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City Buddha, Jesus Crisis

Never a bore in the year of the boar!

About Me

I have moved on to another career and am no longer employed by City Buddha. But I am keeping this page up because I remain a huge fan. City Buddha is a great place to work and is still my favorite store in the Greater Cleveland area.

Find City Buddha at:
1807 Coventry Road (Cleveland Heights)
Phone: (216) 397-5862

Check out their website (still a work in progress): www.citybuddha.com

To see who I am, click the picture below:

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My Interests

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Music:

"Under The White Wind" by Bei Bei

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Movies:

Here's one of my songs:
Forever's Haunting Me
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My favorite movies include:
Dead Poets Society, Phantom of the Opera, Schindler's List, The Doors, Purple Rain (if you ignore Apollonia's acting), Vanilla Sky, Good Will Hunting, Ray, The Rose, A Star Is Born (with Barbra & Kris, though I also like Judy's version), West Side Story, American History X, The Shawshank Redmption, Jesus of Montreal, The Sound of Music, and lots of concert videos

Television:

A great band featuring Tom Verlaine

Books:

Love came,
and became like blood in my body.
It rushed through my veins
and encircled my heart.
Everywhere I looked,
I saw one thing.
The Beloved's name written
on my limbs.
on my left palm,
on my forehead,
on the back of my neck,
on my right big toe…
Oh, my friend,
all that you see of me
is just a shell,
and the rest belongs to the Beloved.
~Rumi
I also recommend: Fyodor Dostoevsky, T.S. Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, John Milton, John Keats, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Barth, Richard Wright, Lao Tze, James Joyce, William Faulkner, John Barth, Phillip Roth, Gay Talese, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, William Carlos Williams, Henrik Ibsen, Hermann Hesse, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pablo Neruda, Friedrich Nietzsche, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nikos Kazantzakis, Henry Miller, F. Scott Fitzgerald....
The God Delusion (Dawkins), The Assault on Reason (Gore), The Tao of Physics (Capra), The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Haley), The Tao of Pooh (Hoff), Living History (Hillary), My Life (Bill), the Dhammapada, and many many more....

Heroes:

The XIV Dalai Lama, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Siddhartha Gautama, Mother Teresa ... and anyone who promotes peace, love, tolerance, compassion, and harmony.

My Blog

Dicked and more! (updated Jesus Crisis blog index)

My newest blogs (as of 11 March 2008) are Dicked: A Religious Blog The Electoral Votes Have Been Counted (and they will matter) Profane Pre-Prison Poetry Three Published Poems by JC in Pr...
Posted by City Buddha, Jesus Crisis on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:54:00 PST

Buddhism vs. Christianity (featuring Nietzsche)

I originally posted this on my regular website:www.crisischronicles.com as well as on my other MySpace profile But I have a lot of different friends here than I do thereand I thought many of you might...
Posted by City Buddha, Jesus Crisis on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:58:00 PST

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam(Translated into English in 1859 by Edward FitzGerald)I.AWAKE! for Morning in the Bowl of NightHas flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:And Lo! the Hunter of the E...
Posted by City Buddha, Jesus Crisis on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:30:00 PST

Whos been behind this profile?

It's just me, John! If you'd like to be my friend, too, in addition to being City Buddha's, please add me.  Even if you don't like me, I trust that you'll still love City Buddha. They still ...
Posted by City Buddha, Jesus Crisis on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:20:00 PST

Ohio City Farewell Sale

Ohio City Farewell Sale True to form to change, all things must come to an end. City Buddha will be closing it's Ohio City location come the end of September. It has been an absolute pleasure servi...
Posted by City Buddha, Jesus Crisis on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:49:00 PST

Bannock Shoals Run - A Journey into Understanding

[me at about age 4] * * * * * * * Bannock Shoals Run I believe that each one of us has a memory of some particular time and place in life that we regard with such immeasurable value that we woul...
Posted by City Buddha, Jesus Crisis on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:55:00 PST

A free Buddhist library at your fingertips! (repost)

Check it out at http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/index.htm  
Posted by City Buddha, Jesus Crisis on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:43:00 PST

Now open 7 days a week at both locations

W. 25th Street store hours:Monday thru Friday - 11 am to 6 pmSaturday - 10 am to 6 pmSunday - 12 pm to 5 pmCoventry Road store hours:Monday thru Saturday - 11 am to 9 pmSunday - 12 pm to 6 pm...
Posted by City Buddha, Jesus Crisis on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:05:00 PST

Updating my music playlist!

In February we celebrated George Harrison's birthday by featuring a playlist of his songs.  I will try to keep that playlist available for those fans who still wish to listen.  But...
Posted by City Buddha, Jesus Crisis on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:28:00 PST

June Plain Dealer article about City Buddha on Coventry

Click here to read it: http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/plaindealer/shoptalk/ index.ssf?/base/friday/1151052262314270.xml&coll=2 And have a happy day!...
Posted by City Buddha, Jesus Crisis on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:44:00 PST