I worked their wedding and when she gave a speech that amounted to "I look around this room at all the famous, important faces and I realize that I am someone" and how she thought of Rushdie as "a father figure" we all knew it wasn't going to last. #salmanrushdie
@Steverino Begins: Padma is Shiva, the destroyer & the transformer, pulverizing and creating universes with the stardust that flows from her finger tips. Pia is Govinda, the herder of cows. #salmanrushdie
@BookishLookish: Padma is ambrosia, the nectar of gods. Pia is an oversized bag of Halloween candy purchased at Costco that got left in the sun and subsequently turned into a blob of sticky, sugary goop. (I'm here all day, folks.) #salmanrushdie
@BookishLookish: Padma is a blazing fire consuming everything in her path, Pia is one of those plug in lights with a little fan and orange crepe paper sold on the streets of Chinatown.
@BookishLookish: Padma is the Hubble Space Telescope documenting the high-speed expansion rate of galaxies billions of light years away. Pia is Shepard Smith documenting a high-speed chase on Fox News.
Padma is the saphire in the crowns of the nawabs of Awhad. She is "Raan e Dumpukht, a succulent leg of lamb marinated in dark rum." Pia is... wow do I need some indian food right now. #salmanrushdie
@snugbug: Padma is Radha. Pia a forgotten gopi (ok, I guess this makes S.R. a young, handsome Krishna, which might not work for some, but lets go with it anyway). #salmanrushdie
@Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Padma is raita, the yogurt/cucumber sauce + cooling agent of Indian cuisine, traditionally paired with fiery dishes like biryani or tandoori chicken. She soothes the scorch, she contains the calamity. #salmanrushdie
@dontread: Nice analogy! I've always had a soft spot for Radha--she's like a cross between the Dalai Lama and an undercover proto-feminist. #salmanrushdie
@BookishLookish: Padma is The Bhagavad Gita, "the Upanishad of the Upanishads." Pia is the "Driving Home the Nail" position in the Kama Sutra. #salmanrushdie
@Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Padma is hot, up-and-coming, revolutionary "le petit caporal" Napoleon. Pia is balding, bloated, despotic, defeated, pathetic, exiled, arsenic-poisoned Napoleon.
@BookishLookish: Padma is Leonard Cohen singing “Hallelujah” on Cohen Live; Pia is Rufus Wainwright covering Jeff Buckley covering Cohen for the Shrek soundtrack. #salmanrushdie
@Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Padma is expertly prepared saag aloo paneer with fresh naan and raita, Pia is a Lamb McSpicey from a British McDonald's. #salmanrushdie
@BookishLookish: Padma softly whispered,"Let there be light" and the Empire State Building lit up like a Christmas tree. Pia sneezed and caused the Eastern Seaboard power outage of August 2003. #salmanrushdie
@BookishLookish: Agreed -- one of the best things I've read, well, ever. Thank you for starting it! I'm bummed I missed out on all the fun. #salmanrushdie
@depardoo: I talk about her day and night, too. It's strictly a monologue. I feel hurt and betrayed because she's never once accepted to have imaginary conversations with me. #salmanrushdie
"Its clear that he's not interested in friendship now, which calls into question why he was interested in me in the first place," she told the paper. She then pulled a pad, pencil, and binoculars out of her cleavage and vowed to do more research.#salmanrushdie
Seriously, lady- she's Padma Lakshmi. They were married. He wrote a book about her.
You seem to be smuggling pool floats, awkwardly, under your skin, and I'm not going to lie, your eyebrows look like they are about to devour each other. It is too bad it didn't work out but not everyone needs to know all of your business. #salmanrushdie
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-- And Padma: call me? #salmanrushdie
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@BookishLookish: Padma is Sofia Coppola. Pia is a banged-up can of Sofia Blanc de Blancs bubbly wine. #salmanrushdie
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Padma is the saphire in the crowns of the nawabs of Awhad. She is "Raan e Dumpukht, a succulent leg of lamb marinated in dark rum." Pia is... wow do I need some indian food right now. #salmanrushdie
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"Hanging out on Second Avenue
Eating chicken vindaloo
I just want to be with you"
from that "I Just Want Something To Do" song.
Pia is the sound of radio static.
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@snugbug: I mean, Pia = this guy: #salmanrushdie
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Padma is "Midnight's Children", Pia is "The Best American Short Stories of 2008", edited by Salman Rushdie. #salmanrushdie
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Padma is Champagne Pia is Franzia
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Padma is Disney; Pia is Euro Disney. #salmanrushdie
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Padma is Mariah Carey; Pia is Leona Lewis. #salmanrushdie
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How's the fantasy sex? #salmanrushdie
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