Magical Mystery Band: The Beatles and God

By |2016-02-17T10:41:20-08:00February 17, 2016|1964, Eastern religions, Guest blogger, India, rishikesh, Transcendental Meditation|

by Chris Dingman, guest Dullblogger I was born on April 3, 1964, the week The Beatles saturated the US pop charts like no act before or since, claiming the first five songs and fully fourteen percent of the top 100. But I wouldn’t hear them until some years later, when they would spark my first ideas of God. Chris Dingman -- you can read more about him and his projects at the end of this post. We tend to see Copernicus’s realization that the earth revolves around the sun instead of vice versa as the beginning of the end of [...]

Variety agrees with Hey Dullblog: 2014 is the Year of Ringo

By |2014-01-29T13:36:36-08:00January 29, 2014|David Lynch, Ringo, Ringo Starr, Todd Rundgren, Transcendental Meditation|

"Peace, wall." DEVIN McKINNEY  •  Ringo is on the cover of the latest Variety, heralding a celebrity profile by Assistant Managing Features Editor Steve Chagollan that is not only indifferently written but, typical for an age in which basic compositional standards are plummeting faster than an anvil lofted from the Empire State Building, is dotted with stylistic and factual boo-boos.  (Ringo’s wife is referred to as “the actress formerly known as Barbara Bach”; what is she known as now, The Actress?) Still, the piece offers a brand-new, piping-hot array of Ringo opinions (he thinks Di Caprio is a lock for [...]

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