So I get these Google Alerts (aka “Googlerts”; source: yours truly), see, based on important-to-me keywords like “punk rock yoga” and “irreverent yoga” and “namaste motherfucker” and such. Today I received The Best Googlert Ever:

Send A Semi-Well-Known Humor Writer To Yoga School! — Kickstarter
And if you want to know more about me, here’s my home page: www.nealpollack.com. See you on the mat. Namaste, motherfuckers! Project location: Boulder, CO …

Wha?! Neal Pollack?!?!! Said MY thing?!?!! Sweet! So of course I look into it.

Neal Pollack, Greatest Living American Writer, author of “cult satirical classic” The Neal Pollack Anthology Of American Literature is writing a new book that’s right up my alley on about a bizillion levels. It’s gonna be called STRETCH: The Unlikely Making Of A Yoga Dude, and is a comedy about his adventures in American yoga culture (coming from Harper Perennial, August 2010).

Here’s the catch: He’s gotta complete a yoga teacher training course first. That’s 2,000 hours of being taught to teach yoga. And he’s been accepted to a prestigious program in Colorado… but he lives in L.A. So he’s trying to raise $4,200 to send him there AND keep his family going in the meanwhile. All by March 28th.

Now, I don’t know how many people are out there reading this, but this seems like a noble endeavour that my readers might want to encourage… because — and if you aren’t familiar with Mr. Pollack’s work, I highly recommend you plop yourselves down at your local supermegabookstore chain and read his Anthology right now (and then leave without buying anything) — his is the voice that we need to see in black and white, his humor is what we need to shake the shoulders of the American yoga community and wake it/us up, his are the stories from the front that are going to be the real, honest exposed truth they won’t tell you in Yoga Journal!

Okay, I’m only HOPING about that last part, because I don’t really know, but I have a good feeling about it. A really good feeling.

So get behind it, people! Pledge your support! Because if he makes it through teacher training, and I find out you’ve contributed because of me… I’ll pledge enough to get us our own private yoga class with him. Promise.

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