I get asked a lot why I moved to London. It was a bit weird the first time, because the person seemed genuinely incredulous that I had left the US by choice to come to, of all places, London! Call it the Brown Saheb syndrome or whatever, but my thinking at the time was the [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Amy Winehouse is interesting
13Mar07Joss Stone has released a new album. Her self-indulgence and spiral towards Alicia Keys/Lauryn Hill-esque kook-dom puts me off, but one good thing to come of reading a review of a recent live performance (sorry, no link) is that I’ve discovered Amy Winehouse. And she’s pretty good y’all. This page has a couple of her [...]
Another entrant into the pantheon of incredibly stupid sports articles: Mukul Kesavan’s Subedar Major Haq and a Company of Sepoys, printed today on Cricinfo. The run up to the World Cup is obviously a quiet period for writers, which is why we get subjected to tripe like this, which tells us: In this the150th anniversary year [...]
I feel sorry for sports writers sometimes. In most professional sports, there are days when there isn’t a game on (in some, cricket being a prime example, those days comprise most of the year), and when coaches/GMs haven’t said anything stupid, and when players haven’t gotten into brawls. I hate those days, because they inevitably [...]
The Search for Self
01Mar07The Onion continues to amuse (and amaze). Except this story actually comes disturbingly close to hitting a nerve. I always thought that if I kept searching and exploring, I’d discover who I truly was,” said Speth from his Wrigleyville efficiency. “Well, I looked deep into the innermost recesses of my soul, I plumbed the depths of [...]
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