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  1. The Lover of Che and Marx


    Samudrala Avinash Rahul Vamshi Krishna
    What a long name. Does not sound at all
    Like the name of someone
    Who belongs to the proletariat
    Their names will be Pullaiah and Yellaiah
    Yours sounds far too sophisticated
    As sophisticated as your accent, almost like a Brit
    You say you have bruxism and what not
    But your accent lives on, on and on...
    Making people give you a second hearing
    While at 62 I am searching for my second wind...

    And your gonads have not yet started firing
    Were you crazy then to be stopping by
    Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in Bagh Lingampally
    Where that Reddy girl taking courses in statistics
    Was getting distracted by you, but you were never by her
    And you stuck to your guns, pretty appropriate metaphor
    Since Marx and Guevara interested you so much
    No skirt or some peculiar shade of lipstick
    Could hold your attention for long...

    Being a Naxalite appealed to you as your svadharma
    Long, long ago, and when I discovered you
    You were the more sauve urban naxal, so I blocked you
    Lest I the guy interested more in Maharshi than Marx
    Be picked up at midnight, because the smokin' gun
    Of Marxian literature was plenty on my bookshelf
    I who believed that the stream of truth flows
    From all sources and not just from some blokes
    Doing something somewhere in the Himalayas.

    Then, you texted me after a long while, saying
    You were now more moderate in your views
    Kind of a rare conversion, maybe Rosa Luxemborg
    Started appealing to you more than Lenin
    And that writer of The Motorcycle Diaries
    Though Che never left your bedside and your dreams.

    Nowadays, you are more into studying material girls
    Rather than dialectical materialism, so tell me
    Where in your heart have you created a cemetery
    Where you have interred Marx though not Che.

    But, my dear chum, or should I call you comrade
    Listen to me dyed in the whispers down the centuries
    Not only of the topography including the Himalayas
    But also including Thames, Seine, and Black Forest
    Marx was good as far as what he wanted man to be
    But in what man was now in the present
    He misread him so badly that his idealism
    Was bound to come a cropper, though not before
    Bloody revolutions meted out the karma
    To all those people who erred in their previous lives
    When they took birth long before Marx was born
    Including maybe the likes of Alexander Solzhenistyn
    For karma is backed by God, not some floundering startup
    Ah, it satisfies me so much to end with this imagery
    From Capitalism, and make Marx stir in his grave
    And rethink his philosophy at least when he is reborn
    And become an opium addict to discover newer realities.
    #Capitalism #CheGuevara #Communism #history #karlMarx #Lenin #Life #Love #Marx #Marxism #Naxalite #OpiumOfTheMasses #Philosophy #Poem #Poetry #Rebirth #Religion #Revolutions #RosLuxemborg #SamudralaAvinashRahulVamshiKrishna #SamudralaVKIASAcademy #SundarayyaVignanaKendram #Truth #UrbanNaxal #VamshiKrishnaSamudrala #VKSamudrala
  2. The Lover of Che and Marx

    Samudrala Avinash Rahul Vamshi Krishna
    What a long name. Does not sound at all
    Like the name of someone
    Who belongs to the proletariat
    Their names will be Pullaiah and Yellaiah
    Yours sounds far too sophisticated
    As sophisticated as your accent, almost like a Brit
    You say you have bruxism and what not
    But your accent lives on, on and on...
    Making people give you a second hearing
    While at 62 I am searching for my second wind...

    And your gonads have not yet started firing
    Were you crazy then to be stopping by
    Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in Bagh Lingampally
    Where that Reddy girl taking courses in statistics
    Was getting distracted by you, but you were never by her
    And you stuck to your guns, pretty appropriate metaphor
    Since Marx and Guevara interested you so much
    No skirt or some peculiar shade of lipstick
    Could hold your attention for long...

    Being a Naxalite appealed to you as your svadharma
    Long, long ago, and when I discovered you
    You were the more sauve urban naxal, so I blocked you
    Lest I the guy interested more in Maharshi than Marx
    Be picked up at midnight, because the smokin' gun
    Of Marxian literature was plenty on my bookshelf
    I who believed that the stream of truth flows
    From all sources and not just from some blokes
    Doing something somewhere in the Himalayas.

