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Abuse and the abuserjavajones.wordpress.comArchive, Direct link Rapping with a fellow kottu-blogger last week, the subject got to responses in the form of comments and tags – and this guy gets a whole lot of them due to the popularity of his blog. The comments, for the most part, he said are engaging, interesting and complimentary, with few, if any, ’negative’ stuff ...
Bloggers Wantedwww.indi.caArchive, Direct link The Sri Lankan Internet isn't big enough. Kottu has, in my opinion, plateaued when it should be growing faster. This site has plateaued. Rather than waiting for the Internet population to grow, I think it's important to actively grow it. To that end I've been getting into print media. I don't especially enjoy print, but at this point I think it's necessary. Through whatever, I have backing and access to a print and distribution mechanism that can currently produce and distribute 100,000 copies per month. The targets are to ramp this up to 500,000 biweekly. And I ...
Daywww.indi.caArchive, Direct link My car chortles when I accelerate, the weld binding the silencer is loose and the thing keeps trying to clear its throat. The aftermath of too many belly scrapes, crawling the West Coast, 6 or 7 deep. Know a shop in Nawala where they can weld it for like Rs 300. Look at chrome coffee mugs, think about houses I knew but never entered. It's hot in Colombo, the streets are hot. Was loading packages into a van all morning, my dress shirt damp with sweat. Thadiya Nala someone told me, raining in sweat. Things are so ...
Can Blogs Be Taken Seriouslywww.indi.caArchive, Direct link Read a post critical of the blogging panel in Galle and I'd have to say, in many ways, that I agree. The panel was too short, machangy, and didn't stick to the topic. It was, however, a first outing and I think it went OK. To address those concerns, however, this is what I think of the topic - Can Blogging Be Taken Seriously? Globally, yes; but in the sense that I can tell my achchi it's what I do, no. As an angle for debate I think you can break serious down into 1) Is ...
Ceylon Gonewww.indi.caArchive, Direct link Was talking to my token Tamil friend. Word on the street is that the cops are out in Kottawa, asking for bank details. Looked online, and indeed tis so, CWC filed a case. This is one reason I think 1983-type riots won't happen again. Open economy, you know? It's all about the money now. Go upstairs, another house, another time. Sri Lankan men have this unusual desire for their own company, a substantial desire shall we say. Lean my knuckles on the table and try to contain the irrelevant cauldron within. The women are downstairs. Old ...
Strange Dayswww.indi.caArchive, Direct link Strange days. At night I'm driving down Havelock and two men come bounding out Stinky Street. See the face on the man chasing, that stuck determinism of anger. That set some men get in, like concrete. Slow down, but what men, just pass. Turn the corner to another sign of the apocalypse, two dogs post-coitus; facing opposite ways, their nether regions entangled. Had similar experiences, I guess, lasting for months. Turn the next corner and the bar has flooded into the street, a pile of men, doing that Sri Lankan scrum. One drunk belligerent and fifteen blockers, men ...
Dear Darwin…..londonlanka.blogspot.comArchive, Direct link I looked at my screen, I tried to read the words and not feel the anger I was feeling. It wasn't even anger with the person, more with the situation and the mindset, one that I've come up against in the last few years.As a person with a mixed religious ...
Let’s Put a Stop to the Galle Literary Festivalblacklightarrow.wordpress.comArchive, Direct link I’ve been noticing a sort of trend of thought recently in regard to the GLF and the people that organize it. Namely that it’s an elitist piece of foreign trash that has been foisted on the unsuspecting citizens of Galle in particular, and Sri Lanka in general. It doesn’t represent True Sri Lankan Culture, and ...
A Letterlondonlanka.blogspot.comArchive, Direct link Dear Radha,Thank you for your comment here, which I hope I've managed to link to. I think I can speak for my people, the bloggers, when I say that we all like to receive comments, even those we disagree with.Sometimes I get comments so stupid and inane ...
