Heat Beat The Suns

Ha! I bet I was the only person in LA watching the #Heat-#Suns game. My two favorites #LeBron and #Nash. How many #NBA rings between them?

West Indies Australia ODI Tie

It's way too early to say that the #WestIndies are back, but great job to fight back for a thrilling tie against #Australia! #WIvAus

Messi Breaks Barca Scoring Record

HMOG! #Messi breaks the #Barcelona scoring record at the grand old age of, wait for it, 24! Still not better than #Maradona though ;-)

Act Of Valor

Act of Valor: If the filmmakers wanted to make a kick-a** you-are-there action movie that makes me want to be a Seal, mission accomplished!

Hines Ward Retires

Oh man, sad yet fitting that the great #Hines #Ward will retire, firmly ensconced in #Steelers lore. All the best @mvp86hinesward!

Pump Up The Volume

Pump Up the Volume: Paradoxically, it feels both dated & pretty d*mn contemporary too! Hopefully, it'll get the cult status it deserves.

Peyton Manning Signs With Broncos

Uh-oh! #Peyton #Manning will sign with the #Broncos. Don't tell my fellow #Tebow fans or we could have a revolution on our hands! #NFL

Federer And Azarenka Win Indian Wells

Incredible! #Federer (#GOAT) beats the odds (and a very game #Isner) to win #IndianWells! Nice work by #Vika to cement her domination. #ATP

India Beats Pakistan At Asia Cup

One of #India's greatest ever wins! #Pakistan had no answer for the #Kohli onslaught. We should build a statue to this kid already! #AsiaCup

Casa de Mi Padre

Casa de Mi Padre: Best Mexican Telenovela/Grindhouse/B-Movie/Salsa Western Spoof, Ever! El gato blanco vive para siempre! Muy hilarante!

Federer Beats Nadal At Indian Wells

No bloody way! #Federer (#GOAT) takes out the indefatigable #Nadal on his favorite surface at #IndianWells! It's an early Easter Miracle!

Reagan

Reagan: Insightful, even-handed documentary by the great Eugene Jarecki that tries to reveal the man behind the legendary myth. Good stuff.

Federer Thrashes Del Potro At Indian Wells

Ama-bloody-zing! #Federer (#GOAT) thrashes the mighty #DelPo at #IndianWells! Sadly, his run will probably end against #Rafa #Nadal. #ATP

Sachin Tendulkar 100th Hundred

Our long national nightmare is over! #Sachin #Tendulkar finally scores his 100th century. Congrats to the #LittleMaster. PS #India lost.

Derek Fisher And Luke Walton Traded From Lakers

Gotta say, it's sad to see #Walton & #Fisher banished from the #Lakers. Just remember that #DFish was *instrumental* to those 5 #NBA rings.

Heat Lose To The Bulls

Another long night for this sole #LeBron fan in LA. Inexcusable loss for the #Heat. I think we're looking at a #Lakers-#Bulls #NBA Finals.

Federer Beats Bellucci

Uh-oh...so, #Federer (#GOAT) wins again at #IndianWells, again it takes 3 sets. Good sign or worrying trend? #ATP

Greatest @ICHCheezburger/@thelolcats Ever!

Greatest @ICHCheezburger ever! Or would that be greatest @thelolcats ever!? http://t.co/yuKEdW0J

Federer Beats Raonic

Tough bloody win for #Federer (#GOAT) against the awesome force that is #Raonic! Let's hope an #IndianWells title is in the cards! #ATP

Blade Runner - The Final Cut

Blade Runner - The Final Cut: Is he or isn't he? Well, I'll never tell, but man, does the film hold up incredibly well! Blew my mind again.

Safe House

Safe House: Ever-so slightly problematic but ever-so much fun! Danny Espinosa makes a better Tony Scott film than the great man himself!

The Hustler

The Hustler: A rare classic film that actually exceeds its legendary hype. Newman, Scott, Laurie, Gleason & that B&W cinematography...wow!

Federer Wins Indian Wells 2nd Round

Good win for #Federer (#GOAT) at #IndianWells. Let's hope he feels better before that tough match against flame-throwing #Raonic. #ATP

My Rahul Dravid Remembrance

My own personal, overly sentimental, overly long, remembrance of #Rahul #Dravid (aka #TheWall). Enjoy! #RahulDravid http://t.co/CypFaKup

Rahul Dravid and Our Now

I really like the word “ineffable.”

