"A man can't whistle through clenched teeth but sees clearly through eyes blurred by tears."
American sentences - paul nelson; and
Dylan Sisson's gallery;
August 17, 2007
mismatched
"A man can't whistle through clenched teeth but sees clearly through eyes blurred by tears."
American sentences - paul nelson; and
Dylan Sisson's gallery;
mad about mad men
'Smoking, Drinking, Cheating and Selling' that's how The New York Times summated this tv flick. "There were seven deadly sins practiced at the dawn of the 1960s: smoking, drinking, adultery, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism and racism."
Can't say the times have changed much. But there is something about the vintage 60's that draws me to it. The men are stoical, suave, politically incorrect, and downright sexist. The women are either 'conflicted' professionals or 'blissful' homemakers. And, its a cut-throat world of an advertising agency in the heart of 60's New York. Nothing really has changed much if one thinks about it. Then what is it?
I still can't justify my obsession with Godfather. And neither can I explain my obsession with (a Michael Corleone), or a Don Draper. I guess I will never know.
March 13, 2007
oh suck it up... sourpuss!
MTV sues YouTube. Whatever happened to that world where love was supposed to be free?
And, can we seek punitive damages for Viacom insinuating we are all free-loading penny pinchers?
March 12, 2007
weekly dosage of anti-PC advice
Another joins the club... the latest online 'Aunt Agony', the Colbertish/Gollumesque 'Unethicist'.
[Sméagol:] Gollum hates thieves!
March 08, 2007
Go G. I. Joes!!
In a deeply disturbing news,
The biggest, most shiny, most chrome covered, most yellow, most 'wide and ugly' Hummer is "going green". And nothing says "I am less of a man" than going green and smelling like spring flowers. On a totally different note, here are some nice pictures from a hummer fan site.
February 13, 2007
December 29, 2006
December 26, 2006
an awwww... moment
two Bengali Economists & Nobel Laureates meet in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Dec 25.
Left: Dr. Amartya Sen (Economics, 1998)
2nd from right: Dr. Muhammad Yunus (Peace prize, 2006)
December 24, 2006
December 22, 2006
dude, where's my car?!
my first blizzard, my first snow shovelling, my first falling squarely on my ass on the snow... and almost cracking my pelvis...
I think I will stay away from ice-creams for quite some time.
December 08, 2006
some wise words
And when your life is in the toilet and that blue water is swirling around your head, just remember: The sky is also blue, and as we all know, the sky’s the limit.(It’s important to hope, but vodka does not remove bloodstains from white linen.)
- from A WORD OF ADVICE.
November 30, 2006
November 25, 2006
November 18, 2006
tragedy in art and soliloquy: part II
Inspired by this post, I hereby dedicate a portion of my day-to-day posts to the great Shakespearean tragedies. This section will time-travel into the minds of the valiants who refused to die "many times" before their death, through pre-raphaelite and neoclassicist images that sought "refuge" in tragedies.
Please listen to Henry Mancini's "Romeo & Juliet"
while going at it, to heighten your sense of sadness.
[tragedy in art and soliloquy: part I]
... For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Romeo and Juliet. Aaah... young love! And how it torments! For the very young, very naive and very
beautiful Juliet, "It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden..." and for the young, passionate Romeo, "all this is but a dream". The two young lovers get trapped and torn between two warring families in Verona, Montague and Capulet. "My only love sprung from my only hate", mentions Juliet.
This saga of Shakespeare's 'Lyrical Period' is merciless, and the two love-birds are doomed from the beginning. "Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye..." The impending tragedy is obvious.
ACT III, Scene V: images by Dicksee [top-left] and Brown [top-right]
ACT IV, Scene IV left image by John Opie
No happy endings. Everyone dies at the end. Mercutio dies, 'accidentally and dramatically', in a duel between Romeo [a Montague] and Tybalt [a Capulet and Juliet's cousin], but had enough time to wish A plague o' both your houses! right before he passed away. Romeo slays Tybalt, and as a punishment, goes into exile. Juliet refuses to marry Paris, as she is secretly betrothed to her Romeo already, and goes into mourning. Herbal medicines and potions come to the rescue. Juliet gulps down some to go into a comma, so she can escape away with Romeo after she is taken to the family crypt. Misinformed about the staged death, a grief-stricken Romeo haggles with the Apothecary [There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls] to buy some poison, kills Paris on the way, and drinks the poison to die on Juliet's lap. O true Apocotheary! Thy drugs are quick! Thus with a kiss I die. Juliet wakes up, sees the dead, and stabs herself with his dagger. Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die. And the two lovers lie dead together.
Surprisingly, it is not considered one of Shakepeare's 'great tragedies' like Macbeth or Hamlet. The tragedy stems more from mistiming, or misfortune, than individual flaws of the two lovers. The long-running feud ends at the price of the two lovers' lives.
