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Hair of the Downward Dog: Two Yoga Dudes in Conversation
Join Litquake as it welcomes satirist Neal Pollack and columnist Mark Morford, and celebrates the release of their new books: Pollack's "Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude," and Morford's "The Daring Spectacle: Adventures in Deviant Journalism." The evening will include witty onstage banter between the two yoga devotees, book sales, strong cocktails, and a mini yoga class led by the yoga dudes at the evening's end for anyone still able to pose without falling. SPONSORED BY: Blue Angel Vodka.
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Mark Morford, a popular Vinyasa yoga teacher for ten years, is an award-winning columnist and culture critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and its website, SFGate.com. His work has appeared in a number of fine publications including Mother Jones, Yoga Journal, Men's Health, The Sun, and The Bark, but not Guns & Ammo or Quilter's World, so please stop asking. He has twice won first place in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists annual contest, and been nominated for multiple GLAAD awards for his work supporting gay rights, a fact for which he feels particularly grateful, considering how he's relatively sure he is exceedingly straight. He's also a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. "The Daring Spectacle" is his hilarious modern record of sex and media, politics and pop culture, love and lust, as told in ninety-two delectable parts not including all the delicious photos. It contains nearly 100 columns, 50 pieces of nicely shocking hate mail, with fresh commentary added to every column, along with snippets, banned work, and various journalistic sacrilege that all points to one undeniable fact: There's simply no other opinion columnist quite like Morford in American media today. Please undress accordingly.
www.daringspectacle.com
Neal Pollack is the author of the bestselling memoir "Alternadad" and several books of satirical fiction, including "The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature" and the rock novel "Never Mind the Pollacks." "Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude" is the hilarious true account of an overweight, balding, skeptical guy's unexpected transformation into a healthy, blissful yoga fiend. Pollack was out of shape, the hair on his head was thinning and the hair on his face was pretentiousâ"traits a New York Times critic gleefully pointed out while panning his second book. Combined with the predestined failure of his punk rock band, it was almost too much for Pollack to bear. He was willing to try anything to get his life back on track . . . even yoga. While struggling to master difficult poses without kicking other yogis in the face, Pollack actually, remarkably, began to feel better, both in body and mind. Soon he found himself immersed in the "weird and circuslike" world of yoga. He participated in a 24-hour yogathon, attended yoga conferences and Asian retreats, went to yoga rock shows, started getting regular assignments for Yoga Journal magazine, and, finally, began teaching yoga classes himself. "Stretch" mercilessly lampoons the bizarre, omnipresent culture of yoga, but it's also a story of profound personal transformation. Pollack started off mocking yoga. Now he's become one of its most enthusiastic proponents.
www.nealpollack.com
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LocationSwedish American Hall
2174 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
United States
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| Minimum Age: 21 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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