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The Town Review – Go Watch this Crime Thriller

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Sep 172010

For the last few days, we’ve had the restless itch to watch a good Hollywood movie.

Voila, our wish was granted this afternoon with The Town.

Featuring Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner and Rebecca Hall, The Town is a lovely tension-filled crime thriller set in Boston.

A crime thriller set in Boston? Aha, reminds you schmucks of Martin Scorsese’s 2006 film The Departed, doesn’t it?

While the setting and the broad crime theme are the same, The Town and The Departed are indeed two different movies.

Departed was about the Irish mob and its infiltration into the ranks of the police while The Town is about a bunch of bank robbers who’ve been hitting local banks in Charlestown, a Boston suburb.

Doug MacRay, played by Ben Affleck, is the lynch pin of the robbers gang. When the bank alarm is tripped during their hit on a bank, they take the pretty bank manager Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall) with them as hostage. Nice move, eh. There you have the perfect opportunity for a romantic angle.

Indeed!

And where you have the bank robbers, you’ve got to have the hard-driving FBI agents on their trail, right.

So we have FBI agent Adam Frawley (Jon Hamm) and his team going around beating up people in their hunt for the perpetrators and finally, in desperation, planting fingerprint evidence to get the gang in for questioning. Does it work?

As befitting a good action movie, the movie proceeds at a very brisk clip and the bank robbery scenes and the getaways are neatly executed. Continue reading »

The Good Guy Review – Good Thriller; Pick it Up

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Sep 172010

We have little doubt that most of our readers are schmucks who get their jollies mostly at the sight of Bollywood stars buffoons like Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar et al on the big screen.

In the fond hope that there are at least a few readers who enjoy better things in life, we write this brief review of Dean Koontz’ The Good Guy.

Dean Kootz is not an unfamiliar name to us. We had seen his books in our peripheral vision at local libraries and book stores like Border’s and Barnes and Noble but never picked one up.

This time, when we saw The Good Guy in the new books section of our county library we picked it up little realizing it was a three-year-old title.

Set in Southern California, the 305-page book is a fine thriller that keeps you engrossed.

One evening a stone mason Timothy Carrier quietly sipping his beer in a bar is mistaken for a hit-man and offered $10,000 in cash as initial payment to kill a young woman Linda. Continue reading »

PinGin- A Quick, Sweet, Delightful Cocktail

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Sep 172010

It’s 2AM on the East Coast, we’ve just finished our first Dean Koontz book (The Good Guy).

And we can’t sleep.

So we do what we do best under the circumstances – Pour ourselves a drink.

Tired of our usual Gin and Soda and also having run out of Soda, we decided to make ourselves a cocktail.

Earlier this evening, we had purchased a big pack of Dole Piña colada 100% juice.

Come on, who doesn’t love a Piña colada cocktail, right?

But instead of Vodka (the standard liquor used in the Piña colada cocktail), we added Burnett’s Gin (the one in the green bottle) to the Piña colada juice.

We took a long glass, added roughly 23% Gin and 77% Piña colada and stirred it with a straw. Since we like things extra-cold, we kept the cocktail – let’s call it PinGin – in the freezer for a few minutes.

With Mo’pleez Nimbu Masala Indian snack on the side, PinGin makes for a delightful cocktail.

Sweet Nirvana.

Poor Bastards Numbers in America Hit Record High

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Sep 162010

Boy, it sure looks like our current country the United States of America is going the way of our former country India.

The US Census released the poverty numbers today.

And they are real UGLY. So bad that they are the highest since poverty estimates started 51 years back.

There were 43.6 million people living in poverty in 2009, up from 39.8 million in 2008.

America’s official poverty rate has gone up to 14.3% in 2009, up 1.1% from the prior year.

That this is the third consecutive increase is hardly a surprise given the economic collapse in the U.S. that is decimating the ranks of the middle class and crushing the poor. Continue reading »

Sad Day for Delaware; Tea Party Whacko Wins Republican Primary

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Sep 142010

We are distraught beyond words.

CNN has just projected the Tea Party supported candidate Christine O’Donnell as the winner of the Republican Primaries for the Senate seat previously held by our Vice President Joe Biden.

It seems O’Donnell got 53.2% of the votes while Castle managed only 46.8%.

Endorsed by Sarah ‘Nut Case’ Palin, Christine O’Donnell beat veteran Delaware politician Michael Castle, a sitting Congressman and former Governor.

Christine O’Donell will now be the official Republican Party candidate, which repeatedly slammed her in the primaries.

The 41-year-old Christine O’Donell has little credentials to make her worthy of being a Senator and was too much of a pussy to even take questions from the media. This whacko wants to repeal the healthcare bill passed by the Obama administration to provide healthcare to tens of millions of uninsured people.

A few years back, this Christine nut-case said masturbation was adultery. No kidding.

For those living outside the U.S., the Tea Party is comprised mostly of angry, racist White folks who have lost their grip over reality and, of course, over their sanity as well.

O’Donell will face Democratic Senate candidate Chris Coons in the November 2010 general election.

Dabangg Box Office – Fails to Sizzle at U.S. BO

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Sep 132010

Dabangg Box Office – Falls 53% in 2nd Weekend

Despite all the ugly publiShitty stunts the Bollywood criminal Salman Khan engaged in (including sucking the Paki dicks by describing the 11/26 Mumbai terror attacks as overhyped), his new movie Dabangg has failed to set the box office on fire.

The U.S. box office, that is.

Dabangg – Crappy Movie
Take for instance Salman Khan’s new film Dabangg.

By any yardstick, the movie is a piece of trash.

