I am doing an person movie night for the first time in 16 months!!!!! On a much smaller scale. But also, with a lot more pressure. Help me plan!!!!
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Friday WatchAlong: The Birdcage!!!! Friday Afternoon, Saturday Morning, or Sunday Morning?
Different this week! I’ve picked the movie already, because I am stressed and confused and I just need a nice comfort watch. But, because it is a funky week, I am also open to doing a different watch time than usual. Let me know which of these times is best for you!
Continue readingWednesday Watching Post: What Are You Watching and Reading and Thinking and Listening to as I Pack?
Happy Wednesday! I started the day by taking down my Veer-Zaara kitchen poster and clearing out all the under the sink cleaning supplies I never really use. I am PRODUCTIVE!
Continue readingFriday WatchAlong: Short, Faith Restoring, Happy! The Birdcage, Strictly Ballroom, or Dhanak?
I’ve decided, we need something super optimistic and happy and awesome this week! And also short, because I am in the final stretch of Packing That Will Not End.
Continue readingFilms to Restore Your Faith in Humanity
I promised to do this list after we watched Bajrangi Bhaijaan and felt all good about good people doing good things and cute little girls. And I am finally getting around to it!
Continue readingRadhe Review (SPOILERS): Jackie Shroff in a MiniDress
I saw a new movie! In theaters! Like in Olden Times! And like in Olden Times, I am doing a whole separate “Spoiler” review just in case you want to watch it. If you don’t want to watch it, read this review anyway, I’m gonna get all deep about gender and Delhi versus Bombay and fun stuff like that.
Continue readingPandemic Check In Post: Is Anyone Else Experiencing These 3 Weird Specific Physical Reactions?
Let’s take it as a given that we have anxiety and worries and etc. etc. Forget all that! There are three very specific things I have noticed in myself, and am hearing from more of my friends than I would have expected.
Continue readingMonday Morning Questions: What Do You Want to Ask Me 2 Days After Madhuri’s Birthday???
Happy Monday! I am a baaaaaaaaaaaad blogger. I totally forgot Madhuri’s birthday. No post, no theme watchalong, all just a general disaster. I hope she will forgive me.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club, Next Sunday, May 24, THREE POEMS!!! “Goblin Market”, “Dunkirk”, and “The Highwaymen”
Wooo-hooo, poems! Story poems, the best kind. When I was in middle-school, I had this great textbook “Stories in Verse” which had this whole wonderful random collection of ballad poems. And these 3 are some of my favorites from them.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: “The Prince of Ebon Rih”, How Much Did You Love It?
OMG, I almost forgot about this post. It’s been A Day (carpenter here to fix the table before I move it, need to get bookshelves to the storage unit, generally exhausted).
Continue readingPacking Update!
You know the point where you stop remembering what it was like when you WEREN’T packing? Like, drove off for coffee and a bagel this morning, thinking “this is wrong, I should go to the closest possible place so I can hurry back and pack”. And then I thought “remember back in the day, when I could just get coffee from the farther away place and not feel guilty about it?”
Continue readingRadhe Review (No Spoilers): So Glad I Saw it in Theaters!!!!!
Yaaaaaaaaaaaay, a review of a new movie! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, a review of a movie I saw in theaters! Yay? A Salman movie?
Continue readingSaturday Small Talk: Chat Away While I Recover from SEEING A MOVIE IN THEATERS!!!!
Happy Saturday! I am at my parents, not my own place, and I overslept. And it is all because I saw a movie in theaters yesterday and it EXHAUSTED me.
Continue readingSaturday WatchAlong: Bajrangi Bhaijaan! I love it So! Starting at 7:30am Chicago Time
Happy Saturday! And happy Bajrangi Bhaijaan day! It is SUCH a good movie, I can’t wait to share it with y’all.
Continue readingHappy Birthday Waheedaji! Which of Your Costumes Makes Us Happiest?
Waheeda Rehman! Beautiful woman, amazing actress, can tear your heart out with a glance. But everyone talks about that, let’s talk about something no one talks about, her costumes!
Continue reading3 Lesbian Film Trailers!!!! Which is Your Favorite?
Thank you RGV for cheering us up with your terrible terrible movie and terrible terrible trailer! It’s so bad, I can’t even find it offensive.
Continue readingEid Mubarak!!!! Let Is Compare Salman Khan Pump Up Songs
For Eid, I just showed a friend “Sultan”, which is SUCH a great pump up training kind of song. But is it better than “Zinda”? Or “Udd Dabangg”?
Continue readingTime to Dance Review (SPOILERS): What a Joyless Dance Film
I didn’t think it was possible, but somehow there is a dance film that doesn’t bring me happiness.
Continue readingTime to Dance Review (No Spoilers): Makes Student of the Year 2 Look Like Shakespeare
You think “it’s a dumb dance movie! I know it will be bad, no biggie, I have seen dumb dance movies before”. But, you have no idea! It’s so SO bad! The greatest value in it, is that it makes you appreciate the high comparative quality of other dance movies.
Continue readingSaturday Morning WatchAlong: For EID! Bajrangi Bhaijaan!!!!
Eid Mubarak! I may or may not end up seeing a Salman movie in theaters to celebrate, but at least we can see a Salman movie NOT in theaters. Join me in watching Bajrangi Bhaijaan, the movie that is hands down his best in recent years.
Continue readingWednesday Watching Post: What Are You Watching and Reading and Thinking While I Pack Pack Pack?
Happy Wednesday!!!! Have you noticed that I kind of checked out on blogging a bit this week? It’s because packing is SO HARD!!!! SO HARD!!!! Physically, but also emotionally. I keep having to taking “off the air” breaks and just read a book or something.
Continue readingFriday WatchAlong: What Salman Movie Should We Watch for EID????
Eid Mubarak! A few days early! I am debating if I should see Radhe in theaters or not. I was all set to stream, but turns out it’s gonna be on stupid Zee5 and ZEE5 ISN’T IN AMERICA!!!! I hate Zee5.
Continue readingHappy Shrimp Day! Let’s Look at Aamir Khan Photos!
According to a restaurant my sister is on the email list for, it’s Shrimp day! Which of course made me go “oh! I should do an Aamir post!”
Continue readingMother’s Day Discussion Questions Post
Happy Day after Mother’s Day! Thinking about mother’s and things has raised some general questions for me that I want to share with the group.
Continue readingMonday Morning Questions: What Do You Want to Ask Me the Day After Mother’s Day?
Happy Monday!!! I did all kinds of Mother’s Day celebrations yesterday, and then I drove up to Wisconsin and I am at the family house again. It’s chilly and beautiful and I am happy.
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