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Enter the wombats

SMS Conversation from yesterday: Today reporter: Final dumb question i promise. What is your pre party ritual? Me: Tantric sex with wombats Today reporter: Fine will print that. and tomorrow everyone will know of your marpusial fetish Me: Its marsupial. Their names are pinky and sweetie We spoke later, and i told her more about … Continue reading

Just found this: wrote it in july or something

On pakistani fiction in india: Outlook, as far as i remember, never printed it Kamila Shamsie’s first novel In the City by The Sea (1998) announced the arrival of a new generation of Pakistani authors in English. Writers like Shamsie, who’s also written Salt and Saffron (2002) and Kartography (2004), Mohsin Hamid, author of the … Continue reading

Um…

Robert Heinlein wrote you – your stranger in astrange land, you. Which Author’s Fiction are You? brought to you by Quizilla

Alas, sweet Concorde!

Let’s not bicker and argue about who killed who! What Monty Python Character are you? brought to you by Quizilla

Daily account

Number of articles delivered to newspaper:1 Number of hungry former colleagues fed instant noodles and sliced frozen sausages:1 Number of noserings said hungry former colleague had inadvertently inhaled:1 Number of charming, attractive, intelligent, erudite, single, YOUNGER women had dinner with:1 Number of books on etiquette read:1 Number of aforesaid CAIESY women had d. with who … Continue reading

Party, animal

Just answered the following questions for Today newspaper 1) What is your favourite party outfit? 2) What is your party no-no? 3) Who is the most interesting person you’ve ever met at a party? I am filled with joy, because no one has ever asked me these questions before. Unfortunately, the only reason i got … Continue reading

On Star Signs

You are 87% Sagittarius How much do you match your zodiac sign?

Incredible

Should post about The Incredibles here, I guess, since its the whole cartoon/superhero/fantasy by extension thing. leading twin bloglives is quite difficult…its basically cheating, and you can never really be two different people in two relationships… have been reading the compulsive confessor, as you can tell from the last paragraph. anyhoo, after watching the incredibles, … Continue reading

oh no

was supposed to finish another thing today

Purid

finished it, thank god. will paste the first bit. From Legends of the Bengali Traveller: Part Four (2004, Banamali Naskar Publications) 10th November, 1871. A hill outside Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika, deepest Africa. Famous scholar-explorer Henry Morton Stanley enters a tent, where he meets a dapper gentleman sipping tea and reading The Statesman. ‘Dr. Livingstone, … Continue reading

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