| October
14, 2003
maybe
i'm amaized
If you're
like me, raised in a sterile, meaningless, pop-culture childhood, you'll
remember a television commercial in which a stone-cold fox dressed as an
Indian maiden held aloft an ear of corn and explained the major difference
between Native Americans and the white man: we call it corn and they call
it maize. I am not certain why our respective peeps couldn't
get together on what to call this particular vegetable, but I gathered
this semantic impasse led to the wholesale slaughter and near extinction
of the American Indian. As a side note, let me emphasize that Native
American women did not look like the Mazola Maiden. They looked like
the buffalo.
A recent
television program on yoga made me recall the Mazola commercial.
Apparently, there is a type of yoga practiced in large ovens. The
yoga movements and the cooking process combine to detoxify the practitioners.
I was amazed by the similarity between detoxification and sweating. |