Pervert In the Buspaan-waati.blogspot.comArchive, Direct link Today I was on the way to a friend's place in the afternoon. As both parents were out I ad to take the bus, which I didn't mind because at that time of day buses are generally not crowded and the ride is relatively peaceful. I was looking out the windo ...
Numbers And Timewww.indi.caArchive, Direct link Been learning numbers. When the guy gives me price for bath packets I can sorta understand now. Hathalice (40) was difficult for me, but now I get it. 60 and 70 are tough too, hata (short, back of mouth t) for 60 and hathuh (more nasal, frontal t). Slowly, slowly. Spent the night at an apartment party in Global Towers, bout 9 stories down where that guy fell to his death. Nice place, clean, pretty well run. Wake up, order coffee and cold eggs, spend the rest of the day in the car. Drive down to Mount ...
Elephantwww.indi.caArchive, Direct link March was a dead loss. Death of clowns (Anura Bandaranaike) and of prophets (Arthur C. Clarke). Counting my paycheck, mopping the floors. Meditate in the morning, just to keep my head from sliding off my skull. Walk past the warehouses in the hot sun - trying to stay awake, aware. When I'm paying attention I stretch my fingers out, trying to touch something. Just trying to breathe. Put one foot in front of the other. Down hospital halls and corridors. Nurses in their deceptive whites and unshaven legs. Dude operating the coffee machine, 30 bucks. Back up the ...
A Personal Post (Mortem)www.indi.caArchive, Direct link It's been a while. You change when you're with people, doing things. There's an entire world that goes unrecorded. Words of great and little import that just disappear. The girl that loved me, I let her go. The one I can't forget has forgotten me. I've abdicated blogging in the hope that some hard work can make it bigger in five years. In the hope that some random kid will come up to me and say that some fun facts about snakes made a difference for him. It did for me, a long time ago. Just having ...
Red Glarewww.indi.caArchive, Direct link They put this anti-glare coating on the windows at work. Looks like the goddam apocalypse. Freaks me out every time I pass. On the street it's so hot I like to stick my hands out, literally feel the heat. Bakes off the top of my hands. Feels almost nice just outta the A/C. I don't know what's happening anymore. Try not to. Trying to work, to hold what's left of my psyche together. I used to think the singers were being melodramatic, the movies waxing lyrical. They weren't. There are certainly unique states of crazy within this ...
Secret Colombo short cutcerno.wordpress.comArchive, Direct link Shorter trips despite longer distances - that’s what Secret Colombo Short Cuts (SCSC) are about. They get you around VIP road closures, checkpoints, one way streets, rush hour clog and other unpredictable variables of Colombo traffic. Or you’d be spending more time sitting in traffic. The holly grail is of course routes that cut time AND ...
Fernando Pulledwww.indi.caArchive, Direct link Being a government minister's like being a rap star. Cars, guns, parties and the ever looming threat of death. Jeyaraj Fernadopulle was killed by a public attack at a marathon. He was a bit of a douchebag, but he deserved to be voted out, not to die. Nobody deserves to die. The LTTE, paradoxically, cannot 'liberate' anyone anymore, they just aggravate the situation. In response to the burdens on the Tamil people they can only make violent, childish attacks - violence which just begets more violence. Their response to suffering is to just spin the wheel faster, begetting ...
Menna Horu Part III - The Showdowndinidudealwis.comArchive, Direct link Well, I think I’m overly dramatizing the whole Gayan Ranasinghe Issue now. But hey, I need to be occupied no? So this is the update after his friend emailing me. So this Gayan guy, he’s a University student. Gayan emails me today, and apologizes, and then says that he will take the pages down, and wants ...
The 2007 Blogging Awardslondonlanka.blogspot.comArchive, Direct link About this time last year I put out a little post, with links and humour and stuff, called the 2006 blogging awards. I've decided to do a follow up, again with links but I've left out the humour. You may have guessed all that from the title.I predict t ...
