Faggot, Paki and Nigger: A Hanes Ad

Remember the days when Michael Jordan was the face of Hanes, the tagless underwear? Hell, remember Michael Jordan? Well, never mind if you remember either him or that ad because those days of “Look who we’ve got our Hanes on now” are gone, baby, gone. Cuba Gooding Jr. isn’t running around trying to hug Michael, [...]

Things Money Can’t Buy: Sanity

Hey, so remember that nude pic of France’s First Lady, Carla Bruni? (Hey, that rhymes!) Clicked by a minor French photographer, it was recently sold at auction and fetched a price far in excess of its base price of $4,000 - some Chinese dude with more money than sense bought it for $91,000. Maybe he [...]

When a Father Loves a Daughter

Well, hello there! How would you like to hear a heartwarming story this Friday? It’s about a father and daughter, separated for many years, who find each other again to reconnect on a fundamental level only to be cruelly separated by the cold, harsh hands of the Law.
Meet John Earnest Deaves of Australia. 30 years [...]

Promo Watch: Love Story 2050

Aspi and the Drifters have already dubbed him Harman “Gareebon ka Hrithik” Baweja but is there more to Priyanka Chopra’s boyfriend than a passing resemblance to her Krissh in looks and pedigree? Welcome to Promo Watch, the blog post that ought to have been a podcast if yours truly wasn’t so lazy - just imagine [...]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

This post is dedicated to my aunt, who let me loaf around her house every summer, subjecting her to hideous experiments with expired cosmetics when I wasn’t watching one of four movies: The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. On a loop, people. My aunt = awesome.
“Awesome” would [...]

The Novels of Agatha Christie

Back when I was a tweenie, I didn’t understand that proper tweenhood demanded an unhealthy interest in boybands and cosmetics. I liked both those things, I suppose, but my feelings might properly be described as lukewarm. My primary interest lay in three things: Egyptology, Greek and Roman mythology, and violent death. Had we had things [...]

The Economist’s Indira Gandhi circa 1984

So, this is the image of Indira Gandhi that got The Economist bundled off the airport upon landing in 1984.
Penned just months before her assassination, It seems to have pretty much hit off every single thing you can think of: she’s in a vaguely Bharat Mata-gone-crazy pose that brings back memories of the “Indira is [...]

Gisele Bundchen’s Butt Arranger

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Boy, I bet that guy has a lot of interesting conversations in his life:
“So honey, how was your day?”
“‘S alright. Kinda grumpy coz my hands were really slippery from rubbing lotion onto Gisele Bundchen’s butt all day. You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to get that stuff off your hands. I couldn’t even eat. [...]

China to World: “Fuck U. Kthanxbai.”

Wow. When I began writing this post, in response to this one by Gagan, I had a short, pithy little one in mind. Instead, I wound up with a list as long as my arm. Consider this: in the past few months alone the following events have taken place around the upcoming Beijing Olympics -
Event: [...]

TV Review: John Adams

There is something slightly off-putting about this man, John Adams. There’s nothing remotely heroic about him, nothing about his homely little person suggests inspiration; he has an uncomfortable stare and there is a whiff of pomposity about him; and while there is no doubt about his intellect, one does wonder about his emotions. Our first [...]