A Nazi Scene Not Seen Since Seeing Is Believing

Ha! Hamilton Nolan at Gawker asks, "Is Yoga Out of Control?" and answers with a head-noddin' "(Yes)" noting:

"Laughter yoga. Nazi yoga. Donation yoga with Dave Matthews playing in the background.

Thank you, yoga. That's enough.

Hippie yoga. Celebrity yoga. Charity yoga. Yoga books. Yoga while eating. Yoga on the road. Yoga in the park. Yoga as a nontraditional workout for athletes in traditional sports.

Yoga people have become the new 'Let me tell you about my workout' guy. And nobody likes that guy.

Perhaps yoga's fatal flaw was that everyone thought it was something new. Yoga was supposed to be the anti-workout; the anti-gym; the spiritual, holistic, ancient, anti-body-obsessive version of exercise. After years of media scrutiny, it turns out yoga is the anti-interesting."

I like how "spiritual" and "ancient" are qualities making a 5,000 year-old practice "new".

Oh - it's new to them.

Well, there's a lot that's new to them.

I Told You. Now He's Telling You: You Know It

I can't believe it took someone, other than me, this long to do a(nother) public presentation on the topic of how bad American music has become. Music used to be our strength. I used to brag that this was the only country in the world that could regularly put out consistently good music (of course, I was making a regularly scheduled contribution to it, at the time).

But now, with all the lazy thinking and bad taste out there - in music, other art, and even politics (how else did we get Obama?) - we've creatively fallen to the level of Europe, and whether we'll be able to get back up is debatable. (These douches even booed the obvious truth that The Dave Matthews Band sucks - Earth to everybody: they define the word "sucks".) My only real quibble with this guy is during the segment on band names:

If he can't appreciate the obvious genius of, both, the name and music of The Butthole Surfers then there's probably something wrong with him. (The same goes for Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel, though Mr. Thirlwell wasn't mentioned: check out "Nail" - the best album by an angry Jew ever made.)

And, last but not least, my final objection with the presenter is another obvious one:

No real man would ever spill beer.

Tunes That Can Move You To Tears

"I mean, less shocking [than] Edwards was counting on his wife to die so he could marry Hunter is maybe the the revelation that Edwards' true, un-PR driven tastes in music — like his political acumen, platform, and downfall — are about as pedestrian as we all thought. You couldn't just hire a DJ?"

-- Foster Kamer, a little ahead of the curve - but still watching Edwards crash in the rearview - as a direct result of staying as far away from The Dave Matthews Band as possible, over at Gawker.

This type of thing does seem to be a problem in certain circles,...

Oh, Say, CAN'T You See?

"Mr. Young says that he assisted the affair by setting up private meetings between Mr. Edwards and Ms. Hunter. He wrote that Mr. Edwards once calmed an anxious Ms. Hunter by promising her that after his wife died, he would marry her in a rooftop ceremony in New York with an appearance by the Dave Matthews Band."

-- Mickey Kaus, further informing us about A) what an unsurprising sleaze John Edwards is, B) the content of Edwards's assistant, Andrew Young's new book, and C) Rielle Hunter, and what kind of "ghoulish slapstick" makes a NewAger's heart sing - let's see: just add hefty doses of secrecy, sex, delusional thinking, lying, adultery, cancer, and death, along with the wayward warbling and wanking of Dave Matthews - because NewAgers are sure (once everything they desire is attained) it's all supposed to ultimately result in the rest of us admiring them so much that, once all the mayhem they cause for others is over, we'll gladly give them a clean Slate.

C'mon kids: Put this shit with the ACORN scandal, etc., and a pretty accurate picture of this NewAge Democratic Party should be starting to emerge. It's wonderful these things are being exposed because, by having them revealed in this manner, no one can say anyone forced these folks into doing these things - this is just who they are - finally standing naked before us, for all to see.

Now don't touch the naughty bits.

Hat Tip: Althouse

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