Week Roundup: I’ve Been Gone! What Have I Missed???

Happy Tuesday! It’s a week and one day since I last posted! I went on vacation and did NOTHING very aggressively. I went to a different coffee shop every morning and read my book for over an hour, then wandered around until I found a place to eat lunch, then wandered some more until I found a place to sit and finish my book, then went back to my hotel room to start a new book. 4 books in 4 days! The perfect break. Oh, and also a pedicure, a massage, acupuncture, and a Psychic reading, just for fun. And I bought hair dye and used the hotel shower to re-dye my hair. So you can see, I was very very busy with no time for blogging.

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Tiger 3 Review (SPOILERS): An Interesting Journey of a Relationship! Also, Explosions

I’ve sat with this movie for a bit, and I think it is more like Tiger 1 than I gave it credit for, in that it is a relationship story wrapped up in an action movie. Think of it as the Indian “Before Sunrise” series! With explosions.

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Tiger 3 Review (No Spoilers): It’s Not Hateful and Jingoistic! And Katrina Gets to be AWESOME! And Emraan Hashmi Takes His Shirt Off!

Yaaaaaaaaaaaay! It wasn’t like Tiger 2! I really really hated Tiger 2! It also wasn’t exactly like Tiger 1, but it was similarly light and love filled instead of dark and fear filled (blech Tiger 2! Blech! And you are allow to disagree with my opinion).

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Wednesday Watching Post: We All Survived Christmas! And Massive Weather (in America)! Back to Normal Life, Phew!

Happy Wednesday!!!! I spent Friday alternately so cold I couldn’t breath trying to shovel, and hiding inside and recovering doing a puzzle. I spent Saturday and Sunday with my parents doing a festive Christmas trip (art museum, fancy restaurant, fancy hotel, champagne breakfast, opening presents, movie, fancy hotel dinner, and then leaving Monday morning), and I spent Monday afternoon through now recovering from all of that and going “aaaahhhhhhh”. And now regular life returns, and the weather goes above freezing!

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Saturday Small Talk: Chat Away While I Hide From the Cold!!!

Happy Saturday!!!! It is very cold here. Well, not VERY cold, it is fairly cold here. Cold enough that my usual Saturday routine of a very long dog walk and running over to the recycling center is not so appealing. So instead, I will stay by my space heater and do taxes!

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Friday WatchAlong: Chori Chori Chupke Chupke, 3pm Chicago Time!!!!

Yaaaaaaaaaaaay! Friday WatchAlong! I did work all morning, ran an errand, then came home and had a nap, and now I am all settled in for this movie! And I will NOT fall asleep (as I tend to do when we have Friday afternoon watchalongs).

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Shahrukh Update, An Army of Love

Again, this is a place for us to feel sad together. But not pessimistic, not hopeless, not angry. Just sad and full of love. I don’t know about you, but I find that letting everything come from a place of love is all that can get me through tough times. And yes, for SRK fans, this is a tough time and this is a place where we can acknowledge that.

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JLo and Ben Inspired Post: What Former Couple of Indian Film Do You Wish Would Get Back Together?

I just read a month and a half of People magazines, and my goodness are they excited about JLo and Ben! Which made me realize it’s not just in India that celebrity shifted in the early 2000s, it’s crazy that in America these two 50 year olds are still bigger stars than everyone who came after them. And also, years later reunions are a GREAT story and I want more of them.

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Radhe 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.

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Hello Brother Review: That Brief Shining Moment When Salman Thought He Could Actually Get His Brothers to HAVE JOBS

I am so happy, I have been wanting to see this movie for almost 20 years. Well “wanting”. Maybe “vaguely curious” that was transformed to “want” after it was forbidden to me by The Universe. And now The Universe has relented, and I have watched this movie, and I never have to see it again. And you never have to see it even once because I watched it for you!

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2020 Awards, Most Salman Moment: Giving Money to Day Film Laborers, Announcing a Clothing Line Shirtless, Singing a Song About Corona

Yes, it’s time for 2020 Awards to continue!!!! Especially today, when it is the first working day of the month, and the year, and a Monday! Accounting type people across the world are going “noooooo!!!!”, and since I am both an accounting type person, and the person who provides customer support for other accounting type people, I expect to be very very busy. So it is gonna be up to y’all to fill in content.

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