ACT V, Scene III: Romeo at Juliet's Deathbed by Füssli ; 
The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets by Leighton ; Death of Romeo and Juliet by Millais;
Please listen to Henry Mancini's "Romeo & Juliet"
while going at it, to heighten your sense of sadness.[tragedy in art and soliloquy: part I]
... For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Romeo and Juliet. Aaah... young love! And how it torments! For the very young, very naive and very
beautiful Juliet, "It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden..." and for the young, passionate Romeo, "all this is but a dream". The two young lovers get trapped and torn between two warring families in Verona, Montague and Capulet. "My only love sprung from my only hate", mentions Juliet.This saga of Shakespeare's 'Lyrical Period' is merciless, and the two love-birds are doomed from the beginning. "Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye..." The impending tragedy is obvious.
ACT III, Scene V: images by Dicksee [top-left] and Brown [top-right]
ACT IV, Scene IV left image by John Opie No happy endings. Everyone dies at the end. Mercutio dies, 'accidentally and dramatically', in a duel between Romeo [a Montague] and Tybalt [a Capulet and Juliet's cousin], but had enough time to wish A plague o' both your houses! right before he passed away. Romeo slays Tybalt, and as a punishment, goes into exile. Juliet refuses to marry Paris, as she is secretly betrothed to her Romeo already, and goes into mourning. Herbal medicines and potions come to the rescue. Juliet gulps down some to go into a comma, so she can escape away with Romeo after she is taken to the family crypt. Misinformed about the staged death, a grief-stricken Romeo haggles with the Apothecary [There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls] to buy some poison, kills Paris on the way, and drinks the poison to die on Juliet's lap. O true Apocotheary! Thy drugs are quick! Thus with a kiss I die. Juliet wakes up, sees the dead, and stabs herself with his dagger. Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die. And the two lovers lie dead together.
Surprisingly, it is not considered one of Shakepeare's 'great tragedies' like Macbeth or Hamlet. The tragedy stems more from mistiming, or misfortune, than individual flaws of the two lovers. The long-running feud ends at the price of the two lovers' lives.
ACT V, Scene III: Romeo at Juliet's Deathbed by Füssli ; The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets by Leighton ; Death of Romeo and Juliet by Millais;
November 14, 2006
happy grazing
its moo-time once again !! and so is A&T Balconism.
A Moo Sonnet
Your absent heart's the image of my need
Your hollow eyes I fill with my desire
These vacancies are all that I require
For food on which my fantasies can feed.
The hands that hold you here are undefined
The lips that kiss you now you must invent
My touch transformed into an argument
That finds its major premise in your mind.We make of soundless tunes new harmonies
Embrace each other's fancies in the night
And find in these uncertainties delight--
We share, not selves, but possibilities.
I make myself your dreams though we're apart
Come fill the empty spaces of my heart.
[disclaimer: poem source unknown]
November 02, 2006
November 01, 2006
Are you THE ONE? [real world part - I ]
“Look at us...I'm frozen, you're dead...and I love you.”
Some dude wants me to believe that I have a Second Life waiting for me in some cyber world, far more real, far far more interesting than the one I have right now. It is just a click away. Hide away into a world of avatars, fountains, birds and live with people that you can pick and choose.
 |  | Fembots are in. So, are cosmic narcissism, eternal youth, ’Beautiful People’ fantasy, and extraordinarily narcissistic vanity projects. |
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"the [real] world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth." It’s a choice between two pills, as Morpheus has warned Neo. One blue, which would enable him to wake up safe in his bed but never learn the truth about the Matrix. "You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe.” The other is the red, which would allow him to "see how deep the rabbit-hole goes".
And finally, it is believed that if one's mind cannot adjust to the implanted reality that results in a Schizoid Embolus, a lobotomy is the only solution.
October 13, 2006
... when tiny things happen a million times
"The journalists kept pestering him: 'What is this programme? How dare you think that something that works in Bangladesh can work in the U.S?' It was in this context that Clinton said, 'This guy deserves the Nobel Prize.' "
Dr. Yunus and Grameen Bank of Bangladesh wins Nobel Peace Prize, 2006.
It's a great, great honor!
... When tiny, tiny things start happening a million times, it becomes a large thing. It lays down the foundation of a strong economic base. With women participating in building this economic base, it becomes
the foundation for better social and economic future ...
In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"
The bank that started off with only $27 in 1976, now has 6.6 million borrowers, of which 97% are women. Even beggars are eligible to get Grameen loans, without interests. The micro-credit schemes of Dr. Yunus was introduced in different countries all over the world [that included the Clintons introducing it to some of the poorest communities in Arkansas, in the United States].
happy pictures of the win!
Dr. Yunus and Grameen Bank of Bangladesh wins Nobel Peace Prize, 2006.
It's a great, great honor!
... When tiny, tiny things start happening a million times, it becomes a large thing. It lays down the foundation of a strong economic base. With women participating in building this economic base, it becomes
the foundation for better social and economic future ...In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"
The bank that started off with only $27 in 1976, now has 6.6 million borrowers, of which 97% are women. Even beggars are eligible to get Grameen loans, without interests. The micro-credit schemes of Dr. Yunus was introduced in different countries all over the world [that included the Clintons introducing it to some of the poorest communities in Arkansas, in the United States].
happy pictures of the win!
October 01, 2006
September 28, 2006
sorry...
couldn't hold myself back from posting this video. Looks like our house-favourite is going national, and international big time. And I am not apologizing for this cheesy image. See the video and judge yourself: The Stewart Factor on MSNBC.
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