Because sometimes having fun is more….well, fun.

It’s Casual Friday again on the Swami, so I’m bunking off, shirking my duties, evading my commitments, and generally not showing up for work.
Oh, I know, I’m setting a bad example to the kids.
But you know what? They’re your kids, not mine. I’ll leave it to you to explain why a grown man who should [...]

Man boobs. This time it’s personal.

 
Raw food update.
(I realize how many of you will read that first line, groan, and immediately leave the blog, but it’s important. To me anyway. Plus, since a few readers saw what I was doing and began a similar regime themselves, it’s important to them too.)
I’ve been on the raw food diet now for…I lost count [...]

Ask your doctor if Purobutimansoprol Soothing Nighttime Formula, Cherry Flavor is right for you.

Recently, I admitted that, beyond a cursory glance here and there to keep up with the overall direction of everything, I don’t follow the news any more. I guess people were surprised to hear this. Things were said. Remarks made.
I, in turn, not surprisingly perhaps, was surprised by their surprise. Because why would I watch the news? Give [...]

Just what I love – a night of the long knives.

No Swami today. Sorry, guys.
Whaaa?
Hey, I said I’m sorry! But I have things to do. One of which is to put up a bunch of audio features on my website so that you can listen to past reports I did for Marketplace.
I’m in the final throes, last legs, dying moments of my radio “career” right now. It won’t [...]

With friends like these, who needs enemas?

Here’s a British TV show about raw food.
I don’t agree with the skeptical (subtly appalled) tone, but the content seems about right. And while the documentary makers obviously want you to shun and ridicule these lunatics for behaving outside the norm, actually, I wish I lived closer to them that so we could be friends and [...]

News? Don’t talk to me about news. I mean it.

With the death of curmudgeonly Walter Cronkite last week, I notice that a poll has now nominated Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s Daily Show, to be the most trusted name in news. But of course. He’s the only one who doesn’t lie to us: he actually admits that what he’s doing is a put-on.
Unlike Fox News, [...]

Paula Abdul versus the skunks. Allegedly.

The fuss over Paula Abdul returning to American Idol (or not) brings back so many tragic memories for me, not to say some bitterness that I work at controlling but can’t, about what total weasels TV people are and the terrible way they behave towards one another. Even now, a full three years after my own TV show [...]

I feel the chill wind of cheapness, how about you?

Before you ask, no. I didn’t give in to temptation.  
And thanks to all those lovely people who wrote to me in various forms, supporting and encouraging me not to break my diet and eat the free cake being given away at Starbucks yesterday.You should be very proud of me for not lapsing.
I mean, I went to Starbucks, [...]

The Downfall of Mankind, Part 1: Free Cake.

So here we are, then. The 21st has arrived. Free Cake Day at Starbucks. Every customer who buys a coffee before 10.30am is given a free cake.
Right now it’s 8.42am.
But I’m on a 100% raw food diet, which excludes cake in all its wondrous, tantalizing, artery-blocking forms. (Read previous post: HERE)
Yet, to play Devil’s advocate for a [...]

A deluded underdog rises once more.

Weirdest thing. Over the weekend, somewhat inexplicably, my new travel book Naked in Dangerous Places got the wind behind it and began racing up the Amazon charts.
That’s an incredible development. For me it is, anyway. For you, probably less so.
But what’s even more incredi – oh, and by the way, thank you to all those people [...]