OMG! There were MORE than 36,000 people!
That was the stadium crowd!
It looked like a mass human migration.
We avoided the area around the stadium so we wouldn't have to deal with traffic. I didn't see the crowds or pay much attention to the whole thing. There are few public figures I would be less interested in seeing than the Dalai Lama. Everything I've ever heard him say sounds completely vacuous and uninteresting.
Another reason why I can't get that interested or excited about the Dalai Lama is that so many of his American fans are such flakes
Although his religion is Wicca, Wood-Ridge resident Jimi Schultz said he draws on many ideas of Buddhism.
"I love the teaching, the whole essence," Schultz said.
The 31-year-old, who works in public relations, said yesterday was an opportunity to "just be in his presence . . . his vibe."
Yeah dude, the Dalai Lama is so totally spiritual, man. I saw him on this one TV show once and I was like whoa and he so totally blew my mind that I spilled bong water all over my ferret. It was cool though, 'cause I was in frickin' nirvana, man.