Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 18: It’s Already May

I’ve decided to start calling these “weeknotes”, since the term makes a lot more sense, especially if I want to do shorter daily updates. Things are slowly settling down. My back pain is down to nil, for the moment, so I’m glad I took the decision to … er

Reading & Film Round-Up Feb/March

I haven’t posted my usual weekly updates for a bit, but I like having a count of books, comics, movies and tv at the end of the year, so I’m going to catch up with some capsule reviews. Comics I read: Above Snakes by Sean Lewis and Hayden

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 16: Live and Learn

It’s been a while since I sent one of these. Two months, to be precise, but I needed the break. Nothing spectacularly off about these few months, but my back pain kept returning, and April saw my dad falling sick again, so I figured that my health and real

Reading the X-Men Krakoa Era: Part 2

(This continues from Reading the X-Men Krakoa Era: Part 1.) The first X-Men comic I ever read was Rom: Spaceknight #32. In my childhood, when school was out for the summer, my parents would unceremoniously dump me at my grandparents’ house in Mumbai to get me out from under their

Autopilot Scheduling

After almost two years, I’m now working on enough projects at once that I needed to bring back a degree of organisation into my work life. I’ll be talking more about this in future blogposts, as I think out loud about what works for me. The first thing

Reading the X-Men Krakoa Era: Part 1

In 2019, something very exciting happened to Marvel’s X-Men comics, which, by that point, were sustaining themselves mostly with a readership that was already thoroughly invested in them, as is the case with a lot of corporate comics these days. (Also, at the time, Fox wasn’t owned by

Dune Part 2

K and I watched Dune Part 2 last week, and my thoughts on this one are largely the same as my thoughts on the first one. It’s beautifully designed and mounted, with great sound design. I’ll definitely be buying the Art of book, as I did with the

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 07: Minor Breakages

I haven’t sent out a status update for the last couple of weeks, and I haven’t posted on my blog in that time either (as I had intended). There’s a simple reason for that – I’ve been going through stuff. For three weeks, I was busier than

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 05: Past Lives

Butter Docs (or, New writing apps don’t work so great) E-book reissue of Forgotten Lives Film: Past Lives I’ve been trying out a new writing software recently. I’m not sure why. Like many writers, any new writing software/device/monospace typeface/fountain pen intrigues me, but I’

Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 04: (Re)Organisation

Reorganisation Books: The Giggle Films: Fallen Leaves, Fargo, Bottoms, The Silence of the Lambs Plays: God of Carnage As I continue to recover from my back pain, I decided to take a relaxing week spent with friends and family. On Republic Day (26th January), we attended the annual Art Mandai,