This weekend our block actually got organized enough to throw a block party. Arin and I were nervous at first thinking that we would close off traffic to the street and then stand there with Adam and Amanda (our intrepid "young hip neighbors" across the street) kicking asphalt, drinking a beer wondering where the hell everybody was. But our fears were unfounded. Over 40 people came out to our little party in the street. Arin and I were out there from 2:00pm and finally went back inside around 9:15pm.
Our block has a lot of wonderful people on it, coming from so many different backgrounds, but by far one of the biggest surprises of the day was us learning that not two doors down from us live Kumar Pallana, also known as Mr. Littlejeans from Rushmore, and his son, Dipak Pallana - who played Mr. Adams, the math teacher. Of course I mention Rushmore because it happens to be one of our favorite movies of all time, so it was tremendous for us to learn that one of our favorite characters from the movie is our neighbor!
And Hollywood is just one part of his amazing life story. He is 86 years old. He was born and grew up in India, in a family full of freedom fighters. He traveled to Africa where he got his start in show business spinning plates and juggling. Yadda yadda yadda, he moved to Oakland and lives next door to us! Kazam!
May 02, 2005
February 24, 2005
Who Wants to be a Rock Star?!
I was peering over my friend's shoulder the other day laughing to myself that he was looking at pictures of himself. How vain. But when I went to make my jab, he told me of a photo shoot his friend had where she made "rockstars" out of her closest friends. As I browsed the library of mug shots, I thought to myself. These would look great on the cover of Rolling Stone. And the rest is history...
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