RIP Dharmendra. What is it with so many Bollywood icons passing in the last few weeks. That said, the original he-man of Bollywood lived a long fruitful life.
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🍿 Homebound (2025) – ★★★★☆
A poignant movie about two halves – of caste and privilege which had similarities with Dhadak 2 – and other half of how the govt failed to come in need of the very people that needed it most during the pandemic. The final act is very moving.
The fact that trump kids were there is all I need to know about the ultra shitty Indian billionaire wedding happening in India right now. Apparently the family however stays here in USA. And of course these people have no real friends so they get Bollywood and Hollywood celebrities as fillers coz normal people don’t hang around with shitty ass nazis.
Mounted my basement using a no stud only nail mount. Apparently can handle 150 pounds. The plasma is 65 pounds. It felt and looked sturdy but time will tell. Wish us luck!
I have two major doc reads coming up next Monday and following Monday. Which means I am going to have to work tomorrow and next Sunday as well to get these docs in order. FML. I truly detest any sort of work work on weekends but I guess I have to suck it up and get it done with.
Cool cool – if the Perth test match between England and Australia gets over in two days surely pitch had nothing to do with it and it’s only the brilliant quality of two white teams amirite? Imagine the pushback and criticisms India would get on a spin pitch that ends a 5 day game in 2 days. Anti brown hypocrisy is alive and well. FWIW, I don’t care if it’s a spin or swing pitch but if a test match is over in 2 days then it should be criticized equally.
🍿 One Battle After Another (2025) – ★★★★☆
I had some Amazon credits to kill so we rented this movie. Terrific pacing for a nearly 3 hour movie and entertaining but it’s mostly hollow shit. There is no way I would have spent 60+ $ to see this movie in a theater. Even at 10 bucks rental was fairly high. This is a great made for TV movie – I can totally see why it bombed.
So far Pluribus is boring. I am gonna stick it till end of S1 to see where Vince Gilligan takes it considering he likes world building, but gosh it’s quite torturous to sit through it so far.
If Ukraine agrees to the peace agreement it honestly is such a terrible look on Europe. They really cannot do jack shit even with a significantly degraded Russia without American support. Hopefully is a wake up call to them to take charge of their own destinies – as Jaishankar said it best few years ago – Europe needs to get outside of mindset that Europe’s problems are world problems to solve for. Anyway, looks increasingly now Ukraine will have to make a difficult choice.
A house came up for sale in our community with the exact floor plan that we have. We thought being end of November, dampening economy and federal impact, the house was priced higher than it should have been. Well, we were wrong. The house listed on Friday and under contract on Sunday evening. We are in some unhinged economic times.