4.24.2011

RIP Sai Baba

I liked the first google headline that showed up in a news search:

Celebrities Tweet Their Condolences .

Oh, brave new world.

He's one of those people I know because of their incredible power to sell books. His titles come in rarely and never stay long. Years ago we lucked into a big collection, a couple of boxes full. When word got out it was like feeding time in the piranha tank, only replace the piranhas with middle aged women.

Years later I saw a news piece where he was purportedly manifesting mystical ashes from the ether for his followers, but it looked more like he was shaking it out of the copious sleeves of his orange robe.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Funny story. While I was in Ireland, playing hooky from Phoenix, back in '96, I was hanging with the lads at Chris Phelan's place. His mom had been to India and returned with some of that Sai Baba ash. We snorted some of it. I gotta say, it was a rush!