A few days ago I started following doghousediaries, a webcomics, because I can never have enough of webcomics and doghousediaries looked promising. Big fucking mistake.

Consider their comic for today:

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From entry on Apollo Bunder:[1880. -- "His mind is not prehensile like the tail of the Apollo Bundar." -- AberighMackay, Twenty-one Days in India, p. 141.]

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Besides the original entry in the original text, which is listed in the page linked above, the Corrigenda of the edition reprinted by Rupa, contains the following note:
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It's always nice to watch a movie in a language that you do understand. However, it is often better to watch a video in the language it was made in and use subtitles to aid comprehension, rather than watch the video dubbed into a suitable language.

In support of this thesis, I will invite you to watch a clip from Whisper of the Heart (Mimi wo ( Read more... )

I should have read TE Lawrence's 'Seven Pillar's of Wisdom' much earlier, but I hadn't. A short while ago I finally reached for the book (on Project Gutenberg Australia), and have liked the book so much that I have gone ahead and ordered the book from flipkart.

Consider for example these paragraphs from the Introduction:In these pages the history ( Read more... )

If the 80s was about bad family movies in Bollywood and 90s was about bad action movies, then the 00s have (at least for the second half) been about bad comedies.

Once upon a time Priyadarshan, in tune with the zeitgeist of the 90s, created awesomeness such as Gardish1. However, in 2000 he took two refugees from the action movies of 90s, a ( Read more... )

From the archives of Josh reads comics/ The Comics Curmudgeon, I learn of a tear "cried by that majestic Indian in that anti-litter ad from the ’70s." A Google search leads me to the video of the appropriate ads at youtube: The Indian in a Canoe, and The Indian on horseback.

The comment threads of the youtube videos inform me that Iron Eyes Cody, ( Read more... )

The dumbest place on the face of earth.

The worst fucking NatGeo show ever: The Girl who cries tears blood.

Is a little skepticism too much to ask for? How about some actual medical investigation, instead of just taking the word of a provincial family physician?

A friend was talking about an incident that happened to her while she was ordering a Roll. Apparently she had ordered a Chicken Roll (nothing bad there, except that it is always better to order a double chicken egg roll) and while waiting for the roll to be done, a lady seating nearby, who apparently heard her order, spoke out loudly about how she ( Read more... )

I have been thinking about getting into the astrology business. After all, if clients are willing to tell me about their age, sex, relationship status and work status, then reading their horoscope shouldn't be too difficult.

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