87 thoughts on “Kal Penn, UPenn, Wait…what happened??”

1. Holy @&i#! Amazing!! I’ll simply have to show this to my cousins — especially to QT3.14159 and to kochiBABE (& no, I didn’t make up those screen names).

2. QT3.14159

   OMG

3. QT3.14159

   OMG

   yindeed. i bow to such awesome nerdery.

4. QT3.14159 OMG

   Paging Yann Martel.

5. BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!

6. QT3.14159

   When I was searching for custom tags, I read about someone who had this. 🙂

7. yindeed. i bow to such awesome nerdery.

   Nerdery, possibly. But here in South India, QT3.14159 is treated like a total goddess (at least by the folks of her own age whom I’ve met)!

8. QT3.14159

   Ohhhhhhhhh! Just got it.

9. Anna…you are incredible! That was really funny…I was reading it out loud to my husband, adn we coudn’t stop laughing.

10. Excerpt from http://nymag.com/movies/profiles/28866/: Yet Penn is eager to brush off comparisons between Gogol’s upbringing and his own childhood in suburban New Jersey—for one thing, he and his parents have always gotten along. “It’s sort of like saying, ‘Gogol drank a lot of coffee growing up, I drank a lot of coffee, therefore I relate to Gogol,’ ” he says. “Gogol to me is interesting because he’s tormented by being named after a Russian author who died a virgin. I mean, his being Indian isn’t interesting in the least.”

    I think one of my friends put it well when she said: “there’s something to be said for not wanting to be an actor that can only play roles with the south asian/cultural part emphasized, but gogol’s character is the wrong role to overemphasize that him being indian doesn’t separate him out as much as his love of architecture blah blah”

    The architecture comment was from his appearance at the NYPL talk when he expressed a similar sentiment as in the NYMag article and stated Gogol’s love of architecture as one of the things that drew him to the character.

    Thoughts?

11. here in South India, QT3.14159 is treated like a total goddess

    The Pythagorean cult was founded on the belief that numbers are the ultimate level of reality, from which all gods and demons emerge. And Pythagoras himself had strong ideas about reincarnation, ideas probably derived from Hindu thought.

    What goes around,is twice the radius multiplied by the goddess comes around.

12. And Pythagoras himself had strong ideas about reincarnation, ideas probably derived from Hindu thought.

    And he was a vegetarian, which means he had a high sperm count.

13. As for Kal “I played a terrorist” Penn being a professor of “Images of Asian-Americans in the Media,” I’m reminded of something Roman Jakobson once said.

    In response to the proposal to give Vladimir Nabokov a faculty position at Harvard, Jakobson quipped: “I do respect very much the elephant, but would you give him the chair of Zoology?”

14. What goes around,is twice the radius multiplied by the goddess comes around.

    Haha..Mr. K, we know who you really are. Don’t be frontin homie! Keeping it real!

15. ANNA, such a contrast from your post about growing up with the Greek Orthodox church, but still just as awesome!

16. Hmm… I was thinking Arranged Marriage by Chitra Divakaruni, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai. No, yes. 🙂

    Hmm, is there a bit of A Fine Balance in there?

17. And he was a vegetarian, which means he had a high sperm count.

    Wrong thread! (See here.) But Pythagoras was also male, which means he couldn’t have got pregnant. Back then anyway.

18. i think ill date white girlz until i get wat i deserve from some desi bitch. then ill cry some more in some guava orchard b4 my arranged marrage with some chic in cheetah-print heelz who smokes which ill agree to bc now ive returnd to my rootz and shit after living with some widow n a bunch of lower cast peepz in the motherland

    1. hullabaloo in the guava orchard
    2. the namesake
    3. a fine balance
    4. ?

19. Kal Penn would teach me if i got into PENN!

    OMG, PENN is releasing decision tomorrow!

20. And Anna, It’s PENN and not UPENN

21. And Anna, It’s PENN and not UPENN

    Both are acceptable usage, but with your reading skills it’s going to be a miracle if you actually get in…

    NjDe$iQTpie: FINE. ok u know how ur parents wanted u to go to penn soo bad n u were all, “hellz no, i aint goin to college n livin at home” n they were all sad n shit?

    NjDe$iQTpie: fine. but jus so u know, kal penns gonna teach at penn nex yr. c ya.

22. Both are acceptable usage, but with your reading skills it’s going to be a miracle if you actually get in…

    Chachaji, PENN is the preferred name.

    Both are acceptable usage, but with your reading skills it’s going to be a miracle if you actually get in…

    But then, everyone says that I have greatwriting skills(:D) Will anyone mind if I post my decision here tomorrow puppy eyes

23. Chachaji, PENN is the preferred name.

    Thanks, I was there, you know.

24. Mr. To be banned and Deleted,

    Did you really intend to boast about your writing skills with the essay you linked to? Adding to what chachaji wisely said in #71 it will indeed be a miracle with your writing as well as comprehension skills.

25. I used to use a screen name ironically like the ones we’re mocking, I did it as a goof. But I had to drop it when 15 year olds started IMing me. I intend to resurrect it when I get called in as a creative consultant on To Catch a Desi Predator.

26. Terrific. This is what I have to look forward to in 10 years when Little Asha is texting her friends HalfDesiHottie17:OMFG LOL ROTFLMAO….

    Random off topic comment by my mother-in-law regarding “Inheritance of Loss” “She won an award for that? I grew up with all that stuff. What a boring book. I could have written that. Now the DaVinci Code…”

    So who will be the Desi version of Chris Hansen?

27. What goes around,is twice the radius multiplied by the goddess comes around.

    Mr. Kobs, you are one hilarious mofo.

28. yindeed. i bow to such awesome nerdery.

    Awesome nerdery? Anna, clearly the kid is an underachiever and your standards aren’t high enough (Exhibit A1, Exhibit A2, Exhibit B).

29. OMG, Anna, this is beyond brill, plus it’s lovable– how? I bow at the altar.

30. Mr. Kobs, you are one hilarious mofo.

    kekekeke

    gvn ax^2 + bx + c = 0, if b^2 – 4ac > 0, thr r like 2 dstnct rts. lol!

31. gvn ax^2 + bx + c = 0, if b^2 – 4ac > 0, thr r like 2 dstnct rts. lol!

    but the prof sed somethn abt like 2 dstnct REAL rts right??? i soooo h8 this math $hIt.

32. but the prof sed somethn abt like 2 dstnct REAL rts right???

    duh. course its REAL.

    (u say u h8 math, but ur email is @math.iisc.ernet.in, math totally pwns u. LOL on that!)

33. QT3.14159

    Wow! Just got it. hhehehehehe.

34. only aznz r gud @ math. not ndnz.

35. Bookfiend- so close. 🙂 3/4. Do you want me to put you out of your misery? Here’s a hint– four books, only three authors. 😀

    To everyone else- you are all so kind. It’s scary to try stuff like this and I was convinced you’d all hate it, so this comment thread is like a pedicure– delightful, blissful, fantastic. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 🙂

36. GujuHottiee120586: this isn funny. my mom so said that i’d regret pickin columbia…n now I do 🙁

    Nothing to regret.

37. Following Maitri got me here and I must thank her. This is the funniest thing I’ve read in quite a while. My compliments.