For obvious reasons, we are watching the Taiwanese film Three Times now. Directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsie, Three Times is a Mandarin language film featuring three separate love stories set in different periods. Released in 2005, the movie was well received by critics (as if what critics say matters anymore in the age of Kambakkht Ishq). […]
Folks, God exists. And he’s proved it by pissing copiously on the recent Hindi movie Luck at the U.S. box office. A pathetic piece of shit, Luck has fared miserably at the U.S. box office. For the opening weekend (July 24-26, 2009), Luck came in at No-33 and did a shameful $112,309, one of the […]
As we were dining at Rangoli in Chantilly (Northern Virginia) the other day, we were eerily reminded of what our favorite essayist Macaulay wrote in his piece on the Prussian king Frederic the Great. The food at Frederic’s eccentric father Frederic William’s place, Macaulay wrote, was so bad that even hunger loathed it. Odds are […]
[F]rugality is an enriching virtue, a virtue I could never acquire in myself. – Benjamin Franklin, cited in Cheap by Ellen Ruppell Shell (New York: Penguin Press, 2009) P.53
My, my, how time flies. See, it’s already 18-days since the last update of Incredible India. Time for a new edition of Incredible India, folks. Bet all ye schmucks in boondocks-land think that stripteases are only in Hollywood movies or enacted out by all those immoral White bitches and Black sluts for the horny bastards […]
Luck – Box Office Gods Piss on Luck Folks, don’t let the swines and clowns con you into believing otherwise. Luck (featuring the Mumbai blasts-linked criminal Sanjay Dutt, Imran Khan, Shruti Hassan) is a bad Bollywood version of 13 Tzameti. Based on the recommendation of SI readers, we watched 13 Tzameti some months ago. A […]