Singing reporter Brad Miskell reports on America's weird, funny, and funky underbelly and subcultures. http://underground.yahoo.com/ Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:30:02 -0800 Yahoo! http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mediablogs/rss/ynublog/*http://underground.yahoo.com/ynublog/51/bollywood-berkeley <div class="promocontainer"><!--video 1--><div class="promo clrfx"><div class="imgcont"><div class="playbutton"><a title="Watch the Underground video on the Bollywood dance competition" href="http://www.yahoo.com"><img height="15" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/sch/video/picon.gif" width="18" border="0" /></a></div><a title="Watch the Underground video on the Bollywood dance competition" href="javascript:void(window.open('http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo. ... Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:32:41 -0800 Brad Miskell http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mediablogs/rss/ynublog/*http://underground.yahoo.com/ynublog/3961/feeling-the-heat-get-bollywood-babli <p>Next time you find yourself with a gun to your head, a suggestion: Slap on an outrageous grin and bust your best moves through undulating bolts of colorful fabric and a phalanx of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhangra">bhangra</a>-ing backup dancers. </p><p>If you know anything at all about <a href="http://en.wikipedia. ... Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:03:50 -0800 Brad Miskell http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mediablogs/rss/ynublog/*http://underground.yahoo.com/ynublog/3812/topsy-turvy-bus <div class="center"><a href="javascript:void(window.open('http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/news?ch=1992759&amp;cl=3317964','playerWindow','width=793,height=608,scrollbars=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no'));"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/us/news/editorial/b/4a/b4a0c9da32a1bf8393b9a93cd5d2ece7. ... Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:32:21 -0800 Brad Miskell http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mediablogs/rss/ynublog/*http://underground.yahoo.com/ynublog/3810/win-friends-and-influence-people <p>To those who proudly roll in flashy or expensive cars, a suggestion: Glue polyurethaned breakfast burritos, blowup dolls and slinky toys all over those precious rides; action-paint them as homages to Jackson Pollock; modify their bodies to resemble giant slabs of sashimi and then shadow Kikkoman delivery trucks around town. </p><p>In other words, turn them into art cars. ... Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:11:31 -0800 Brad Miskell http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mediablogs/rss/ynublog/*http://underground.yahoo.com/ynublog/3696/shredding-the-envelope <div class="center"><a href="javascript:void(window.open('http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/news?ch=1992759&amp;cl=3171040','playerWindow','width=793,height=608,scrollbars=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no'));"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/us/news/editorial/b/59/b598be7ab2be3c880d780dd3fb5750e0.jpeg" /></a></div> <p>Who doesn't find the idea of an event named Large and Dangerous Rocket Ships intoxicating? The moment I heard it I was sold. ... Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:30:13 -0800 Brad Miskell http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mediablogs/rss/ynublog/*http://underground.yahoo.com/ynublog/3694/rocketeers <p><em>Amateur rocketeers are n-n-n-nut-jobs.</em></p> <p>That was my impression of the handful of <a href="http://www.rocstock.org/">Rocketry Organization of California</a> (ROC) members with whom I stood shivering in the 3&deg; F-F-F-Fahrenheit February dawn on a vast, windswept expanse of scorched earth in the Mojave Desert, known as Lucerne Dry Lake. ... Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:58:00 -0800 Brad Miskell http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mediablogs/rss/ynublog/*http://underground.yahoo.com/ynublog/3695/large-dangerous-rocket-ships <p>Who doesn't find the idea of an event named Large, Dangerous Rocket Ships (LDRS) intoxicating? The moment I heard it, I was sold. I wouldn't have cared if the next thing I heard was that LDRS were held on a barren wasteland in the middle of nowhere. Which is a good thing, because that's the next thing I heard.</p> <p>Turns out most big rocket events happen far from civilization (and when you think about it&hellip;). Imaginative event names are therefore essential for wooing attendees. ... Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:54:05 -0800 Brad Miskell http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mediablogs/rss/ynublog/*http://underground.yahoo.com/ynublog/3578/picture-the-photog <div class="center"><a href="http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=687008"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/us/news/editorial/d/3f/d3f52fc414e4980b27ebf5f297d9db99.jpeg" /> </a></div><div class="promocontainer"><div class="promo clrfx"><div class="imgcont"><div class="playbutton"><a title="Watch video" href="javascript:void(window.open('http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo. ... Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:00:48 -0800 Brad Miskell http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mediablogs/rss/ynublog/*http://underground.yahoo.com/ynublog/3278/who-are-these-clowns <div class="center"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/us/news/editorial/1/e4/1e493989383c81229b55cc44a782b731.jpeg" /> </div><div class="promocontainer"><div class="promo clrfx"><div class="imgcont"><div class="playbutton"><a title="Watch Krumping with Clowns video" href="javascript:void(window.open('http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo. ... Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:28:31 -0800 Brad Miskell http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mediablogs/rss/ynublog/*http://underground.yahoo.com/ynublog/2593/krumping-with-clowns <a href="javascript:void(window.open('http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/news?ch=1992759&amp;cl=2953395','playerWindow','width=793,height=608,scrollbars=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no'));"> <img align="left" src="http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/us/news/editorial/9/a9/9a9d1916316b9f90b2f7185435430bb3.jpeg" /></a> <p>Standing amid a sea of ecstatic juniors dancing their heads off on the gym floor of a San Diego YMCA may have been the closest I've come to heaven. ... Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:51:28 -0800 Brad Miskell