New header

I got tired of looking at my gawky self and my alluded-to tits in the header, so I replaced me with a little Ganesha. As usual, I have a fair amount of nostalgia for India floating around. But the real reason is that I was trying to think of a picture which would represent the motif of interbreeding. I favoured like two animals of different species mating, but you wouldn't believe the bilge I had to wade through looking for one of those. I toyed with the idea of a penguin with a bear's fur and head that came up via Google image search, and then started thinking about Pegasus, I think because I was incorrectly under the impression that I was wearing my Milemarker t-shirt with a pegasus on it, and also that that pegasus looked way cooler than it in fact is. Anyway, I was reading about how Pegasus was the son of Poseidon and Medusa - which is definitely interbreeding of a kind, and then for some reason thought of Ganesha.

I love Ganesha. Now, I'm not a hippie, and I hated every minute I was in India pretty much, and I cannot work out what the hell is up with their religion, but Ganesha is the coolest. His dad, Shiva, cut his head off out of jealousy for Ganesha's oedipal relation to his mother, Parvati, but instantly regretted it and cut the head off a passing elephant and stuck it on Ganesha's little body. This is not quite interbreeding, but is related. Ganesha has been constituted by his primary trauma, just like the rest of us.

I remember sitting in that roof-top café in Vashisht and getting talking to this bad-boy local dealer in there who had this awesome tattoo of Ganesha on his hand or something. I asked him if many people round there liked Ganesha, and he said no, they were all into Lord Ram. Ganesha is not super-popular, it must be said, but he is widely beloved.

Ganesha is about wisdom, success and prosperity. My life is on the up. I have no idea what my little header Ganesha is saying though, and would love someone to tell me. He is of course not saying anything - I realised a while ago that of course this picture can't be a fucking cartoon. Rather, the text is an injunction to bow to Ganesha - thanx to random reader Yogen for this info.