LG Tries Cheap Trick in Times Sq Hoarding

Seething with envy over rival Samsung’s new Galaxy S4 smartphone, LG tried a cheap and nasty trick to fool New Yorkers. A trick I stumbled upon by accident yesterday. As I was walking around Times Square in Midtown Manhattan on my way to McDonald’s for breakfast, an unusual sight struck me. Right above Samsung’s ad […]

Samsung Galaxy S4 – Another Nail in iPhone’s Coffin

Samsung is launching Galaxy S4, the newest model of its smartphones at Radio City Music Hall in New York City this evening. Coincidentally, SI happens to be in NYC today. As I wander around Times Square and Radio City in Midtown Manhattan on a cloudy winter day, I see prominent Samsung Galaxy billboards in the […]

Google Picks Indian to Bust Apple’s Balls

Tamil paiyan Sundar Pichai is the new commander of Google’s world-conquering, Apple-crushing battle known in common parlance as Android. Sundar Pichai – iOS Ball Buster Pichai hails from Tamil Nadu, a South Indian state with a bizarre fondness for worshiping immigrants like the Marathi Rajinikanth, the Malayalee M.G.Ramachandran, the Kannadiga Jayalalitha and the Hindi pumpkin […]

5 Hours in DC for a Desi

So you are a desi with just five hours to poke around Washington DC before heading back to Palookaville. Excuse me, I borrowed Palookaville from Marlon Brando who used the word in one of the most famous scenes in motion picture history. Let’s get back to DC, shall we, and leave Brando and On The […]

George Carlin – A Brilliant Entertainer

We live in an age where wise men are reviled and the dumb exalted to rarified heights. Or maybe the world’s always been that way – the shit always rising to the top and the notion of ‘civilization’ a mere myth. Maybe, civilization just means exchanging one form of brutality and assholes for another. Giving […]