tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108125472024-03-13T07:08:47.100-04:00Champagne Shoulders"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?"<br><br><br>"I…don’t know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"<br><br><br>"To shrug."Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.comBlogger773125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-11199272266128258302012-09-16T11:51:00.000-04:002012-09-16T11:51:15.372-04:00Is this bruschetta? I don't think so.
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. While that's happening, you coarsely chop tomatoes, basil, avocado and toss with salt, pepper, a little balsamic vinegar, lemon olive oil. Then you take the bread, crispy side up, pour over the Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-28756443853082929312012-09-12T14:11:00.000-04:002012-09-12T14:13:04.190-04:00It's her fault I have the manic giggles today
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 two nights... the pigeons scared me this morning
Louise: beady eyes
Wolfe: i was awake all night.. finally went to sleep
at 5:30 am.. and the damn pigeons frightened me awake...
they Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-15209036393703589552012-09-11T17:08:00.000-04:002012-09-11T17:12:30.843-04:00Soupy, soupy twist
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 the day before the event on StubHub and therefore had to pay an ungodly amount. I was sucker enough to pay 3x the face value and someone out there was clever enough to capitalize on it. People Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-76172586286185436442012-08-30T16:36:00.000-04:002012-08-30T16:36:56.264-04:00Just be perfect. Then be perfect some more. No pressure.
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 answer the following question - "Which fictional character do you think would make an excellent Firm consultant and why?" I present to you some of the (editorialized) responses, which, to be fair, are Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-41102741392937131462012-08-01T14:46:00.000-04:002012-08-01T14:46:30.076-04:00Liberian girl. You came and you changed my world.
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 Bangladesh or developing the economies of nations like Uganda or living with bead makers in Ghana? Do you think there's ever an emotional component to their work?
You see, lately, strangely, I've met Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-38779447001372639422012-07-10T15:28:00.000-04:002012-07-10T15:29:42.583-04:00"I wonder if, for my olympics party, I could represent some sort of velociraptor themed event..."
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: that does not make good news... it must be killer great white otherwise it's just boring. It's like saying "yeah, I was camping in the woods, and it was terrifying, because I was chased down by this... Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-75901456201576673422012-06-19T15:44:00.002-04:002012-06-19T15:47:08.425-04:00Today's Baby Blues very accurately captures the sort of person I have becomeWolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-53162809228998210842012-05-10T10:02:00.002-04:002012-05-10T10:02:38.007-04:00Is this thing on?
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 latest thought, here's an article I thought you might enjoy reading - http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-ultimate-guide-to-writing-better-than-you-normally-do.Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-33111773018042443142012-05-09T16:09:00.002-04:002012-05-09T16:09:58.004-04:00Transitions
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 something that wasn't there. Which, actually, is pretty common with me, I find. You ever want something so bad that your imagination creates an alternate reality?
But then you'd ask why chase Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-9899556249593606312012-04-30T10:45:00.000-04:002012-04-30T10:46:34.015-04:00Surely we must all blasphemeWolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-32114205365932110372012-03-26T11:04:00.000-04:002012-03-26T11:04:52.735-04:00Need to experiment more with squirrelsWolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-89323656539703799342012-01-13T06:12:00.000-05:002012-01-13T06:12:12.803-05:00If your play becomes work then what will your work become?
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 you are.
Need a vacation to recover now. But I think I'll stay on the island for a while.Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-46732936225997394412012-01-09T06:09:00.000-05:002012-01-13T06:14:20.405-05:00Things that baffle me about India and possible explanations
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 something they want or that you’re trying to gyp them by failing to read a sign correctly
2. How even the skinniest driver/porter can lug your massive 25 kg bag up and down stairs and in and out cars/trucks/vans and not Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-48791886485060442292012-01-07T08:37:00.001-05:002012-01-07T08:40:48.253-05:00Madamji, aap Monday ko aao. Abh to kuch nahi hoga.
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 the Air India office tell you one thing, the stalwart emigration officers at Amritsar airport tell you another. With the result that you don't get to leave. Till Monday.
