{"id":2428,"date":"2010-06-10T18:06:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T22:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2010-06-10T18:06:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T22:06:37","slug":"and-i-shall-call-it-pimpgate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=2428","title":{"rendered":"And I Shall Call It “PimpGate”"},"content":{"rendered":"

It all started months ago, when I decided to publicly work my way through \u201cEveryday Dharma: Seven Weeks to Finding the Buddha in You\u201d by Lama Willa Miller<\/a>. When I approached Quest Books with the idea of having the author respond to each of my weeks, Xochi Adame, publicist numero uno at Quest Books<\/a>, offered to do some sort of give away where one of my readers could win a copy of \u201cEveryday Dharma\u201d. Since she found my comparison of setting up my home altar to the television show \u201cPimp My Ride\u201d amusing, she suggested maybe a \u201cPimp My Altar\u201d contest. We both liked the idea of it being something to bring readers together in an interactive way, so we roughed out the idea of readers sending photos in of their altars\/sacred spaces so other readers could see how their fellow readers approached it. Then through some yet to be defined means a winner would be chosen.<\/p>\n

As the time to publish week three of the \u201cEveryday Dharma\u201d challenge <\/a>approached I knew I was going to need some way to determine a winner. Since most blogs feature polls or votes I thought it might be good to let my readers pick a winner by voting, that way the contest would essentially be powered entirely by my readers, and it would force me to figure out how to make polls work on The Magical Buffet website. With that decided, I whipped up what Xochi and I found to be a fairly entertaining contest announcement<\/a>. It got published, and that\u2019s when I found myself stuck in what I\u2019ve decided to call \u201cPimpGate\u201d.<\/p>\n

First, I feel obliged to say that the pimp has no better friend than myself. I like purple velvet, A Pimp Named Slickback<\/a> (Yes, his name is A Pimp Named Slickback. Yes you say the whole thing, including A Pimp Named, every time.), and back handing people. So before going any further, to all the actual pimps out there, I\u2019m sorry if somehow you felt the \u201cPimp My Sacred Space\u201d contest belittled your cruelty, violence, and unlawful business practices by implying there is any element of spirituality in what you do. Hopefully this will nip in the bud any sort of pimp related backlash (or back hand) that may have been brewing out there.<\/p>\n

Pimps aside, many of you guys found the \u201c Pimp My Sacred Space<\/a>\u201d contest decidedly uncool. Apparently the word pimp and the concept of \u201cpimping out\u201d aren\u2019t necessarily big with some of my readers. If somehow my attempts at comical parlance caused you any concern, I am sorry, never in a million years would I intentionally belittle or make light of an individual\u2019s spiritual practices. I\u2019d like to think that my readers know this, since although expressing some concern, most of them said they would continue reading The Magical Buffet. I had more people unsubscribe after writing about Florence and the Machine than <\/a>I had for suggesting that people pimp out their altars. I find that oddly comforting. Of course more comforting was Lama Willa Miller\u2019s <\/a>(author of \u201cEveryday Dharma) twitter response to learning of the \u201cPimp My Sacred Space\u201d contest, \u201cWin a free copy of Everyday Dharma in the pimpin-est way: http:\/\/bit.ly\/d6Ore9<\/a>\u201d I love that lady.<\/p>\n

You know who else I love? The one brave woman who said to herself, \u201cI want free stuff, and I\u2019m willing to take a photo for the opportunity.\u201d Behold, the altar of our one contest entry! She can hold her head high knowing that for under two minutes of effort she will be receiving a free copy of \u201cEveryday Dharma\u201d and maybe even a Quest Books tote bag.<\/p>\n

\"\" — Our Winner's Sacred Space<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Ma\u2019am, I salute you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Why call it “PimpGate”? I guess I just love tweaking everyone’s spam filters. If this made it to your inbox, one, you probably need better spam protection, and two, click on in to hear about the “Pimp My Sacred Space” contest winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}