This is the title of the multi-volume commentary on Sankara’s commentary on the Upanishads that my great-uncle, Som Raj Gupta, has spent his life composing.
I just discovered that it is on Google Books!
The internet is grrr-eat!
The Word Speaks to the Faustian Man
October 22nd, 2008 No Comments
Tags: Google · Internets · Learned · Really Dense Philosophical Texts · Som Raj Gupta · Upanishads
Things I Should Know More About
August 14th, 2008 1 Comment
Willie Hutch, “I Choose You”, 1973, from The Mack.
Recognize that? Yeah.
The whole soundtrack is good.
Also, I recently happened upon the craziest version of Stevie Wonder’s “I Love Every Little Thing About You”:
Syreeta (Rita Wright), was married to Stevie Wonder and composed a lot of his early hits with him (i.e. “Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m [...]
Tags: Funk · Hip-hop · Learned · Motown · Outkast · Sampling · Soul · Stevie Wonder · Syreeta · The Mack · UGK · Willie Hutch
Recently Discovered
July 27th, 2008 No Comments
Haribo is not Japanese
Yes, Vampire Weekend and Wes Anderson use the same font
Charles Darwin may or may not have done drugs, but his great-great-grandson did
EDIT:
michael: ash’s new blog post = rob stenson facts of the weekend
Admittedly, all this information was gleaned during the Cabinettes’ grand excursion to Sayville, N.Y., mostly by Rob navigating the [...]
Tags: Charles Darwin · Futura · Haribo · Learned · Typefaces · Vampire Weekend · Wes Anderson · Wikipedia
It’s the “I Have a Master’s But Then I Got Married” Look
July 25th, 2008 2 Comments
Tags: Comedy · Learned · Sarah Haskins · Target Women · Yogurt
From Appropriation to Exceptionalism
July 20th, 2008 No Comments
I’ve been watching a lot of Law & Order.
But I have also been reading.
Books I’ve Read Since Summer ‘08 Reached Its Murky Middle Month:
Jules Feiffer, Harry, The Rat With Women
Location: The 1 Local, mostly.
Dates: June 30th - July 1st
Comments: The guy who did the illustrations for The Phantom Tollbooth wrote a book? Really? From 1963. [...]
Tags: Appropriation · Claire Messud · Exceptionalism · Jules Feiffer · Learned · Literature · Milan Kundera · NY Times · Reading