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The Venus Flytrap: Paradise In My Pocket
Sharanya Manivannan | August 16th 2008 by ranya
When people talk about ecological damage, what bothers me most is not that future generations will gradually have less and less to subsist on - I believe too much in abstract ideas to fear that. This is selfish, but I am saddened by the knowledge read more
The Venus Flytrap: Loosen Up And Love The Lungi
Sharanya Manivannan | August 9th 2008 by ranya
When our very own humble lungi made it onto the pages of the acclaimed street fashion photography blog The Sartorialist a few weeks ago, I was thrilled to bits. Cultural misappropriation and decontextualization? Oh pshaw. That Caucasian guy rocked th read more
The Venus Flytrap: In The Mood For Nostalgia
Sharanya Manivannan | August 1st 2008 by ranya
I once lived in a house that had only one article of art on its living room walls: a smallish framed poster from Wong Kar-Wai’s In The Mood For Love. In retrospect, it was almost a mockingly ironic statement for that home, but that’s anot read more
Get a piece of LaRocque
SwanShadow Thinks Out Loud | August 1st 2008 by SwanShadow
All right, I'll admit it...I pretty much blew off July here at SSTOL. Ironic, since we celebrated our fourth blogiversary back on the eleventh of the month. (Belated gifts — especially of cash — will still be cheerfully accepted.)Sorry abou read more
Venus Fly trap
Biosolutions | July 27th 2008 by Julian
Venus Flytrap, Dionaea muscipula, is a carnivorous plant that catches and digests animal prey (mostly insects and arachnids). The trapping structure is formed by the terminal portion of each of the plant's leaves. The plant's common name refers to Ve read more
The Venus Flytrap: Surrendering To Serendipities
Sharanya Manivannan | July 25th 2008 by ranya
A dear friend of mine resigned from her job today to be with her toddler - and see where life takes her next. This is no small step for my freespirited friend, someone widely acknowledged as the blithely charming PR queen of her country, someone who read more
The Venus Flytrap: Grace In Aliases
Sharanya Manivannan | July 18th 2008 by ranya
I have a friend who has a name so supremely cool that I’m concerned it cannot even be mentioned in this column without incurring royalties. It is Chandrachoodan, which despite meaning something as poetically wimpy as “the one with the moo read more
Hot NOT to KISS!!!
CRAZY...COOL...GROOVY!!! | July 17th 2008 by CCGroovy
Of the complaints I've received from women with whom I've had any degree of PHYSICAL INTIMACY; the one complaint that I've NOT received, was about my KISSABILITIES. So; I thought that this was very interesting.U can thank JUDY MCGUIRE of CNN.(The Fri read more
Akhirnya punya Venus Flytrap dan Nepenthes
all about andrie | July 12th 2008 by all about andrie
Akhirnya punya juga Venus Flytrap (Dionaea Muscipula), setelah memimpikannya berhari-hari (lebai banget ya d’). Ada juga Kantong Semar (Nepenthes). Cerita selengkapnya tunggu ya, sekarang gambar-gambarnya dulu (klik untuk perbesaran gambar): read more
The Venus Flytrap: Idli And A Screaming Orgasm (or, Spicing Up Th…
Sharanya Manivannan | July 11th 2008 by ranya
In preparation for the Olympics this year, the government of China has released a tourist-friendly 170-page book recommending new English names for some 2,000 delicacies - all of which till now go by some baffling monikers. What a pity this menu make read more
The Venus Flytrap: Pride and Prejudice
Sharanya Manivannan | July 4th 2008 by ranya
I’m thrilled by the gay pride parades held earlier this week in Delhi, Kolkata and Bangalore. I know it doesn’t matter that Chennai didn’t have one (far as I know, anyway) - legislatively speaking, any successful activism will affec read more
The Venus Flytrap: Between Bread and Betelnut
Sharanya Manivannan | June 28th 2008 by ranya
I was raised by my Sri Lankan Tamil maternal grandparents, and among my various cultural heirlooms comes that famously recognizable accent. That conversation-stopping, glint-in-the-eye, connotations-stirring, “Yaarlpanam-ah?” accent. The read more
Flytrap
Scattered Light | June 23rd 2008 by Cheryl Snell
"Venus Flytrap" --drawing by Janet SnellCheryl just found out that copies of Janet's book Flytrap are in nineteen libraries. Worldcat is the source of that info. Congrats, Jannie! read more
The Venus Flytrap: Hoping For A Revolution
Sharanya Manivannan | June 20th 2008 by ranya
A friend of mine says you either have a soul, or you don’t. It’s a dispassionate way of looking at compassion, as contradictory and yet as perfectly truthful as when Tori Amos sang, “I believe in peace, bitch”. Faith in humani read more
Weekend Video Spotlight: Carnivorous Plants in the Carolinas
Hugging the Coast: A Celebration of Coastal Food, Life, and… | June 14th 2008 by Doug DuCap
Native only to a small part of North and South Carolina, the Venus Flytrap is a carnivorous plant that sustains itself in nutrient-poor, boggy soil by trapping and eating insects and small animals that find their way into its trap. For an video overv read more
