re: “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri
This weekend I read Interpreter of Maladies, the Pulitzer Prize winning collection of short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri. "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri Some people might  be more aware of her work The Namesake which was was the basis for a movie staring the not-Asian guy from the “Harold and Kumar” movies who has amazingly gone on to a serious acting career. Speaking of which, it’s not surprising but kind of weird that an author like Lahiri is know

re: Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father
Today I added a bunch of movies to my Netflix instant queue because I had nothing better to do and figured I might watch something later. I currently have 84 items in my instant queue and when I sat down to choose something to watch my only hope is that it would leave me feeling utterly emotionally exhausted and helpless. I chose to watch Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father. It’s a documentary and normally I don’t much care for documentaries because I don’t care about other people’s opinions/points of view. But I read the description: Filmmaker

Creigh Deeds
So I was just sitting in Crossroads, my usual pre-class coffee shop and a bunch of people with Creigh Deeds signs showed, and I asked the obvious question and got the answer that yes, Deeds was going to arrive soon and he was going to talk about higher education. I always carry my digital voice recorder around with me so when he arrived I turned it on and recorded. I’m going to attach the unedited audio here, I haven’t even listened to it. All I can say is that I hate his ads and so far he has done nothing to convince me that he is actually running for governor and not just running against Bob McDonnell. But hearing him speak was pretty all right. When he ac

The last time I b...
The last time I blogged was also the last time I received a Netflix movie in the mail. Both went neglected. But I’ve been checking up on my blog and felt like it was kind of doing all right. I’ve still been getting steady hits every day even thought my last post was on sept. 15 and it probably wasn’t anything. I bought Borderlands for X-Box 360 last week, actually, a week ago exactly I think. and I beat it today. It’s an awesome game the whole way through until the end, and I mean like, the very end. The final boss battle was ‘bull shit’ and so was what came after. But I still feel like the whole rest of the game was gre

Right Now
Right now I feel like I need a week off to read. I bought two x-box 360 games in the last two days and got two awesome new CDs in the same two days. My life is rough.