Comments on: Pilates, not Socrates’s brother http://www.harrypark.com/pilates-not-socratess-brother Thoughts and Experience Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:41:01 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Chris http://www.harrypark.com/pilates-not-socratess-brother/comment-page-1#comment-41 Chris Thu, 12 Dec 2002 06:33:13 +0000 http://www.harrypark.com/?p=32#comment-41 Yo, Pilates is also mainstream. You cannot try to even pretend that it's "fringe." I mean you've got two strikes against you. A. There are many MANY infomercials pushing it late at night IN FOKKING ALABAMA. B. You own Pilates FOR DUMMIES. Everyone knows (even our friends at the Bureau of Conventional Wisdom) that anything that gains the "FOR DUMMIES" seal of approval is mainstream. I mean, it's not like you see "Punk Rock for Dummies" is it? The real fringe exercise fad is Bikram Yoga. It's not in Hollywood, it IS Hollywood. It's debatable though, since it's starting to show up in some popular health magazines. I guess we'd have to ask the main fringe health man, Deepak Chopra. Snoogins' Yo, Pilates is also mainstream. You cannot try to even pretend that it’s “fringe.”

I mean you’ve got two strikes against you.
A. There are many MANY infomercials pushing it late at night IN FOKKING ALABAMA.
B. You own Pilates FOR DUMMIES. Everyone knows (even our friends at the Bureau of Conventional Wisdom) that anything that gains the “FOR DUMMIES” seal of approval is mainstream.

I mean, it’s not like you see “Punk Rock for Dummies” is it?

The real fringe exercise fad is Bikram Yoga. It’s not in Hollywood, it IS Hollywood. It’s debatable though, since it’s starting to show up in some popular health magazines.

I guess we’d have to ask the main fringe health man, Deepak Chopra.

Snoogins’

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