I’m Gonna Need A Better Reason To Write You A Love Song Today

Here are random updates from my life that nobody asked for:
I caved. I bought skinny jeans.
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It turns out, “export quality” Indian mangoes are fuckall. At least the ones being exported to the US are. That probably explains the improbable incident of the skinny jeans.
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I finally watched Persepolis. It’s one of the best animated movies I [...]

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As The World Turns

One of the peculiarities of the first world is daylight saving time. Manipulating time was a strange concept for me in my first year in the US. I didn’t think humans could do that. It was like making rain or something. Plus, I never understood (to this day) how it saves electricity or creates more [...]

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If You Have A Sense Of Humor…

This blog just brings a smile to my face every time I visit it. It would be cool to create something similar for immigrant desis. Maybe I’ll start a blog called Stuff Immigrant Desis Like. Of course, #1 on that list would have to be “stuff white people like.”
Taffy Stuck and Tongue Tied

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Goat, Blue, Flower Of Rajya

It sucks that I have never been able to like cheese. It seems as though there is a whole world of hedonistic pleasure and pretentiousness out there that I’m deprived of.
Taffy Stuck and Tongue Tied

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Postcards From Buddhism

If I have learned anything from the Dalai Lama by way of Richard Gere, it’s that suffering is a state of mind, much like heterosexuality or the midwest.
- Jack McFarland on Will and Grace
Taffy Stuck and Tongue Tied

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Can’t Decide…

Is knowledge superior to thought?
Taffy Stuck and Tongue Tied

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Flashback To College

K was in town this weekend. We got to meet after three years. Here are snippets from our evening together:
K: I am pro-vegetarian.
Me: So you support vegetarians without being a vegetarian yourself? How does that work?
K: Yeah, in fact, we’re all pro-vegetarian in my family.
Me: No you aren’t, you guys eat meat at every meal.
K: [...]

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Three Days Late And Not A Bone Of Regret

In support of MP’s Improving the quality of my life initiative, I joined NaBloPoMo. The reasons are difficult to articulate. The TV was on, and it was playing Batman or Superman or some kind of man movie. And I was bored. Plus, it’s a semi-legitimate excuse to take a break at work.
So tune in [...]

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New Froufrou And Other Nothings

It is said that taureans are defined by what they want. I don’t know about other taureans, but I certainly am. So I have decided to add a “Currently Want” tag at the end of each post for the next ten posts. Feel free to give.
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Funniest thing I read recently: Carpe hot dog (on some [...]

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Mary’s Room

Frank Jackson’s Thought Experiment
Mary is a brilliant scientist who is, for whatever reason, forced to investigate the world from a black and white room via a black and white television monitor. She specializes in the neurophysiology of vision and acquires, let us suppose, all the physical information there is to obtain about what goes on [...]

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