    Then, you texted me after a long while, saying
    You were now more moderate in your views
    Kind of a rare conversion, maybe Rosa Luxemborg
    Started appealing to you more than Lenin
    And that writer of The Motorcycle Diaries
    Though Che never left your bedside and your dreams.

    Nowadays, you are more into studying material girls
    Rather than dialectical materialism, so tell me
    Where in your heart have you created a cemetery
    Where you have interred Marx though not Che.

    But, my dear chum, or should I call you comrade
    Listen to me dyed in the whispers down the centuries
    Not only of the topography including the Himalayas
    But also including Thames, Seine, and Black Forest
    Marx was good as far as what he wanted man to be
    But in what man was now in the present
    He misread him so badly that his idealism
    Was bound to come a cropper, though not before
    Bloody revolutions meted out the karma
    To all those people who erred in their previous lives
    When they took birth long before Marx was born
    Including maybe the likes of Alexander Solzhenistyn
    For karma is backed by God, not some floundering startup
    Ah, it satisfies me so much to end with this imagery
    From Capitalism, and make Marx stir in his grave
    And rethink his philosophy at least when he is reborn
    And become an opium addict to discover newer realities.
    #Capitalism #CheGuevara #Communism #Lenin #Life #Love #Marx #Marxism #Naxalite #OpiumOfTheMasses #Poem #Poetry #Rebirth #Religion #Revolutions #RosLuxemborg #SamudralaAvinashRahulVamshiKrishna #SamudralaVKIASAcademy #SundarayyaVignanaKendram #Truth #UrbanNaxal #VamshiKrishnaSamudrala #VKSamudrala
  3. The Lover of Che and Marx


    Samudrala Avinash Rahul Vamshi Krishna
    What a long name. Does not sound at all
    Like the name of someone
    Who belongs to the proletariat
    Their names will be Pullaiah and Yellaiah
    Yours sounds far too sophisticated
    As sophisticated as your accent, almost like a Brit
    You say you have bruxism and what not
    But your accent lives on, on and on...
    Making people give you a second hearing
    While at 62 I am searching for my second wind...

    And your gonads have not yet started firing
    Were you crazy then to be stopping by
    Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in Bagh Lingampally
    Where that Reddy girl taking courses in statistics
    Was getting distracted by you, but you were never by her
    And you stuck to your guns, pretty appropriate metaphor
    Since Marx and Guevara interested you so much
    No skirt or some peculiar shade of lipstick
    Could hold your attention for long...

    Being a Naxalite appealed to you as your svadharma
    Long, long ago, and when I discovered you
    You were the more sauve urban naxal, so I blocked you
    Lest I the guy interested more in Maharshi than Marx
    Be picked up at midnight, because the smokin' gun
    Of Marxian literature was plenty on my bookshelf
    I who believed that the stream of truth flows
    From all sources and not just from some blokes
    Doing something somewhere in the Himalayas.

    Then, you texted me after a long while, saying
    You were now more moderate in your views
    Kind of a rare conversion, maybe Rosa Luxemborg
    Started appealing to you more than Lenin
    And that writer of The Motorcycle Diaries
    Though Che never left your bedside and your dreams.

    Nowadays, you are more into studying material girls
    Rather than dialectical materialism, so tell me
    Where in your heart have you created a cemetery
    Where you have interred Marx though not Che.

    But, my dear chum, or should I call you comrade
    Listen to me dyed in the whispers down the centuries
    Not only of the topography including the Himalayas
    But also including Thames, Seine, and Black Forest
    Marx was good as far as what he wanted man to be
    But in what man was now in the present
    He misread him so badly that his idealism
    Was bound to come a cropper, though not before
    Bloody revolutions meted out the karma
    To all those people who erred in their previous lives
    When they took birth long before Marx was born
    Including maybe the likes of Alexander Solzhenistyn
    For karma is backed by God, not some floundering startup
    Ah, it satisfies me so much to end with this imagery
    From Capitalism, and make Marx stir in his grave
    And rethink his philosophy at least when he is reborn
    And become an opium addict to discover newer realities.
    #Capitalism #CheGuevara #Communism #history #karlMarx #Lenin #Life #Love #Marx #Marxism #Naxalite #OpiumOfTheMasses #Philosophy #Poem #Poetry #Rebirth #Religion #Revolutions #RosLuxemborg #SamudralaAvinashRahulVamshiKrishna #SamudralaVKIASAcademy #SundarayyaVignanaKendram #Truth #UrbanNaxal #VamshiKrishnaSamudrala #VKSamudrala
  4. The Lover of Che and Marx


