Wednesday, March 28, 2007

a body for all seasons


Yesterday, as i walked by Equinox on my way to whole foods to get some sushi, a girl shoved a coupon in my path and shouted enthusiastically: "GET STARTED ON YOUR SUMMER BODY!" i pushed the coupon back towards her: "No thank you, this is the body i use year round."
Living in NYC (and getting paid peanuts), you don't really get to the beach or pool much. Your only chance of being seen in a bathing suit is on that rare occasion when you decide it's a terrific idea to lounge around half naked on the grass in a public city park, sip warm ice coffee and dehydrate yourself to the point that you can barely walk the couple blocks back to your apartment. Whe
n you do make the brilliant decision to sun yourself in central park along with the other 200 sweaty geniuses, it's good to have a little extra meat on your bones. It also helps to have a nice thin layer of hair covering your entire body; the goal is to appear as undesirable as possible unless you want the many, many onlookers ogling you (see blog entitled "puppies").
Aside from not alternating bodies season to season, i also have little desire to work out at this specific Equinox after having heard about what goes on in the bathrooms over at that whore house. Dirty, dirty things; things that Central Park onlookers think about doing if you allowed yourself to get a "summer body."
My advice: when sunbathing in NYC, model yourself after an egg-white omelet: round and pasty. Do not imitate a piece of bacon: dark and greasy with with all the fat trimmed off. That's asking for trouble.




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