Frustrated with the intermittent WiFi connectivity issues plaguing my 27-inch iMac (despite a $1,700 price tag), I vamoosed over to Best Buy today and got the Actiontec Powerline Network Adapter Kit PWR 500 for $50. Actiontec’s PWR 500 provides Internet connectivity in the home through the existing electrical wiring circuits, promising speeds up to 500Mbps. […]
One of Bollywood’s hideous actresses, Priyanka Chopra is the kiss of death for anything resembling class in a movie. If it’s a Priyanka Chopra movie, you can be sure the movie will be a piece of trash. True to form, Priyanka’s latest Bollywood outing Teri Meri Kahani is already drawing withering scorn from a gaggle […]
I have no regrets that my birth happened three centuries after the curtain came down on the European Renaissance. After all, it’s been my blessed fortune to have lived through the glorious age of Tamil cinema, from the early 1960s through 2012. Tamil cinema has been unjustly vilified and much calumny heaped on it in […]
Goddammit, sometimes the Devil plays havoc with me. Here I was blissfully mowing my lawn this afternoon (and in a spirit of charity of my foreclosed neighbor’s as well) under a weak mid-Atlantic sun when there came about an insatiable Fandango itch to check what new movies were releasing this Friday. Holy moly, The Dictator […]
We bet you haven’t seen anything like this, not even in Incredible India. Bizarre, indeed. Curry Holes on Oak Tree Road On a short, four-mile stretch of Oak Tree Road that runs through the New Jersey towns of Iselin and Edison in Middlesex County, there are now 56 Indian restaurants. Yes, schmucks. We said 56. […]
(For Hari Jr) I am a barber by profession, murderer by accident, and today a human because of you. – A repentant Vidyasagar (Rajinikanth) to Archana (Sridevi) in the Tamil film Johnny (1980) Considering the abysmal quality of most Tamil movies that are made by schmucks for schmucks, the over three-decades-old Johnny is a darn good […]