Category Archives: Fun Stuff

The Gentleman Drinker

I’m pleased to announce that the Gentleman Drinker is now online. Think Oscar Wilde by way of the Banana Republic outlet in Camarillo. The editor is one of our weekly regulars, and if the first post is anything to go by, it’s going to be some pretentious ass shit. Sounds good to me. The blogworld could use more pretention and fewer hand histories.

Drink up all you people

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…

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