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Was here in LA before Ratha Yatra for few days, she gave class and bought my last 18" Krsna doll left in the store /images/graemlins/frown.gif Missing doll making.

I'm glad Sruta Kirti is ok.

My friend has a book store and she sells different Puranas, tomorrow I'll post the website and you can contact her.

A Florida couple is suing a McDonald's franchise over a hard bagel. The suit alleges that the bagel was improperly prepared and broke several of John O'Hare's teeth. His wife then "lost the care, comfort, consortium, and society of her husband," the suit says. The owner of the franchise says she has no idea how a bagel could leave a man incapable of making love to his wife regardless of how it was prepared. "It's a bagel," she said.

An Alabama trucker removed his own appendix with a kitchen knife and cocktail fork after drinking a bottle of beer as an anesthetic. Horace Wilfrey was aided by his mother, who eventually called 911 whaen Wilfrey passed out following the succesful operation. "Everybody says I'm crazy," says Wilfrey. "Maybe I am. But I could never abide doctors."

A Welsh peeping Tom was sentenced to spend 12 hours staring at the naked residents of Sunset Valley Naturist Park, ages 65 to 91. Willard Burton was strapped into a wooden chair while the seniors strolled by. "This was a cruel an unusual punishment," Burton said. "once or twice, I thought I was going to be sick."

A group of British thieves couldn't crack open a safe, so they tied it to their car and dragged it for a mile back to their hideaway. People in the village of Cam called police after being awakened by the loud booms made by the one-ton steel box as it bounced down the street. Investigators followed the gouges in the road and found the safe sitting outside the suspects apartment. "It wasn't our greatest piece of detective work," said a spokesman.

The family of a New Mexico man is suing a Catholic priest for proclaiming at his funeral that the deceased was headed for Hades. The Rev. Scott Mansfield told 200 surprised mourners that Ben Martinez was "lukewarm in his faith" and that "the Lord vomited people like Ben out of his mouth to hell," according to the suit. Martinez's family says the priest was angry at their son for not attending Mass the last year of his life, when he was suffering emphysema.

A Wisconsin farmer who erected a cast-iron scarecrow in the shape of a cow is being sued by his neighbors for injuries to their bulls. Nearly 50 bulls suffered groin injuries attempting to mate with the disinterested decoy.

Susan Smith, who in 1994 pushed her car into a lake, killing her two sons inside, was recently seeking pen pals on Writeaprisoner.com."I consider myself to be sensitive, caring, and kindhearted," wrote Smith. "I love rainbows, Mickey Mouse, the beach, the mountains, and waterfalls." She removed the ad after negative media attention.

A British surrogate mother has given birth to eight babies in eight years. Carole Horlock, 36, is paid up to $8000 for carrying a child. But she says she spends a lot on maternity needs, and does it strictly for the joy of helping infertile couples."When I'm not pregnant, I feel like I've been fired from a job I love," she says.

I'm still recovering from LA Ratha Yatra, San Francisco was much smaller but very sweet, the crowd was big enough and the weather was gorgeous. I got badly sunburnt.

The deities were beautiful and in general the whole mood was really nice. Many old devotees were there. Agnideva led kirtan in front of Jagannath chariot, Trivikram Maharaja was in fron of Subhadra and the kulis were in front of Balarama.

maybe other devotees that were there can post more, I have to go to work.

Haribol

Just came back from the festival, it was really nice and sweet. Where was Audarya Lila prabhu?

Started today, every morning after Guru Puja, until Monday, Lord Balarama appearance's day.

Today I met Adiraja dasa, he wrote a cookbook in the 80's. Now BBT is helping him to write a Hare Krsna vegan book. Very cool /images/graemlins/cool.gif.

He needs ideas and sugestion from vegan devotees like you /images/graemlins/ooo.gif. Want to contact him?

Did anyone see Burnt Ladhu?

"Enter the reality of Burnt Ladhu with a video of the full-length musical theater production. This play despicts the struggle of a fictionalized gurukuli named Ladhu who is caught between the spiritual world of his chilhood and the material world he must face as an adult. At times both hilarious and tragic, the play follows Ladhu and his friends as they try to escape their haunting past and find the courage to shape their future. Witness Ladhu's quest throught the eyes of the characters in his life-an estranged daughter, a stoic and religious mother, an overly enthusiastic temple commander and an atheistic "karmi" boyfriend.

