Comic 39: Breaking Bad

In high school, a childhood friend and I would race home after school every day, so that we could grab a snack and watch Yo! MTV Raps. It wasn’t enough to watch it, though. We would record that shit, so that we could rewatch the videos and discuss the nuances of what the hosts (Ed Lover, Doctor Dre, and Fab 5 Freddy) had to say.

For two nerdy Indian teenagers, watching hip-hop videos was really the same thing as playing with Transformers: pure fantasy. We watched rap videos the way housewives watched soap operas-to pretend for a little while, usually with a pile of junk food in front of us.

These days, the best I can say for myself is that I demand better writing, cinematography, and sound design from my fantasy worlds. It might have more nuance than Ed Lover, but it’s still the same shit.

- Sandeep

PS The next episode of Post-Nup airs next week, guest-starring former Penthouse Pet of the Year Sunny Leone. Make a note about the NSFW-ness coming your way.

Episode 13: C-Heads (guest starring Sunny Leone)

I’m currently in El Salvador, on a trip through Central America to scope a mobile app for a client.   At least that’s what’s happening in real life.  In my head, ever since I left my family  at 4am to make it to the airport, I’ve been on a secret mission to do business with (and perhaps assassinate) a drug lord and his capos.

In my head, my suitcase is full of money, and I have a handgun in my laptop bag.  I put an odorless, flavorless poison into a really expensive bottle of tequila, and if business goes sour, I might use it to “celebrate” with some dudes I don’t want around anymore.  I swagger up to the customs lady and offer only a blank stare, so as not to let on about the fantasy objects that I’m not really carrying.

Ever since I can remember, I’ve almost always had a parallel fantasy running alongside the regularly scheduled program.  And if you’ve ever seen me play basketball, you would immediately understand why.

Enjoy episode 12 of Post-Nup, which is about fantasies, realities, and how the two might affect each other.

Oh yeah, it guest stars an easy-going Penthouse Pet of the Year named Sunny Leone.

- Sandeep

PS. Fair warning, parts of this episode are NSFW (Not Safe For Work).

Comic 39: Breaking Bad

Comic 35: Blind Belief

Comic 35: Blind Belief

The NYT reports that fatherhood lowers testosterone. The scientists in this article argue that this is actually as it should be; when we have children, nature acts to make us less aggressive and therefore, better fathers.

When I was applying Rogaine Foam to my scalp this morning, this article came to mind. So I rubbed my scalp more furiously than ever, hoping to protect my little plot of land from further degradation.

Because shit, I’m already a father three times over.

- Sandeep

Comic 36: Friendship Fructose

Without a major bailout, it seems the US Postal Service is about to go bankrupt. I feel bad for mailmen (mail people?), but I can’t really think of anything I would miss about snail mail. Maybe it’s just time for snail mail to rest its slimy shell next to the telegraph and rotary phone (just leave the light on for fax machines and printers).

I guess there is one thing I’d miss: birthday cards from grandparents, aunts, etc. Beyond the way their scrawled messages of love mesh (or don’t) with the stock birthday card they happened to choose, I also love the tiny bit of randomness-how the cards all arrive within a 4 day time frame around your birthday, because no one really knows how to time a letter.

When the postal service goes bankrupt, I guess the card-senders will just write on our Facebook walls.

- @soodsandeep

Comic 36: Friendship Fructose

Comic 34: Mirror Faces & Das Racist

Comic 34: Mirror Faces & Das Racist

Girl sits in cafe; cute guy walks in. Suddenly, her formerly pleasant (even slightly attractive) face contorts into a strained pout. She tightens her body, arches her back, pushes her chest out, and assumes a pose that highlights her piercings, as if she was posing for the cover of the "Girls Gone Wild: Hipster Cafe" DVD.

Dude just got hit with her mirror face, and you can tell cuz he looks scared.

It’s like the hip-hop group Das Racist says in their hit song about working out & eating right: "Man in the Mirror":

"I’m starting with the man in the mirror; I’m asking him to change his ways."

