Dud Sea Scrawls The Writing, clearly, is not on the wall!

TOTCS (the one they call Stuckinkindergarten) has always been fascinated by the concept of bloggers meeting up in real life. DSS provided ample examples with people getting together across the globe, often meeting up more regularly in real life than online. From his fortress of solitude TOTCS watched as friendships formed, love blossomed, people got married, some feelings were hurt. In Dec 2006 TOTCS took the important first step from the virtual to real world after discovering that he had more in common with a fellow DSSer than just taste in music.

I have admired enough poets, story tellers, essayists, photographers on Dud Sea Scrawls to suggest that we must, yes we must, publish an anthology called Dud Sea Scrawls. (I itch to call it Dud Sea Scrawls: Vol 1)

We can have each writer submit five posts from dud sea scrawls that they wish us to consider. A three hundred page anthology will be a great way to go. So now lets say we keep 1/4th for poetry, 1/2 for fiction and 1/2 for essays/reviews. We can play with actual numbers and figures later. There are many things that must be worked out.

1) Editors for each section.

Happy Birthday !

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Whenever the dasara days start grandma becomes busy, rite from
bringing down those big boxes and building those odd numbered steps with papa’s and mama’s dhoties spread on those equally placed well supported
suitacases and trunk pettis.

She has an amazing talent of arranging those dolls in a way only she can do.The Dasavathara dolls become the prominent one and occupies the top slot as those 10 of ‘em are always in uniform followed by the asthalakshmi dolls which count 8 , next step would have the best of Vinayakas ( the recent one bought takes a centre stage ) and after the divine circle gets over our picks get ensembled in the place of choice we had a music party dolls where in we missed out a clarinet playing red claded musician amongst 20 of it, last time i dropped it when while trying to wrap it tight ( Courtesy -The Hindu ) the fifth storied last one wld hv a Chettiyar doll with provisons displayed in small pots infront of it with his head shaking, while the floor occupies a road done with a charcaol help with one plastic cycle and a yellow bus on opp directions, with a lamp post arranged in alternates from start to end. Adjacent to it we build a Pond done with those floras and faunas in plastic and keep a marriage party with a stage

Special delivery for Chay and Cheti!

* Slightly implicit Blog - full dorsal rotundity*

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2:00 am. 1995. Bangalore. Young, Free and Hairless.

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So, you stay alone, right?
Yes. No restrictions. Go when I wanna go. And I come when I wanna come - I type
Is that so? - he sends a long smilie

Lemma 1: Calling an act stupid is okay, calling a person stupid is not.

The proof, I won’t give, but I guess CEC would. Refer to his latest comment here . In specific:

What I did call stupid, with respect to the specific ‘you’, was the specific unsubstantiated claim you made, that my arguments don’t hold water. And I still maintain that that was a stupid thing to say, because if you don’t explain why, that statement doesn’t mean a goddamned thing Smiling. At the risk of spouting another volley of ‘Absolutes’, we all do stupid things. The stupidity here is an attribute of the thing, and need not necessarily render the person stupid.

Disclaimer(s)
Not meant to be offensive. Just something that came out of a chat sal and I were having, we got a laugh out of it. Thought we’d share.

Those who feel left out or relieved for feeling left out, there might be a part 2 . No , thats not a threat or a promise . Just CYA policy

And this list, in no way absolves you of blogging. Blogging is a birthright and we darn well want you to use it.

Are you guys seeing what I am seeing? These site administrators are allowing people to get in left and right!

Round one: You truly must’ve been vacationing on Mars the last few months to not notice it, but Crys’ ongoing spoof-series is a *huge* hit.

But what’s almost as interesting and entertaining is the soap-opera in progress on the sidelines. [all credits to peppy for the heads-up]

Round two: Let’s just say another blogger decided to get on a saffron-ka-ghoda and let loose with some choice vitriol . [Trivia: if you have the time & patience to read all the comments, you’ll find that someone found it fit to pick up on DSS-buckwaas as well . The irony being that this blogger uses the handle “hawkeye” - anyone who’s watched even a single episode of M.A.S.H knows that the character Hawkeye’s prime virtue is all-around-irreverence, stuffed to his gills.
Quite a contrast to our good friend here…………….

Just a quick note - if any of you recommend this site to a friend, please use the “Invite” feature. [“my account” –> “invite a friend”]. And/or send me a msg as a heads-up.

There are some user account requests that come in with (an almost disconcertingly !) scarce amount of personal information. Though coin-tosses are always fun, an intro from one of you will make the account-approval process that much easier for me

Thanks & happy holidays.

Kculon calls me wednesday evening to confirm the DSS meeting on thursday at 7:00PM in front of Mainland China on Church Street. We plan to meet up and go together.

DSS now has a new album module. Well, this has been one of the main feature that was truly missing from drupal (the software DSS is running on). A few days back a new module ‘Acidfree’ was released. This is what the author of the module has to say about it:

Just a quick request.

Most of you probably have individual blogsites that you maintain. If your personal profile here at DSS doesn’t already include a link to the individual blogsite(s), would you please take a moment to update it ?

Thanks much !

October Sky - Sometimes one blog is enough to light up the whole [blog]sky.

No, this is not a wisecrack about the movie.. I just stole the caption from them to make up for the lack of creativity in me.

Chitralekha (for those who do not know) is a hindi novel by Bhagvati Prasad Vajpeyi.

It examines the role of sex in spiritual journeys.

Dear Rajesh and whoever else who has the same questions,

The questions you have raised are no doubt legitimate. I am not the site admin, but for some the admin’s actions, I can provide explanations. I will try to address some of the questions you have raised.

Just some thoughts. And an attempt to clear the air.

‘ENOUGH… can we PLEASE get on with the program and start writing????!!!!’

“What you closed the Gazette?”, asked Dunbar trying to keep yossarain away – yossarain who was singing “jaraasi saawdhaani, jinadagibhar aasaani” in his ears till it hurt.

“Said who?”, asked McMurphy

“I thought I heard you saying that!”

“What?”

“Stop acting dumb, you know what you say!”, said the Chief

“Well of course I do. The thing is do you?”

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Well the night before McMurphy was reported to be walking around shaking his head in disbelief, at being labeled a political satirist. For McMurphy realizes the importance of being slotted, and the phrase: once a political satirist, always a political satirist. So what if no one has said that before, a phrase is a phrase, ain’t it?

At the onset, let me clarify that I had posted the cartoon in a very congenial spirit. The intention wasn’t to take a potshot at you, or anyone – but I can see that it can be taken in that way. And I should have realized that. For that I’m really sorry if that means anything now. But not for the intent, for the intent wasn’t even kidding, just sharing something which I though you may enjoy.

Now that you’ve brought out what I only now realize you were sitting on for a while, I’m even glad. But let me say this: I never viewed buck series as anything extraordinary or some campaign in reforming this online community. I was just having a good time, and I thought so were others. I’d like to apologize to ANYONE who have been offended by any of the stuff written in the series, except for karma, and we’ll get to that.

Over the past coupla weeks I’ve been secretly working on adding some usability features to this site. Some of the updates I’m sure many of you have noticed. And there are many which you may not have noticed.

…it was a perfect night, completely starless, cold and eerie as hell. There was a spell in the air, the kind of spell that would chill a normal being to the bone, but can put the worst of witches into the right mood….

It’s wishing time again…