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Wes Anderson - Money Talks 2006-10-22 09:21:00 We'll be taking a small commercial break now. Normal programming will resume after little spinning dollars clear out of head.
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Bitch Tits 2006-10-19 13:20:00 "We Killed Bob!"
"HIS NAME IS BOB!" Read more:Bitch
Global Dimming 2006-09-27 16:29:00 A quick overview before we get to the juicy audiovisual part:
Global
dimming is a gradual reduction in the amount of total solar irradiance at the Earth's surface, caused, in no small measure, by particulate pollution in the atmosphere. What this basically means is that over time the aerosol particles that have been emitted into the air due to various industrial and consumer activities hang around, adhere to water particles from clouds, absorb sunlight and reflect it back into space. In effect, this phenomenon counteracts global warming. But this isn't such a good thing in itself. Before global dimming was first recognized, measurements with regard to climate change were recorded purely on face value. Since the true effects of non-particulate emissions and ozone depletion that were contributing to global warming were masked by the hidden effects of global dimming, the data that had been heretofore collected on climate change were error-ridden. No one knew this back then, though. Eve
"We are never still because that's our way, it's how we are." 2006-09-10 07:28:00
A long time ago, this was our land. Now everything is finished. All the trees are gone. There are no bees' nests full of honey and no eagles. There are no tapirs, no monkeys - they have all died or fled. There are no animals here at all. The Preto river is totally spoiled. There are no fish and the river is all polluted. The ranchers are finishing everything and this land has become ugly.
All this land belongs to the yakairiti - our ancestral spirits - who are the owners of the natural resources. They own the rivers, the fish and the trees. If you finish these off, the yakairiti will take vengeance and will kill all the Enawene Nawe. We've been on this land for a long time. There were no inuti (non-Indian people) here when I was young. We were here long before them.
We never knew that so many ranchers would arrive in our land. We didn't know that tractors existed and we didn't know about chain saws that cut down trees. Nor did we know about cattle. Then we saw that as the city p
Can Sanity be broken down into achievable targets? 2006-10-28 09:38:00 Please stop reading now if you're the type who "can't stand generalizations". Us larger-picture people scoff at you.
Logic and America have given me this gift: I no longer believe in God, in romantic love, altruism, or the triumph of the human spirit. In fact, I believe that the very concept of Hope is farcical and delusional to say the least, and that nearly all among us proudest monkeys are in Read more:Sanity
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Reality Nuzzles + The much awaited preview! 2006-11-12 05:23:00 Every evening, around about 6 o' clock, a big old white horse jogs down Wheeler Road Extension. Here in residential Bangalore. A big white horse, yes. I'm not sure that he has a name, and I'm pretty sure he has no owner (what a terrible thought - an owner - for a horse like him). People seem quite used to his presence, quite possibly due to his very (very. looming.) palpability. The sheer weight
Points of Eww 2008-03-09 00:36:00 "Vantage Point"
Director: Pete Travis
Cast: Dennis Quaid, William Hurt, etc.
(in pic: two Secret Service agents trying to resuscitate a dying screenplay)
Vantage Point is most poetic when the biggest of the three bombs, the second one, is detonated. The explosion rips through the screen with the fury of a religion scorned, smoke and flames intertwining to form an enormous accusatory Read more:Points
All Greek to me 2008-02-25 14:02:00 The prophet who coined the word “aftermath” was probably visited by the vision of a Sunday out in Bangalore. The week has bitten the chemical dust of another Saturday night, tired eyes are plunged into the chill comfort of champion brunches and Mexican siestas, and the urban robot braces itself for the violence of a new week. Yes, it’s Sunday, but a couple of us decide to screw it all and go Read more:Greek
Stream Of Subconsciousness 2008-02-12 20:49:00 Forthcoming DVD Release – I’m Not There
Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Christian Bale, Ben Whishaw, Marcus Carl Franklin and Cate Blanchett. Getting Cate Blanchett her second acting nomination at the 80th Annual Oscars this year is I’m Not There, Todd Haynes’ loving but eccentric tribute to Bob Dylan. This anti-biopic, much like Dylan himself, is an assemblage Read more:Stream
Highway 61 Revisited 2008-01-19 23:22:00 In which The Bengaluru Pages got drunk, spent a lot of money, and sold its soul to the Devil.
When the Seminole Tribe of Florida bought up the roughly 130 branches-strong Hard Rock International in December 2006 for $965 million, Max Osceola, Jr., a tribal council representative, played up the moment with a statement that would be considered an explicit declaration of war in certain Read more:Highway
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Friends, Ands, Maybes and More, Lend Me Your Years! 2008-01-01 12:11:00 Hello and welcome! Glad you could join us! It's been a wonderful time, we're sure, but this fresh change -- we know! -- will be a million Times better! How perfectly exciting!
