With Brush In Hand

Here's a general rant. I just bought a new toothbrush. Its by a company which seems to sell the most amount of toothbrushes here in India (no real statistic used, just a general observation) called Oral-B. Don't worry, I'll attach an image of it below. Now to my rant. Why are there so many things on my toothbrush?! I mean, its unbelievable! Just look at it! There are 5 sets of bristles on it, with each set having a different angle. All the sets are made of some sort of fiber that I'm not familiar with but... one set is made of rubber! At the back of the head of the toothbrush, its supposed to be a tongue cleaner with strange spiral groves, very psychedelic.

I gave into the whole "if it does so many things, then it might actually be good" or in other words the "more is better" deal. But come on, its doing way too much. I'm sure if I look hard enough it can even do my taxes for me or some genetic research. I'm also sure that, on a subconscious level, I bought it just because it looked pretty.

Alice In Darklands

Alice In Wonderland has always been an obsession for people in the media arts basically because of the beautiful and artistic world called Wonderland that Lewis Carroll had imagined. Now even though Wonderland is a one of the most artistic places ever imagined and Alice's adventure being one of the greatest adventures ever written in the literary arts, I've never been able to imagine why Alice In Wonderland has always been inclined to the darker side. I've never actually read Alice In Wonderland (and I hope to read it soon), but the first time I came in contact with Alice's adventure when a game called American McGee's Alice came out in 2000. Now this game is one of the most twisted games that I have ever played and American McGee (the person responsible for the design of this game) has said that this game is how he actually looked at the world of Wonderland and a lot of people applauded it actually agreed to his perspective of the book saying that the underlining feel of the book was actually as dark as American McGee had portrayed in his game.

The main reason why I chose to write this article is because of the airing of "Alice" on The Syfy Channel and the 2010 movie release of Tim Burton's take on "Alice In Wonderland". There's so much hype created at the moment about Alice In Wonderland and everybody has been cashing in on the hype. I know this isn't the time to bash Tim Burton but there's something about him that I don't like. No doubt, his movies are great but sometimes he just goes overboard and people appreciate his total stupidity to be really really artistic, for example "Charlie And The Chocolate Factory".

But we're just going off topic here. But my main questions were,

1) What is the current obsession with Alice In Wonderland? Is it like a ticket to get yourself recognized as having an artistic mind? What's artistic about reusing an idea written in the 19th century over and over again?

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2) Why does Alice In Wonderland give me the creeps?! No, seriously. I'm sure its supposed to be a kids story and all but there is just something really creepy going on in there. The Grinning Cat, The Mad Hatter, The Chess Kingdom etc etc. Its just scary.

A Leak At Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant And I'm Losing Hair!

There's been a nuclear leak at the Kaiga Atomic Power Plant in Karnataka. Now I'm not surprised something like this happened and so soon. Now, I'm not one of those crazy the-world-is-gonna-end cultists, and I actually am a supporter of the nuclear power drive that the government has, after all, we need all the power we can get. Most villages in India get about 8 hours of electricity in 24 hours. But I just can't accept that we're ready to take on such a huge responsibility. I fear that the general public in this nation still don't have the moral sensibility that if a nuclear fallout does take place, we'll be able to control it. I'm just dreading the day we'll have another Union Carbide incident on our hands. Which is basically because I'm sure we haven't completely thought through all the safety protocols when a disaster occurs. I'm also sure when a nuclear fallout does occur the government will set up a committee and they'll talk about what happened and the consensus will come in the next decade or after we've lost 2 or 3 generations of the families that were effected by the fallout.

Now the Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant has a leak and I start losing hair! And I'm not the only one. Everyone I know has started to lose hair right now. Men, women, animals, you name it, they're going bald. Even my tires (lol)! I'm sure you've figured out why I'm ranting about the leak. I've been freaked out by the amount of hair I see all over my apartment! Seriously, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a Erin Brockovich story going on here. I hope somebody sees this hair-loss as a clue to some huge environmental disaster and starts some research into it because its the only reason that's come to my mind.