Rings True!!!

via The Daily Dish.

"With every day that passes, I am more convinced that the act of writing is a conscious act of humility."

That explains why i feel like i am scraping the bottom of the barrel here.

-shri

Visual Poetry

Paradox of Choice

Came across this while trolling through the TED comments section on a talk about choice and am sure it's true of the most of us, for value is relative...

dad to two sons: Boys, i have got you christmas gifts and I haven't decided who gets what. Since John is the younger of the two, i will let him pick first and then Mark can take what's left.

John: i will have whatever Mark's picking!!!

and in that one smartass line, i believe, is the reduction of every man's motivation to do what he does... to have what the next guy has!!!!!!!!!!!

-shri

Scrubs - Holy Inferiority Complex Batman

ROFLMAO!!

I dreamed a dream!!

Susan Boyle has been plastered all over the news and the internet these past few days and I ended up watching this endearing and mindblowing performance of hers. It was one of those truly "In your face, sock it" kind of moments that highlights in bold all your cynicism and prejudices.

What i was happier to find was the song itself... "I dreamed a dream" from Les Miserables. It is from a West End musical of the same name. I am absolutely smitten by this song. Such anguish, frustration and sadness. It could have been penned by Tolkien himself :). A very moving piece of poetry and the last two lines, they are worth their own weight in gold.

Now life has killed
The dream I dreamed.

-shri

Dumb and Dumberer

Texas as a whole just got a little dumber today. Here

Here is one of the creationists' contentions

One amendment calls for students to "analyze and evaluate scientific explanations concerning any data on sudden appearance and stasis and the sequential groups in the fossil record."

They should realize that they are shooting themselves in the foot by asking people to "analyze" and "evaluate" theories. I am sure their own positions do not stand up to a first grader's questions without resorting to "faith" as the answer.

Stupidity does seem to be enjoying a resurgence. Right no?

-shri

What's he got that I ain't got?

My skills with the written verse can at best be employed to convey animal grunts. That's the best i can do.. Now this blog was started so that i could hone my writing skills hoping that one day my fiance doesn't mistake a passionately written love letter to be a patterned toilet paper. So now and then when I come up against a line like this written by somebody else -

" Art is too valuable to be consigned to the stultifying chore of chronicling the truth."

- I think i am doomed to die single with all the relatives whispering at my pyre - "I heard that the best he could do was a Hallmark card". Oh, the ignominy of it all.

Now the above gem belongs to one of my favorite writers and the best movie reviewer , Baradwaj Rangan. What does he or for that matter writers like Guha and Tolkien have that makes them so good... they seem to be writing with effortless ease. I just wish that i could articulate something even half as good as their worst output.

Immense jealousy strikes!!

-shri