Busy weekend. Got to attend part of the Antiwar conference. See a speaker from the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. And go to this South Asian cultural show that included surrounding campuses in Illinois for FUSION.

A part spy-movie part drama that takes place in Bombay in 1971. 1971 is the year that India assisted the Bengali resistance in what was then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in rising up against the brutal occupational government of West Pakistan (now Pakistan).

Once again, I'm glad I'm not a Sprint customer. Sprint's service is absolutely horrible - or maybe it is just my phone. Apparently, however, they'll try to justify any of their ills.

Apparently Noam Chomsky was in India, giving a talk on how India has been restricting democracy in Kashmir and slamming the US for its share in oppression. Here's the Dawn Group's report.

"You've been hoodwinked. You've been had. You've been took. You've been led astray, run amok. You've been bamboozled." The Brother Malcolm's words perhaps have applied to all of us at various times. I took it upon myself to watch Spike Lee's Bamboozled.

Normally I go into movies with low expectations - not with Monster's Inc. Pixar has always delivered wonderful movies and this is of course no exception. It was nice to see my brother's high school friend, Peter Docter, as the first person mentioned in credits. Great direction!. We were lucky to see as a bonus a trailer for Episode II. Yay!

Timothy Wise always manages to write something that might interest me. Here's something on dissenters.

Here's a fun movie to watch. Its a comedy about this new therapist in a town called Mumford. He uncovers peoples secrets and his get uncovered as well.

Elia Sulieman is a Palestinian film maker who returns to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories after a self-imposed exile in New York. The film is not about politics, but the absurdities of daily life for Palestinians.