Prose, Verse A Placebowww.indi.caArchive, Direct link I've taken the prose. I've also taken enough Psychology to know when a doctor is asking, literally, prescriptive questions. For a long time I was feeling shit for no particular reason. I obviously had reasons, but they were retarded, hence I'm in the Asiri waiting room, clutching a print-out and feeling wholly depressed by my surroundings. Not my life per se, the hospitals just seem kinda hack-job. You get about 10 minutes - often behind a sliding wood door - with a doctor. I'm remembering coming here with a girl, I'm tripping out, need to sit still. ...
Matters Of Life And Deathpaan-waati.blogspot.comArchive, Direct link For some of us, at least.Friend says: he has a girl Friend says: i give up Me says: how'd you find that out? Friend says: i just asked ....... Me says: what did you really expect when all of them are almost ...
Sex Is All in a Day’s Work for a Sri Lankan Motherwhisperings.wordpress.comArchive, Direct link When growing up in SL my mother didn’t sit me down and tell me “thou shalt not sleep with a man until married” I just knew it. It was sort of in the air in SL. We could whiff the drift of what is expected of us girls. But when bringing up children ...
Outstationwww.indi.caArchive, Direct link I left the laptop in the bag, wrote notes on paper. Most productive I've been in a while, away from the constant twitch of email and the infinite naked women on the Internet. Occasionally, even in Colombo, you can lucinate your self into some other world. Of art, of music, of technology. I'm wearing linen pants and shirt, crossing my legs and smoking a copasetic beedi. 'Charter' is the word of the day. Thought it just meant cool (as in 'ela'), but it may mean something dunce. It's hard to hear, beneath the tears, but there is a ...
Bribing The Copswww.indi.caArchive, Direct link I'm driving down Green Path and cops try to hit me up for a bribe. "We'd like to help. You help us." Just a security check but they ask for my drivers license and etceteras. Which is illegal, but whatevs. My Revenue License was 6 days expired, and dudes are grinning like Christmas Day. Security checks are for security, not traffic - as the Supreme Court ruled. But the way the dudes are grinning I'm starting to think this is neither security nor traffic. The cops I meet outstation are actually helpful, but the ones in Colombo ...
M.I.A and DeLonsahasamvada-forum.blogspot.comArchive, Direct link Our June 9, 2008 post titled 'M.I.A: Diaspora in Action' where we spoke about M.I.A's politics and analysed some articles that appeared on the web about this. Now M.I.A is back under scrutiny with the release of DeLon's video version of her song 'Paper ...
Sri Lankan Girls (Are Cheaper)www.indi.caArchive, Direct link Apparently. Egad I love Sri Lankan women. God forbid I offend them, but then women like that. This is more to say that - on the free market - Sri Lankan girls are apparently cheaper. Not that I've been, being devoted to sexual autocracy. There's a dude I used to work with, lets call him Prawn Curry, a total capitalist whore. In addition to storing loads of porn on company servers, he spent his entire disposable income on prostitutes. He used to send this entirely classless porn everyday until I set a filter to automatically delete his ...
National Carrierwww.indi.caArchive, Direct link Mihin Lanka was a vanity airline started by Mahinda Rajapakse, named after himself, funded with public money (like people's pensions) and leeched into the ground by corrupt and incompetent cronies. Now the airline has lost over 1.6 billion rupees (about $16 million dollars) and no one is giving them credit. No credit means they can't afford the $223,000 monthly lease on their airplanes, and the last one has been seized for non-payment. To clarify, Mahinda gambled with the peoples money on a pet project and it went broke. There will, of course, be no ...
Booze in Bamba?tinylittlefascist.wordpress.comArchive, Direct link In my long, circuitous journey towards the ideal watering spots in Colombo, we’ve covered the gems of the port area, Slave Island and Fort, while giving passing mention to the likes of Clancy’s and the EAP Bar in Borella. One area in town that I don’t really have much of a feel for - in ...
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