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Have a good weekend everyone.

Remember, if your in San Francisco this weekend make sure to come out to Dolores Park on Sunday for the debut of the *PMH chai cart.

In the mean time enjoy the jam…..

Film: Velaikaran
Song: Thottathula pathikatti
Year: 1987
Composer: Ilayaraja

I’ve been hanging out at Jon’s house a lot the past couple weeks, working on the new *PMH project I mention earlier.

We finally got it all finished a couple days ago, and it looks solid.
Check it out, the *PMH Chai Cart!

*Pardon My Hindi, But You Gotta Chai This.

We’re gonna be rolling it out for the first time….

This Sunday
Dolores Park (San Francisco)
from around 1:00 to 4:00pm

…so come on out and give it a try.

There’s gonna be some snacks as well, I’m still working out the menu. It’ll be ready by Sunday, Parle-Gs for sure!

Jon really made it come together. A lot of my friends helped out on the project as well from— helping construct the cart, bringing over booze, to my favorite part….making up puns.

My Top 3 Chai Cart puns from the past couple weeks (no particular order)

1.)  Don’t Chai This at Home
2.)  Chai Left My Heart in San Francisco
3.)  Big Trouble in Little Chai Cart.

Thanks for all the help – Sophia, Jeff, Nick, Rajeev, Doug, Jason, Elliot, Andrew, who ever else I forget.

See you guys Sunday!

Earlier this year I travelled solo through India for close to two months.  That meant allot of alone time in my hotel room, cracking myself up watching television, imagining someone was around to see the hilarity that I saw.

My fav were infomercials for charms to ward off the evil eye.  As a child, I was confused as to what my mother meant by the evil eye and found it difficult to conceptualize.  I imagined it to be like incense smoke, but invisible, emanating from one who was envious of you causing misfortune and bad health over prolonged exposure.  This infomercial corrects my misunderstanding; the evil eye is more like a laser beam, direct and immediate.

I apologize in advance for the poor quality of this video.  It was all I could find.

Let me introduce myself, my name is Mr. Khan.  It’s so nice to be here.

The Currylingus has asked me a few times to write for *PMH and I finally found myself without excuses.  So, here I am for your reading pleasure.

I’m going to start with music.

Pour yourself a double rum on the rocks and listen to this sweet mashup of old dub and fifties filmi music:  “A Bird in Hand Is Worth Two a Yard”.

This ‘lil mix is courtesy of Dr. Wayne Marshall – an ethnomusicologist – who teaches at MIT. His blog wayne&wax has tons of gems like the one posted above and informative posts on pop culture and music.

In his post professor ji, mistakes the singer on the track he mixes to be Geeta Dutt, but I would recognize Shamshad Begum’s hoarse voice anywhere.  And, now I will use that as an excuse to post this clip from Mughal-e-Azam, featuring Shamshad.  Enjoy and drink responsibly.

These are the best 2 clips I’ve seen from an Indian film that includes a horse. They’re bonkers. Let me know if anyone else knows a better one….

The first one has a runaway horse that is either stealing or protecting an infant from the cops and the child’s mother. Not sure if that makes sense, just watch it…

The ASPCA and PETA would of definitely been all over this one, WTF were they thinking?! In any case, the best part is at the 2:01 mark, where they pull out the Indian “special effects” by making a horse slide on its side under a truck, shits too good. Enjoy…