Monday, December 29, 2008

A Gift From The Barely Employed: I Read Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth and Summed It Up In The Following Haiku So You Don't Have To!


I am bringing this blog column back. Mostly because writing full-length book reviews is too daunting and How I Met Your Mother is waiting.


Next gen immigrants

Why they all marry white peeps?

Parents, learn to deal.


Now to get yourself into the right Lahirian state of mind watch like, uh, five minutes of Kumar Goes To That Girl From The Real World's Vagina (commonly referred to as The Namesake), get in a fight with your parents by refusing to eat their ethnic kugel and screaming, "I only eat American food now!" before slamming the door and running out to White Castle. Come home, glutted on grease, and ponder the ramifications of your assimilation.

Bonus fun fact: Kal Penn (Kalpen Suresh Modi; case in point!) America's favorite/only go-to Indian actor was a Women's Studies major at UCLA.

8 comments:

WendyB said...

That was a sexy little celebrity factoid!

M said...

Women's Studies AND a super-hardcore Democratic activist? Swoon. I'll take him over Andy "I bought a t-shirt that says 'Feminist' and get laid even more now" Samberg any day.

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