You know how it is with really large folks being super light on their feet? Watch them move on the dance floor and it’s glide and swoop versus your bump and grind.
So it is in nature.
This how the humpback whale feeds on the little fish. It spots a school of herring and then gradually descends circling slowly around the fish. This causes a wall of bubbles to form around the herring. Being fairly low in the food chain, and hence not very sharp, the herrings believe the wall of bubbles to be impenetrable. So just as they are thinking “DAM(n)!”, the whale swoops up from right under them, and with its mouth open, swallows them all.
There is a certain beauty to all this, forming a wall of bubbles, or spinning an invisible web, or changing color to match the terrain. It’s like a grand scale illusion where the magician introduces a saw floating in the air and then proceeds to cut the lady in half, without touching the saw, and takes his bow. You leave thinking, great trick, but he hasn’t put the lady back together.
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This is seriously disturbing. A Peruvian gang responsible for killing people, extracting their fat and selling it to cosmetic companies has been disbanded. Next time you apply your lipstick, think of Pedro.
Pedro finally got close to a Real Girl
The 4 gang members caught by the Peruvian cops explained how they kidnapped and murdered people and then extracted their fat in a low tech lab. This fat was then bottled and dispatched to buyers.
Over 60 people are missing and the cops believe they are victims of the evil fat traffickers. Remains of some of the victims were discovered around a rural house that served as their haunt.
The cops got suspicious when they heard of a shipment of fat that arrived in Lima by bus from the Peruvian mountains. They are now hunting for the buyers of the fat and other people associated with this ghoulish group.
This just proves that fact is way freakier than fiction. Imagine being chased down a desolate valley by a gang of mad fat extractors. Reminisces of Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Hills Have Eyes? The human species is capable of so much horror.
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Don’t get upset. Get ANGRY. Get FURIOUS. Scream and shout but do something about it. We talk too much and do nothing. It’s time to show that we care.
This is just a glimpse of what had been achieved:
This is what they did in one evening:
The spirit of Mumbai has been attacked, raped and pillaged. Families, kids, youngsters, the people of Mumbai had gathered to make a difference. One road in the city of grit had been transformed into something beautiful. Then the movie marketing vultures in their own cold, calculating way swooped down and ripped apart the spirit of solidarity, collaboration and pride.
Tinsel town was supposed to be a city of dreams, welcome to the b-grade movie nightmare.
Are we going to take this sitting down? We say… NO!
Here are a few action points compiled by us:
- Movie promotion agencies put posters up. They did it the last time and it’s no coincidence they’ve done it again. Putting up posters on these walls creates controversy. Any news is good news. We need to figure out which agencies are behind this and target them.
- Likewise, we need to get in touch with the producers of the offending films. Rumor has it that Aladin’s promoters have apologized and have offered to remove the posters. We won’t believe it till we see it, still if it’s true, there is hope.
- BMC has been exceptionally helpful. Really, they’ve surprised us with their initiative. We need to respect that get them on our side. However, we need to check up if any permissions were granted by BMC to the poster people. If not, then we have a serious case against the poster guys.
- We need to reach Big B on his blog. He apparently writes it himself. He might not be responsible for the damage, but his movie poster is up on those walls. He is the face of the film and since he wants to “connect” with his audience, well… we are reaching out to him for help. His voice has effect. Will he help?
- Salman and Sohail Khan need to be seriously addressed. The last time round, Kissan posters had killed the walls, this time it’s their latest blasphemies- London Dreamz and Gair. Salman calls himself an “artist” and if he doesn’t react to this, he’ll just prove we were right in calling him a blowhard.
- I’m not sure if a poster ripping campaign will do any good. It’ll backfire on us. The ripped posters will cause more damage more ugliness. Does anyone know how to get that trash off the walls without damaging the art behind it?
- We need to contact the likes of Barkha Dutt and other journos and get them to empathize so they can reach a larger mass with the story… more outraged people. So if you are in the news industry, please let them know. Get them to react.
- As Pratishtha has put it on Facebook… we need to use words like BOYCOTT. Show the filmwalas what our priorities are.
This is just our list. Feel free to add your suggestions. Better still… act on them. Use your contacts to reach the right people. Get active on your social networking platforms- facebook, Orkut, Twitter or whatever you use. Form groups.
The same collaboration that helped make the city beautiful will also bring the offenders to their knees.
Do it NOW.
UPDATES:
As of 5pm, October 27:
- Idea Smith had posted a strong article on boycotting the offending films: Gair, London Dreamz, Aladin. Some support there. Though even if we boycott the films, from a revenue hit perspective, it’ll be a drop in the ocean. However, loud enough media outrage will do the trick. Received a confirmation from Gaurav Ghosh on facebook that Midday has in fact covered this stance. Click to see comments on Idea Smith’s post here.
“seems like the posters have been torn off.. the publicity guys must have got scared and have removed them.. however the damage is apparent and all our fresh paintings look like a year old..
A retouch would be required in either case!”
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Dr. Manga
Japanese hospitals have not been having a good year.
A man diagnosed with rectal cancer was fitted with an artificial rectum in March. The misdiagnoses came to light recently when the doctor informed him that no cancer cells had been found. Understandably so the patient has decided to sue the hospital for a sum of $416,171.
Is it only me or does it sound like one of those ‘Good news, Bad news’ jokes folks make about doctors?
Doctor: Mr. Smith I have some good news and some bad news for you.
Smith: Hit me with the bad news doctor. If I can handle an amputation, I can handle anything.
Doctor: Er… the bad news is that you didn’t really need that amputation.
Smith: Whaa?!?
Doctor: Yeah but the good news is that the patient in the next ward wants to buy your shoes. By the way, he has an artificial rectum.
Now for the next story. This happened in December 2008, again in a Japanese hospital. What the doctors thought was a big tumor, turned out to be a 3.2 inch towel. That’s not all, the patient had been carrying this towel around for 25 years, a remnant of a minor surgery conducted in the same hospital back in 1983.
That did turn out to be good news for the patient. He’s apparently not suing the hospital. They were trying to figure out how to compensate him. They are also trying to figure out the original color of the towel. According to the Asahi General Hospital spokesperson-
The towel was greenish blue although we are not sure about its original colour
He has also added it had been crumpled to the size of a softball.
I wonder if anyone’s ever left a Rolex inside a patient, and if so, does the patient get to keep it or can the surgeon take it back? Food for thought.
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Buried in the underbelly of the internet are some of the most twisted web destinations to come out of a fertile human mind. This is a quick and dirty update of my explorations. Feel free to suggest your own.
LameBook.com
It glorifies the stupidity on Facebook. Everything your mum warned you about, you disobeyed, and boasted about on Facebook, finds it way here. Now people can guffaw and giggle and squirt milk through their noses as they read about how others have messed up. It’s twisted.
IsItNormal.com
What is normal? Is it normal to hate Fat People riding Scooters? How about this, does the word LOL turn you on? Is it normal if your belly button stinks and sometimes you like the smell? If you were ever in doubt about what’s normal, or abnormal, about you, this is the place to find out. You make a small post about your problem, others comment and you get a normalcy percentage. In a way, I think that’s cool.
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