Monthly Archives: April 2007

So, some links for this weekend after all. ? Now you’re telling me the Antichrist is a terrorist? That’s Guatemala’s excuse for canceling his birthday party. ? California deserts, an epically charismatic Peruvian, Powell library shamanism, pseudo-ethnography, suppression at the NYT, the politics at UC Press, and the whole trouble with anthropology. And all this before Carlos Castaneda turns into a creeeeepy religionmaker (with all […]

Quiz. List your associations for the Master Cleanse: Hippies. Socially “acceptable” eating disorders. Freaky online support groups for how to subsist—up to 60 days!—on Grade B Maple Syrup and lemons. Trauma to the insides. Persons afflicted with OCD. The “tongue coat.” Analysis of bowel movements. Let’s stop right there. That’s enough reason to be shy. […]

AUGUST 2010 NOTICE. ATTENTION YOGAWORKS TEACHER TRAINING PARTICIPANTS. YOU, LIKE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF SUCKERS BEFORE YOU (MYSELF AMONG THEM), HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED THIS WORTHLESS ESSAY QUESTION. YOUR TEACHERS HAVE SEEN MANY ANSWERS PLAGIARIZED FROM THE ESSAY BELOW. BUT PLEASE, DON’T HESITATE TO USE MY IDEAS. AS YOU MAY AGREE, THE PHILOSOPHICAL VACANCY AND PRACTICAL […]