2016-03-19 18:53
What you do is take the fresh bakery rolls, pop them in the over and bake them. Then you slice them in half and brown them in a skillet with butter until they're crispy and browned.&nb&hell…Read More
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"If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders—what would you tell him to do?""I…don’t know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?""To shrug."
2016-03-19 18:53
Wolfe: i am stressed and sickly
Louise: why stressed and how sickly (you can't possibly be sickly after all your kale juice!)
Wolfe: i think i have a cold.. and i slept very little last t… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
So like I went to see Hugh Laurie play the blues with his Copper Bottom Band last week. As is characteristic, while I had it on my diary for about 2 months, I bought the show ticket th… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I would like to bring your attention to something that I found quite distressing recently. At my employer, Consulting Firm Extraordinaire, a poll was taken to have knowledge workers an… Read More
2012-08-01 18:46
So, like, I have a question. You know these highly intellectual experts who travel to far off lands to try and make the world a better place by opening microfinancing banks for fishermen in… Read More
2012-07-10 19:29
Wolfe: http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/07/10/kayaker-orleans-may-have-been-chased-plankton-eater-rather-than-great-white-shark/45jsLMjEMoSxQIwuRaNlrI/story.html?p1=News_links
Louise: t… Read More
2012-06-19 19:47
2012-05-10 14:02
In an attempt to excise my demons I am going to try and write more on this blog thing. I shall find something intelligent to say and then say it often. While I conjure up the lat… Read More
2012-05-09 20:09
I did it because I didn't want to be a coward and afear being squashed like a little bug. I also did it because your voice made my inner tuning fork resonate.
Then I got attached to s… Read More
2012-04-30 14:46
2012-03-26 15:04
2012-01-13 11:14
1. Why everybody yells at you all the time – at airports, in hotels, on the street, in temples: they’re underpaid, overworked, not getting laid often enough, think you have somet… Read More
2012-01-13 11:12
All in all, it wasn't a bad trip. Could have been better. Did not find any traces of Waris Ahluwali in Amritsar and wished had spent more time on the beach in Sri Lanka but there… Read More
2012-01-07 13:40
Foolish hopeful heart, trying to get out of India. Simply cannot be done. Stuck here. Till Monday. Misery.
This is because while the Indian Embassy in New York and t… Read More
2012-01-07 03:34
Packing for Boston. Flight in 7 hours. Relieved to leave but wish could have gone to Harmandir Sahib once more, staying in Ceylon longer, met fun people and done more shoppi… Read More
2012-01-06 13:09
Moosladhar baarish in Amritsar since predawn. Lots of lightning but strangely no thunder. Electricity in and out. Attempted to go out to find a place to buy things and ended up soaking wet a… Read More
2012-01-05 12:42
Spent morning trying to get on an earlier plane to Boston. Did not succeed. Considered calling people to rescue me from my misery but decided to eat breakfast and head out to the Golden Temp… Read More
2012-01-05 11:26
Up at 4 am. Flight delayed. Went back to sleep. Up at 6 am. Check out was horrid. No compensation for being bitten by bed bugs. ITC Sheraton Rajputana is a terrible hotel. Car to airport, pa… Read More
2012-01-03 10:59
It all started with paneer tikkas. They were large and square and thick. I ate them. Then came the sheekh kababs. I ate them. With very thick yoghurt atop which was arranged finely chopped c… Read More
2012-01-02 10:53
Out and about in Jaipur again today. Birla Planetarium closed. Went to Birla Mandir instead. First Hindu temple that I've seen with stained glass windows. Large marble clean hall. View of th… Read More
2012-01-01 20:32
Breakfast buffet included. Found out by accident. Service at the ITC Rajputana leaves a lot to be desired. Tried the masala baked beans. Turned out to be a bad idea. Took a tour today. Drove… Read More
2012-01-01 02:29
Ventured out yesterday for a hotel explore, drink and snack. Booked a tour for tomorrow. Was told by event manager (who was silently judging me) that since "you have no friends or family t… Read More
2011-12-31 09:05
All heros transcend time. 50 year old uncles can be college students and can squash 20 men and slice a bullet (or a cucumber) with a blade. During every song sequence, the hero will put hi… Read More
2011-12-31 07:28
ITC Sheraton Rajputana, Jaipur.Dreamt strange dreams about Ro and Rags and Jasmine and we were on a boat and the crows were attacking me again and we had to give money to Sushmita’s fa… Read More
2011-12-31 07:26
In purgatory. Or in transit, as the case may be.Leave 2:30 am for Colombo airport looking an absolute horror in (are you ready for this?): black Sketchers, black socks, grey patterned leggi… Read More
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