R.I.P Studio 60

On Thursday the 28th of June 2007, Aaron Sorkin’s season long, nationally televised therapy session finally came to an end. You might know it better as Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
Some people can write about themselves with a sense of humor. They can portray their loves and hates as something more than caricatures. [...]

Chris Benoit, Mitt Romney, Isaiah Washington

This is not a blog that is World Wrestling Entertainment friendly. For that matter, this is not a blog that is WWE unfriendly. This is more a blog that is WWE indifferent. Not for me the oohing and aahing over the wrestlers and their huge, bulked up bodies. I thought The Rock was funny in [...]

Himesh is Burqa Man

When budding Pakistani filmmaker Omar Ali Khan set out to make his country’s first slasher epic, Zibahkhana (Slaughterhouse/Hell’s Ground), the scariest things he could think to include was a maniac dressed in a burqa and the call to prayer emanating from the local mosque.
Over the border in India, Himesh Reshammiya (music director, budding megastar and [...]

Brazilian Ad Attack

Above is the classic image of Mena Suvari from the movie American Beauty. This and other famous photographs are the ‘inspiration’ behind a new ad campaign for Fit Light, a Brazilian brand of yogurt, as portrayed below:

Personally, I don’t find the photos by themselves to be as outrageous as some others on the net [...]

8 Random Facts

Yesterday The Piker tagged me - it’s called Eight Random Facts You Really Don’t Care to Know But Listen Anyway Beeyotch - no, it’s called “Eight Random Facts” and it’s pretty cute… especially when it’s up on someone else’s blog. Bonus points when it’s someone you actually like to read. So here’re the rules:
1. Each [...]

Vote for the Taj Mahal

If you’ve ever lived near a world-famous tourist destination, then perhaps you can understand how I feel about the Taj Mahal.
On the one hand, it’s one of my favorite places ever; on the other, it was something of a chore. It was a Sight Not To Be Missed and so we never did – over [...]

Mard (1985)

Manmohan Desai’s Mard isn’t quite Amitabh Bachchan’s worst movie (*cough*Ajooba*cough*) but it comes pretty darn close. And yet, this is probably one of my favorite movies, mainly because of one single sequence.
Starring Amitabh Bachchan, Amrita Singh, Prem Chopra, Dara Singh, and Bachchan mainstay Nirupa Roy, Mard is your quintessential Gothic romance, Bolly-fied 1980s style.
There is [...]

Hillary Clinton (D-Punjab)

Here is what happened one month ago:
“I am delighted to be the Senator from Punjab as well as from New York” said Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and the former first lady of the United States of America. She received a standing ovation and thunderous applause from the Sikh Americans who had gathered in the [...]

India’s Gypsy, Rom Elsewhere

For reasons too involved to enter into here, my friend and I have been researching the Romani people for a while now.
You might know them better as “gypsies”, a term that is today considered politically incorrect thanks to the historically negative connotations attached to the word - thieving, lying, dirty, lazy, etc. You might also [...]

Note

I just went through my spam to see if I’m as paranoid as I suspect I am and guess what? I’m not.
Akismet does one helluva job filtering through all the Viagra ads, etc but occasionally, its suspicions are aroused by something totally innocuous… like you and your name. So if you left a comment and [...]