Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
The other night I dreamed that I was taking a shower. When I was woken up in the middle of the dream, I fended off my waker-up, thinking that I needed to finish the shower. …
From my referrer logs' search requests, I learn that one can unclog one's toilet with Coca-Cola. Also, some soul has searched for information on the Shroud of Turan, which all film critics covet.
Yesterday, I met Michael Parenti when he bought something from my register. Neat! Also bought at my register by someone else: a copy of Adbusters. Why would you buy Adbusters on Buy Nothing Day? I …
John Rawls, author of A Theory of Justice, died recently. Vaguely, vaguely related, thanks to a conversation I had with the ex-vegan brother of my flatmate last night: Why Honey is not Vegan, and the …
People who know me tell me that I resemble a Muppet, or possibly Dora the Explorer.
Yesterday the flatmates and a friend and I spent about six hours, on and off, making food. There was turkey and mashed potatoes and cranberry-sauce salad and pumpkin pie and gravy, and I made a …
Buy Nothing Day but Sell Everything Day. I hear from NPR that this is "Black Friday" for us the retail workers and I sorta believe it.
"Who cares if the [weapons] inspector is into S&M? There's no evidence that the guy's sexual habits interfered with his work." Hail! Oh, and merry Thanksgiving. NBC is showing a Muppet movie tomorrow night!
Bowling for Columbine elicited my lukewarm approval. Michael Moore preaches to my choir. I prefer Bill Maher's When You Ride Alone You Ride With bin Laden because it, in contrast, attempts answers and takes few …
Punch-Drunk Love. Roger Ebert draws some really interesting conclusions from this film regarding Adam Sandler's entire oeuvre. (Also, I regularly read Ebert's Movie Answer Man column, where he and readers say hilarious and opinionated things.) …