According to my handy dictionary (and by “my” I really mean the first slightly shady-looking result that pops up on my online searches) it means “beyond words.” In essence, it’s really a cop-out word, a word that tells you that whatever it is you are trying to express in words cannot, in fact, be expressed in words.

I thought about this when reading Brian Phillips’s excellent sorta-eulogy of Roger Federer after his shock Wimbledon defeat last year at the hands of the irrepressible Jo-Wilfried/Willie Tsonga (poor Brian, as good a writer as he is, in the category of Roger Federer articles, everyone is fighting for show after Calvin Tomkins placed, and the G*d that is David Foster Wallace definitely, and perhaps definitively even, won). Now, Brian didn’t actually use that word, but I realized that if and when I did write my own (definitively inconsequential) appraisal of Fed, it would be about the ineffable sadness I have always felt watching him, and the great Rahul Dravid, perform.

I don’t like the words “one” and “day” especially when used together: “one day …” (of course, I’m not entirely sure if the ellipsis, or is that ellipses?, count(s) as a word, or how I would express a unit of punctuation … sigh, where is DFW when you need him?).

You see, when one is young, one always has the “one day …” in one’s back pocket. As in, “one day I’ll play cricket for India.” Or, “one day I’ll win Wimbledon.” Or even “one day I’ll win the British Open” (sorry, it really is way too pretentious to refer to it as just the Open). Perhaps even “one day I’ll win the World Cup for Argentina” (and no, I won’t even attempt to explain how that might be possible). “One day I’ll play basketball with Dr. J.” “One day I’ll play free safety for the Steelers” (well no, but I’m on a roll, so just roll with me). And so on and so forth (hey, another use for those ellipses …).

These all seem to have one thing in common: they all involve sports of some kind or another (as opposed to, what, games?, again where’s DFW when you need him?). They also all involve the all-consuming belief in the endless possibilities of our futures that is the prerogative of youth. As long as your sports heroes are doing what they are doing out there, then the life you have always dreamt (dreamed? DFW …) of is also out there. That belief, faith perhaps, is the calming balm that helps counterbalance the roiling confusion that is, you know, youth. No matter what, your real life, the life that you have always dreamt/dreamed of leading is out there waiting for you, as soon as you get through whatever it is you have to get through first (homework, girls, the SAT, the school play, girls, essays, sports, girls, college, finals, tuitions, girls, graduation, girls).

Then, as it must, somewhere along the way the out there becomes the now. You haven’t quite reached that Lennon-quote-about-life-to-end-all-quotes-about-life stage yet, but you have reached the now. Maybe it’s when you go back home to visit the extended family and all your little cousins have become young cousins, and your aunts and uncles, once so excited about what you were doing, or more importantly, going to do, shift their focus away (always politely, of course) to them, and their Class XII exams, their plans for college, and what they want to do. The young cousins, once so glad to sit at your knee to listen to your possibilities, are now wrapped up in their own (exams, girls, the SAT, girls, ellipsis/ellipses). Now your own possibilities are about marriage (the aunts and uncles all need to find you a nice girl), career (the aunts and uncles all need to know where you work), housing (the aunts and uncles all need you to buy yourself a nice house), transportation (aunts, uncles, nice cars) and all the mundane things that will become the stultifying paraphernalia of adulthood (children!). These will make up your now, not all at once, but incrementally, and perhaps most terrifying of all, imperceptibly. 

Your sports heroes, meanwhile, are experiencing their own now. The time for “young” or “developing” or “potential” or whatever other euphemism for you-still-have-time you want to use is over. Now is the time to win. Now is the time to fulfill that potential that we had all seen in you. Now is what we, your fans, have been waiting for. 

The future is past. It is time for now!

It’s always rather challenging to know when the now is for our sports heroes. You know before it happens (“he/she has the potential to win”), you don’t have time to reflect while it is happening (“but can he/she win another one”), and you know it when it’s starting to be over, when the wave has just been crested (“his/her best days are behind him/her”). 

With Rahul Dravid, his now was always difficult to appreciate. He couldn’t have burst on to the scene with that 95 on debut at Lord’s (Lord’s, come on, how perfect, in retrospect, was that?). Dravid never burst on to, out of, off of, anything. And, what would become the recurring theme to us Dravid acolytes the world over, he was overshadowed. Overshadowed by another debutante who just happened to score that century he couldn’t, Sourav Ganguly, overshadowed even by an umpire’s retirement, Dickie Bird, overshadowed, ultimately, by the mere existence of Sachin Tendulkar (who, it seems, has always, right from the very start, and will, right to the very end, existed in his own, unimpeachable, now).

