I’m currently reading Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games, set in modern day Mumbai.  It’s led me to research the geography of India, to see which state Mumbai is in and what languages they speak.  There’s a glossary at the back of the book to teach me words I do not understand. I feel the tensions between the […]

I think my Shakespeare in the movies tour was devised just so I could talk about Strange Brew and 10 Things I Hate About You, two of my all-time favorite films. But I realize it’s gotten way out of hand, what with so much other material out there.
10 Things is not just another teenage movie, and […]

I like to see a man with a small dog. It says to me, he ain’t compensatin’ for nothin’. It also says, he’s sensitive, yet brave, brave and confident in himself because he doesn’t care what others think.
Of course, it could mean he’s got an overbearing wife at home, who forces him to walk her […]

In searching for a good place to watch the Texas Longhorn football games, we found a new tex-mex restaurant called 7 Salsas close to Dallas Cowboys headquarters. There’s a pretty bartender and a football-loving manager who cheers along with us. After trying out a number of supremely obnoxious sports bars, we sat down at the […]