Selective Amnesia There was a point to this. But I forgot.

It’s not what it seems like

When the latest Bond released, I was much hesitant in seeing it. For me, Bond was Pierce Brosnan. He had cool. He had something very few had. Plus, I liked him in Remington Steele. Besides, the trailers made Daniel Craig look like a wuss. So, as I said, I wasn’t much too keen on the latest Bond.
But I finally did go. And liked the movie immensely. Daniel Craig, yes, he did look like a wussy. But a wussy who could kick ass. The movie was fun.

What does it say?

Meanwhile, there was much e-mail talking and discussion recently among us wicked Cartelians. The camp was divided – one of us committed a grave mistake. Inviting a female, a young student female at that, to the group. Can you imagine? What a sacrilegious thought! That, deep, dark, evil brotherhood of men who’d sold their souls to the devil, and what’s more, flaunted it! This (bleeding) heartless society was thinking of allowing a woman to enter its fold.

So, as I said, the camp was divided. One faction was imagining the consequences. Pink ribbons in the cartel headquarters, flowers and festoons, white linen on the conference table. Ugh! And ewwww! E-mail discussions filled with ‘awwww’ and ‘cho chweeet’ and other unmentionable words. And, more than anything else, not being able to say ‘fuck’ or even ‘shit’ in our weekly “STATUS ON WORLD DOMINATION” meetings.

The other camp was ready to lay out the redpink carpet, and even had dressed up for the occasion.

Somehow, the act was done. The Cartel had its first woman member. Admittedly, things haven’t been as bad as the naysayers thought it would be. Though it has been only a couple of days since Shruti was made Cartelian, she’s been, to employ a phrase, one of the boys. True, she hasn’t yet said ‘fuck’, but we have no doubt about her commitment to our ideals.

In short, things aren’t what they seemed like. Daniel Craig and Shruti.

Oh, BTW, with this new member in, and with our old team back in full action, the Libertarian stranglehold on Blogospheric conversation should be almost complete.