The New York Post has an article today about women who followed in Elisabeth Gilbert’s self-absorbed, upper-middle-class footsteps on a journey to discover their inner asshole, only to end up broke and alone. I know this isn’t nice to say, but HA!

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  1. Well, at least they can still afford to pray and love.

  2. If I was a small old Indian man, could be any small old Indian man really, I would’ve set up guru shop a couple years back and would be ROLLING in soccer mom money these days.

  3. My mom is probably reading a similar article in Good Housekeeping and crying a little right now. Aw, don’t be sad moms, these ladies are weirdos!

  4. More like “Eat, Pray, Whine.”

  5. These ladies should shut up. The same thing happened to me after watching Grizzly Man and you don’t see my complaining. I got back on my foot and am doing fine these days.

  6. So gurus are to self-absorbed New York writers what Scientology is to self-absorbed Hollywood actors?

  7. Wait wait wait wait wait –

    Gurus can be Female?*

    *I kid, I kid, calm down

  8. Still not as dumb as all the halfwit dudes who started their own fight clubs.

  9. Look inside yourselves with your eyes.

  10. I followed in Harmony Korine’s footsteps after watching Gummo. Rad times.

    • You know that thing when something is funny, and then it keeps getting repeated and stops being funny, but it still keeps getting repeated until it becomes funny again? That’s how I feel about you and Gummo, my friend.

  11. Wait, I haven’t been paying attention. Is this a sequel to “Eat, Pray, Die”, i.e., the first couple of minutes of Se7en?

  12. Yikes. 20-somethings, lock up your mothers. Your lonely, empty mothers.

    Come to think of it, call them. Make sure they know your love isn’t in FUCKING INDIA AT SOME BULLSHIT ASHRAM.

  13. This reminds me of the time that I started reading Moby-Dick, got to that point where Ishmael (if that is his real name) says that the best way to deal with depression is to walk towards the water (I still don’t know what he meant by that, it almost felt like he was suggesting something negative, but I couldn’t figure it out) and I just stopped reading right then and started walking.

  14. “My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face,” Gilbert writes, in her book, of the first time she saw a photo of the guru. “Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced, ‘I want a spiritual teacher.’ ”

    She actually wrote this! In a book! That got published! Which lots of people paid money to read! And then the world made a movie out of it!

    Everyone on videogum is a better writer than E-Gil. Everyone.

  15. “Cult expert Rick Ross”. Teflon don and cult expert? He’s a renaissance man.

  16. Where can I find a guru to help me live out an epic of epic epicness?

  17. “Fall in Love with [our] Inspirational India Tour. Starts at $19,795 per person”

    STARTS at $19,795?! Anyone who has $20,000 to throw away on this kind of nonsense has no right to whine about it after the fact.

    • What I also don’t get is why someone would spend $20K on a vacation to India. Maybe prices have gone up recently (which is certainly possible), but my friend went to India for three months a few years ago and said he only spent something like $700USD.

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