You can also do a write-in category!!!! But I think I have picked 4 which, for most of you, will be the favorite????
Continue readingWomen’s Day Vote! Which of These 4 Movies is the DCIB FAVORITE Female Lead Rom-Com????
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Happy International Women’s Day!!!
I have a standard “international women” post I usually repost for this day. But today, something different! I want to focus on two special oddities that I find fascinating.
Continue readingMonday Morning Questions: What Do You Want to Ask Me TEN DAYS BEFORE SHASHI DAY!!!!
Happy Monday!!! Yesterday was so stressful and agonizing, I ended up taking an extra day at my place instead of my parents and finishing a puzzle. Aaaahhhh.
Continue readingSend Positive Real Estate Thoughts My Way!!!!
Moving is SO STRESSFUL!!! Especially when you aren’t sure if you are really going to move or not because you don’t have a place to move TO.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Ranson’s Folly in ONE WEEK!!! “Where’s Your Hat Abe Lincoln” in TWO WEEKS
I feel like energy for DCIB book club is waning. So next week is the short novella fun thing, and the week after that we will be discussing my nephew’s favorite book, “Where’s Your Hat Abe Lincoln”. So we can stay in touch with The Youth.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Emily of Deep Valley, My New Favorite Book!
DilDeewana is right, it’s so good! So very very good! It’s got a radical social message, it’s got a Jerk Man who is accurately described as a Jerk Man, and it has a loving kind grandfather. And a heroine who is an odd fit with girls her own age but discovers the joys of maturity.
Continue readingGlasses Report! I Get To Have For Real Bifocals!!!! And You Get to Help Me Pick Frames!!!
Great news! I officially need real reading glasses for the first time ever, which explains why my eyes have started hurting so bad when I spend the day working on the computer. So it is NOT little elves beating on my optic nerve with tiny hammers and chisels, as I thought.
Continue readingSaturday Small Talk: Chat Away While I Get My Eyes Checked!!!!
Happy Saturday! I get to watch a movie with all of you which is one of my favorite things!!! And I also get to go to Costco, which is another of my favorite things! And I get to get my eyes checked, which isn’t one of my favorite things, but coming home and picking out new frames online IS!!!!
Continue readingSaturday WatchAlong: Baaghi!!! 7:30am Chicago Time!!!
Woo-hoo, Tiger’s birthday watchalong! And Shraddha’s birthday watchalong part 2!!!
Continue readingSaturday WatchAlong: Baaghi! 7:30am Chicago Time Tomorrow (Saturday)
This is just one more reminder for y’all, because I put up the scheduling post two days ago and I am worried you will forget it.
Continue readingHindi Film 101: American Musicals, Margaret’s List
These are not the greatest musicals of all time, or even my favorites. These are more just really interesting ones I think more people should see and which aren’t that famous. And be warned, it is a loooooooooooooooong list. And there’s lots more I am going to remember and wish I could add, but won’t, because it already too long.
Continue readingHindi Film 101: The Standard List of American Musical Films
I was gonna do a “Margaret’s list” and then I realized before I do a “Margaret’s List”, I should get the “normal list” out of the way. And then the post suddenly got to long so I am splitting them in too. If you want a quick intro to the broad sweep of American musical films, here are all the super important ones in chronological order. And PLEASE, my fellow film musical nerds, start an argument with me in the comments!!!! I have OPINIONS. On EVERYTHING. (oh, and the more excited I am about a topic, the more typos I make. I am very very excited about this topic)
Continue readingHindi Film 101: A Brief History of American Musical Films, and How They Are NOT the Same As Hindi
I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate it when people say “oh, Indian movies, they are just like those classic American Musicals I loved”. Because they’re NOT!!!! But then, at the same time, they kind of are. Which is why I hate it when people say that because it’s a really really complicated argument to prove to them that they are being inaccurate and then they start slowly backing away from me and eventually I realize I have become a person alone in a room giving a lecture to nothing.
Continue readingReminder! Emily of Deep Valley Discussion on Sunday! It’s SO GOOD!!!!
I am extra promoting this one because it is sooooooooooo good and I want to make you all read it so you can say “thank you Margaret, that was sooooooooo good”.
Continue readingPride and Prejudice, The Value of the 2005 Joe Wright Film, and Sex
Kirre just mentioned the 2005 film as one of her lazy cozy movie watches, so I am taking that as a sign and writing about it! Along with the novel itself.
Continue readingFriday WatchAlong: SATURDAY 7:30am!!! BAAGHI!!!! For Tiger and Shraddha
Really, it’s the perfect watchalong movie. So dumb, so fun, so sunny, such great songs and such a surprisingly hot villain. And there were slightly more votes for Saturday this week than for Friday, so we are doing Saturday!
Continue readingDiscussion Post: I’m Kaput, What Are Your Cozy Lazy Day Movie Recs?
Have you noticed I haven’t been posting? I am sooooooooooooo tired. It’s that icky start of Spring time that always makes me sinusy, plus work is still busy, and I just want to curl up with the dog (or my parents) and watch soothing things.
Continue readingWednesday Watching Post: What Are You Reading and Watching and Thinking and Listening To on Shraddha Kapoor’s Birthday?
Happy Wednesday! Halfway through the week! And this weekend I get to get my eyes checked and I can’t WAIT!!! Get to solve my headache mystery, and then get to come home and order cute cute cute new frames online.
Continue readingFriday WatchAlong: What Tiger Movie Should We Watch for His Birthday Week???
It’s Tiger’s birthday week! Which means we have to watch one of his 4 fun dumb movies! But not his other movies.
Continue readingDiscussion Post: Which of these 3 Unknowns is More Stressful?
This came to me as I was making myself dinner last night, and I thought it might be a good general DCIB discussion question. I have THOUGHTS, surely you do as well!
Continue readingTiger Tiger! Happy Birthday!!!!
This may be a wee bit silly, but stick with me.
Continue readingThe Big Day Discussion Space: How Was It, Did You Believe in Love, Did You Believe in Expensive Weddings, Other Thoughts?
I have not seen it and I probably won’t see it. Life is too short! I like my happy dumb movies at my friends movie nights and our watchalongs, and then doing puzzles the rest of the time. However, just because I haven’t seen it doesn’t mean we can’t talk about it! In fact, it means I want you to talk more, tell me alllllllllllllll about it. And then tell each other about it and have conversations and stuff too!
Continue readingFriends, Why Being First is Important (and other discussion topics)
I finally found an interesting angle on Friends!!!! Well, interesting for me. Not necessarily interesting for you. And I want to write something to distract myself from work today, so I am writing this!
Continue readingMonday Morning Questions: What Do You Want to Ask Me the First Day of March???
Happy Monday! I made an eye appointment for next Saturday, but in the meantime I am still trying to avoid computer screens. We will see how that goes.
Continue readingAlbie Dog Birthday Report Part 2! CAKE!!!!
I was going to give him cake later in the evening as a post-dinner dessert, like we usually do it for the Humans. And then I realized that would throw off his walk schedule, so I gave it to him with dinner. Anyway, he LOVED his cakes!
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