The Indians are coming!

1) There was a shot in the new Woody Allen movie where the camera slowly zoomed in on the face of the lone Indian character as he stared at the camera. It was clear that this scene was supposed to show self-consciously that there weren't usually any Indian people in Woody Allen movies. (I was quickly notified upon sharing this dream that there were some Indians in Everyone Says I Love You.)

2) Another gem from Sharat:
I had a dream Sunday in which you were prominently recognized on the back sports page of the YDN under the headline "New star, in house" it noted (in paragraph two, oddly) that "Developmental psychology medical student [erythema] dispatched Anu Patel 6-3, 6-1 hailing the rise of a new star for the home team." I kept thinking: Damn, is there anything that [erythema] *can't* do well?

3) Farhad showed me this huge tome that supposedly had been written about him, but when I looked more closely, it was actually a board game. The board game came in a large square box with "Farhad Manjoo" printed on the top. Farhad was kind of bummed out that it wasn't a book, but I thought it was equally cool to have had a board game, rather than a book, made in your honor.