And thus (thusly? DFW …), in our collective consciousness Dravid simply floated through his now. And perhaps it was this that made appreciating him such a melancholy endeavor (there’s another one that I like, “languid melancholy,” Christian Ryan used it in an almost throwaway fashion while sorta-eulogizing VVS Laxman, whose own impenetrable legacy is a tome unto itself). To appreciate Dravid was to acknowledge the caveat inherent in the appreciation, that we were essentially giving him kudos for not getting the kudos we thought he deserved. His actual contribution, his actual brilliance, his actual everything, was, as it was from the beginning, overshadowed. Sachin, Sourav, Sehwag (hey, the “Three S’s”!), Srinath (“Four”!), Azhar’s unfortunate match-fixing allegations, Bhaji, Dhoni, Zaheer, India’s growing place in the world, the IPL, VVS (imagine that, he was overshadowed by VVS, who will have the “os” mentioned every 15 seconds when his time rolls around!), Kumble even (overshadowed by Kumble!, who was given his due appreciation at the very end for having been, you know, “os”-ed his whole life), his failure as captain, Twenty20, India’s rousing and eventual World Cup win, everything.

And, just like that, his now was over. We were not sure when it happened exactly, we only knew that it had happened. We know this because he was now in past tense, even as he carried on playing in the present. He was still capable, still worthy, but his greatness, now that it was finally being recognized, was being referred to quite firmly as something that had occurred, not something that was occurring. Luckily for us (i.e. Dravid acolytes), he had that moment in England, when everything around him fell, and he stood his ground, just like he always had. Only this time, we applauded.

Finally, he had his own moment in the Sun, the moment that we (Dravid acolytes) had all been waiting for. 

And, wouldn’t you know it, there was that ineffable sadness.

Because, you see, we knew that this was the end. That, even as we were hailing him for being who he had been this whole time, we were doing it with the full knowledge that the curtain had all but been drawn. Even in his moment, there was no absolute victory given that the tour was characterized by India’s failure, and his own impending end.

He should have left then, but that would have been too triumphant for Dravid. No, he carried on as he knew he must, as we knew he would, and it all whimpered out in Australia. 

And now, he’s gone.

Now, we will miss him. Now, we will tell him how great he was. Now, we will hoist him on our shoulders, and pat him on the back, and everyone else will step back for a moment. Now that he is no longer there, will we realize how much we needed him, still need him.

Now that he’s gone, you realize that he will never play for India again. That whole glorious moment encapsulated by his time with the team is over. And with this absolute passage of time, our now is irretrievably over. There is no more “one day ...” Whatever we wanted to be has been replaced by what we are. The time of future possibilities is past, the prerogative of youth has been replaced by the minutiae of adulthood. Our now, too, is gone. 

There will be other retirements. There will be deaths. There will be other events that we will use to mark mortality. But, and here is the crucial difference, these are all others. The world-shattering importance of each event, another prerogative of youth, will be diminished by our growing realization of the nature of time, of the passage of life, of the ultimate scope of the world we inhabit. We will come across it in the newspaper (ha, right!), pause a second to reminisce, shake our head at how fast time seems to tick, and then turn the page. What would have shaken us to our core, has now become another marker in the onwardness of everything. There are other things to focus on. Marriage. Career. Housing. Transportation Children. We are now grown up.

And that was the ineffable sadness always hanging in the air. Like our future possibilities, Rahul Dravid will be defined by his absence, rather than his presence.

Beach House - "Myth"

HMOG! The greatest song that 2012 will produce: "Myth" by Beach House! @BeaccchHoussse http://t.co/3Bf8IXrK

You Know You're Too Old When Rahul Dravid Decides To Retire

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Vic Richards Turns 60

Sir Viv Richards is 60! The greatest of them all! Great articles by @ESPNcricinfo & @selvecricket http://t.co/aXVOrfzu http://t.co/OsLSdQpL

Peyton Let Go By Colts

Wonder what's crazier: #Peyton #Manning being let go by the asinine #Colts, or the fact that I found out through my wife?! #NFL

The Outlaw Josey Wales

The Outlaw Josey Wales: Pulpy, B-movie-ish revisionist Western courtesy of Clint, the director. Chief Dan George totally steals the show.

Ansel Adams Los Angeles

Ansel Adams Los Angeles: Great little exhibition by drkrm Gallery offering a rare look at a different side of the famed photographer & city.

