Here we go… the much delayed blog mela is finally up. Sorry about the delay — I signed up a long time ago for this, and circumstances have conspired to make my week miserably busy.
First up, this delectable little gem from Sidin. Certainly the funniest post of the week, and possibly one of the funniest ever. One post like this can make hosting a mela so much fun.
The esoterically named Gounder Brownie comes up with a splendid use for cabbages. An innovative twist on the idea that I came up with all by myself would be to use a lettuce in much the same manner — it has the added advantage of costing less money. Veena chimes in with some Valentine’s day advice of her own. Gawker manages to look through all this Dick Cheney brouhaha and draw conclusions that lay certain dodgy old demons to rest. Nice. And here’s a post from Megha I forgot to include the first time around — about what people seek and what people get.
Next up, the usual suspects. Jai Arjun Singh writes an awesome review; Chandrahas has a great post on literature — poet Jeet Thayil in this case; Amit has a series of offbeat posts about Pakistan; the folks at Sepia Mutiny churn out great posts. Humility prevents me from linking to this post on Thai Pusam, but not to Chenthil’s post on the same topic. DoZ on this blog, waxes eloquent about pleasure, pain, books, movies, life. Falstaff rhymes, then rants. And does it well. In other words, it was a week like any other.
The obligatory State of Fear post of the week. This time from Patrix. Unrelated, but here’s Sunil’s comprehensive review of Indu Sundaresan’s The Twentieth Wife. And Karthik just realized that one can use as many as three apostrophes in a single sentence.
Gayathri on the perils of choice. The title of her post reminds me of the funniest Subway story I’ve heard yet: My freshly arrived friend’s reply to the “For here or to go” question was: Both. And look ma: Three colons on this paragraph. Make that four: Sibyl, bless her soul, has a post on crossdressers and transgendereators. Now if that doesn’t bring me visitors, what will? By the way, great word, isn’t it? Transgenderators. Must be a smart guy that coined it. To keep the dressing thme going, here’s Tilo on non-violent silk; and the thread continues as she talks about the silk weavers of Madurai. Did I say one post per person? Bah.
Full2Faltu reminisces about the good old times when DoorDarshan was the only game in town. Oh, what’s the big deal if a guy makes a few (million) bucks on the way to killing a lot of bad people? Let him go, for he does what we cannot says Navin. From Cynical Nerd, a longish post about cheerleaders. Before you rush to click, be warned: there are no pictures, and many of them are old and male. Arrgh.
Spaceman Spiff wants states to be reorganized, Jeyavel has some predictions for India’s cities, Incredibly Me talks about oil changes, the Soliloquist muses on being an Indian. Or something like that, it was a long post, so pliss excuse me. Vivek talks about a village that built its own railway station.
Zero — who wants me to make no jokes — qualifies for the longest post of the week award with this. Speaking of which, Sandeep writes a Joyceian post about ballgirls and wins the longest sentence without any punctuation award hands down.
On Sports — cricket, of course — Prem Panicker’s outstanding blog still outstands, the atrocious interface notwithstanding. Anti isn’t too pleased about Moin Khan shooting his mouth off and Ruchir Joshi (who shares Rediff’s horrid interface with Prem) links to a video on who chucks and who doesn’t. By the way, if your vocabulary is not tuned to cricketese, let me clarify that rhyme notwithsanding, chuckin’ doesn’t mean what you think it means. Dirty chuckers.
The quote of the week, from PrufrockTwo. “Books may be easy to burn, but they aren’t that easy to get rid of.”
The next Mela is at Ashish’s Niti.
15 Responses to “Blog Mela Redux”
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Well, the “joke” I mentioned was to not feature my post on the blog mela, as I myself *clearly* suggested the same; if you didn’t get what I meant, that is.
(3 commas, one semi-colon, 2 asterisks; I am getting there!)
So, hoping that some obscene jokes are cracked at my expense.
That’s a funny intro to our not-so-funny post. Thanks for linking.
best,
Blog Carnival index: Blog Mela Redux…
BLOG MELA is now up at etcetera!…
I read! I read! All posts! Catches breath!
Zero, dude, you are at the wrong place if you want obscene jokes. This is more like the poor joke hangout.
Neha — all the posts? Wow, that’s way more than what I read
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Karthik: ah, was beginning to wonder what happened to promised blog mela. Good stuff. I especially loved the Joyce-ian post. Did you notice the subtle parallels to the Atalanta myth?
Falstaff: I didn’t then, but now that you mention it, tennis balls can be golden apples I guess.
ok.…i spent time “betwen experiments” to finish reading ALL posts. Very nice mela.
If i had been a panther with a bald spot on my chin, I might have said “good hunting.”
Errr.…link to my post doesn’t work.
[…] Before you wonder where it vanished, Karthik brings us the Blog Mela Redux. […]
Patrix, oops. Fixed it now.
Are you trying to get this mela post into the next mela on “funniest mela” grounds?
Funny…muchos liked.
LOL
“Awesome review” … that’s much higher praise than I deserve (or can deal with), but thanks a lot Karthik.
Thanx Karthik… for featuring the post
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