Quick vacation update!
Continue readingThe Key to a Good Vacation is Flexibility!!!!
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Monthly Archives: February 2021
Sunday WatchAlong, 8:30am Chicago Time, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara!!!!!
Yes, everything is strange this week!!! Watchalong is on Sunday, it’s at 8:30am (so I can sleep in if I want), and we are watching a Hrithik movie. Okay, one thing isn’t strange. Hrithik is just the best watchalongs.
Continue readingWednesday Watching Post: What Are You Reading and Watching and Thinking and Listening to the Day I GO ON VACATION?
Happy Wednesday! And happy vacation to me!!! I am SO EXCITED!!!! I have been looking forward to this vacation since I scheduled it last month. Only downside is, now I don’t have anything else to look forward to.
Continue readingColumbo and the Myth of Exceptionalism
Oh boy, a post about old American television shows! Perfectly on brand for a blog that started as being about Hindi film. Anyways, I love Columbo, and I want to talk about why I love Columbo, and then you also can love Columbo, and then we can use our Vast Collective Mental Powers to cast Shahrukh in a high budget Columbo remake on Netflix*.
Continue readingSunday WatchAlong!!! What Should We Watch???
WatchAlong on SUNDAY! In honor of Margaret’s Vacation. So I guess we should watch a super vacationy movie?
Continue readingBlog Housekeeping: Vacation Schedule!!!! WatchAlong on SUNDAY
I am doing a vacation/staycation! I’ve got activities planned for myself, I’ve canceled other things, it’s gonna be a real life re-set. I hope. Oh, and part of that is rescheduling Blog things.
Continue readingChatty Check-In Post: A Variety of Food Related Questions!
Time for one of those chatty posts where we all just make small talk at each other generally feel sane again! And also because I am genuinely curious about the way the rest of humanity handles these issues.
Continue readingMonday Morning Questions: What Do You Want to Ask Me the Week I Have VACATION?
Happy Monday! I just have to get through today, and then tomorrow, and then Wednesday, and then starting Wednesday night I am on VACATION. True, I’m not really going anywhere, but I am treating it like a real vacation. I’m gonna get up in the morning and go sight seeing, then come back and watch TV in bed, just like I was in a hotel.
Continue readingHappy Valentine’s Day! The Age Old Question, Amitabh and Hema or Shahrukh and Madhuri?
I can only think of two distinctively absolutely Valentine’s songs (although I am sure there are more that are not as famous). The question is, which brings you more joy?
Continue readingSRK is My Valentine!
SRK is my Valentine!!! And so I shall spend the day gazing at him gazing at me gazing at him.
Continue readingHappy Valentine’s Day! From Me and Albie Dog!!!!
Happy Valentine’s Day! By golly I am having an SRK and Valentine’s party, even if it is virtual. Every year for 10 years, I have had a Valentine’s and SRK party (sometimes it is 6 people and cake, sometimes it is me and a friend and a heart shaped pizza), and I am not giving up this year! This afternoon we are virtually watching the Letterman special and then talking about how he is the Perfect Man. The way the holiday should be celebrated.
Continue reading90s Week of Romance! When Harry Met Sally to Hum-Tum to When Harry Met Sejal, How Are They Connected?
Woo-hoo! I get to write about 3 of my FAVORITE movies!!!! They are all so so SO good, all in different ways.
Continue readingSaturday Small Talk: Chat Away While I Do a Puzzle and Watch MORE SNOW
Snow snow snow! More snow! Because 4 feet just wasn’t enough. Ugh!!!! Anyway, I’m starting a new puzzle, so my weekend is set.
Continue readingThinky Post: The Internet, Patterns, Conspiracy Theories, and Reality
Oh boy, a thinky post! Inspired by the really interesting new Cecil Hotel documentary on Netflix. It is less of a true crime story, and more of a “who are the people who are obsessed with true crime and why” story.
