It seems the human machine has done it again. Got in its own way of self promotion. This time its yoga pants that are drawing the ire of the weary(ee). Or to be wearees. This when aspiring yogics stateside were taken aback with the newest creation from a money making outfit called Lululemon selling them a lemon. Or so they claim in the form of a see through pant. Well you see the goofy wannabe yogis in America were all lining up to buy comfortable (read sexy) yoga gear for mucho dineros. All was well till the customer had the power to decide when it was time to expose certain parts of their anatomy to seek a fellow yogi or berra (many puns intended here) for that matter.
That decision making was taken away when the manufacturer (LLL) came out with these see through garments and exposed the farce. There was a mass uproar or so the blogsphere / media would have you believe. So the manufacturer pulled them - the offending pants that is. Now we have naked yogis in search of pants wandering the countryside. Not quite - they may also have opted to not go down the yogic path and seek enlightenment from their friends south of the border.
As for the path to betterment for devotees of the yogic faith, they are just not going to look cool enough for the next few months till the supply chain gets going again with non revealing fabric. Wall street was upset that their lemon cart was. Some appeared to vex about profit margins as lack of increasing yogic capacity diminished from future projections.
Meanwhile in other parts of the country some non-yogi women made headlines proclaiming how women in general should LEAN IN and come to work all the time rather than find solace of not commuting to work. These women happen to be headline news every where you look and certainly have achieved more than most men can dream. But I am still not sure what the brouhaha was. Whatever they wrote or said in America of all places there is never one way to do something. Even the yogis knew that and they were not even in America.
On an informal mission to read one book a week as long as the eyes allow for such ambition. Fiction or non is not important as long as it entertains and /or educates. To that end the past few weeks have brought a bounty in the form of some wonderful and then not so engaging literature. Among the notables are - Non fiction category: 1. Good arguments by Bo Seo (how to handle a dispute or debate the most efficient way possible) 2. Genesis by Eric Schmidt (and former US Secy of State Henry Kissinger, who recently passed) - how AI might affect our lives as we know it 3. One in a billion - Zarna Garg (an autobiographical look at an Indian born American woman with a bindi narrated in a standup format - yes it is at times cliched but still funny) Fiction: 1. Personal by Lee Child (a vigilante story with Jack Reacher the giant, nomad protagonist of Child's novels goes hunting for a sniper) 2. Ramayana unraveled by Ami Ganatra (she might disagree about it being a work of fiction but oh wel...
You do need yogic powers to remain unsmiling in the face of all the provocations. I think the company was trying to mix up yogis and fabric designed for their nudist colony segment. Unholy mix.
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