Were you thinking “boy, Margaret hasn’t posted anything at all for 24 hours she must be really sick?” You were right. I reached the point of asking my parents to come over and help me tonight, do laundry and dishes and bring me more orange juice. And, most humiliating, take Dog Hazel home with them because I am too sick to take care of her. But! I promised a Happy New Year review! Even if it takes me multiple little 5 minute spurts of clear thinking to do it. Oh shoot, wasn’t I supposed to do a TGIF post too? Ugh. I’ll repost something and come back here and keep going.

I can’t believe I have had a cold for over a week. And it keeps getting worse! How is that possible? How far down the rabbit hole of illness can I go? It’s supposed to be just a cold! Those things only last a few days and you don’t even have to take time off work!

I am never going to be healthy again. My sinuses hurt so much I can’t sleep, I was up until 6am last night. Not like tossing and turning up, but like actually sitting upright on the couch watching TV to distract me until 6am. And then napping fitfully until 10am. Anyway, Vitamin C! That will fix me!

Well, I managed to make it 6 and a half hours at work today, sitting upright in clothes like a person, and then I gave up and went home and put on a bathrobe and ordered a ridiculous amount of chicken soup from “One of the Few Jewish Delis in Chicago” (that’s on the big sign in the window). I’m gonna manage the Happy New Year review tomorrow, because I promised you, but today is going to be all silly song posts, sorry. On the other hand, I got about $8,000 in unpaid bills for work in 6 hours of phone calls, so yaaaay! Work-work! Paychecks! Rent money!

Sorry, I missed yesterday’s gift. And all the other days before. But it’s really the last four that lend themselves best to Indian film songs (ladies dancing, lords a leaping, pipers piping, drummers drumming).

I’m hoping to get a new Malayalam review up sometime this week, but what with being sick and this that and the other thing, I can’t promise what movie it will be and when it will go up. However, next week I can promise a rerun!!!! And highly recommend it in hopes it gets new people to watch it. I’ll repost my review in a week, on Wednesday the 9th.

I was just browsing around and saw this was on Netflix and couldn’t resist encouraging you all to watch it. It’s so good! And so surprising and so well made and also, a bit short. Well worth a rerun of the review this Sunday, 1/6.

Why not, right? It is the new year, after all. It’s not a great movie, but it can be a fun movie, and I haven’t reviewed it yet.

Fun times! We all get to try to convince each other which film was the absolute best and which was the absolute worst. And if there is a concensus in the comments, that film will get the great honor of being the DCIB Worst or Best of the year!

Well, this is a depressing way to end the year. Fever of 100 degrees according to my funky thermometer. Or, possibly, 98.6. Or 93. I am not good at taking my temperature. Anyway, distract me and give me something to do as I wait for my body to burn out illness like a self-cleaning oven.

Another life update! It’s weird doing these, but it’s a little better than just putting up an announcement “sorry, no new posts” over and over again. I mean, it essentially is just saying “no new posts”, but with a little bit of entertaining life details.

This is such a nice movie!  Not a perfect movie, a little confused in some parts, felt like the connective tissue was missing a bit, but overall a very nice movie.

Joyomama won last week and is getting a beautiful card, and I want to show it to you all. If you want your very own beautiful card, just give me your address at the bottom of this post. Not this card, because Joyomama got the last one, but a different equally beautiful one.

You can skip this if you don’t want/need a regular bloggy type report on me. But if you are curious, or are so desperate for entertainment that you are willing to read it (because there won’t be anything else new going up for a while), you can.

Good morning! Or “bad morning”. I am not having a good day, and I am probably not going to have a good next week, so the focus of this Saturday’s Small Talk is “Let’s Cheer Up Margaret!” Well, and everyone else, because the week after Christmas is always kind of sucky.

I’ve got an extra day off next week and I want to get back into the swing of things, so I need a Malayalam film to review. BUT! I am also sick and depressed (my sister gave me her cold and Christmas is over)! I don’t want any of that “and then the rain falls over their shattered lives” Malayalam endings. HAPPY! HAPPY HAPPY! What is happy and also high quality and also I haven’t watched/reviewed it yet?

This is an interesting movie.  Because it is both a sports movie and a true story, which means we know everything about it already.  But at the same time, we don’t, because we don’t know what particular angle the filmmaker is going to choose to look at to show us this story. 

This is a Zero inspired post, but isn’t about Zero, or about Khan movies, it is about the difference between a wide release movie and a regular release movie and why all the eggs are increasingly going in the wide release basket. This is also one of many posts I have written on the same topic, never saying exactly the same thing. Which is kind of the point, the film industry is complex with multiple forces at work on it, I can write many different long posts talking about all the things that might affect box office beyond 3 actors.