Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was […]
Aahh, White suffering in Amreeka is so awful! All the pain Whites must endure because of discrimination against their pale skin. While so much media ink goes into narrations of Black and Brown victimization by Whites, there’s little public discussion about the everyday indignities White people have to weather. White people in America are experiencing […]
Having missed the premiere of the new HBO TV series Silicon Valley on Sunday, I watched it online today (if your cable subscription includes HBO you can stream the show to your PC). I didn’t get too excited with the first episode. But it was definitely watchable and had a few funny moments. The first […]
Who needs Bollywood when you have U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NYC Preet Bharara to provide better entertainment on a Friday by re-indicting former NYC Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade. 😉 I have not the slightest doubt that this Friday’s Bollywood release Bewakoofiyaan has no hope against the might of the Bharara-Devyani juggernaut and […]
What if it had been your child, Cate Blanchett? Louis CK? Alec Baldwin? What if it had been you, Emma Stone? Or you, Scarlett Johansson? You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton. Have you forgotten me? Woody Allen is a living testament to the way our society fails the survivors of […]
Only in that godforsaken shit-hole a.k.a. India does a real-life murderer, Salman Khan, don the garb of a good Samaritan on the screen (Jai Ho), flex his muscles, feign concern for the weak, and earn endless plaudits from all sections of society. In my lexicon, what Bollywood low-life Salman Khan does on the screen ad nauseum […]