spin alley

Wherever there is a big candidates' debate there is Spin Alley. After the debate, journalists have to write stories, produce TV packages. For this they need quotes and authorized knowers who can talk on camera.


There to provide such are the spinners: hired guns, stand-ins, soulmates who agree to meet the press after the debate to explain why their candidate "won." Of course this is a verdict known in advance; however that fact too is known in advance, so no one really minds. Spin Alley will live again in whatever large, air-conditioned room is next designated for the ritual. Unless it's stopped.

After the debate, I took the press shuttle back to the media center -- and to the small section therein blatantly designated "Spin Alley," ringed on three sides by bare-bones makeshift broadcast platforms and stuffed to capacity with reporters, camera crews and politicos. Everywhere you looked there were clusters of media people surrounding spinners and surrogates, whose names were printed on laminated red signs held high above the crowd by aides. I felt like I was standing in the middle of one of my own damn cartoons come to life.

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Iravati Hingne

She was a girl who I fell in love with in TVM. Unfortunately, she wasn't interested in me.

Iravati Hingne wasn't interested in me.

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straw dog

In business, something (an idea, or plan, usually) set up to be knocked down. It's the dangerous philosophy of presenting one mediocre idea, so that the listener will make the choice of the better idea which follows.

It backfires with some frequency, as the listener (out of sheer perversity) will insist on the straw dog.

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the celery dances at midnight

redundant answer to an obfuscated question

"What's the meaning of it all?"

"Does the celery not dance at midnight?"

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twecsitgredep

The Worst Economic Crisis Since The Great Depression.

This is twecsitgredep. If I had more time, I would tell you what I mean by that but my home is being repossessed, my bank has gone under and my plastic surgeon wants to perform liposuction on me so he can eat. So I'll save time by referring to it as the twecsitgredep.

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webcrib

The cool, streetslang word for homepage / website. Webcrib is exactly what the name implies. Your homepage, webpage, website but "cooler".

I'll check out your webcrib fo shizzle homie. Now where's Michael Phelps' bong at?

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Nilesh Mohan

He has been my best friend for the past 3 years since our days in TVM

Nilesh Mohan is a.k.a. Jordon because he is a pro-basketballer slam-dunking guy

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