Crumby Stuff

Alright, I've got a renewed interest in JD Salinger since I found out about his death. So I am going to put down random related stuff:

Comin Thro' The Rye - Robert burns
 

O, Jenny's a' weet, poor body,   Jenny's seldom dry: She draigl't a' her petticoatie,   Comin thro' the rye! Comin thro' the rye, poor body,   Comin thro' the rye, She draigl't a' her petticoatie,   Comin thro' the rye! Gin a body meet a body   Comin thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body,   Need a body cry? Gin a body meet a body   Comin thro' the glen, Gin a body kiss a body,   Need the warl' ken? Gin a body meet a body   Comin thro' the grain; Gin a body kiss a body,   The thing's a body's ain.     Was also sent a link of his Uncollected Writings by the Comedian And to end of:  "It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. " ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9

2.40 a.m. Ramblings

Rambled on last night: 

The essence of being Human is being able to conciously enjoy happiness.... if you can't then you probably aren't very human

Basically humans are the only creatures on this planet capable of 'creating' only for happiness (and not out of need/ practicality). if you don't do things that truly make you happy, then it's just not worth doing anything at all.

Now unfortunately I still need to figure out a balance between the practical and not so paractical stuff I want to get done.

Moving on:
The Shashi Tharoor Twitter thingy is in the news (link). Just heard a senior beurocrat and SM krishna who was a bloody governor say that if he does not agree with the govt he shoukd resign his cabinet post. WHAT THE FUCK!!

I dont agree with everything Tharoor says but if a man (whether he is part of the government or not) has an opinion he wants to voice then he has a right to - by law.

It is also public policy he is discussing  and not "matters of state security" and by defination public policy is policy affecting the bloody public who have a right to listen to an opinion concerning it

Moving On:
Went to check on V at the cop station. Had got into a bit of an accident.
The weird thing:
So you have choppers checking all drivers at naka bandi's for a DUI offence but when two cars have been in an accident they don't check if any of the drivers have had a drink? WHAT THE FUCK!!

Academart.com - seriously check it out !

Got sent this link with some amazing Russian impressionists (http://academart.com). I have no idea why some of these guys aren't ridiculously famous. The one on top is a Pavlov and the one below (which is not actually impressionist but still awesome) is a Pjankov .

For those sick of my regular shit:

The 7 Most Badass Last Stands in the History of Battle

I find this leak insanely funny though:

I wonder if the Liberhan report would have been leaked if the Congress was not in power. For all you know it might have been the old judge himself - I mean if you spent 18 years of your life writing something I'm guessing you really don't want it to be stashed away, do you?

My thoughts on this at an earlier point are here

A great little article on the words of our times:

Beyond Inappropriate

Less than a minute

Curlies on the urinal,
Curlies on the pot,
Damn if the guy before me,
wasn't the ape man that time forgot.

Made that up while in the loo. It fairly flummoxes me how so many get there.

Fried Prattle

Well I haven't blogged in a while
- though I've been in the mood to prattle.
And though the rope's still lengthy,
We've been feeling a lot like cattle.

Calling Ms Parker, Calling Ms Parker,
would you please report to the round table?
through the haze of smoke and leftist folk
would you continue to fuck life's fable?


When fried turn to Ms Parker eh?

CODA - Dorothy Parker

There's little in taking or giving,
There's little in water or wine;
This living, this living, this living
Was never a project of mine.
Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is
The gain of the one at the top,
For art is a form of catharsis,
And love is a permanent flop,
And work is the province of cattle,
And rest's for a clam in a shell,
So I'm thinking of throwing the battle-
Would you kindly direct me to hell?

Pravda survives! :) - just as bad as it supposedly was!

So since today marks 70 years since the start of WW2 - and since the Russian invasion of Poland has suddenly caught my fancy (mainly the Molotov dude), I decided to check what Pravda "the OFFICIAL voice of the USSR) does today.

So I Googled it and was pretty amazed to see the site I went to (Pravda.ru), still having a major cold war hangover. Articles on the latest Russian weapons, an article on an aircraft the US made to drop nukes on Russia - and also an article stating how Germany alone was not responsible for the start of WW2 and that England was heavily involved... awesome fun stuff.

After a little more searching I figured that Pravda pretty much got shut down when the USSR fell and that the site was started by ex Pravda employees. HA! - but the site is definitely a fun read.

P.S it is strange that the amount of factual information be so tiny (comparitively) on a guy who survived very comfortably through practically every purge in the USSR - except for Khrushchev's. For the few who do read the crap i write if you have any info/ good book on Vyacheslav Molotov lemme know.

Mon mon

With a long and ranting speech,
given by the host.
With a great dinner - 'cept the baby seethed
with liquor flowing with "GOD?" looking on,
All in All not bad for a bored mon