You got served, Vyjayanthimala.
Metafilter had an excellent thread today about Bollywood dancer Helen, whose Anglo-Burmese ethnic background and sultry hip thrusts earned her many a vamp role but very few leads. It links to a 1973 Merchant-Ivory documentary called Helen, Queen of the Nautch Girls which is interesting to watch for its ridiculous assertion that [...]
This is by far the best video of the massive propane explosion that erupted near Wilson and Keele early this morning, not just for the awesome shot of the explosion but for the hilarious dialogue between the cameraman and (I’m assuming) his girlfriend.
Highlights include:
“That shit woke me up so hardcore.”“I don’t know, that’s either Downsview [...]
Shabbat shalom!
Check out these two challah loaves I made last night on a whim. Whim doesn’t typically equal a recipe calling for 8 cups of flour but I didn’t check the recipe before I started mixing the wet ingredients, so now I have enough bread to last me ’till Rosh Hashana.
Please note the ambitious six-strand [...]
Oh, how I love CBC Radio 3 for introducing me to things like this. Radio Radio is from New Brunswick and they rap in Chiac (the Acadian francophone dialect). The result sounds mostly French with a ridiculous accent and lots of English nouns. Verdict? A highly-catchy album with hipster appeal that gives you a nice [...]
Livejournal user absinthetic made his girlfriend this stellar Wonderland Expedition Kit for her birthday.
When Alice fell through the rabbit hole, she tore a rift between our two universes. Through this open rift, “nonsense” began leaking out of Wonderland. With a decreasing amount of nonsense, Wonderland became a more logical place, and since vanishing cats and [...]
Dear Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,
When you first came out in 2005, I was 22 and considered myself way too old for teen movies. Too old and “too cool”. Oh, how wrong I was…
I heard from a couple female friends shortly after your DVD release that you were a really good movie, but I did [...]