May 20, 2005
Navel gazingBlog
Attack of the blog roundups: MSNBC showed a screenshot of Vinod’s Indra Nooyi post today. Watch the clip.
They focused on Nooyi’s actual remarks and her position as Pepsi president, not the nativist backlash, which is exactly right. Oddly, they quoted the mildest phrase that’s ever been written on Little Green Frothballs: ‘I drink Coke anyway.’
This actually isn’t Vinod’s first time on an NBC network — here’s a photo of his appearance on CNBC several years ago. I’m not sure why he looks angry, but maybe someone stole his copy of ZAMM.
Also, Slate mentioned our MIT time traveler post last week, which Abhi first wrote about.
Thanks for the pixels, anonymous bored journies! Do your bosses know you surf blogs instead of working? Not that you’ll ever read this unless it pops up on Technorati with keywords about national stories. Unfortunately, I don’t see us writing about PARIS HILTON, MICHAEL JACKSON or TERRY SCHIAVO without a genuine desi angle. That would just be crass.
But The Daily Show was right, reading blogs out loud on TV does look pretty silly (watch clip). How about showing our dating profiles next time? Now that would be useful TV ;)
manish on May 20, 2005 11:13 PM in Blog, TV · T·r·a·c·k·b·a·c·k address · Direct link · Email post
I propose a caption writing contest for that picture of Vinod. Oh come on...you guys were thinking the same thing :)
"Wait..Is that a double-double animal style?"
Great work, all.. keep up the good work SM, and all you avid tipsters and readers..
Love the pronouciation of Sepia as Sup-pee-aa
Maybe he thought it was a word in that furrin' language, Hindu.
Ok, maybe the pronounciation wasnt that wrong after all. I mean the pronounciation would be horrendously wrong if sepia was a play on sepoy which I figured was the name of this blog as the mutiny in 1857 was started by soldiers.
However with Sepia spelled not as Sepoy but as Sepia on this blog, maybe the Sepia here is a reference to brown color and not to the Sepoys. Mutineers please enlighten.
For clarification :
From websters :-
SEPIA
Main Entry: 1se·pia
Pronunciation: 'sE-pE-&
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin, cuttlefish, ink, from Greek sEpia
1 a : the inky secretion of a cuttlefish b : a brown melanin-containing pigment from the ink of cuttlefishes
2 : a print or photograph of a brown color resembling sepia
3 : a brownish gray to dark olive brown color
SEPOY
Main Entry: se·poy
Pronunciation: 'sE-"poi
Function: noun
Etymology: Portuguese sipai, from Hindi sipAhI, from Persian, cavalryman
: a native of India employed as a soldier by a European power
FAQ it.
ouch MSNBC.. sepia.. sipahi..
theres an old malay word 'sipahi' stolen from ancient Hindi no doubt.. used like 'askar sipahi' i think it means hired mercenaries or sthn.. the sultans of old used em..
somebody sit for my alevels on monday pleeaseee.. i neeeed a holiday!!
Awesome mutineers, keep up the good work.
Vinod in this picture looks so much like my good friend Viswanathan Rajagopalan. If I dint know better I would think they were twins who got seperated in a Kumbh Mela like in the old Bollywood movies. Or am I right, and that hidden angst is showing in his angry young man face?
You know, I actually noticed a day on the Daily Show last week where they used a couple of references that I had previously read on Sepia Mutiny: The diagram that Abhi found of the DHS's "advice" on how to survive a nuclear attack and something else I can't remember now. Got me thinking :)
Look at the captions on the site with the MSNBC video download.
I couldn't figure out if this was a 'brown people can't spell' joke, or seeing as the site is called 'the political teen', just your average american teenager whose grammar has been ruined by a lifetime of pointless I.M. conversations.
You are blogebrities (like the magazine, Blogebrity, right?)!
Oh, and the Vinod caption?
"How did I get to be the David Brooks of Sepia Mutiny? I was going for James Taranto..."
Kidding! Thank the heavens for Vinod - at least there is some diversity on this site, if you know what I mean...
This is my take on the name - Spiamutiny is obviously a play on the sepoy mutiny of 1857 - which was a united uprising of brown folk. Add to that the fact that sepia is a color that is described as - "A shade of brown with a tinge of red" and you have a pretty good name for a South-Asian blog (IMHO).
My CONGRATULATIONS to the editors of this Blog on making it on the MSNBC!!!
Well one step at a time...
My best wishes for you guys to get a bigger and bigger profile ...
Hope to see one day one of our brothers "battling" it out against Frank Gaffney on one this shows :-)
it's pronounced C-PIA.. no?