{"id":273,"date":"2004-08-24T14:04:24","date_gmt":"2004-08-24T19:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=273"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:18","slug":"indian_ads_from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/24\/indian_ads_from\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian ads from the ’80s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CadburysGems.jpg\"Bombayite Vishal Patel<\/a> scanned in ads from the semi-socialist ’80s, before good printing technology hit Indian shores. Nostalgic. He also fillets half-assed Indian comics<\/a> (via Boing Boing<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n

This story ends like every other Chacha Chaudhary story, suddenly and abruptly, like the writer\/artist suddenly realised that three pages were up. As a result, we’ll never know if Chhajju Chaudhary was ever brought back to Earth, or was kept on Mars for the sodomising pleasure of the Martian nobility.<\/blockquote>\n\n

And, the instant classic ‘How to Be a Poet in Six Easy Steps’<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n

All poems actually consist of one of two things:\n\na) Getting laid\nb) Getting high\n \nHere’s a random sampling:\n\nWilliam Shakespeare – O Mistress Mine (getting laid)\nAlexander Pope – Solitude (getting high)…\nOscar Wilde – The Harlot’s House (getting laid)\nSamuel Taylor Coleridge – Kubla Khan (getting very high)\n…\n\n“Are you a poet?” On no occasion must you EVER say “Yes”, as this will automatically disqualify you. Here, instead, are some approved answers.\n\n“Aren’t we all?”\n“I write because, if I don’t, I think I shall go mad”\n“Don’t try and classify me”\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bombayite Vishal Patel scanned in ads from the semi-socialist ’80s, before good printing technology hit Indian shores. Nostalgic. He also fillets half-assed Indian comics (via Boing Boing): This story ends like every other Chacha Chaudhary story, suddenly and abruptly, like … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}