The Mindy Project

The Mindy Project was from 2013-2017, and is on Netflix in 2023, where I'm watching it.

The humor is packed with quirky details like when her date picks her up she's shaving her arms. There have been times when I thought the structure of the situation joke was quite funny. I'm not sure how I feel about the endless small breasts and big butt jokes, but it's supposedly OK because she signs off on them. I think what equality has taught us is that it's not really revolutionary, it's just that those being oppressed are in on it. Well, it's not that dramatic, people are one thing in public and one thing in private. Not everyone agrees to be woke, some people fight for the right to be unwoke. The show is Sex and The City at a Gynecology practice, with one focus instead of 4 women. It gives helpful health education tips to defray the lowbrow horney women narrative. I'm racking my brain for the show where women are allowed to eat. Oh yea, Parks and Recreation. And every other trailblazer female. Mindy Kaling doesn't have a hollywood body, and that's great. She's the Roseanne of Americans with Indian heritage, except she went to Dartmouth. The more I start to push it, the more I sound like I'm against inclusion and representation, and I'm watching this show and enjoying it, and I can have qualms later about jokes I didn't find funny, but comedy has to push boundaries, and touch sensibilities. She's obviously talented, and that's what the show is about her talent. I applaud her.

She references When Harry Met Sally, and Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, but it's also John Hughes, he's the king of setting the stage for a great love reveal, after all these obstacles, and challenges, and miscommunications and the whole time you're like just get together like some yenta, but the movie teases it and two steps forward one step back, it's not exactly Jane Austin, but the movie is over once they get married so they can't get married, they have to do this long and tortured dance.

One of the weird thing of catching up on network TV sitcoms is you see cameos from other actors you know from elsewhere. When Schmidt from New Girl, showed up on Mindy, I was amazed. He was a different character. Max Greenfield is the actor's name. Winston's girlfriend makes a cameo too.

In the end I get tired of her pretending to be a horney single career woman in New York and I wonder if the show has jumped the shark in season 3, when there are 6 seasons. I'm going to watch it all, but I'm not happy about it.

Manet and Degas

Brilliant video explaining the exhibit. Go to the Met and see the exhibit! It's really quite special. In the last gallery the painting this sketch is based off of, of the execution of a Mexican president. The painting has been cut into sections, and the surviving Degas has reassembled them. NY Times review

AOC

Dark Brandon meet Dark Alex. I see her advising the republicans to stick to their guns and never compromise. They don’t want to do anything, only obstruct. So they don’t actually need to be unified. Chaos isn’t organized. This is fine. Read all about it from Heather Cox Richardson , a historian who covers current events. "As their policies threatened to lose voters by concentrating wealth upward and hollowing out the middle class, Republicans increasingly warned that minority voters wanted socialism and were destroying the nation to get it. Trump rode that narrative to power, and now tearing down the current government is the idea that drives the Republican base." While we're at it, here's another funny photo from the Onion: And then: I listened to the Times podcast about George Santos . He basically lied about, I don't know, 80% of his resume, and has a mysterious $700k in his "corporation" which has no clients. So he's a Russian or Chinese plant, o...

The case for Harris

Motley Kamuka Blog endorses Kamala Harris. In general, Trump just wants to lower taxes on the rich, and do nothing, sell whatever influence he can to line his pockets. Apparently the emoluments clause in the constitution has no teeth. Harris has a set of ideas about policy that are fairly middle of the road. In most countries she's would be seen as a centrist. Spin about her radical agendas are exaggerated. I'm not sure how he got past " grab them by the pussy ", but he did and here we are. Women: Obviously the idea of giving women pregnancy tests at the borders of the state, and then if they come back and don't have a baby, they go to jail, isn't really what most women want. Pick Harris. I understand if you think abortion is murder, maybe you've been told that by the Catholic church, which has the same ideal of Buddhism that you don't kill--so follow your religion for yourself. Not everyone is Christian or Buddhist or even has a religion. Women are ...

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