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Color War

Our guns were semi-automatic, which means you could shoot as fast as you pulled the trigger, and even an amateur like myself found myself reeling off three or four paintballs a second. I could feel every individual shot through its reverberations—no real recoil to speak of, but a satisfying pneumatic thwunk as the ball hurtled through the barrel.

by Giri Nathan on February 23, 2013March 22, 2013

Redwall Falls

Anyone who was recently a nine-year-old boy shed at least a mouse-sized tear last week, when Brian Jacques passed away at age 71. He was the author of the Redwall series, which was, in the pre-Potter era, the best set of chunky addictive novels a kid could get a hold of.

by Giri Nathan on February 16, 2011March 22, 2013

An Interception

That long diagonal, from Point A to Point B, also happened to contain Point Me, somewhere in between.

by Giri Nathan on December 6, 2012March 22, 2013

I Just Don’t Like It

The Facebook community has been under silent attack for the past few months, and the evidence is plastered all over the Walls. Careful observers have probably already spotted a few of these malignant growths on their Newsfeeds: posts that look something like Zack Newick, Giri Nathan and 15 other friends like “OMG Justin Bieber Really said that ?!!”

by Giri Nathan on March 23, 2011March 22, 2013

Squirrelly Flow

Justin Bieber “is white,” and boy does he wants us to know. In case we weren’t already aware of the demographic categories he falls under (Caucasian, pubescent), he is kind enough to remind us at the very end of his … Read More

by Giri Nathan on October 20, 2010March 22, 2013

Rolling in the Dope

Multi-talented Kuperman’s vertiginous thetic theater reviewed.

by Giri Nathan on May 23, 2012March 22, 2013

Brief Interview with Hideous Man

Two years ago, I met AH, the prolific Daily Princetonian troll.

by Giri Nathan on November 14, 2012March 22, 2013

Phoenix Falling

I am not entirely sure that Kanye West knows how a phoenix works. He does, however, know how to make a gorgeous, self-indulgent, gorgeously self-indulgent piece of art.

by Giri Nathan on November 10, 2010March 22, 2013

Manifest Destiny

The best choice Mitt Romney ever made.

by Giri Nathan on November 7, 2012March 22, 2013

Ham Radio

Chorally.

by Giri Nathan on September 26, 2012March 22, 2013

Re: Marks

Formal colons & ampersands.

by Giri Nathan on September 8, 2012March 22, 2013

Re: marks

A waffle of the smallest order.

by Giri Nathan on March 7, 2012March 22, 2013


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