On Restaurant People Really Hate Food Bloggers
I finally just read this piece and it is awesomely bad, arrogant and condescending and ill informed all at once, not to mention the hackish prose. And, n.b., dude is not a writer or a blogger or a lifestyle pornographer -- his job is to "comment and enlarge on trends on gastronomy." Glad we cleared that up.
("In fact, most foods are better when reheated." UM WHAT?!)
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On Ask "Them": "Why Don't You Feel an Obligation to Protect the Poor"?
Yeah, what Abe said. Why would one write "I had some experiences" as (partial) justification for an ideology and then not describe, even generally, what those experiences were? I want to like this feature but this is either bald-faced evasion or disinterest on the writer's part in his own ostensible point, and it seems at best disrespectful to readers.
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On New Things: Mothers With Hair
I am confused. "The hormonal ravages of the post-partum period didn't do me any favors, either": didn't AK go surrogate?
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On Why Yoga Can Be So Irritating (Although You Should Go Anyway!)
YES. I went for a while years ago and the studio regularly booked too many people for the space. On these days the teacher would announce that it was Partner Yoga Day, which involved sharing a mat with some stranger, who would smile at me supportively while holding one part of me still and pulling some other part out into a stretch, now trade places and repeat. This also made me livid because it was clearly about the studio wanting to make as much money as possible even at the expense of the chakras (etc.) of those involved. I don't know a lot about yoga culture but I know you're not supposed to have to drink to calm down after yoga class. To the extent that I thought I might give it another try somewhere else sometime, this article has brought me to a place of glorious enlightenment.