It is my considered opinion, based on many years of reading Amar Chitra Katha comics, that Indra is not the king of the gods. He convenes councils to try to protect heaven from rakshasa invasions, …
While rearranging a bit of furniture, my boss found a small bag of clothes. She asked us, "Whose pants are these? Do you know whose pants these are?" I replied, Whose pants these are I …
Almost six weeks after my move, I've set up my computer. Caution: if you, like me, delay post-move computer set up for too long, you'll forget your password. I finally remembered, thank Filippenko. Today: made …
Fun: "The Ugliness Club: Coming to a conclusion about my place in someone's personal history" and The Buff Barbarian Song. Yesterday I tried out Leonard's T-Mobile Danger Sidekick mobile device, a.k.a. the Hiptop. It's the …
Maybe my sense that I'm a better heckler than a performer means that I belong in improv. Or maybe just that I enjoy heckling. "I am a C-section birth--" "Are you going to kill Macbeth?"
The audience, quite rightly, didn't much laugh at my performance tonight at A Cuppa Tea. My best line, a question to the MC: "How much time would I have left if I were funny?" (Response: …
If you have a notebook that contains lots of important information, including friends' phone numbers, you will lose it. Especially if you are now using a new notebook, since the old one is full, but …
[Sumana reminisces about The Early Days.] The first time Leonard saw me do stand-up, we went to Burbank and filmed the moon landing. No, but we did replicate an on-stage moment after my act had …
The days tick by and I have to come up with a really good two-minute routine for the Apollo audition. Oh, yes, by the way, I get two minutes, it turns out. Ack! That's perhaps …
