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
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
Robert Heinlein wrote you – your stranger in astrange land, you. Which Author’s Fiction are You? brought to you by Quizilla
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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
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
You are 87% Sagittarius How much do you match your zodiac sign?
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
was supposed to finish another thing today
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