Kitty: Mr. Alec Baldwin, it's Kitty Litter here. You know: the cat who's acting Napoleon opposite you on Saturday Night Live. Sometime in the future. Sometime. Anycat, my agent Andrew told me how sad it was that yoga studios weren't allowed to open in New York. And I remember when researching you that you and your wife do yoga. Could you help get them open? Best Meecows, Kitty.
[3 hours later…]
Andrew: Kitty! You can't contact Mr. Baldwin directly!
Kitty: [looking very downcast and unwanted] Was only trying to help. [she slumps away, for real not pretend, knocking (not brushing) her head against the furniture].
Andrew: [exasperated] Kit: I'm sorry. I know you were. You are going to get me into so so much trouble, though! You are incorrigible!
Kitty: [she mis-spells out the word] in-cor-ridge-able. Incorridgeable cat! [She starts singing 'Jellicle Cats' replacing it with 'Incorridgeable cat'! ]
Andrew: AHHHHHH! You win, you win. I can't afford the music rights let alone..!
Kitty: [she sits up like a sweet 'law abiding' totally non-singing Kitty cat]
Andrew: You let the 'cat out of the bag' so I will follow through hoping I won't get a cease and desist email from Saturday Night Live. We haven't even signed a contract!
……….
Here's the thing. Yoga studios are not gyms. They are mind/body awareness centers. (In New Jersey yoga studios are not licensed as health clubs like other gyms, so they are considered recreational facilities.] Most gyms hold yoga classes but it is still inside a gym. So if one is now allowed to partake in a massage or do martial arts or gymnastics in New York State then what is the problem with socially distanced yoga in a designated facility? New Jersey, Connecticut, Texas have allowed yoga studios to open but not New York. When yoga advocates ask authorities what specifically is the problem they get no answers. Getting bogged down in terminology gets no-one anywhere and solves nothing. And now there's beginning a rivalry between gyms and yoga studios in New Jersey and elsewhere that benefits no-one either!
Oh dear, some 'magic-milk' for Andrew and Kitty tonight.
