Harvard-blogger Yule Heibel has a smart, funny, quirky voice–and she points (all the way from Vancouver, BC) to cool stuff that you won’t read about elsewhere.
Here is just one of the gems she has pointed me to, an interview with a super-successful yoga named Bikram:
“Bikram…claims to have cured every disease known to humankind and compares himself to Jesus Christ and Buddha. Requiring neither food nor sleep, he says, “I’m beyond Superman.” When you ask how he can make such wild statements, he answers, “Because I have balls like atom bombs, two of them, 100 megatons each. Nobody fucks with me.”
Quick, somebody phone the President–we’ve finally found those weapons of mass destruction!
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1 The Children's Liberation Front (actually, Yule) // Jun 13, 2003 at 10:43 pm
Hello Betsy,
wow! — thanks for the vote of confidence!
I like the yoga article you point to; together with the Monday Magazine article I had, the Business 2.0 adds to an even broader perspective. Viz., Bikram’s quote re. sex / celibacy:
“Bikram says he himself was actually blackmailed several times into having sex with students. ‘What happens when they say they will commit suicide unless you sleep with them?’ he says. ‘What am I supposed to do? Sometimes having an affair is the only way to save someone’s life.'”
My friend Betsy Burke in Florence commented (via email): “…he really is buggering the Americans with their very own all meat giant-sized commercial Oskar Meyer weiner.”
I also have to compliment you on your brilliant line in the Frank Paynter interview, which I found via Dave Winer’s scripting.com blog, in answer to Paynter’s question about current work: “Betsy Devine has parlayed a master’s degree in engineering from Princeton into a high-powered 30-year sabbatical.” Having now acquired just a teensy bit of perspective, I can read that statement and know that you don’t need to be conversant with irony to understand it. Life, the universe, everything!
(PS: sorry about not making links, but my 9-year old has gone to bed and I don’t know how to do it w/out her guidance. Isn’t that pathetic…)