i dont seem to be having a tiresome workload today so i took the time to read news articles and other misc stuff online...thot this made for a good readin- http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/lily_tomlin.htmland if you all remember any movies where you've seen her, it's even more fun to imagine her saying all these things in her typical … Continue reading
Month: December 2005
get your stories straight folks!!!
what is it with newspapers? i know sensationalism sells but whatever happened to looking into the whys and wherefores of a story before giving it front page status? the breaking news on the discovery of a mass grave in a district of gujarat has 3 newspapers giving 3 entirely different versions to the entire nation. … Continue reading get your stories straight folks!!!
bias against prejudice?
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Dec05/Soldz1222.htm found this article online about mental health professionals who want to have extreme prejudice get certified under an actual illness. while i think that people who are extremists like the KKK or even the age old people like the conquistadors were keen or cruel and unusal punishment and excessive force a move this this … Continue reading bias against prejudice?
i’m on the poetry kick too!
all the people posting the poems there got me on thinking about my litt classes in college and honestly i dont think i've ever read that many beautiful words in my life till now. the fact that i was studying them dint always hit me, all the reference books and the hours spent at the … Continue reading i’m on the poetry kick too!
MUNICH!
this is one movie i wanna see. knowing spielberg it'll be horrifyingly accurate down to the last anti-semitic detail. around a decade ago there was another movie made on the munich olympic, rather the avenging of the massacre at munich. it was called sword of gideon. very straight, no frills and introduced me to a … Continue reading MUNICH!
movie review
finally went and saw "maine gandhi ko nahin mara". the name itself had made me think this wasnt gonna be a 14 songs-dancing-while-hugging-trees kinda movie but seeing it made me feel that crossover movies still had a way to go. not in comparison to movies made in US or UK but in being able to … Continue reading movie review