Continue readingFriday WatchAlong: Hum Aapke Hain Koun! Let’s Learn About FAMILY VALUES!!! 3pm Chicago Time Start
Friday WatchAlong!!! Actually on Friday!!!! And we are going to watch a very VERY long movie. It will be dark out and you will be ready for dinner by the time it is over. Also, you will be STARVING. Rajshri films will always make you super super hungry.
Continue readingTGIF: 90s Edition!!!! Which of These Images is MOST 90s?
The 90s! Gave us so many great smile inducing photos!!!! With silly silly people in silly silly clothes. Which is good, because I am STILL GRUMPY. Hopefully HAHK this afternoon will cheer me up. If not, I am going to have to wait until NEXT MONTH which is the soonest that the sun is supposed to be out again in Chicago.
Continue readingValentine’s 90s Week of Romance: I Am Super Grumpy and I Am Going to Complain About Jerry Maguire (and a little Ranbir), and A Lot a Bit MEN!!!!!
The world is a bleak and horrible place filled with no sun and snowdrifts, it’s super unfair that I have to do work-work in the living room instead of continuing to sleep in my nice warm bed, and I don’t want to walk the dog. And you know whose fault that is? MEN! White Old Rich Men!!!! In some way I am not clear on, but I know I am mad about it. I’m gonna talk about how Tom Cruise/Cameron Crowe are terrible people who think they are good. Oh, and don’t bother actually watching Jerry Maguire before reading this post, I will tell you everything you need to know.
Continue readingFriday WatchAlong: Hum Aapke Hain Koun! 3pm Chicago Time Tomorrow! JOIN US!!!!
Oh yeah, we’re doing HAHK!!!! For those of you who haven’t seen it before, it is unbelievably long, and nothing happens until 40 minutes before the end. So arrive late, leave early, fall asleep in the middle, take go outside with your kids and play and then come back, it’s all good. HAHK will just keep churning along.
Continue readingValentine’s 90s Romance Week! What is Your Favorite 90s Romance, Indian and Non-Indian?
I am soooooooooooooo grumpy today. Cheer me up by reminding me about happy things of the past!!! Favorite rom-coms of the decade when I was a little kid.
Continue readingQuarantine Check-In: What Life Changes Have You Come to Embrace?
Another check-in post! I like seeing how you are doing and telling y’all how I am doing. Especially today when I am grumpy about missing my annual Valentine’s party and trying to cheer myself up.
Continue readingWednesday Watching Post: What Are You Reading and Watching and Thinking and Listening To on VALENTINE’S WEEK???
Happy Wednesday!!! And happy 4 days to Valentine’s!!!! I may try to talk my parents into a heart shaped pizza to celebrate. And I will try very hard not to be sad that I am missing my annual SRK Valentine’s party for the first time in 10 years!!!!
Continue readingWho Was Rajiv Kapoor?
This is a sad one. Not a sad one today, just a sad one in general. A life story that makes me a little mournful when I think about it.
Continue reading90s Week Friday WatchAlong!!! Dil To Pagal Hai or Hum Aapke Hain Koun? Fight For Your Fav!!!!
I already decided we are doing Friday afternoon instead of Saturday morning, because the big concern with Friday afternoon is folks having to come late. And these movies are so loooooooooong, doesn’t matter! Also, we’ve done Saturday a lot lately and it feels unfair to Friday, you know? Poor day of the week getting jealous.
Continue readingHappy Fat Tuesday!!!! What is Your Totally Indulgent Book/Movie/TV Show/Food?
Happy Fat Tuesday! I’ve had a glorious 4 years of working one block from the best Pazkis in Chicagoland. And now I am working from home like an idiot and I will have to fake Fat Tuesday with donuts. IT’S NOT THE SAME!!!
Continue reading90s Week of Romance: Best Jodi! Aamir-Juhi, Kajol-Ajay, Kajol-SRK, SRK-Juhi, Madhuri-Salman, Madhuri-Anil, Karisma-Salman, Saif-Akshay, Govinda….?
I put in that Govinda one just to make Popka happy. But now she has to tell us who would be the Govinda jodi person, because I don’t know.
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