“Bend It Like Beckham” last night. Simply wonderful. It’s a bloody rockin’ feel-good comedy that doesn’t, as all American movies do, make you feel guilty for being manipulated into feeling good. Over a curry at Standard India afterwards (where, as per my lamentations above, I desperately need to break beyond their sag paneer and imitation [...]
Life, Kid, Suck the Box: The World Cup, viewed in New York
Life, Kid, Suck the Box
New York must be, all things considered, the greatest place on Earth to watch the World Cup outside the host country. The wretched performance of the U.S. team doesn’t even matter because anyone who cares at all about the sport doesn’t watch them anyway. When everyone’s from everywhere, there’s lift from [...]
