Comments on: Good writers finish last http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/04/good_writers_fi/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Preston http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/04/good_writers_fi/comment-page-1/#comment-104925 Preston Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:18:23 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4005#comment-104925 <p>Flour.</p> Flour.

]]> By: Preston http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/04/good_writers_fi/comment-page-1/#comment-104923 Preston Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:14:37 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4005#comment-104923 <p>Does anyone remember the "Goodness Gracious Me" skit, paroding the pottery wheel and wet-clay routine from "Ghost"? To the strains of "Unchained Melody," Kulvinder Ghir massages Nina Wadia's hands in a ball of roti dough. Standing up, they bump and grind with flower on their faces, and then Ghir descends out of the frame, leaving Wadia with an expression of ecstasy on her face. Then she stops, opens one eye, and sees Ghir sitting at her feet, eating a somosa.</p> Does anyone remember the “Goodness Gracious Me” skit, paroding the pottery wheel and wet-clay routine from “Ghost”? To the strains of “Unchained Melody,” Kulvinder Ghir massages Nina Wadia’s hands in a ball of roti dough. Standing up, they bump and grind with flower on their faces, and then Ghir descends out of the frame, leaving Wadia with an expression of ecstasy on her face. Then she stops, opens one eye, and sees Ghir sitting at her feet, eating a somosa.

]]> By: Pooja http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/04/good_writers_fi/comment-page-1/#comment-104913 Pooja Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:38:56 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4005#comment-104913 <blockquote>As someone recently mentioned on the News tab, this blog is screaming for a Bad Sex in Fiction-themed 55Friday.</blockquote> <p>A N N A did respond to my suggestion with a "Hell, yes!" We're waiting... ;).</p> As someone recently mentioned on the News tab, this blog is screaming for a Bad Sex in Fiction-themed 55Friday.

A N N A did respond to my suggestion with a “Hell, yes!” We’re waiting… ;) .

]]> By: Mitali Perkins http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/04/good_writers_fi/comment-page-1/#comment-104911 Mitali Perkins Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:25:45 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4005#comment-104911 <p>This is not surprising because desis don't usually write OR talk about sex, apart from here on SM of course, and never inter-generationally. Here's Ma's take on the Birds and the Bees in the only conversation we had related to the onset of puberty: "Now don't swim in the same pool with boys. That is how babies start to happen." Thankfully, one of my sisters decided to fend off boredom during a Bay-Area-based Bengali gathering by telling me the facts of life.</p> This is not surprising because desis don’t usually write OR talk about sex, apart from here on SM of course, and never inter-generationally. Here’s Ma’s take on the Birds and the Bees in the only conversation we had related to the onset of puberty: “Now don’t swim in the same pool with boys. That is how babies start to happen.” Thankfully, one of my sisters decided to fend off boredom during a Bay-Area-based Bengali gathering by telling me the facts of life.

]]> By: Coffeescoop http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/04/good_writers_fi/comment-page-1/#comment-104902 Coffeescoop Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:59:43 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4005#comment-104902 <p>Check out this nice essay by this year's "winner," Iain Hollingshead:</p> <p>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/11/30/basex30.xml</p> Check out this nice essay by this year’s “winner,” Iain Hollingshead:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/11/30/basex30.xml

]]> By: Erm http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/04/good_writers_fi/comment-page-1/#comment-104843 Erm Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:17:16 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4005#comment-104843 <p>"Hooray! Asha will see her dad tonight and Ammamma will get relief."</p> <p>So you guys take turns?</p> “Hooray! Asha will see her dad tonight and Ammamma will get relief.”

So you guys take turns?

]]> By: Asha's Dad http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/04/good_writers_fi/comment-page-1/#comment-104785 Asha's Dad Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:41:37 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4005#comment-104785 <p>No pneumothorax. Hooray! Asha will see her dad tonight and Ammamma will get relief.</p> No pneumothorax. Hooray! Asha will see her dad tonight and Ammamma will get relief.

]]> By: Asha's Dad http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/04/good_writers_fi/comment-page-1/#comment-104783 Asha's Dad Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:28:31 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4005#comment-104783 <p>Payal,</p> <p>Thanks. I'm ashamed, but I blame it on hypoglycemia. Been up since 5 am. Only a protein bar and red bull. Rounds, clinic, unecessary bronchoscopies ordered by attending....still waiting 2 hours for Stat chest x-ray.</p> <p>I'll sum up my performance with a quote the father from Monsoon Wedding "Idiot!"</p> Payal,

Thanks. I’m ashamed, but I blame it on hypoglycemia. Been up since 5 am. Only a protein bar and red bull. Rounds, clinic, unecessary bronchoscopies ordered by attending….still waiting 2 hours for Stat chest x-ray.

I’ll sum up my performance with a quote the father from Monsoon Wedding “Idiot!”

]]> By: payal http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/04/good_writers_fi/comment-page-1/#comment-104765 payal Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:13:15 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4005#comment-104765 <p>Asha's Dad:</p> <blockquote>"Don't worry we'll make those mosquito bites look like juicy juicy mangos" - Sari Saleswoman in Monsoon Wedding.</blockquote> <p>This is from Bend it Like Beckham...</p> Asha’s Dad:

“Don’t worry we’ll make those mosquito bites look like juicy juicy mangos” – Sari Saleswoman in Monsoon Wedding.

This is from Bend it Like Beckham…

]]> By: Asha's Dad http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/12/04/good_writers_fi/comment-page-1/#comment-104751 Asha's Dad Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:10:36 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4005#comment-104751 <p>Writing erotica is often like trying to cook from a cookbook. The meal never quite turns out as pretty as it looks in the pictures. It makes one appreciate that Henry Miller did have a bit of literary talent.</p> <p>"It was a dark and stormy night...." The original bad novel</p> <p>"Uh, that's what she said!" - Michael Scott The Office</p> <p>"Don't worry we'll make those mosquito bites look like juicy juicy mangos" - Sari Saleswoman in Monsoon Wedding.</p> <p>"Me so horny" - Full Metal Jacket</p> Writing erotica is often like trying to cook from a cookbook. The meal never quite turns out as pretty as it looks in the pictures. It makes one appreciate that Henry Miller did have a bit of literary talent.

“It was a dark and stormy night….” The original bad novel

“Uh, that’s what she said!” – Michael Scott The Office

“Don’t worry we’ll make those mosquito bites look like juicy juicy mangos” – Sari Saleswoman in Monsoon Wedding.

“Me so horny” – Full Metal Jacket

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