    Samudrala Avinash Rahul Vamshi Krishna
    What a long name. Does not sound at all
    Like the name of someone
    Who belongs to the proletariat
    Their names will be Pullaiah and Yellaiah
    Yours sounds far too sophisticated
    As sophisticated as your accent, almost like a Brit
    You say you have bruxism and what not
    But your accent lives on, on and on...
    Making people give you a second hearing
    While at 62 I am searching for my second wind...

    And your gonads have not yet started firing
    Were you crazy then to be stopping by
    Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in Bagh Lingampally
    Where that Reddy girl taking courses in statistics
    Was getting distracted by you, but you were never by her
    And you stuck to your guns, pretty appropriate metaphor
    Since Marx and Guevara interested you so much
    No skirt or some peculiar shade of lipstick
    Could hold your attention for long...

    Being a Naxalite appealed to you as your svadharma
    Long, long ago, and when I discovered you
    You were the more sauve urban naxal, so I blocked you
    Lest I the guy interested more in Maharshi than Marx
    Be picked up at midnight, because the smokin' gun
    Of Marxian literature was plenty on my bookshelf
    I who believed that the stream of truth flows
    From all sources and not just from some blokes
    Doing something somewhere in the Himalayas.

    Then, you texted me after a long while, saying
    You were now more moderate in your views
    Kind of a rare conversion, maybe Rosa Luxemborg
    Started appealing to you more than Lenin
    And that writer of The Motorcycle Diaries
    Though Che never left your bedside and your dreams.

    Nowadays, you are more into studying material girls
    Rather than dialectical materialism, so tell me
    Where in your heart have you created a cemetery
    Where you have interred Marx though not Che.

    But, my dear chum, or should I call you comrade
    Listen to me dyed in the whispers down the centuries
    Not only of the topography including the Himalayas
    But also including Thames, Seine, and Black Forest
    Marx was good as far as what he wanted man to be
    But in what man was now in the present
    He misread him so badly that his idealism
    Was bound to come a cropper, though not before
    Bloody revolutions meted out the karma
    To all those people who erred in their previous lives
    When they took birth long before Marx was born
    Including maybe the likes of Alexander Solzhenistyn
    For karma is backed by God, not some floundering startup
    Ah, it satisfies me so much to end with this imagery
    From Capitalism, and make Marx stir in his grave
    And rethink his philosophy at least when he is reborn
    And become an opium addict to discover newer realities.
    #Capitalism #CheGuevara #Communism #history #karlMarx #Lenin #Life #Love #Marx #Marxism #Naxalite #OpiumOfTheMasses #Philosophy #Poem #Poetry #Rebirth #Religion #Revolutions #RosLuxemborg #SamudralaAvinashRahulVamshiKrishna #SamudralaVKIASAcademy #SundarayyaVignanaKendram #Truth #UrbanNaxal #VamshiKrishnaSamudrala #VKSamudrala
  5. The Lover of Che and Marx


    Samudrala Avinash Rahul Vamshi Krishna
    What a long name. Does not sound at all
    Like the name of someone
    Who belongs to the proletariat
    Their names will be Pullaiah and Yellaiah
    Yours sounds far too sophisticated
    As sophisticated as your accent, almost like a Brit
    You say you have bruxism and what not
    But your accent lives on, on and on...
    Making people give you a second hearing
    While at 62 I am searching for my second wind...

    And your gonads have not yet started firing
    Were you crazy then to be stopping by
    Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in Bagh Lingampally
    Where that Reddy girl taking courses in statistics
    Was getting distracted by you, but you were never by her
    And you stuck to your guns, pretty appropriate metaphor
    Since Marx and Guevara interested you so much
    No skirt or some peculiar shade of lipstick
    Could hold your attention for long...

