Archive for August, 2004



10 Things to Love About Bollywood Films

1. Musical numbers. Lots of Bollywood films have intricately choreographed musical numbers involving casts of dozens, and who can complain about that? Even in the most unlikely films, the most commonly-assumed-to-be-inappropriate places, there are musical numbers. Case in point: Mission Kashmir, a film about a family in a region rocked daily by atrocious violence and […]

Patience is a virtue…sometimes.

So, with two days in a row off, Sid decided to sleep in. Noonish, when I woke up, I decided to drag my ass out to Brooklyn, to (finally) go to the new Target on Flatbush Ave., since apparently Manhattan is too, well, siddity to have a Target of its own. Being culturally siddity, yet […]

Oh, la petite singe!

The cutest little baby ever, right here, dedicated to princess lala. Das’ cute, right?
And if you liked that, look at this.

This is a trip right here.

But it isn’t nearly as disturbing as the Before and After on the previous page. This was just too funny not to share. The whole sight looks like there are a lot of altered images and outright misrepresentations, but this was a good one. I will never look at the movie Gremlins the same way […]

Rick James died today of natural causes. He was 56. I can’t wait to see the obit on Africana.com. It’s bound to be better than this one from the NYT.