggallana has converted this miserly treasurer. In
previous days too the elder taught him how deeds and their effects are
linked together." Then the Buddha told this story of the past [past life].
Long, long ago, when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benaresaranasi, there
was a treasurer named Illisa who was worth 80 crores of wealth.
This man had all the defects possible in a person. He was lame and
hunchbacked, and he had a squint; he was a confirmed miser, never giving
away any of his fortune to others, yet never enjoying it himself either.
Interestingly enough, however, for seven generations back his
ancestors had been bountiful, giving freely of their best. When this
treasurer inherited the family riches, he broke that tradition and began
hoarding his wealth.
One day, as he was returning from an audience with the king,
he saw a weary peasant sitting on a bench and drinking a mug of cheap
liquor with great gusto. The sight made the treasurer thirsty for a
drink of liquor himself, but he thought, "If I drink, others will want
to drink with me. That would mean a ruinous expense!" The more he tried
to suppress his thirst, the stronger the craving grew.
The effort to overcome his thirst made him as yellow as old
cotton. He became thinner and thinner until the veins stood out on his
emaciated frame. After a few days, still unable to forget about the
liquor, he went into his room and lay down, hugging his bed. His wife
came in, rubbed his back, and asked, "Husband, what is wrong?" "Nothing," he answered. More
Roshi Jeff Albrizee, Seven, PasaDharma.org, The Book of Equanimity, Case 78
Yum, now they're hemp-a-licious! Lundberg brand rice cakes are not as bad as popcorn.
PREFACE TO THE ASSEMBLY
When you seek the cost all over heaven, you’ll be paid the price all over the Earth.
To seek after 100 schemes is just a shame.
Isn't there some one who knows to advance and retreat, and who recognizes the duality?
MAIN CASE
Eat or fast, but mindfully with clear comprehension
Attention!
Master Ummon spoke to the assembly of monastics: “Even if a single word instantaneously puts the 10,000 differences in the same groove, including the minutest particle, it is still an expression of teaching. What is a patch-robe monastic to say? If you argue about the words of the ancestors and the buddhas, the unique way of Zen will be destroyed. Is there any one here who can put it right? If you can speak, come forward.”
Then a monk asked, “What is speech that transcends the buddhas and goes beyond the ancestors?”
Ummon replied, “Farm rice-cake.”
Then the monk asked, “What connection is there between the farm rice-cake and the speech that transcends the buddhas and ancestors?”
Master Ummon replied, “Exactly! What’s the connection? What are you calling buddhas and what are you calling ancestors?”
Eat like a wise vegetarian monastic -- healthy, tasty, and kindly (3D-pictures.feedio.net)
Ummon further explained, “Right now, is anything the matter? If you really don’t have any clue, then for a time go into yourself and investigate thoroughly on your own. In the 24 hours of the day, when you are wearing a robe, eating, defecating, and urinating, even including the flies in the latrine, is there still any speech that transcends buddhas and ancestors?”
APPRECIATORY VERSE
“Farm rice-cake” is speech that transcends buddhas and ancestors.
In this phrase there’s no flavor.
How can you penetrate it?
Zen monastics who one day know satisfaction will see no shame on Ummon’s face.
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