What’s In A Name?

Thanks to the Wondering Minstrels Anthology, I came across a decidedly hilarious poem by John Updike and felt like sharing it. The man in question is M Anantanarayanan, an Indian author. Updike’s fascination for the ‘a’s and ‘n’s in Anantanarayanan’s name was his inspiration to come up with this:

I Missed His Book, But I Read [...]

The Best MP3 players?

The following is an actual screen capture from Amazon.com:

Who can create a whole brand and a maniacal brand following that can project sub-par media players as being the best in the business. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Apple’s ubiquitious iPod.

In Soviet Russia, The Blog Posts You!

With specific reference to this Wikipedia page and this Uncyclopedia page, of course. No shortage of hilarity there.

An Observation on Personal Hygiene

Here is an observation made on my penultimate day of work in Rochester, a la Ambrose Bierce:
America is a country where people want to make offices paperless, so that they may use all the paper they saved in their toilets, during their micturition and other routines.
Much associated humour, including many noteworthy observations, from Maami.
Lakshmi: Thanks [...]

Cheeni Kum

I don’t know if I have written about this movie before: I didn’t even bother to check. I have to admit that I am no huge fan of Hindi movies – I watch the occasional good Hindi movie, but I do enjoy good movies in whatever language. Having watched Japanese, Iranian (Arabic), Jewish and French [...]