Desi! Desi! Desi!
A friend of mind who lives in NYC has written a novel that’s going to be made into a feature film. We’ve never met face to face, but we’ve talked...
Happy Deepavali/Diwali
Growing up in a kind of hybrid cultural environment, the celebration of Hindu holidays in our home was spearheaded by my mom. She was raised Hindu and those traditions were...
10/17/89; San Francisco, CA; 5:03PM
[youtube]povRDt-oK5A[/youtube] While people around the country were watching the World Series in 1989 and saw the game basically blackout because of a major earthquake that centered near Santa Cruz (which...
XBox Blues
A couple of years ago, I got an Xbox for my birthday — after dropping massive hints to J and Maya that I wanted one. At first, I was pretty...
Conversion
It’s a common belief among those who don’t live here that the SF Bay Area is populated with liberals; open-minded folks who stereotypically embrace all that is considered to progressives...