Describing it as garbage, plain and simple, the wise souls at SearchIndia.com wrote:

The singular achievement of the sophomoric troika of actor Salman Khan, producer Arbaaz Khan and director Abhinav Kashyap is that with Dabangg they have reduced Bollywood to the level of those trashy Tamil films where a maniacal hero runs amok beating all and sundry to a pulp when he’s not making eyes at a buxom belle.

Ugly as Hell
Folks, Dabangg is not a movie so much as expulsion of one long, foul-smelling fart that completely vitiates the surrounding atmosphere and jarringly echoes for the full length of the film.

Devoid of anything remotely resembling a story, destitute of any logic and deprived of decent music, Dabangg is a sound slap in the face to Bollywood and Salman Khan fans….

According to media reports, the movie is off to a rocking start in India.

Not surprising since anything so rotten finds eager takers there. Isn’t that why we call the country Incredible India.

But in the U.S., the film has not been a killer at the box office.

Say what you will but sometimes desis in the U.S. prove that they are far smarter than the schmucks back home in India.

For the September 10-12, 2010 opening Eid weekend, Dabangg could manage only a total gross of $628,137 with an average of $10,131.

Here’s how Dabangg fared at the U.S. box office compared to a few prominent Bollywood films: Continue reading »

Beware Your Engineer Friend or Neighbor

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Sep 132010

Many of us are conditioned or wont to think of terrorists as unschooled baboons or idiots brainwashed into following their leaders’ bidding.

Not so. Not so.

The New York Times Magazine had an interesting piece yesterday which argues that:

[I]n the ranks of captured and confessed terrorists, engineers and engineering students are significantly overrepresented. Continue reading »

195 Dead, 327 Hurt, India Terrorized, Yes, Yes; But Mumbai Attacks Overhyped – Salman Khan

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Sep 122010

Dabangg Box Office – Fails to Sizzle at U.S. BO

Too much hype has been created around the 26/11 attacks because elite people were targetted. Attacks have happened in trains and small towns too, but no one talked about it so much…..Everybody knows that the Pakistani government was not behind it and it was a terrorist attack. Our security had failed.
- Bollywood star Salman Khan in an interview with Pakistan News Channel

Dabangg Review – Garbage, Plain & Simple

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Sep 102010

Dabangg Box Office – Falls 53% in 2nd Weekend

Dabangg Box Office – Fails to Sizzle at U.S. BO

The singular achievement of the sophomoric troika of actor Salman Khan, producer Arbaaz Khan and director Abhinav Kashyap is that with Dabangg they have reduced Bollywood to the level of those trashy Tamil films where a maniacal hero runs amok beating all and sundry to a pulp when he’s not making eyes at a buxom belle.

Ugly as Hell
Folks, Dabangg is not a movie so much as expulsion of one long, foul-smelling fart that completely vitiates the surrounding atmosphere and jarringly echoes for the full length of the film.

Devoid of anything remotely resembling a story, destitute of any logic and deprived of decent music, Dabangg is a sound slap in the face to Bollywood and Salman Khan fans.

The sole raison d’etre of Dabangg seems to be a desperate attempt to resuscitate Salman Khan’s flagging Bollywood career with a heavy dose of publicity stunts and marketing to cover up the movie’s utter lack of any redeeming qualities. Continue reading »

Guerrillocracy – An Ideology for the 21st Century

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Sep 092010

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. – Mahatma Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920

At this pivotal moment in human history when hundreds of millions are struggling in the dark shadows, it’s the right occasion to reflect on whether Democracy is the best form of government.

That is, is Democracy the political system best able to provide for all its citizens, and not pander to the caprices of just a tiny elite.

Compared to distasteful forms of governance like Monarchy, Dictatorship or Oligarchy, Democracy does seem prima facie the least harmful form of government for the masses. After all, isn’t Democracy at its core limited government and government by consent.

But for Democracy to thrive it also requires an enlightened electorate and enlightened leadership, both of which are in short supply in the advanced nations of the West like the United States and in less developed nations of the East like India.

Inevitably enough, the plutocrats in the West and kleptocrats in the East have wrought havoc on their respective nations and made a mockery of democracy.

Let alone the Platonic ideal of Philosopher Kings, the leadership cadres in Democracies often increasingly arise from the folds of the wealthy, the scions of the political elite like Kennedys, Bushes, Bidens and Gandhi-Nehrus or from the dark under-belly of the criminal class.

A nation (USA) that squanders $1 trillion on an illegitimate war and a country (India) that allows millions of tons of foodgrains to rot but does not distribute them to the starving poor are both fictional democracies that have completely lost their course and definitely do not govern in the interests of the majority.

We’re not one to throw out the baby with the dish-water and so what we suggest is a mechanism to strengthen the pillars of Democracy to ensure it’s more representative, more equitable and more fair than the farce it’s currently turned into.

Guerillocracy – Need of the Age
What we suggest is Guerillocracy, an individual-based movement to strengthen Democracy.

Guerillocracy, in our lexicon, is no more than individuals resorting to any and all techniques to ensure that their government is representative of the interests of all classes. Continue reading »

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The Town Review – Go Watch this Crime Thriller

The Good Guy Review – Good Thriller; Pick it Up

PinGin- A Quick, Sweet, Delightful Cocktail

Poor Bastards Numbers in America Hit Record High

Sad Day for Delaware; Tea Party Whacko Wins Republican Primary

Dabangg Box Office – Fails to Sizzle at U.S. BO

Beware Your Engineer Friend or Neighbor

195 Dead, 327 Hurt, India Terrorized, Yes, Yes; But Mumbai Attacks Overhyped – Salman Khan

Dabangg Review – Garbage, Plain & Simple

Guerrillocracy – An Ideology for the 21st Century

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