Woman on a plane: "Where are you from?"
Me: "Oakland."
Woman on a plane: "No, you're from India."
Me: "Yeah."
Woman on a plane: "I've always wanted to go to New Delhi, blah blah blah..."
Me: *continues putting on headphones*

Random old guy in Berkeley waiting in line for a movie: "You're from India, huh? Pakistan?"
Me: *grunts ( Read more... )

Is it racism week or something? No, seriously, is it racism week? Because five days after this WTFery, I'm hit with an even bigger bit of WTFery ( Read more... )

It has come to my attention that there are "certain people" who are quashing critical analysis of Veronica Mars. These people, if reports are to be believed, are raiding people's houses and actually smashing their computers, only to replace them with consoles that are capable solely of communicating such phrases as "Bravo, Rob Thomas!" and "What a ( Read more... )

So. The last couple weeks, I've been getting a lot of anonymous shit. Not just in The Meme That Shall Not Be Named, but in other people's journals. Whose comments have been collapsed. Implying that someone deliberately read my comment in order to make a rude reply ( Read more... )

So I'm at Borders (or, more accurately, the Seattle's Best Coffee in Borders) reading Rats Saw God when a couple begins hemming and hawing over where to sit. The man vocalizes a plan to get me to move so they can have adjacent seats, and before he can ask me directly, I get up and move. The woman asks if it's okay with me, and the man answers that ( Read more... )