Aziz Ansari’s Comedy Is a Sort of Reverse Ethnic Humor

“Ansari often satirises people’s expectations of him based on his ethnicity, and the fact that he tells these stories with the light southern accent that comes from having grown up in South Carolina makes them funnier. But it’s the way he tells them that gives them that extra comic twist, devoid of the anger or bitterness that is so common in standups.”

Humans Chasing the ‘Three Origins’ (Of the Universe, of Life, of the Mind)

“We seem to have a deeply ingrained need to understand where we come from, and know that our origins are enmeshed with the origin of the cosmos itself: since we are thinking chunks of stardust, to understand where we came from we need to understand where stars came from, how dust got assembled into living matter, and how living matter became thinking matter.”

Banksy Sightings in Los Angeles

“[V]arious Los Angeles bloggers are pointing to evidence that graffiti street artist Banksy has targeted Hollywood with his latest round of art … Whether he’s here and whether these are, in fact, his works remain to be seen, but the timing is curious” – his documentary Exit Through the Guft Shop is on Oscar voters’ ballots.