Federer Wins Dubai Title

Not dead yet! #Federer (#GOAT) takes out young guns #DelPo & @andy_murray in tough matches to win Dubai! Here's to GS 17 in 2012! #ATP

Man With A Movie Camera

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Paul Qui Wins Top Chef

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Steelers Release Hines Ward

Sad day for #Steelers fans everywhere. They released future #HOF-er #Hines #Ward. Noone played the position tougher than @mvp86hinesward :-(

RIP Davy Jones

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India Thrashes Sri Lanka

Not dead yet! #Kohli bludgeons #SriLanka into submission & keeps #India alive reminding everyone we're still World Champs! #IndvSL #CBSeries

If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don't Rise

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Steven Spielberg Snubbed By 1976 Oscars

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Oscars 2012

The #Oscars, like its winning movie, were perfectly pleasant and enjoyable and forgettable...except for that win for G*d, aka Meryl Streep!

Rory McIlroy Loses WGC Match Play Finals

Feel terrible for young #Rory #McIlroy. Poor chap had nothing left after his brilliant play vs Westwood. He'll get 'em next time. #PGA

India Loses To Australia In Must-Win Match

Sigh...another must-win match for #India, another humiliating loss to #Australia. We're still world champs though, right? #AusvInd #CBSeries

Carling Cup Re-Tweet

@PratikBasu After six years without a single trophy, you'd have to be a pretty cynical fan to NOT enjoy this Carling Cup win. :) -- Ray Wilson (@theraywilson)

Liverpool Wins Thrilling Carling Cup

Sure, it's only #CarlingCup & it was against #Cardiff, but a #Liverpool cup win, a thrilling one to boot, is still worth celebrating! #LFC

basu! Top Ten Films of 2011 (1 - 5)

basu! Top 10 2011 Films (1-5): 1. A Separation 2. Hugo 3. The Skin I Live In 4. The Tree of Life 5. Win Win

basu! Top Ten Films of 2011 (6 - 10)

basu! Top 10 2011 Films (6-10): 6. Melancholia 7. Meek's Cutoff 8. Attack the Block 9. Senna 10. The Hangover Part II 11. Dominic Cooper

Beginners

Beginners: Expert gentle direction from Mike Mills keeps the preciousness down. Loved McGregor, Plummer, Laurent & esp Cosmo (the dog ;-)!

A Separation

A Separation: This is, hands down, the best movie of the year! The best screenplay in a long, long time! An absolute bloody masterpiece!

basu! Oscar 2012 Picks (5 of 5)

basu! #Oscar Picks (5of5): Actor: Artist. Director: Artist. Picture: Artist. Apparently, it's the inescapable year of The Artist! #Oscars

basu! Oscar 2012 Picks (4 of 5)

basu! #Oscar Picks (4of5): Screenplay Adapt: Descendants. Supp Actress: Octavia. Supp Actor: Plummer. Actress: Viola. #Oscars

basu! Oscar 2012 Picks (3 of 5)

basu! #Oscar Picks (3of5): Score: Artist. Cinematography: Tree of Life. Animated: Rango. Doc: Paradise Lost. Screenplay: Woody Allen #Oscars

basu! Oscar 2012 Picks (2 of 5)

basu! #Oscar Picks (2of5): F/X: Apes. Makeup: Iron Lady. Costume: Artist. Art Dir: Hugo. Edit: Artist. Song: Muppets (#Conchords!). #Oscars

basu! Oscar 2012 Picks (1 of 5)

basu! #Oscar Picks (1of5): Short: Shore. Short Doc: Saving Face. Short Animated: Flying Books. Sound Mix: Hugo. Sound Edit: Hugo. #Oscars

Heat End The Linsanity

For this sole @KingJames fan in LA any #Heat win is a good win...but it was a little sad to see #Linsanity come to such a thudding end. #NBA

Bob Ryan Sort Of Retires

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The Bridge On The River Kwai

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Warrior

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The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

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Without Bias

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Federer Wins ABN Amro Title

Sprakling, tougher-than-it-looked win for #Federer (#GOAT) against the increasingly-ominous #DelPo! #ATP Title Number 71 for #Roger!

OSS 117 - Cairo, Nest of Spies

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Federer Squeaks By Davydenko At ABN Amro

Amazing, gutsy, come-from-behind win for #Federer (#GOAT) against an inspired 2007-era #Davydenko! Let's hope he keeps it up vs #DelPo! #ATP

Zocalo LA NFL Panel

Jim Mora told me (& everyone else @ThePublicSquare) that the #Chargers aren't moving to LA! Troy Aikman claimed #NFL won't be no 1 for long!

