The Great Ganesha

For you readers in (or around) NYC, did you know that at Pier 61 on Chelsea Piers, right off 23rd St., there’s a little road named for the TV Series Law and Order? I’m talking about the original series, of course, not any of the spinoffs, since only the original portrayed the grittiness and pulse [...]

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Saturday was Holi. And I forgot, so I didn’t play. But a pink sock in the washer got all of my whites tainted with a pinkish hue – does that count? Happy Belated Holi.

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Since it is a tradition on The Great Ganesha to comment on newsworthy items well after they happened and completely passed from the public mind, I’m going to blog about this article I read in the NYT. The story starts off quite innocently, talking about what is arguably one of the most sensitive and emotionally [...]

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I was trying my best to avoid blogging about it. I mean, The Great Ganesha has standards, for god’s sake. Well, okay, I don’t have any standards. But even I would have laid this to rest weeks ago. The 24/7 cable news channel coverage of anything and everything related to it is a bit much. [...]

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Before…. and After So, Lisa Nowak, the notorious NASA astronaut who drove a thousand miles from Texas to Florida has finally been charged with attempted kidnapping. She went there to track down an Air Force captain who she thought was in competition with her for love interest William Oefelein, a fellow astronaut. Says, the BBC, [...]

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Two guys drive into a Mickey D’s Drive Thru some time late at night. But they don’t speak their order, they rap it. See what happens… [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=xhlUVyDBusg]

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German photographer Volker Steger has taken microscopic photos of, well, the title says it all. (via)

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O Person from ‘Unknown Country’, You visited twice in a row. Where are you from? It’s killing me! What will it take to know? Why doesn’t it show in your IP? Do you even know where you’re from? Is this a crisis of identity? You’re handling it with much aplomb. O Person from ‘Unknown Country’, [...]

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Last Thursday, I was complaining like hell. Well, I have to admit, despite high mileages this week, in fact, some of the highest I have done in a long time, the run wasn’t so bad. Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday was 5-7-6, respectively. Not much, I know, but we’re building it slow and easy. It’s the first marathon for [...]

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