Happy Wednesday! I go back to work today! Well “go”, obviously I am still working from home, but I am going to try to be partially vertical and clear headed and conscious for the majority of the day. Goals!
Continue readingVery tall attractive actors with strong noses born 27/28! Which is best?!?!?!? Also, do you now really want to see Kriti dressed in Malayalam mundu and formal wear, and Dulquer in a wig and sexy sari?
Continue readingIt’s Dulquer’s Day! And I am feeling fuzzy headed and funky and not up for sugar coating things. I don’t have a great relationship with him, so this is going to be a rough birthday greeting. Sorry Dulquer! I hope this doesn’t ruin your day!
Continue readingRahul plays the villain in this, but it is such a great performance! You just love to hate him, and at the same time love to laugh at him a little bit.
Continue readingSo good! So ahead of it’s time! In so many ways! And also a little bit behind the times. In the best possible ways! Oh man, now I just want to watch it all over again right away. But I will resist that urge, and instead just watch it again in my head while I write about it.
Continue readingRahul Bose does not like to make it easy for us to like him. Or find him. He’s going to hide himself away in the female directed low budget movie with the weird off-putting topic. Like, child-marriage. Fun!
Continue readingOh Rahul Bose! Short, intense, talented, feminist, unpredictable, and looks great in a black turtleneck. Also, star of some of the most interesting films to talk about.
Continue readingHappy Monday! I am not at work, because I am lazy lazy lazy, instead I am laying here with my foot up doing nothing. Entertain me by asking me questions!
Continue readingSo excited for a DDLJ watchalong! I will be very superficial and dumb I suspect, far less “let’s consider the deconstruction of the typical Hindi film hero” and far more “his DIMPLES!!!!”
Continue readingContinuing our Indian Marriages, arranged and otherwise, discussion, I wanted to put up a list of some movies that I think have really interested takes on the whole thing. In case you were looking for something to watch and discuss, or have already seen them and want a place to discuss them.
Continue readingWoo-hoo! You know why I picked DDLJ? Because I can be high on pain pills and still follow it. If I am high on pain pills, don’t you want to be there to watch me say things like “hat pretty dimples cute bad Amrish Puri BAD”?
Continue readingHappy Saturday! I am laying in bed with my foot elevated 8 inches above my hips thinking about how the heck I am going to get my morning coffee. That should keep me busy for a few hours at least, and in the meantime y’all can chat.
Continue readingIt worked! I got surgery! Despite the almost criminal incompetence of the doctor-doctor, and all my panic attacks
Continue readingI wrote and scheduled this post a week ago, if that jinxed my surgery and it isn’t actually happening for some reason, I am holding you all responsible. And I am increasingly sure that this surgery is jinxed, it has been an almost impossible disaster start to finish (labs missing, doctors not sending in paperwork, labs not receiving prescriptions, so many hours of me on the phone advocating for myself), so don’t be surprised if I put up a post in a few hours saying “surgery canceled, I am very depressed and hiding in bed”.
Continue readingI love escaping to a world of 12 years old, when your parents had the house and food and clothes and stuff responsibilities, and you just had to solve mysteries and fight and make up with friends and so on. Usually I escape in bookform (Trixie Belden, woot-woot!), but there are two high quality TV shows (like, seriously high quality, not just kids shows) that I have been saving for a special occasion and now I am binging and I DESPERATELY want them remade in India. Only with the focus on the parents.
Continue readingOkay, moment of truth! If I have a watchalong on Sunday morning instead of Friday, who could/would come?
Continue readingSmoking is injurious to health and bad and wrong and so on and so forth. But OMG is it sexy. And inspirational for those of us who are a little afraid of disagreeing with doctors.
Continue readingNot a 101, I am not qualified to write a 101. This is me basically just sharing my personal history with learning about modern urban Indian marriage practices from people I know and things I have seen and read, and then you can share your own experiences and ask questions of each other and hopefully just talk and learn from each other.
Continue readingDiscussion time! No wrong answer here, just personal stories/opinions.
Continue readingI am getting soooooooooooooo stressed about my surgery on Friday. I’m terrified something’s going to come up and I won’t be able to have it after all, and I am considerably less worried about having it and something logistical not going right (parents late to pick me up, forget something I should have packed, etc). Anyway, stress relief! Shahrukh!
Continue readingHappy Wednesday! It suddenly occurred to me last night, while writing yet another detailed email to my family with toe updates, that my mother had almost the same operation a few years ago, and my sister had a broken shoulder, and my Dad had a whole bunch of things I don’t even know about, without nearly as much worry. Is it possible that I am overly obsessive and stressed about having a minor surgery? Or is it that toe surgery is in fact the most complex and stressful health problem you can possibly have? Oh right, my sister also gave birth. Anyway, TOE SURGERY! The most difficult health problem of our time! (or I am a worrywart who hates being out of control and likes planning things to the inth degree)
Continue readingI just wrote about Aish and was surprised that I hadn’t written about her before. In contrast, with Abhishek I know I haven’t written about him before and I’m not quite comfortable even know. He is growing so much before our eyes, I don’t think anything I write now will be the end of his story, I don’t think I can even predict how his story will end.
Continue readingDon’t feel limited! If there are remarkable social media posts you feel I am missing, then throw them into the mix in the comments.
Continue readingRescheduled this week, because of toe surgery, but not canceled because IT GIVES MEANING TO LIFE.
Continue readingThey are all fun! And two of them feature Amitabh himself.
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