Here’s another Indian music video to follow up on my previous post. This one features the internationally popular singer Daler Mehndi and I think the language is his native Punjabi. Mehndi, a serious scholar of music as well as a … Continue reading
I saw this on my brother Tom’s blog. According to a report in the Conway Arkansas newspaper, police were dispatched to investigate a report that a “crazy cat” was trying to break into the caller’s house. The two responding officers … Continue reading
[Updated to repair the broken link to Dent’s plot.] Lester Dent was an incredibly fast, prolific, and successful writer during the 1930s through 1950s best known for creating the character Doc Savage, about whom he wrote over 150 novels. And … Continue reading
Successful foreign films often prompt an American remake, so given the success of The King’s Speech at this year’s Oscars it’s not surprising that there’s already an American adaptation in the works. Here’s the trailer: by … Continue reading
There’s an Indian restaurant here that I like because it has both Kashmiri nan (my favorite) and a giant-screen plasma television that usually plays music videos, often taken from Bollywood movies. The songs are typically cheerful and energetic and the … Continue reading