Then you rant and rave.&Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-56593869014923217562012-01-06T22:31:00.000-05:002012-01-06T22:34:35.450-05:00Mein aapke dil mein rehna chahta hoon. Mein aapke ghar mein rehna chahti hoon.
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 shopping. Oh well. Pleased that have at least managed to avoid deadly diseases and retained kidneys.
Wish me luck. Transiting through Delhi again. Wonder if they'll let me leave?!
Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-60382167646475840612012-01-06T08:00:00.005-05:002012-01-06T08:09:20.171-05:00Auto mein gayi, taxi mein wapas aayiMoosladhar 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 at Alpha One mall. Bad idea. Managed to make it back to the hotel 2 hours later, somehow wetter. Here's a tip, don't take an auto when it's raining.The television choices, true to being all things India either Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-88235571432192224632012-01-05T06:21:00.006-05:002012-01-05T07:42:58.941-05:00Wahe Guru di fatehSpent 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 Temple instead.Good plan.You get a friendly doorman to flag you an already occupied auto to take you to the Temple. Riding in an auto is fraught with peril, noisy, rattly, full of diesel fumes and noisy. Over the Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-52196524916002478482012-01-04T06:11:00.003-05:002012-01-05T06:26:33.206-05:00"Masterji, pitaji ki patloon ek bilang choti kar do"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, paid money to a chap who carried bags through and checked-in. Took bag tags this time. Security did not understand my idock but "computer ke liye hai" was enough for them. Paid Rs. 40 for a vegetable puff that Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-65985596118838514052012-01-03T05:49:00.004-05:002012-01-03T05:59:46.397-05:00"This will be too much food for you madam"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 cucumbers, tomatoes and onions. I ate it all. With two roomali rotis. And then kaali daal. I ate that. With two papads. Then came a giant thing of pheerni in a clay katori. I ate that. Washed it down with a Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-74497577234767093112012-01-02T04:54:00.005-05:002012-01-02T05:53:00.531-05:00"Give me a loan and leave me alone"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 the Maharani Gayatri Devi palace up on a hill built like a Scottish castle. On to Amer.Amber Fort. Overlooks man made Maota Lake and garden which were created to experiment growing saffron in Rajasthan. TouristsWolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-75077993220198729502012-01-01T14:57:00.002-05:002012-01-01T15:32:15.042-05:00Masala baked beans are a terrible ideaBreakfast 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 around the city, saw Hawa Mahal. It's got some 900 latticed windows through which the wimmen used to peer out. Didn't get to go in since traffic was bad with no place to stop.Jaipur is not as glamorous as I Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-35133144830425871262011-12-31T21:24:00.004-05:002011-12-31T21:29:34.682-05:00Big deal, time changes every secondVentured 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 then best it is you take your drink in your room madam" and therefore was put off paying exorbitant money for "gala celebration dinner" for NYE.Also coughing like a racehorse after a sprint. Started Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-27869579473371438322011-12-31T03:54:00.002-05:002011-12-31T04:05:32.958-05:00The wonderful thing about watching Tamil movies is that you don't have to know the language to get itAll 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 his hands together for a namaste with a wink. The sidekick will always try his luck with the hottest girl in college and be rejected with multiple slaps. The gang of villains travels in a well-stocked SUV withWolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-55122834363238365222011-12-31T02:27:00.000-05:002011-12-31T02:28:54.283-05:00Your bad decisions are merely good learning experiencesITC 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 family. Soft bed but uncomfortable night. Slept till 11 am. Room’s nice, lots of sensors and electronics. Bathroom light is on sensors which is useful. Tub is very small. Floor is this lovely green marble. ViewWolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10812547.post-4711122088209308642011-12-30T02:26:00.000-05:002011-12-31T02:26:55.394-05:00You must be equally capable of experiencing anger and of controlling itIn 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 leggings, white kurta, yellow tank top, oily as all heck, hair doing mad curly things with middle parting, terribly sunburnt and red all over, reeking of lemongrass and coconut. Do not look like 33 year old Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10871391658485933614noreply@blogger.com0