Tim Wakefield Retires

Tim Wakefield is retiring after a great career. Always liked the guy even though he was part of the insufferable #RedSox.

Andrew Symonds Retires

Sad to see Andrew Symonds retire from cricket. A lot of potential my have been left unfulfilled, but it was entertaining while it lasted.

RIP Gary Carter

RIP Gary Carter. The Kid is gone way too soon.

Great NYT Article On Human Habits And Changing Behaviour

Stunningly good article on our habits & changing behavior from @cduhigg! Now, how do I not oversleep & procrastinate?! http://t.co/FhcwNQyn

The Loving Story

The Loving Story: Thoughtful, soft-spoken, elegant & courageous, much like the couple at the centre of the story. Best film of 2012, by far.

Beverly Unfairly Kicked Off Top Chef

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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

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Chairlift - I Belong In Your Arms

Best Valentine's Day Song, Ever! "I Belong In Your Arms" by Chairlift! Swoon... @Chairlifted http://t.co/M9C9vug4

RIP David Kelly

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Dhoni Saves India Against Sri Lanka

Man oh man! #Dhoni might be a crap Test captain, but he sure as h*ll is great at ODIs. #IndvSL #IndvAus #CBSeries

Jean Dujardin Funny or Die Video

How can anyone begrudge #JeanDujardin his potential #Oscar after these hilarious @funnyordie villiain auditions? http://t.co/464rohPJ

Phil Thrashes Tiger To Win Pebble Beach

Congrats to #Phil #Mickelson on winning Pebble Beach. Wonder what @TigerWoods must have felt like watching #Lefty thrash him by 11 strokes?

My Neighbor Totoro

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NY Times Story About Homeless Graphic Artist

Sad story about Anthony Horton, a homeless man and graphic novelist who met a tragic end. Via @nytimes http://t.co/lliJH1ac

RIP Whitney Houston

RIP Whitney Houston. A sad, tragic, inevitable end to a beautiful voice.

The Grey

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Federer Upset By Isner In Davis Cup

Woah! Huge upset by @johnisner over #Roger #Federer in #DavisCup. It's not every day that the #GOAT goes down on home turf. Trouble ahead?

Only Yesterday

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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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Eli vs Big Ben For HOF

Look, if #Eli is getting (deserved) HOF consideration, then it's only fair that #BigBen gets it too! Go #Steelers! http://t.co/qXzCgYDx

The Seventh Seal

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Steve Waugh on Twenty20

I absolutely agree with #Steve #Waugh, he'd have been great at Twenty20 (& every other form of #Cricket they invent)! http://t.co/jDMBwtLX

You Know You're Too Old When Ricky Williams Retires

You Know You're Too Old When: Ricky Williams retires from the #NFL, for the 2nd time! Always loved the guy. Wish him the best @RickyWilliams

Max von Sydow Celeb Sighting

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Brandt On Thunderball

@NicholasBrandt Ha...I always knew you were a man of taste. Full disclosure: Daniel Craig & Casino Royale are my favourite Bond & film.

Jane Eyre

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Giants Win The Super Bowl

YES! #Eli and the #Giants win the #SuperBowl (just about). Tip o' the hat to the always game #Belichick, #Brady and those bloody #Patriots!

Depressing Prediction About The Super Bowl

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Thunderball

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RIP Ben Gazzara

RIP Ben Gazzara. One of Hollywood's all-time great character actors. Very few like him remain in this day & age. He will be missed.

In Wonderland

In Wonderland: Impressive & eye-opening exhibition on female surrealists working in different media. Nice work @LACMA!

Ocean Waves

Ocean Waves: Ah, all the confusing tribulations of adolescent romance via the geniuses at Studio Ghibli. John Hughes would have been proud!

It's Kind Of A Funny Story

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Bad Teacher

Bad Teacher: I'm gonna come right out and say it: It's better than Bridesmaids. There it is, deal with it. Cameron Diaz deserves a comeback!

RIP Angelo Dundee

RIP Angelo Dundee, the power behind the rather large thrones occupied by the likes of Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard.

Christian Ryan on VVS Laxman

Nothing describes the great #VVS #Laxman better than "languid melancholy." Chris Ryan's goodbye piece via @ESPNcricinfo http://t.co/ToLE86s7

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

On Her Majesty's Secret Service: One of the most underrated & best Bond film, girl (Dame! Diana), villain (Kojak!), theme (Louis!) & ending!