Brown Motion

Cilantro, Incense, Camphor, Shit, Spices, Sweat, Jasmine, Firewood? All of the above? Nostalgia? A human nose is among many advanced technologies that a computer cannot replicate. Everyone has one.  Not just the nose but a memory saved in their Hippocampus.  That is to say everyone has one of these campuses right inside of their brain and an amazing ability to retrieve the stored data when a certain trigger is pulled. I had to visit Bombay (now Mumbai) on the western coast of India recently.  Described as a maximum city it is a constantly alive microcosm of a multi cultural, multi language, foodie heaven populated like no place on earth. I grew up here and therefore have a distinct impressions of the terrain etched somewhere deep in the grey matter. Landing here and starting to operate is a muscle memory that springs to life like a dormant seed bursting to do its thing in the parched California Death Valley with the onset of first rain. Below are some sna...

Bombay is Mumbai - should Bollywood be Mumbailakdi? Madras is Chennai so what of Madurai? Could it be Charas? It would help to smoke some to get answers to these riddles. Who and why does someone mess with what is? Is it because someone had to? Since the ipad idea was taken there was nothing else to do? Because world hunger is a rhetorical issue to solve? If $100 bought only 1 INR (Rupee) would India ask Americans trying to get in to have an Orange Card? Would Americans want to get in? Will we face a veggie crisis with cows running amuck since many swear off of beef? Will Bajaj suddenly have monopoly over all Rickshaw sales in Manhattan? Would Geithner or his successor balk at allowing Bajaj to take over the Raj? Would Detroit reappoint Rick Wagoner as head of Government Motors and produce their own version of the Rick's Shaw II? Maybe brand it as S(h)awTooth akin to the new Corvette StingRay? How would traffic in Times Square look like with a steady supply of un...