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[Thu, 11 Sep 2003]
Americans and Whacky Sports
What is with Americans and their (relatively recent?) penchant for whacky
games? Yesterday, as I was walking past the Kresge Oval in the night, I saw
a couple of kids dressed up as medieval knights. Both had metal armor like the
romans wear in Asterix
and were doing something which looked vaguely like a lance fight.
The only difference was that each of them had two of those thingies and it was
sort of sumo wrestling meets whatever-knights-did-with-lances. And there were a
whole bunch of people watching on the sidelines, along with their own
armors. It was too surreal, almost like a real scene from Age of Empires.
Whatever happened to baseball ?
So What If the Movie Is Bad, Atleast The Review Is Good
Happened to read a
movie review in TOI for some Hindi flick, Chupke Se.
The movie is crappy but the review, by Parul Gupta, is excellent.
Especially the last two paragraphs- almost fell off my chair laughing.
India, Palestine, and Israel: Realpolitik meets Pati,Patni Aur Woh
Somebody should go twhack
this
guy. What a load of crock-shit (yeah,
Maurice Chavez
).
Bofors, Rajeev Gandhi, and Vir Ke Tir
Vir Sanghvi is one of those rare journalists who are level-headed,
balanced, frank, suave, and a great communicator to boot. I ardently hope
that his program's name, Vir Ke Tir, wasn't of his choosing. Anyways, he
has a column about Bofors. More specifically, it is about why it was a
relative non-issue, how Rajeev Gandhi's inexperience hurt him badly, and
how people like V.P.Singh took advantage of a situation where nobody quite
knew what the truth was and so anybody could get away with any claim. Good
for getting a perspective.
In case you are thinking this guy is just a Gandhi family fan, no he
isn't. He wrote a great article about Atal Bihari Vajpayee a couple of
months ago. I tried to search for the link to that but HT's search feature
sucks- it can find the right blurb/summary, but the corresponding link
takes me to his most recent column.
Hi, I'm the guy on Floor 79. Could you send over 3000 roses please?
Seriously, the world is a totally unfair place. I live in a 10'x8' room in
an apt which doesn't have a living room, and a kitchen so small that it
becomes a walled city when the fridge door is opened. And
here
you have guys who are forking out a measly $10 million for a 'wow'
apartment and a paltry $20 million for a 'Wow' apartment in Manhattan. And
not only are these apartments totally cool but the amenities include
part-time access to an executive jet, a maid assigned just to you and a
dogwalker who'll be extra nice to your dog.