Leonard did a complete summary of our weekend except for the bit where I wrote half a column and reread Le Guin's The Dispossessed. We're waiting for the Ruby Cookbook to come out. A local …
No MC Masala column last week due to a mistake or two. This week: the World Cup and connections. The editors break my paragraphs up into paras of one or two sentences, and somehow that …
Some great posts on Crooked Timber recently: "I space object!", a validation of my use of "flatmate", UK vs. Britain vs. England, hilarious self-parodying corruption defense, and an explanation of the current Middle East crisis. …
I used to make sure to watch the evening network news on New Year's Eve, because they put together classy montages of the year's news to a soundtrack of the year's pop tunes. I can't …
Perhaps NYC has more opportunities for beginning standup than I'd thought. My sketch needs I fulfill with Slightly Known People every Saturday night, and once in a while The Whitest Kids You Know (although they …
The Muslim comic boom! Includes a few jokes Muslims tell about themselves. The result is a kind of black-Muslim fusion. Azeem recalls being 17 and telling his grandmother, a devout southern US Baptist, that he …
Via Feministe: tributes to those who died in the London terrorist attack a year ago. The terrorists exploded bombs during rush hour, on the subway and bus systems. Lee Baisden, an accountant for a fire …
Today I wrote a column in a much-shorter-than-usual span of time, because I thought I was very late. I can't quite tell now whether I was actually late, but it's nice to know that if …
The other night, as I do almost every month, I shanghaied Fog Creek people into coming with me to the New York Tech Meetup, where people making cool tech show it off, people in the …
Want to hear a horror story about control freak managers? ...The engineers were placed out of the loop regarding what was happening in the standards committee and when they finally agreed on a standard, our …
