Baahu Selvan, Ponniyin Bali

ஒற்றுமையை கண்டீரா? இரண்டுமே ஆற்றில் குழந்தையாக காப்பாற்ற பட்டு, கஸினையும் நாசரையும் எதிர்த்து, சிம்மாசனத்தில் ஒரு குடும்பத்தை "குந்தவை"க்க முயலும் கதை. ஒன்று மணிரத்னம் என்றால் மற்றொன்று மரகதமணி. என்ன, ஒன்று historical fiction, மற்றொன்று fictional history. அதாவது இது கல்கி கதை, அது "கல் கி கஹானி".
இன்னும் சொல்ல போனால்: இக்கதை ஒரு பொன்னியின் செல்வன், அக்கதை ஒரு சிவகாமியின் சபதம்.

Now Screening

Guess the movie. It's hidden in the clue.
E.g., clue: If you don't halt it an iceberg will hit it.
Answer: TITANIC (If you don't hal TITANIC eberg will hit it).

1. Everyone on that bus peed in their pants, perhaps.

2. An ogre's wish rekindled.

3. "M, should I take the shot? It's a risky fall."

4. As an introvert I go down, down, down.

5. War of retro years.

6. It's gone too far! Got to end the madness.

(2 titles here.)

7. Family is loco company.

8. Backwards play you the pianoforte, nettled become I. 

Julius Caesar from Memory

Soothsayer
Beware the ides of March.
Caesar
How now! I wouldst thou couldst.
Soothsayer 
Beware the ides of March.
Caesar
Prithee, a tide in the lives of men, which taken at the flood, slings them on to outrageous fortune.
Soothsayer
Beware the ides of March.
Caesar 
Come now, Cassius, a Rome by any other name hath fewer tramps and more Caesar.

(then on 15 Mar)

Caesar 
Forsooth! What sayst thou now? The ides of March are come, and methinks I be still here.
Soothsayer
Aye, they are come, but not gone.

(later at the Senate steps)

Cassius 
Speak, hands for me! [Everyone stabs.]
Caesar 
Et tu, Brute? Then fall Caesar. [Dies.]

(later)

Antony
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
And I sully not Brutus' name, for Brutus is an honourable man.
All the world's a stage, and we merely players, but
To be or not to be, that is the question.
Caesar, Caesar, wherefore art thou Caesar?
How do I not praise thee? Let me count the ways.
The fault, Brutus, lies not in our stars,
But mum's the word, for Brutus is an honourable man.
Get thee to a nunnery, for all that glisters is not gold,
And jealousy is a green-eyed monster.
Marry, hell hath no fury like a Roman scorned,
Nigh uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.
His kingdom for a horse! There are more things in heaven and earth,
Octavius, than nothing that will come of nothing.
But Brutus is an honourable man.
O Caesar! Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Nay, now is the winter of our discontent.
Frailty, thy name is Mark Antony, woe is me,
How sharper than a serpent's tooth is a thankless child!
The Senate doth protest too much, methinks,
For Caesar was an honourable man,
For Caesar is an honourable man!
Aye, aye, away, away!

Nolanheimer

Without giving away big spoilers:

The story of a star scientist and his interstellar connections, whose central tenet is tested following the inception of a mega-project; its memento was not the prestige he sought but insomnia.

[Count all 7?]

A ;ial moment

It has come to light that on this day 76 years ago, shortly after hearing Tryst With Destiny on the radio at the Viceroy's bungalow, Lord Mountbatten made the following impromptu remarks.

That damn fine speech _s the end of our :ial . here as we | down and / our numbers and hand over ,nd and — the hell out of here before they ( and # us thank you very much