Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Susan Powter: Stop! The insanity is online.

Susan Powter has a website full of the inexplicable ramblings of a woman with bicep-loads of misplaced confidence garnered from years of people telling her that the advice to "eat, breathe and move" changed their lives.

It's fabulous.

Her core advice is akin to wisdom dispensed by a mafioso laundering money through a gym in New Jersey.  "To loose da extra weight?  I think yous oughta eat, breed, and, uh...move.  Okay?  Have a nice day."

Here's one of Susan Powter's video diary entries.  Interspersed with her bon mots are many, many cuts to flowers and trees.  For extra fun, imagine that the foliage is saying things like "Are you okay, ma'am?" and "Leeet's get you up and walking, kiddo.  Come on, don't fall asleep on me."



Bad-min-ton is the game.

Here's Powter lobbying for a position with Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap:
Simply explained, totally understandable and it's true, and you get and you get and you get, extended by popular demand, the kind of demand I like, do it now, it's time!

Also, people write in asking for her advice, and she disgorges gems like this:
Q: Do you believe raw food is better than cooked b/c of the enzymes that are live? Do you believe that cooked foods are addicting?

A?:
I don't
And
Suggesting
Raw for
The epidemic
And it is
Of obesity
Facing millions
Is well
What it is...
Let's start
With movement
And
Whole more
Than processed
Then a little
Lean muscle
Mass and
Cardio endurance
And, now........
I had to put it to sleep.  Let's tell the children that Susan's answer has gone to live on a farm with other visionary writing.

Taken as a whole, the site has a soothing Ti-and-Do-meet-Intervention feeling about it.  Especially enjoy the coherent "Don't even talk to me re: nipples" post.

Susan Powter is ratbones crazy, and I applaud her efforts at documenting said crazy on her website.

5 comments:

Bones said...

Wow.

Susan Powter is the Susan Cloud* of the New Millenium.



*from Fernwood 2 Night, for you youngsters.

Anonymous said...

Hey... she's definitely left of center... but then again so was the person who decided that there'd be little folks inside a very small box that would be the #1 entertainment vehicle of the centuries: TV

It's just too easy to find what is wrong instead of trying to find if she's doing ANYthing right.

R504

Christine Taylor said...

If Ms. Powter is onto something as revolutionary as a new communications medium, its genius eludes me.

I love her whole foods/back-to-basics message. However, it has become clouded by her increasingly unhinged personality, which she aggressively, proudly and publicly displays. Her video posts have nothing to do with her message of wellness. Kind of the opposite.

In this case, it is, in fact, easy to find what's wrong.

Anonymous said...

Is it just me, or is there an uncanny resemblance to the look and behaviors of Susan Powter and Chris Crocker (a la YouTube fame)?

vargas said...

She looks exactly like Crocker. But at least Crocker can be coherent.

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