Do you pity the man who dies, or the man who never lives? We all know which is harder.

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Yesterday I had the pleasure of seeing Nile AND Immolation live, in concert, together. It was an evening of untrammeled brutality and ferocity, easily the best tour of the year so far. I know, I know, the year is only 28 days old. We got to the venue, El Corazon in Seattle, around 7.30. A [...]

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One of the most fascinating topics is linguistics and I consider myself an armchair linguist. Several forms of consonant shift exist, and can be seen throughout the varied family of Indo-European languages, which are spoken by a majority of humans today. Let me illustrate with some examples: b/v alternation Seen in words like probe/prove. Even [...]

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Here’s the funniest sign we’ve seen in a while. Spot on and not sparing the satire!

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This is a truly horrific excerpt from Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra. You can find it on Page 864. On Diwali night, young Bhavani was picked up by the police in the village of Rekhan. Bhavani was deep in a drunken sleep in the house of a woman, a widow, when the police found him. [...]

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