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Wookiee From The Shire 2007-08-28 16:40:00 Funniest thing I've seen all week (turn up the volume for maximum effect):
Mallu Blues :D 2007-08-23 10:52:00 Blues from the lowlands --
"Paambukalkku maalamundu"
Covered in a blue note by Adarsh/Apanikka. Read more:Blues
Rhubarb Rhubarb 2007-08-22 05:02:00 Look, it's all very well for you unsympathetic passersby to demand coherent tech, environment, design, business, science, politics, sex or whatever else related posts from the random blogger, but we at Talkabout aren't so compliant and easy-going, you hear? Okay? I'll have you know I'm leading a complicated life right now. Things are confusing and frightening and generally disruptive to mental Read more:Rhubarb
Pity the poor fools 2007-08-16 07:49:00 Over 2500 left-handed people are killed every year by household objects intended for right-handed people.
(Statistic courtesy Popbitch)
ROLEPLAY: talking to Amruta Patil 2008-03-19 12:00:00 Amruta Patil
is a Delhi-based writer and illustrator, and the co-founder of Studio Umbilical, a design and publishing studio, and Mindfields, a journal on alternative education. She has formerly worked as a copywriter in Mumbai, a museum gallery lecturer in Boston and a schoolteacher in Bangalore. Harper Collins has just released her first graphic novel, Kari, which chronicles the lives
Waiter, waiter, there's soup in my fly (or) How these Chinese guys attack below the belt 2008-03-23 07:46:00 Order details for Chungs Kitchen (Order #20462pr)
From: eyefry <>
Date: Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: Order details for Chungs Kitchen (Order #20462pr)
To: hungry bangalore <>
Dear HungryBangaloreans,
The Chung's Kitchen food I was delivered half an hour ago was positively the worst meal I've had. The people at the restaurant were obviously in a hurry to break for lunch, so they Read more:waiter
, Chinese
, attack
Opposing Orders 2008-03-29 01:47:00 Gerd Wiesler, protagonist of Florian Henckel’s astonishing feature film debut The Lives of Others, is a cliché of German precision. In the first few minutes of the film, we have the man pretty much pegged. He wears grey clothes and a stony expression, and blends into his surroundings with the tidy banality of another brick in the wall. The home he returns to after work is bare enough to put a
Wanderlust 2008-03-29 00:47:00 Click on the image for a closer look.
(The Bengaluru Pages, April 1st issue cover artwork: paper cutouts assembled digitally. All rights reserved.)
Turtles 2008-04-02 11:24:00 and
Thank you, Professor Lovemonkey. Read more:Turtles
i've gone and upgraded, so help me god 2008-04-26 21:22:00 to a Nokia 6110 Navigator. it's a 3.5G-capable S60 Smartphone with all the bells and whistles PLUS an inbuilt GPS antenna and navigation software that allow the phone to generate detailed maps of all cities in India -- you feed in an address and a sexy woman's voice tells you how to get there, guiding you along every step of the way. maps of other cities in other countries can be downloaded and
Welcome to the East: Wyclef Jean live in Bangalore 2008-04-28 12:47:00 Before Shakira inspired Haitian American musician and producer Wyclef
Jean to rap about the truth in her hips, the Clef was fast becoming a man in serious need of some respect. In a recent interview with Scratch, the hip-hop magazine, Wyclef was asked about a possible Fugees reunion. “I’m officially Paul McCartney from the Beatles now,” he replied. “If the Fugees wanna come back… you can’t break Read more:Welcome
, Bangalore
, Wyclef Jean
save me 2008-05-31 08:28:00 *cracks knuckles*
*touches toes*
*sniffs the air*
*tests water temperature... trips*
"glub"
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Being unable to write is like wading through a marshmallow pit in antique diving gear. The territory is soft, unyielding and tinged with a mild purple, your imagination refuses to stretch beyond the sweaty metallic confines of your bodysuit, and nothing you're doing makes much
Indy 4: Back to the Future 2008-06-10 23:08:00 Starring: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Ray Winstone, Shia LaBeouf, Karen Allen, John Hurt and Jim Broadbent
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Dr. Henry Walton “Indiana” Jones, Jr., professor of history and archaeology at Marshall College, Connecticut, is a cheerful old custodian of the western pop-cultural tradition. He comes from a blue-blooded lineage of gentleman adventurers like Doc Read more:Future
I thought The Happening was a fun movie and I'm not afraid to blog about it 2008-06-22 21:24:00 Measly RT rating of 20%, last I checked. Fkng bigoted critics, I tell you.
So I went and watched The Happening
yesterday, resolved to judge the film on its own merit and not its director's unreliable track record. And here's what I think: the premise was brilliant, and carried through effectively to the end; the acting by most of the lead characters was at best good and otherwise serviceable Read more:movie
, thought
, afraid
Duplicity: Exploring the many faces of Gotham 2008-07-29 05:47:00 “And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughing stock or a painful embarrassment.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra
The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan’s follow up to 2005’s convention-busting Batman Begins, has just broken the earlier box office record set by Spiderman 3 with a massive opening weekend haul of $158 million. While the figures say much about this franch Read more:Exploring
, faces
, Gotham
Shooting the Breeze 2008-08-25 12:58:00 The "off-season" had just begun in the Western Ghats, June's flamboyant way of saying that conventional travel wisdom is for suckers. When our group landed at Kochi airport, fat-cat tourism was taking a break and giving nature a chance to voice its impatience. The sky had darkened and the clouds rumbled with a deep fury. We barely had time to set foot in our van to Kumarakom before the r Read more:Breeze
Magic Welles 2008-08-19 13:54:00 “Everybody's talking about it!”
“The classic story of power and the press.”
“I hate him! I love him! He's a scoundrel! He's a saint! He's crazy! He's a genius!”
– advertising taglines for Citizen Kane
It was June 1940, and a 24-year old Orson Welles was walking around the studio sets of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Pictures, his mind swelling with possibilities, his eyes agleam, a child Read more:Magic