The character Y Swami Y, according to Robert Norse, was slightly patterned after X Swami X of Berkeley, who used to expound sans an accent, at Sproul Plaza on the virtues of eating pussy.

Y Swami Y is only generically a "wise man" and "mystic of the east" along the style of Johnny Carson's Carnack the Magnificent. He is also patterned after former Mayor Scott Kennedy's often touted admiration for Ghandi.

Any resemblence to local Santa Cruz hotel owners is, as they say, entirely coincidental.

It is ironic though, that most of the motel owners, who are Indian, support the Coast Hotel project. And Swami Y is an unquestioning supporter of the Hotel Project. Underline unquestioning.