KCRW has a new show called Final Curtain. It’s fantastic. The writers scour the obituaries for interesting stories and do short pieces on each person. It’s really not as morbid as you might think. The show features 100-year old diving champions, freeway engineers, and more…
Category: Fun Stuff
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Jake and Adarsh in India
Looks like they made it, and are up to no good:
Our first night there, we met Kerana, a half Afghani/half Persian girl who is living in Bombay. She’s quite a character. During our night with her, we snuck into a traditional Rajasthani wedding (where we were welcomed by a bunch of extremely extremely friendly kids, and stared at oddly by the older guests) and also attended what seemed to be a school/community dance competition–dances and costumes ranged from traditional Rajasthani to New Jersey 1983. Many of the kids were wearing Michael Jackson jackets. I had big plans to enter the competition (I could’ve taken those kids!) but Adarsh seemed to think that it would be somehow “inappropriate” for me to take the stage. So I had to settle for trying to teach Kerana how to dance.Read the rest of this post and others at India 2004
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Glasstrack in India
Check out Glasstrack’s India 2004 blog for updates from Thailand and India. Nothing of interest there yet–except maybe the 4-dollar, 2-hour massages.
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The Strangest Town in Alaska
The Strangest Town in Alaska – published by Kokogiak Media
- “A city barely 50 years old that had no road access for its first 50 years.”
- “A city where 90% of the population lives in a single building.”
- “A city built to house 30,000 (in an emergency) in two of the largest structures in Alaska, yet only 300 people live there now.”
Wacky.