    Being a Naxalite appealed to you as your svadharma
    Long, long ago, and when I discovered you
    You were the more sauve urban naxal, so I blocked you
    Lest I the guy interested more in Maharshi than Marx
    Be picked up at midnight, because the smokin' gun
    Of Marxian literature was plenty on my bookshelf
    I who believed that the stream of truth flows
    From all sources and not just from some blokes
    Doing something somewhere in the Himalayas.

    Then, you texted me after a long while, saying
    You were now more moderate in your views
    Kind of a rare conversion, maybe Rosa Luxemborg
    Started appealing to you more than Lenin
    And that writer of The Motorcycle Diaries
    Though Che never left your bedside and your dreams.

    Nowadays, you are more into studying material girls
    Rather than dialectical materialism, so tell me
    Where in your heart have you created a cemetery
    Where you have interred Marx though not Che.

    But, my dear chum, or should I call you comrade
    Listen to me dyed in the whispers down the centuries
    Not only of the topography including the Himalayas
    But also including Thames, Seine, and Black Forest
    Marx was good as far as what he wanted man to be
    But in what man was now in the present
    He misread him so badly that his idealism
    Was bound to come a cropper, though not before
    Bloody revolutions meted out the karma
    To all those people who erred in their previous lives
    When they took birth long before Marx was born
    Including maybe the likes of Alexander Solzhenistyn
    For karma is backed by God, not some floundering startup
    Ah, it satisfies me so much to end with this imagery
    From Capitalism, and make Marx stir in his grave
    And rethink his philosophy at least when he is reborn
    And become an opium addict to discover newer realities.
    #Capitalism #CheGuevara #Communism #history #karlMarx #Lenin #Life #Love #Marx #Marxism #Naxalite #OpiumOfTheMasses #Philosophy #Poem #Poetry #Rebirth #Religion #Revolutions #RosLuxemborg #SamudralaAvinashRahulVamshiKrishna #SamudralaVKIASAcademy #SundarayyaVignanaKendram #Truth #UrbanNaxal #VamshiKrishnaSamudrala #VKSamudrala
  6. I do feel as if I lost a friend as well.

    theguardian.com/books/2026/feb

    Wit and melancholy, in all forms of writings. Germans called him “Der Augenmensch”, the man who sees.

    From my bookshelf, I've just picked this sentence (my translation):

    “I can't come up with any kind of clarity if I don't write'”

    #Literature #Nooteboom

  7. @azonenberg I buy 6 figures from #DigiKey annually. Not a fan of the QFN but we use them. Recently made a commitment to Renesas parts that are QFN. We design and load our own boards. Not doing BGA.

    That said I really miss the yellow TI logic datasheet books from the 70s. Those were like the Sears catalog for me back in the day. Must be a collectors thing now. Would love to have those on my bookshelf. Daydreaming...

    Need to do a lot more of that these days, eh?

  8. @analogfusion @Dave_Goldsmith Can't guarantee this will happen for you, but more than once I have ordered #books in "good" or "acceptable"condition from #ThriftBooks and received copies that were in much better condition than advertised - like-new or seemingly new. Great company, my bookshelf is full of books I have bought there.

  9. #BattleOfBritain #JohnHemingway #ww2 #pilot #Spitfire #hurricane #fighterpilot #UK #Britain #UnitedKingdom #Germany #WorldWar2 #battle #history #heroic #hero
    This is so sad, hugely significant and such a massive loss. We owe them so much, and I hope future generations never forget it.
    I picked up this book years ago, and it’ll always be one of the most treasured on my bookshelf…

    'End of an era': Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot dies bbc.com/news/articles/cvg1z42p

  10. Well, great. #DarkHorseDigital is closing up shop. Now I have to figure out how to get the comics I bought there ages ago downloaded. Their FAQ isn;t helpful.

    "Do I own the comics in my bookshelf?

    Technically, you do not. As with Kindle, Nook, and other e-book companies, you license the right to read the book on supported and authorized devices."

    But I can download the comics to the app? I guess I need to install the damned app and figure this out. digital.darkhorse.com/faq/

  11. Looking at the Hugo award nominations for this year... I've read none of the novels, novellas, novelettes, comics, or games.

    I've read one of the short stories, one of the series, and seen one of the dramatic presentations (long); two of the dramatic presentation (short).

    I've got three novels from the series nominations sitting on my bookshelf, and I've just started one of those.