At this point in space we're less than sure of ourselves. We've loved with honesty and failed miserably, but with a teeny bit -- at least! -- of dignity and hope intact. We've had and eaten our own cakes, and we've done so Read more:Friends
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Walking Off A Silver Year 2007-12-28 03:00:00 Sitting here listening to my collection of 80s hits, smoking a cigarette and getting back to heavyweight on takeaway chopsuey, it hardly makes sense to me any more that I’ve just about returned from a ball-busting ultra-fanatic hindu pilgrimage that gives new meaning to this pissy old knock knock joke we used to crack back in the KG days involving a glad little orange and a missing doorbell. A Read more:Walking
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the times, they are a'changing 2007-11-24 12:50:00 I was just listening to Most likely you go your way and I'll go mine by Bob Dylan.
Bob Dylan: the greatest living American poet, certified.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but what he keeps saying halfway through each stanza of the song sounds an AWFUL lot like "I'm gonna lick yo' aaass!" An image I will now carry with me to my grave, nightmaring my every sleep along the way. Bleah.
("You say you got
Stand up! Stand up! 2007-11-08 05:52:00 [Begins with black screen. Single spotlight comes on, illuminating man on stage. Nobody applauds. Man begins monologue. Nobody needs to give the man encouragement. Indeed, man begins monologue.] Er, hi... I’m, er, I’m what they call a Fear Factor comedian. The only way you can make me go out in front of a large crowd and act like an idiot is if you pay me to. The biggest audience I’ve had Read more:Stand
One Sentence 2007-11-03 05:51:00 Here's a great space for all you closet minimalists looking for an easy way out:
Each story submission must be just one sentence long, a la Hemingway's famous "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." It's a fantastic exercise in precision, and a good one-line story can truly speak a thousand pictures.
Some of my favourites on the site are:
this one by Verilain:
"I never Read more:Sentence
Pub Lunch (or) Why It's Impossible to See a Basilisk and Live to Tell the Tale 2007-11-01 06:33:00 It was years back, on a warm summer's afternoon: I was bunking college (as usual) and examining a couple of general ontological concerns over a pitcher of beer at Pecos, on Rest House Road. Pecos was a warmer, more honest establishment back then. These days it's still seedy as always but with the unwelcome addition of crass silver paint all across the walls and ceilings and light-fixtures, Read more:Lunch
I think my vertebrae are misaligned. I think I'm deaf in my right ear. No, my left ear. I'm losing balance... 2007-10-26 02:37:00 Here's something I find quite disconcerting: I have realized, over the last three or four years, that the number of huge world-changing earth-shattering universe-begetting ideas I was once a beneficiary to on an hourly basis has dramatically and exponentially reduced, replaced by smaller, messier, more human concerns (such as why the nutritional chart on my non-dairy creamer shows no Read more:think
into night 2007-10-10 14:25:00 drawings, payments, meals, deals, books, boredom, torrents, cleaning, traffic... nothing ever gets done. patience makes paupers of us all. there was a time when a kilo of rice cost 2 rupees and you had to get to school over miles of thorny forest pathway and rickety logs of wood precariously positioned across ravines and waterfalls and rapids. were we happier then when hoardings didn't tell us
Now you know 2007-09-27 04:42:00 vinayak --
[noun]:
A person of questionable sanity who starts their own cult
and
eyefry --
[adjective]:
Similar to butter in texture and appearance
'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com
I'm bored like a square of plywood at a machinists' convention 2007-09-26 04:59:00 I see myself soon turning into one of those bloggers who put up daily posts about how many times they chew and what material their bathmats are made of and whether Prince William likes cabbage. Speaking of which, did you know that Cato -- the Roman politician of "delenda Carthago" fame, not the Green Hornet's chopsocky sidekick (not in documentation, at least) -- once called cabbage the first of
These coincidences are getting out of hand... 2007-09-21 04:22:00 This morning "The Man Who Knew Too Little" finished downloading, and I watched it at 8 AM, well before I usually wake up, with barely-suppressed glee. I was supposed to have saved it for the weekend, but I couldn't resist. It's just as entertaining now as it was back when I watched it for the first time in my mid teens, which is really saying something.
So I spent all day marvelling at Bill
Give me, this day, my daily dread 2007-09-19 07:52:00 Epic rainfall outside my office window. Pinches of cold Wet graze my left elbow like a jealous desk-sharer's petty defenses. I can't work, I can't think, I can't see, I can't nothing. Home is away across an ocean, a starscape, a million insensate honkjams. I am sick of this day. I have accomplished this close to nothing. And I'm being held prisoner in this fucking anti-home against my own will by
Poyei Pochhu 2007-09-16 07:44:00 Damn template snafu'd on me. It's all fixed now, got a neat simple new look going.
Those CSS stealing bastards...
I also have a full fledged comp with a broadband connection and a scanner at home now, which means I can take on shitloads of freelance work (if I'm offered any, that is). I feel soooo relaxed now :)
I've moved into a new place near Malleswaram, about a week into my stay here. Nice
Shirk 2007-09-10 09:00:00 with the Fry of Eye and Angogoga Nononano
17:06 me: what happened to fonzie's errant cousin peregrine? (i so love being deliberately obtuse)17:07 angogoga: i am pondering over its meaning me: as well you should angogoga: i should, shouldn't I? me: confucious say, "an unthought thought often turns into a limp ream of bubblewrap"17:08 there are thousands in china who apply this wisdom to their
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