Gabfest: And Thereby Hangs A Tail

The reviews will have to wait. Right now it's work work work. I use every bit of spare time I can scrounge to fit in my daily goals, just so I can stay sane. Reading time has become severely curtailed. I had hoped I'd have at least six months to settle into this new role but looks like they conveniently forgot I just started. : ) All of a sudden it's like we needed to have this done yesterday. I gotta deliver big time this year. At this level you get silently written off if you don't start living up to the promise right away.

 

That's the magic of her songs. I was trying to think of songs and so many latent memories resurfaced. I was a brooding unhappy teenager and this song was briefly my anthem when I was studying for the entrance exams. I did have a flair for the melodramatic.



This one from the first flush of teenage! : )



And this lullaby that I sang for both my kids 100s of times. Even added my own words for my son. : )



These aren't just great songs, they are woven into the most precious memories of my life. It is hard to put into words how priceless they are.

 

Oh I've heard of Uncanny Magazine. Isn't it a paid subscription? Short stories are the way to go if you're trying to cultivate a reading habit. Make sure you pick them well. Ursula Le Guin and Philip Dick have some of the best collections if you're specifically looking for Science Fiction.

 

#randomthought

I was just watching Kuch Kuch Hota Hai songs on YT and a thought occurred to me. I don't know if you've seen the movie but Shahrukh and Kajol are bffs. She falls in love with him and he falls in love with Rani. He marries Rani, has a kid. Kajol is heartbroken, sort of mends her heart and 8 years later is about to get married again when she meets Shahrukh again. The meeting is engineered by his 8 year old daughter, blah blah and they get married in the end. The movie was a blockbuster obviously. I wondered how it would have been received if the roles were reversed. If Kajol were the widow with the kid and Shahrukh engaged to someone else? It seems pretty normal to us now but it's been 25 (?) years since the movie was released. This was pre-Internet India. The idea of a man with a kid pursuing a long lost love raised zero eyebrows. Would it have been the same with a woman?

I asked my DH this question and he was like don't give that Karan Johar any more ideas.

 

It had a great premise but the ending was quite unexpected, and not in a good way. The show was brooding and mysterious and then it got absurd. I started listening to the podcast on which the show was based. The podcast makes the absurdity the highlight of the story and somehow I found that much more enjoyable.

Any desi stuff you saw worth trying? I tried Decoupled but it is such a sad rehashing of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' that I couldn't get through it. Even Madhavan couldn't save that cringefest.