Blood & Virtue

Chatter, chatter, chatter – that’s all they did.
He went to work, ignoring the slight jerk and pull against the rope. A fraction of a second and the blood began to flow, slowly at first and then in gushing rivulets, pumping faster and faster, before oozing for a bit as if gathering its strength to [...]

American Idol: Gina Glocksen’s a Goner

Oh, Gina, Gina, Gina Glocksen, it wasn’t your time to go. It was Haley’s. Or possibly that guy’s, the one who makes me want to hang garlic around my neck. I won’t even mention he whose mission this week was to “show America [he] can sing.” We all know he’s not going anywhere.
But your departure [...]

India’s Organic Feminism

One of the best classes I ever attended in college was the Philosophy lecture by Father Kurian (Father Curious as one irreverent friend dubbed him). There are times in one’s life when you can literally feel new doors of thought opening in your mind – Father’s class was a corridor full of them.
One of the [...]

Art

A while back I’d posted a couple of examples of a friend’s artwork. He’s done a few more that I think are great and I felt you, the discerning public, would like it too.

Check him out.

Gwen Stefani & Shakespeare…

I’ve got it all for you. But first up, I’d like to thank all those folks who dropped by yesterday to read California Love. I’ll put up a sneak peek at the novel tomorrow but it’s nice when you get a positive response to something that you felt had value but were afraid that it [...]

Iraqi is Arab Idol

A few days ago, astonished by the size and scale of the cottage industry that has sprung up around Sanjaya Malakar’s stubborn presence on American Idol, I was moved to remind people that this is still a TV show. Nothing of national importance has come to pass. In the unlikely (gulp) event that he does [...]

California Love

Wow, thought Maya. Wow.
She remembered the frenzy that had overtaken her parents shortly after her 20th birthday, approaching her final year of college. Astrologers had virtually taken up residence at their house, smirking old men wafting in the door clutching red, cloth bound books full of strange little scribbles and complex diagrams; she’d been [...]

Man vs. Bird

A few weeks ago we had an unexpected visitor at about seven in the a.m. Chest puffed out, inquisitive little pink eyes ran around our apartment as the pigeon calmly walked in off the balcony to check out this human dwelling. She (or maybe he) was massively unexcited by the furore she caused by her [...]

Thank You!

I’d like to say a big ‘thank you’ to the good people at Blogcritics and Desicritics for making me the featured writer for the day. It’s an unexpected and cool coincidence.
Thanks guys!