Satire
Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.
~ Philip Roth
Writer-At-Large – The 2014 Indian-American Documentary
- Disclaimer: Dear friends and family, life in 2014 for the Somayajulas has been more than spectacular. In fact, our year has been filled with mind-numbing mundane details. Please accept this heavily exaggerated Season's Greetings and a Happy New Year photo...
The MBA Commencement Speech – Secrets of Your Unsuccess
- Congratulations, class of 2014 Georgia Tech EMBA! Well, now that you are executively something, a quick recap of what life has been and yet to be. And since every great commencement speech in history had a name, this one does too. SECRETS OF YOUR UNSUCCESS -...
26 Awesome Moments for Indian-Americans during #ModiInAmerica
- The Indian Prime minister, Mr. Modi, who is visiting the US gave a speech at Madison Square Garden in New York over the weekend. Here is what happened during and after. Tag line: Not-your-average-brown-guy. - #The Stage# 1. You get your ticket's worth as...
Writer-At-Large – What Indian-American moms are really thinking when they watch Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda
- For an Indian-American mom, there are very few things in life more life-changing than the aftermath of watching Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda video. It happened to me two weeks ago on a Saturday, with a couple of YouTube recommendations sitting in my inbox. The...
How.To.Write.. (NOT): Broadcast II
- Continued from PART I - Textese Hater™ and much admired spell-checker activist Rachel Kwiatkowski has acquired a license for her establishment, LoGoMaNiAcS AnOnYmOuS™, and has never been more busier! And as her blog post about teenage textese...
JERRY SANDUSKY – The Poke; A Satirical Comedy
- Jerry Sandusky is the oldest fucking asshole, and turns out, quite literally he is.. This should have been the title to my skit, but it gives too much away.. Soon, there will be producers fishing for a story to make a movie of Jerry's life, and I would rather...
How.To.Write.. (NOT)
- I read about 50 bloggers regularly and love them so much so that I emulate and even steal* ideas from them.. So when a few of them recently introduced Guest bloggers on their sites, I thought why not ask someone to write for me and my blog.. Enter Rachel...
Humor: A Gross Domestic Product
- As a self proclaimed American Pop Culture idiot, I am on a quest to find out what humor is and what constitutes rib tickling funny! So however small your contribution is, I can assure you it will make a big difference. *Stand-up routine begins* -...
Innocence Is Bliss: The Lost Art of Seeing Life with Childlike Wonder
Our first one has the funniest disposition of all the kids I know.. OK, well, I might be saying this because he is my own.. :) He keeps getting bribed for doing all the things that he is supposed to do anyway! Like brushing his teeth, going to potty, eating his lunch...