Exactly, Das Racist. Can the man in the mirror change his ways? Because Lord knows that when it comes to the mirror face, we’ve all strained, pouted, sucked in, and surpassed Malcolm Gladwell’s requisite 10,000 hours for total mirror-face domination.

But, what happens when that mirror face fucking takes control of your life, your friends, and your job? What happens when that mirror face starts banging your wife? What then, Gladwell?

I honestly don’t know. And neither does Das Racist. But, we would love to see all of your mirror faces on July 29th at the Mezzanine in San Francisco. Das Racist will be performing, the Punjabi-funk sensation Black Mahal will be bringing the bhangra, and I’ll be premiering my new sketch piece, Fair & Lovely Inside.

If you buy a ticket, you get in free.

- @soodsandeep

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Comic 34: Job Hunting

Comic 34: Job Hunting

When you spend most of your creative time at coffee shops in Berkeley, it’s a constant struggle to avoid the instinct to sit around and just make fun of hippie chicks.

This week, I failed.

- Sandeep

Issue 33: Cultural Pyramids

Issue 33: Cultural Pyramids

Earlier this month, Michelle Obama did away with the long and tangled history of the Food Pyramid, replacing it with what she and the administration perceive as a simpler visual interpretation of what Americans should be eating every day: the Nutrition Plate.

Neither plate nor pyramid work very well. The problem is that it’s almost impossible to explain a nutritious diet through a simple graphic, especially a graphic that treats all calories and industry lobbyists as if they were equal.

In any case, now that the USDA is no longer using the pyramid, we figured that it could be appropriated to serve other, equally important purposes.

- Sandeep

Comic 32: Childish Things

Comic 32: Childish Things

In the Nintendo game “Double Dribble”, there was a spot behind the three point line that was always money.

The spot was located in the upper right hand corner. You could take off from anywhere, hang in the air as long as you wanted, and as long you found the spot, the ball would always go in.

That spot made the game really fun when you initially found it, but eventually it turned the game into a joke. This was egregiously poor Japanese programming (perhaps even more egregious than naming a basketball game after a basketball penalty), but despite all this, we would still play for hours.

From time to time, I’ve tried to find that spot on a real court. Not there.

- Sandeep

Episode 11: Travelling Man

Today, we’re pleased to announce the Post-Nup podcast, available on iTunes!

Friends, it would mean the world to us if you subscribed and posted a review.

Speaking of which, something awesome about the present is that we can bring you Post-Nup without having to come to your local gathering place and act it out with hand puppets.

Although now I’m thinking that would be pretty cool.

– Sandeep

Comic 30: Married Sex

Comic 30: Married Sex

In 1936, Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, went to India and met with Gandhi.

The two argued about human sexuality. Margaret Sanger defended sex; it is natural, part of a spiritual calling for men and women, she said. Gandhi would hear nothing of it, describing the sexual act as a carnal, lustful act that made real love impossible. According to Gandhi, sex should be used exclusively for the purpose of procreation and at no other time.

The Mahatma was rarely affected by opposing viewpoints, but his conversation with the feisty feminist “left him in a state near nervous collapse”.

Silly Mahatma.

– Sandeep

Issue 29: Playing Like a Rookie

Comic 29: Playing Like a Rookie

Like most men, I’ve spent more time watching sports than playing ‘em. Sometimes this makes me hate myself, as I procrastinate on ESPN.com and obsess over the failures and successes of men I don’t know.

Every now and then, I try to kick the habit cold turkey. This often works, at least until the NBA playoffs roll around. Then, I’m right back to my addiction again.

Woody Allen gives me the best excuse ever for my habit:

You see, life consists of giving yourself these problems that can be dealt with, so you don’t have to face the problems that can’t be dealt with. It’s very meaningful to me, for instance, to see if the Knicks are going to get over some problem or another. These are matters you can get involved with, safely, and pleasurably, and the outcome doesn’t hurt you.

Woody’s got 99 problems, but the Knicks ain’t one (marrying his stepdaughter, though, that’s probably one of them).

– Sandeep