The Venus Flytrap: The Great Indian Guilt Trip
Sharanya Manivannan | June 13th 2008 by ranya
I have a proposal (actually, my friend the professional alliterater Deesh Mariwala, alleged by one publication to be the most charming man in Chennai, has a proposal, but I’m the one with the column). As a passionately patriotic poetess, I̵ read more
The Venus Flytrap: No Love In This Democracy
Sharanya Manivannan | June 7th 2008 by ranya
At their most basic, our survival needs have at least three components: food, shelter and love. The first and second are physical necessities. The third appears almost as a technical error - in no medical book will you find a prescription for causing read more
Venus Flytrap Devours Victim
Black Cat Bone | June 2nd 2008
Venus Flytrap Devours Victim an Evil Digital Film produced by Force Majeure Film Studios (a Holy owned subsidiary of Black Cat Bone Global Media Empire) written, directed and edited by The Right Reverend James W. Bailey ---Now Playing @ Black Cat read more
garden delights
Easy Bake Coven | June 1st 2008 by Susan
Two different gentlemen present to us extraordinary gifts of garden delights. Bitter Lawn Gnome has a show-stopping Peony, and a dark, magical Tulipa Black Parrot. Lord Whimsy has a bold, white, nameless flower that commands attention, and the read more
The Venus Flytrap: At The Mercy of Her Bite
Sharanya Manivannan | May 31st 2008 by ranya
Let me just tell you straight up that I have penis envy. Every Rorschach test you could possibly give me will prove it. Like O’Keefe, like Freud, like - Oh! - Hinduism, I can’t get the nethers off my mind. I discern shapes, nature and var read more
No moseying
The Mendicant Bug | May 30th 2008 by Jason Adams
While at Oak Island, we visited the North Carolina Aquarium. It was decent, nothing on the Baltimore Aquarium, but it had some cool stuff. In the southeastern swampland exhibit, there was a very specific sign (below) about what not to do on the pla read more
The Venus Flytrap: Waiting For The Dawn
Sharanya Manivannan | May 23rd 2008 by ranya
Last week I went up to my roof and lay on my back to pray to the night sky. I was praying because I had begun to feel desperate about an unresolved situation. Something I had worked on for years and seemed only weeks from completion had been snatched read more
I Am Honeybell's Wounded Va-Jay-Jay
The Bell Pages Blog | May 19th 2008 by Honeybell
So you may have read about my intention to start waxing, and that was the plan, really it was. But then I started running out of excuses to give the police as to why my screaming kept disturbing the neighbors. So it’s back to the razor. I’m in read more
The Venus Flytrap: There’s Something About Amy
Sharanya Manivannan | May 17th 2008 by ranya
I can’t remember when or where or how I first came across Amy Winehouse, but she had her hooks in me way back when her success was a cult hit, not the embarrassing phenomenon it is today. It was more than just that smokey, showstopping voice, w read more
The Venus Flytrap: In Defense of Insensible Fashion
Sharanya Manivannan | May 9th 2008 by ranya
Some people know they’re depressed when they can’t eat or sleep. I know I’m depressed when I stop giving a damn about what I’m wearing. I’m a huge believer in what Tim Gunn called “the semiology of dressing”; read more
The Venus Flytrap: Solo In The City
Sharanya Manivannan | May 2nd 2008 by ranya
I am not Carrie Bradshaw, and Lady help anyone who thinks so (for the record, the glorious Samantha, the most soulful maneater in the recent history of female iconography, is my favourite). But among the many moments of Sex and the City that struck a read more
The Venus Flytrap: Infidelity Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
Sharanya Manivannan | April 25th 2008 by ranya
Infidelity, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. The lines we draw and how we negotiate them are all that varies between who we think we are and what we could be capable of. We are all that person. What wounds me most may be nothing to you; wh read more
The Venus Flytrap: Is Marriage The New Singledom?
Sharanya Manivannan | April 19th 2008 by ranya
I find myself, at 22, an old maid. No, I’m just being dramatic. But you can’t fault me for my dour mood considering that in the past year or so, I’ve discovered that I’ve turned into a minority: unbetrothed, un-hypenated-surna read more
The Venus Flytrap Bridge
Reaction! | April 17th 2008
Buro Happold and Hakes Associates have collaborated to develop a concept design for a radical new bridge inpsired by the Venus Flytrap. As you can see in the image above, the bridge's two outer arches close together like the jaws of the plant when read more
The Venus Flytrap: My Weekly Column, Out Now!
Sharanya Manivannan | April 11th 2008 by ranya
So I woke up nearly two hours early today because I had to see the paper. After six years in journalism, my byline by itself is no longer a source of hysterical excitement. But (deep breath) I have a column! That column is The Venus Flytrap (specia read more