Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

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Reading

10 Dec 2004, 13:13 p.m.

Media Matters

Tim Goodman turned me on to Arrested Development and it is awesome and I love it. Even Leonard likes it. Something aside from The West Wing and Star Trek that I can watch with Leonard! …

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29 Nov 2004, 15:44 p.m.

Books I Read When I Was Too Young to Really Understand Them

Back to Eden. A denunciation of modern, unholy, unhealthy eating patterns, and a handbook of herbs and more natural healing methods. Lots of enemas. This fascinated me for the anecdotes; I just flipped through the …

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11 Nov 2004, 15:57 p.m.

Deepavali, Dipawali, Whatever

Happy Diwali! While dressing up for work in a shimmery pyjama juba, a.k.a. salwar kameez, I discovered that I don't have any kumkum, a.k.a. kunkuma, a.k.a. bindi, a.k.a. the red dot you wear in the …

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10 Nov 2004, 19:59 p.m.

Not To Mention The Original Big Book

Two of my favorite Christianity bloggers: Real Live Preacher and Slacktivist. I imagine that the Preacher, a.k.a. Gordon Atkinson, would enjoy Douglas Coupland's book All Families Are Psychotic, and now I find that Fred Clark …

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31 Oct 2004, 20:56 p.m.

An Ad For Canadian Schooling

If you ever visit my putative homepage, and you're viewing the page with graphics turned on, you'll see a bit of Russian at the bottom. "Ya mogu yest steklo; eto menya ne vredit," it says. …

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15 Oct 2004, 19:39 p.m.

Want More Profane Rants?

I bought America: The Book by the writers of The Daily Show. It is a jewel. It actually disturbs Leonard to hear my cynical laugh several times per minute while reading that thing. A sample …

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05 Oct 2004, 13:58 p.m.

Erudition

Sometimes I wonder what a Camille Paglia presidential run would look like, but Lyndon LaRouche saves me the imaginatory effort. I highly recommend Mary Roach's funny and enlightening Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. …

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22 Sep 2004, 15:45 p.m.

Lots Of Puns And Theodicy

Done with Blameless in Abaddon, thus 2/3 of the way through The Godhead Trilogy. Enjoyable enough. Alexei, I think you'd like it.

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20 Sep 2004, 9:52 a.m.

Media

Read Y: The Last Man, Volume I: quite entertaining. I need more! Finished Morrow's depressing This Is The Way The World Ends. Yeah, he is obsessed with submarines and silly names and big show trials. …

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18 Aug 2004, 18:22 p.m.

Recurring

Just finished Douglas Coupland's Miss Wyoming. Yes, he writes the same book over and over, but it is a very good book.

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