    Is this level of ignorance in the face of the shortlists typical? I feel inadequate.

    #HugoAward #hugos2024

  12. #KTVU2 #AAPI #SF #Chinatown #ChineseFood #ChineseRestaurants

    Just discovered this morning that KTVU has a dedicated AAPI webpage that you can find below.

    There are not a lot of stories/articles presented there but what is there is very interesting & inciteful to me, as it should be to anyone interested in the Chinese American experience.

    My favorite is Amber Lee's "Chinatown" which provides a unique "insiders" look into SF Chinatown -- it's history & it's restaurants & style of cooking Chinese food (which is unique to SF).

    ktvu.com/video/1227370

    Watching it brought back a lot of memories for me, particularly the banquets that my family held in the 50-60's at The Far East Cafe (in the video) & Shanghai Low Restaurant (long gone).

    Of historical note are the video re: Bruce Lee's roots in SF (the Chinese Historical Society in SF is holding a special exhibit re: Bruce now) & the article re: Iris Chang's book, The "Rape of Nanking" (a copy of which is sitting on my bookshelf).

    See: ktvu.com/shows/aapi

  13. #KTVU2 #AAPI #SF #Chinatown #ChineseFood #ChineseRestaurants

    Just discovered this morning that KTVU has a dedicated AAPI webpage that you can find below.

    There are not a lot of stories/articles presented there but what is there is very interesting & inciteful to me, as it should be to anyone interested in the Chinese American experience.

    My favorite is Amber Lee's "Chinatown" which provides a unique "insiders" look into SF Chinatown -- it's history & it's restaurants & style of cooking Chinese food (which is unique to SF).

    ktvu.com/video/1227370

    Watching it brought back a lot of memories for me, particularly the banquets that my family held in the 50-60's at The Far East Cafe (in the video) & Shanghai Low Restaurant (long gone).

    Of historical note are the video re: Bruce Lee's roots in SF (the Chinese Historical Society in SF is holding a special exhibit re: Bruce now) & the article re: Iris Chang's book, The "Rape of Nanking" (a copy of which is sitting on my bookshelf).

    See: ktvu.com/shows/aapi

  14. #KTVU2 #AAPI #SF #Chinatown #ChineseFood #ChineseRestaurants

    Just discovered this morning that KTVU has a dedicated AAPI webpage that you can find below.

    There are not a lot of stories/articles presented there but what is there is very interesting & inciteful to me, as it should be to anyone interested in the Chinese American experience.

    My favorite is Amber Lee's "Chinatown" which provides a unique "insiders" look into SF Chinatown -- it's history & it's restaurants & style of cooking Chinese food (which is unique to SF).

    ktvu.com/video/1227370

    Watching it brought back a lot of memories for me, particularly the banquets that my family held in the 50-60's at The Far East Cafe (in the video) & Shanghai Low Restaurant (long gone).

    Of historical note are the video re: Bruce Lee's roots in SF (the Chinese Historical Society in SF is holding a special exhibit re: Bruce now) & the article re: Iris Chang's book, The "Rape of Nanking" (a copy of which is sitting on my bookshelf).

    See: ktvu.com/shows/aapi

  15. #KTVU2 #AAPI #SF #Chinatown #ChineseFood #ChineseRestaurants

    Just discovered this morning that KTVU has a dedicated AAPI webpage that you can find below.

    There are not a lot of stories/articles presented there but what is there is very interesting & inciteful to me, as it should be to anyone interested in the Chinese American experience.

    My favorite is Amber Lee's "Chinatown" which provides a unique "insiders" look into SF Chinatown -- it's history & it's restaurants & style of cooking Chinese food (which is unique to SF).

    ktvu.com/video/1227370

    Watching it brought back a lot of memories for me, particularly the banquets that my family held in the 50-60's at The Far East Cafe (in the video) & Shanghai Low Restaurant (long gone).

    Of historical note are the video re: Bruce Lee's roots in SF (the Chinese Historical Society in SF is holding a special exhibit re: Bruce now) & the article re: Iris Chang's book, The "Rape of Nanking" (a copy of which is sitting on my bookshelf).

    See: ktvu.com/shows/aapi

  16. #KTVU2 #AAPI #SF #Chinatown #ChineseFood #ChineseRestaurants

    Just discovered this morning that KTVU has a dedicated AAPI webpage that you can find below.

