Monthly Archives: February 2011
Red Carpet Alert
It was about two and a half hours ago that I went to sleep, and I’ve been up for about 30 minutes. Why? Because I really, really wanted to catch the Oscars’ red carpet with the least possible ad breaks. Sony Pix had Ryan Seacrest, that Osborne girl and Seacrest’s usual Oscar companion, Giuliana something [...]
Speech Therapy
Vanity Fair has a superb Gaddafi speech generator here. The form is a little long and while I was filling it in, I was thinking of Reliance’s bleddy 3G connection because I’ve been advised by calmer and maturer minds than mine that the easiest way to get closure is to pay the bastards the money [...]
Update: Tata Reliance
Given I’ve spent more than a 1,000 words on Reliance’s ineptitude, it’s only fair that I provide a cheerier update: Tata Photon Plus rocks. I called their helpline at 9am and by 11am, someone called me to tell me an executive would be heading over to my place at about 4pm. Ok, so the call [...]
Only (Don’t) Connect
Ok, this is very annoying. I wrote this whole post and then I hit Publish. Except I wasn’t connected to the Internet so I couldn’t really publish and now, I have to write the whole damn thing again. Now this is particularly poignant, because the post is about my internet connection. Since I can’t recover [...]
Timing is Everything
Over the past few years, I’ve tried to master the skill of flipping through the newspaper without actually reading it. That way, I sort of absorb the basic headlines and news but I don’t have to pop tranquilizers to counteract the effects of seeing the woefully inaccurate grammar and vocabulary usage that makes it to [...]
Vive la Révolution
Yesterday, while I was wishing I had a brick wall that I could thump my head against (more on that in another post), Hosni Mubarak finally crumbled in Egypt. It took just 30 seconds to announce the end of a 30-year old dictatorship, as Al Jazeera wrote in its live blog for February 11. Someone [...]
Q tip
Warning: there’s some seriously bad language that is going to crop up in this post. If you’re the kind that is offended by obscenity, perhaps you should skip a couple of posts and read about “Tangled” instead. Near the end of “Gandu”, the hero comes into some cash and his best (and only) friend tells [...]
Not a Drag
I’ll admit it. When I stood at the ticket counter of Priya Cinema in Kolkata to buy tickets for “Aar Ekti Premer Golpo” (“Just Another Love Story”), directed by a chap called Kaushik Ganguly and starring Rituparno Ghosh, I was prepared to be the one who would be weirdly embarrassed at Ghosh’s acting debut. Ghosh [...]
Hooray!
I confess, from the moment I saw the teaser trailer for “Tangled“, I wanted to see it. Even though it’s a Disney cartoon (their last one had me frothing around the mouth) and even though it’s based on Rapunzel (which is one of the most annoying fairy tales because of the snivelling mess that is [...]
World Domination
