Happy Monday! Last week my cousin visited, I celebrated my birthday, and I hosted a party. This week, I am going to run away and go to the lake house for two days. I still have to work, and it’s supposed to be cold and rainy, but I am very excited about being far away from everything with nothing to do.
Here is where you ask me anything from “what movie do you want to watch next?” to “what did you do for your birthday?” Just keep swinging back here all week as you think of questions!
Now, question for you! Today is Superman Day, apparently. Are you a Superman or a Batman person?
I am a Superman person! Being good and staying good all the time takes a lot of strength, as much as being an angsty rich man with a lot of toys. Also, why can’t Batman just start a lot of anti-crime charities?
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Happy birthday! Was it fun? How are you feeling about birthdays these days?
I grew up as a Batman person, mostly because of Michael Keaton. As I got older and cared more about the world building, Superman grew on me. Also BTW Smallville totally holds up against the new superhero shows, I got my kids watching briefly and I was not embarrassed.
I read a couple of things recently about the collapsing streaming bubble, in terms of new production getting funded. Do you think it will hit India too or not as much because India didn’t get as much of that peak streaming bubble money to begin with?
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The biggest danger with streaming in India is that the industry resets to streaming instead of theatrical releases and then can’t go back again. So in that way, I think the streaming bubble bursting at this moment is healthy for India. they haven’t reached the tipping point yet, they can still pull back and restructure.
Thank you for confirming Smallville! I watched it in original release too and thought it was pretty good. Glad to know it holds up.
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What is Juneteenth public holiday and what do you typically do to spend the day?
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Thank you for asking me the EXACT kind of question I enjoy answering!!!! It gets into all kinds of complicated historical/social stuff.
During the Civil War, as the Union army marched through the south, they read the Emancipation proclamation at public gatherings and declared all slaves Free. June 19th they did this in Galveston Texas and it was a massive gathering, and one of the last times this was done. The next year, there was a party to celebrate the anniversary, and it grew and grew in the subsequent years. By the 1990s, it was a massive holiday in the African American community, usually celebrated by family reunions, cook outs, and parades in African American neighborhoods. It was sort of unofficial/official. When I was in college and reading the local paper in Chicago, it was well publicized and covered, the various events you could attend and the parades and so on. So it wasn’t a secret exactly, but it also wasn’t something that was celebrated outside of the African American community. And in places where the African American community was too small to put together a parade or any kind of public event, it would be invisible, just a bunch of family reunions in backyards and parks.
As part of the Black Lives Matter movement, Juneteenth is increasingly being acknowledged as an American holiday. Not really sure how to celebrate it myself, honestly. I guess I could go to a parade and cheer, but it’s not like I’m gonna crash a family reunion or my own family is going to start that tradition all of a sudden. I think America as a whole is still kind of figuring out how to celebrate Juneteenth in the new All America way of recognizing it. In 20 years, maybe there will be a traditional meal we all eat, and some kind of historical re-enactment to attend, and maybe a national prayer or something. But right now, I guess try to find a parade near you? Or some other public acknowledgement? Or else stay home and read about the history of American Slavery?
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Thank you!
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What do you think of the good wife remake with Kajol – the trial – trailer out on YouTube
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Thank you for the heads up! I just watched the trailer and I think it doesn’t work? Partly because the original show as good because the writing was soooooooo good, not because of the essential set-up (that this is stealing). And partly because they are missing the exact push-pull between feminism and self-preservation that the original show leaned into. Now I may have to post a thingy about it!
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Yes. I’m only interested because of Kajol otherwise I wouldn’t pay attention to it. They also need a real Indian version of the Good fight, another of my favorite shows but copying it won’t work
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