Nomological Net

I still cannot believe this. They killed a man for what he ate! Just let his lipid profile do it, I say.

Farewell, as you too set off along that little road.

To Sobu, Another Little Lebowski Urban Achiever.

Fwd: Join JOC as Editorial Member Dear Fellows Greetings from our journal and whole team. We are running a quarterly journal "Th...

It's been *ages* since it's been like this. I'm up, I'm unhurried, and I'm missing the way the blogroll used to be. Well...

I was enjoying a nice bit of reflexology yesterday, and it occurred to me that "tract" is really very versatile as a root word. Y...

Yesterday I revisited this blog, after *ages*. And so now I felt like posting something. An old lady eating roti with chopsticks. FWIW.

Happy new decade.

Having finished Bhairavi, as I said in my previous post, by sheer coincidence I picked up The Music Room, by Namita Devidayal. TPB had just ...

Just finished an amazing book called Bhairavi : The Dawn of Indian Music in the West, by Peter Lavezzoli. It's a must-read -- learned, e...

i fired someone today. my first firing ever. thankfully, the person was expecting it. no waterworks like the time before she was put on prob...

Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of...

How do they do it? Last night, I finally succumbed and cracked open the case of Rocky Mountain Holiday: John Denver and the Muppets. It suck...

A few years ago, every few months, someone or the other would pipe up with an angsty post on the topic of blogging. The question always was:...

Turns out this is my 300th post. The saddest. Things turn, but they never stay the same.

Dear TR, Hello! It is ____ here. I am writing to request for leave from today's regular meeting. I am sorry that one of my friends has a...

and Rare Earth -- Ma ( Part1 , Part2 ). Now playing.

Life. New life. Precious life. Old life. Farewell. I am privileged to have known you. I am sorry that you never met. Thank you for everythin...

Now spinning dxpx5 on steady rotation. Yesterday and day before were disk 2, this morning it's disk 3. The UJB is *sweet*, and I think ...

aka Not So Spicy Any More.

Tharoor may have resigned, but I'm not convinced. Where are the religionistas , I say?

It's near midnight, I'm in the living room with the laptop on my knee, working. Feel a little chilly so I walk into the bedroom wher...

You think about it for months and years. You plan it to pieces. You carry the dock and the poodle to the hospital with you, carefully wrappe...

The branch manager of our local bank was called Candy Butt. That was her name, on her business card. She passed us on to a Personal Financia...

In the NYTimes recently , with Tachi Yamada, president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Health program. Some excerpts...

A Hall of Fame contender for the Annals of Moronicity. Folks in India, and/or those who have been watching broadcasts on the Neo Cricket cha...

Years, that is. And I find myself with as little of anything to say, but refusing to say it in under 140 characters like much of the rest of...

Some Nordic-type exchange student uses the word "shit" in class yesterday -- first class of the year, first thing that he says. He...

I'm proud to know this man.

So I meet this guy last week. He mumbles a bit. I ask him his name. He says (I think), "Jose." So I all brightly and all, say ...

Filling out a visa application form for Singapore. The first section asks for my name, DOB, gender, and marital status. The following fields...

How utterly miserable to be an infant with a cold. Nose all caked up and clogged, and no idea what to do about it. Unable to breathe, or eve...