These News blunders from the New Yorker are hilarious. Some of my favorites: FOR ONCE, WE’RE SPEECHLESS DEPT: From an advice column in the Lansing (Mich.) State Journal. For fun and to try to mix this up a little, you two might develop a verbal or visual cue that is subtler than simply asking for […]
There’s a nice article in the Guardian by James Campbell about V.S. Naipaul, the famous Trinidadian Author of Indian descent. Currently living in the English village of Wiltshire, Naipaul has, over time, grown to accept and like his role as an outsider. “I have always seen myself as an outsider in the country,” Naipaul says, […]
Great opening credits, the movie, meh… [via]
One of my favorite tombs in Delhi is Humayun’s tomb– it’s the precursor to the Taj Mahal (just as lovely, well.. somewhat more showy and terribly crowded). Humayan was the second ruler in the long line of Mughals from Kabul who invaded India. It’s a wonderful, quiet tomb, built by his his widow–a combination of […]
Here’s a composite autopsy photo of Clell Miller & Bill Stiles, aka Bill Chadwell, members of the infamous James-Younger gang, whose star player was Jesse James. The two members were both killed at the notorious Northfield bank robbery in Northfield, Minnesota in 1876, though Jesse was apparently not present during the raid. They were both […]
I finally bit the bullet and put this page/website together. After finally getting a house in Goa, I was tired of getting all my news about Goa, from a bunch of disparate sources from all over. So I created my own page with feeds from a bunch of websites I like, and viola! GoaPress.com lives. […]