OMG! The new shaolin logo is a steaming turd!

[redflag]

Gene, I just read the new issue and in your publisher's note, you show the new 'official' logo and it's a pile of crap! Seriously! What gives? Is that Shaolin or what?

[David Jamieson]

it's a stylized buddha in the lotus.

man, i would have had a raised eyebrow on your rorshach tests! lol

and picture #45

:a steaming turd

and #46

:a turd...steaming

and #47

:also a turd

do you have a turd fixation?
:what's that smell in here?

hahaha

[GeneChing]

The new logo is appearing on a lot of the 'high-end' shaolin stuff - some really nice stuff actually - it very classy, not cheesy like a lot of the touristy mementos being pawned off in the last two decades. The meditating figure is in the style of local folk art, which I believe echos some of the ancient art of the area, but I'm not sure about that. To me, it looks like whipped cream with a cherry on top.

I remember in San Jose, CA, we had a similar observation on a quetzalcoatl statue. The buddhist retort might be like KL's, that abstract art is kind of a mirror, but then again, the buddhist retort should be unattached to turd fixations. In fact, I remember when studying in an Ashram in Rishikesh India, we had a big discussion of turd mandalas.

[David Jamieson]

gee thanks gene, now i am having trouble not laughing while playing coiling energies in snake shape....

each chuckle disperses the forces you know....

d.amn you!

[GeneChing]

Forums are no fun if I can't mess with your head. Or your colon...

uh-oh, I hope no one quotes me on that....

[Serpent]

Heh heh heh......

[GeneChing]

Soon I'll dominate all of your signature.

[Serpent]

You will if you keep posting gold like that!

[GeneChing]

Now I don't know but I been told
it's hard to run with the weight of gold
Other hand I heard it said
it's just as hard with the weight of lead

You weren't the only one to pick up on that quote here. I probably shouldn't have said not to quote me. That's an open invitation to do just that.

[Serpent]

Exactamundo, Mr Ching!

[GeneChing]

But let's try an experiment:

"Gene Ching is God. I will die for him" Uh-oh, I hope nobody quotes me on that...

[Fen]

lol Borther Ching!!! You are good! But not that good "yet" but keep working on it! It will come in time as all good thang's! lol But if you do find someone that will die for you!!! Please let SilLumKid and me see if there fath is worthy frist!

~Jason

[GeneChing]

Where is my legion of die-hard, never-say-die warriors who will die for me? While we're at it, let's make them ninjas. Better yet, ninjettes. Bring me the ninjettes that will die for me. Bring 'em smothered in nacho sauce. Bring me my nacho-smothered ninjettes!

Now I'm just trying to get people to quote me...

[David Jamieson]

Now I'm just trying to get people to quote me...

That is as clear as perrier.

[GeneChing]

...but society is to blame.

Besides, it worked.