This musical examines the stereotypes of the Hare Krishna movement through the artistic lens of musical theater and highlights the commonalities shared by members of this society. Burnt Ladhu carries a message of urgency, healing and hope, and speaks to the need for authentic Vaishnava loving exchange. This cathartic experience will leave you enlightened and inspired, but most of all entertained."

It touched a cord with me this play. I know the boy who wrote it and he flew his mom to Alachua to see it. Lots of healing there.

I met a brahmacari from SF and he told me thet will make an exception and they'll have a room to accomodate ladies for the festival.

I didn't know they opened SF again. Sounds great.

I just saw that he was having a toothache, that explain things. Go with the Vicco powder.

Today I met the Australian actor from LA Confidential and Usual Suspects, what's his name?

After reading Govindaram posts here and his jokes in the jokes section, I think he got a special sense of humour, kind of ...

The play was the Advent of Lord Jagannatha, very cool. Did anybody see Guru Puja this morning? That was a roaring kirtan. The temple is really packed, I think are more devotees this year than the last one.

Somehow they got all the gurukul girls to do the garlands for the chariots and the funny part was to see the guys stringing garlands, you know why they were there..

All the devotees are doing lots of service and everyone is in a good mood, prasadam is excelent and tomorrow we get free restaurant prasadam for the whole day

Tom Cook started the day early having set his alarm clock ( MADE IN JAPAN ) for 6 a.m.

While his coffeepot ( MADE IN CHINA ) was perking,he shaved with his electric razor ( MADE IN HONG KONG ).

He put on a dress shirt ( MADE IN SRI LANKA ),designer jeans ( MADE IN SINGAPORE ) and tennis s shoes (MADE IN KOREA ).

After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet ( MADE IN INDIA ) he sat down with his calculator ( MADE IN MEXICO )

to see how much he could spend today.

After setting his watch ( MADE IN TAIWAN ) to the radio ( MADE IN INDIA ) he got in his car ( MADE IN GERMANY ) and continued his search for a good paying A M E R I C A N J O B .

At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day, Joe decided to relax for a while.

He put on his sandals ( MADE IN BRAZIL ) poured himself a glass of wine ( MADE IN FRANCE ) and turned on his TV ( MADE IN INDONESIA ), and then wondered why he can't find a good paying job in ..... A M E R I C A .....

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I heard that Angelina Jolie wore a OM chadar with the lotus feet printed on it in her latest Lara movie and now at Govinda's the chadars are selling like hot cakes.

I forgot to say that Anthony Hopkins was surprised by the recognition from devotees, he thought devotees don't watch movies!!!!

I'm not surprised.

Its called connections and sweet talking. I deal directly with the distributors. The same mangoes sell for $5.99 to $6.99 a case. In the farmers market I buy in block for my bosses and co-workers the strawberries and oranges, get a good deal and the vendors are happy you go back to them. We don't even talk price anymore.

The Kent we get here come from Mexico and are quite good.

This evening 6pm, Lord Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra Maharani are giving the mercy to everyone to bathe Them

From next year fruit from India will come here, think Alphonso mangos, chikus....Government aproved

This summer I didn't see any chikus in any form, not even in can! We got Kwality ice-cream in different flavours like Alphonso, Lychees,Date and Raisins, etc, but no chikus /images/graemlins/frown.gif

Yesterday I spoke with some devotees and they told me that Abhiram is sleeping a lot but chanting when he is awake. In a way the devotees were lucky that someone drove them away otherwise would be more injured people.

Most of the people are in shock because they are realizing how we can die at any moment.

My prayers are with Abhiram.

but he said he'll be back for noon prasadam.

Haribol now, time to sleep.

One day we should do it from Govinda's. Oh,the scoop about Anthony Hopkins, he came late for prasadam and he went into the temple for the last aratik and he stayed until the end. After that he walked to the alley to his car and some of the girls met him and he was very nice to them and appreciated the "Hare Krsna kids".