    There are not a lot of stories/articles presented there but what is there is very interesting & inciteful to me, as it should be to anyone interested in the Chinese American experience.

    My favorite is Amber Lee's "Chinatown" which provides a unique "insiders" look into SF Chinatown -- it's history & it's restaurants & style of cooking Chinese food (which is unique to SF).

    ktvu.com/video/1227370

    Watching it brought back a lot of memories for me, particularly the banquets that my family held in the 50-60's at The Far East Cafe (in the video) & Shanghai Low Restaurant (long gone).

    Of historical note are the video re: Bruce Lee's roots in SF (the Chinese Historical Society in SF is holding a special exhibit re: Bruce now) & the article re: Iris Chang's book, The "Rape of Nanking" (a copy of which is sitting on my bookshelf).

    See: ktvu.com/shows/aapi

  17. Revd. J C Atkinson’s ‘Forty Years in a Moorland Parish’

    I have often referred to the Reverend John Christopher Atkinson's book, 'Forty Years in a Moorland Parish,' published in 1891. It offers a detailed account of life in and around the village of Danby, and is a much thumbed addition to my bookshelf. This morning I ventured into Danby Dale, Atkinson's former parish.

    Atkinson was born in Essex in 1814, and st ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=31866

    #DanbyDale #NorthYorkMoors

  18. Revd. J C Atkinson’s ‘Forty Years in a Moorland Parish’

    I have often referred to the Reverend John Christopher Atkinson's book, 'Forty Years in a Moorland Parish,' published in 1891. It offers a detailed account of life in and around the village of Danby, and is a much thumbed addition to my bookshelf. This morning I ventured into Danby Dale, Atkinson's former parish.

    Atkinson was born in Essex in 1814, and st ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=31866

    #DanbyDale #NorthYorkMoors

  19. Revd. J C Atkinson’s ‘Forty Years in a Moorland Parish’

    I have often referred to the Reverend John Christopher Atkinson's book, 'Forty Years in a Moorland Parish,' published in 1891. It offers a detailed account of life in and around the village of Danby, and is a much thumbed addition to my bookshelf. This morning I ventured into Danby Dale, Atkinson's former parish.

    Atkinson was born in Essex in 1814, and st ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=31866

    #DanbyDale #NorthYorkMoors

  20. Revd. J C Atkinson’s ‘Forty Years in a Moorland Parish’

    I have often referred to the Reverend John Christopher Atkinson's book, 'Forty Years in a Moorland Parish,' published in 1891. It offers a detailed account of life in and around the village of Danby, and is a much thumbed addition to my bookshelf. This morning I ventured into Danby Dale, Atkinson's former parish.

    Atkinson was born in Essex in 1814, and st ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=31866

    #DanbyDale #NorthYorkMoors

  21. It’s hard to be surprised by the racial, gender, geographic, and many other blind spots within philosophy historically when it is literally a discipline that says things like ‘I can’t see how you can possibly get an ought from an is’, and ignores the billions of people doing it, with great ease, every single day. For a philosopher trained to reject the existence of the very table they are sitting at, or the mind they are using to do the rejecting, it’s just a short logical leap to denying the existence of entire countries, cultures, and peoples. For if it isn’t argued somewhere on my bookshelf, can it really have been argued at all?

    #Philosophy #Decolonization #Education #Diversity #BlindSpots

  22. I started writing on a notepad among the scattered items on the altar. "You still owe me a wish!" Except I kept messing it up. I tore off the page, tried finding a new clean page, but each had a bit of writing presumably by the guy behind the speaker; random notes & such. I found a different notepad, kept trying, kept messing up--mangled the 1st word, wrote too small, not enough room on the page, etc. I think this is because you can almost never read the same thing twice in a dream, though I usually don't have trouble writing. I think I was just getting too fed up to continue, though I believe this is where the dream ended anyway.

    ...

    A fragment of a longer dream I had yesterday(?) featured me finding a small gold ship figurine, a 3-masted one I think, & putting it on my bookshelf as a reminder of my Palatine ancestors immigrating here. Upon awakening this reminded me of another recent dream. (Cont.) #spirituality #heathenry