Yes yes, more guilt!  Sorry, guilt works.

I have no corporate sponsor, or industry connections.  I don’t suck up and say nice things about movies so stars will retweet me, I don’t join in fan wars in order to get supporters and clicks.  I am scrupulously horribly dreadfully honest and alone.

So please, help me!  If you are on twitter, DON’T simply retweet me, far more effective to tweet a link to one of my articles with a personal comment from you about why you like it.  It takes more time, but people know it takes more time, and know that you must really mean it.

If you are active on any other sites or in any other communities, when you comment, GIVE ME CREDIT.  If you say “I think the action scenes in Thugs of Hindostan are poorly paced” add on “as Margaret explains in her blog dontcallitbollywood.com”.  If you say “I think Chekka Chivantha Vaanam is a movie without any real heroes” add on “as said in this review link here”.  If you say “I think Kangana has erotomania” add on “as this article here argues”.

And most of all, don’t lie!!!!!  Everyone can tell if you lie, and it ruins the one thing I have going for me, which is that I am clearly transparently honest and unbiased.  If you don’t like something I wrote, if you just skimmed it and don’t like it, then don’t lie to The Internet and say you liked it and understood it.  The Internet can tell you aren’t telling the truth.  I try very hard to be honest, it’s a tribute to me if you are honest also, if you like something or agree with something, say so and link back to it; if you don’t like something I say, that’s okay too, say you don’t like it.

It’s that time again, the time I remind everyone that it is a good thing to tip people who provide a service, even if that service is writing on the internet.

You give a dollar to the barista who makes you coffee every day, you can give a dollar once a month for the person who entertains and informs you every day.

Now, if reading that above statement made you feel guilty, there is a simple solution.  Just give me a dollar through one of the options below, and then you can stop feeling guilty.

When you go to a restaurant, you leave the waitress a tip.  When you get delivery, you tip.  When you enjoy a street musician, you leave a little money.  Just because the service I provide is online doesn’t make it any less real

If you appreciate what I do, then leave a tip. If you don’t tip, I will assume you don’t appreciate it and stop writing.  That’s how the world works, money goes in and product comes out.

Now, if reading the above made you feel scared, there is an easy solution. Just give me a dollar through one of the options below, and then you can stop feeling scared.

If you want to set up a recurring payment, then you can do that through Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/dontcallitbollywood

Or, of course, you can always Buy My Book!  Which gets me no real money (a percentage of a percentage on every sale), but makes me feel appreciated:

I love this movie.  You don’t have to, but I really really do.  It’s real people playing at the usual filmi romance, and discovering their own version of it along the way.  And my review will be reposted next Monday, 11/19.

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