mongo

my introduction to bob newhart was via newhart, which came to us in india in reruns when satellite tv arrived in the early 1990s. it was a patchy show (though with very strong moments). it wasn't until i arrived in the u.s a few years later and happened on nick at nite that i understood who bob newhart really was. the dick van dyke show, the bob newhart show, the mary tyler moore show*: nick at nite gave me such an idealized introduction to america. *i always forget that the mary tyler moore show started before the bob newhart show.

poor hemant is trying so hard to be hip, he's going to break his hip.

it's going weirdly: we had a very rainy and grey second half of june/early july. we were also gone most of that time. the plants were suffering from too much water and not enough sun when we got back. they are even now generally all very under-developed relative to past years with more normal rain/sun balance. this week is the first of two with a lot of sun and heat and so i'm hoping things will bounce back. let's see--last year's garden was a dead loss (we were gone most of the summer and i'm not sure the person who was taking care of it had much time to pay attention to it) and it would be a bummer to have a second disappointing season in a row (though none of it would rise to the level of this thread, of course--does the new incarnation of the site have a gardening thread)?

i've been posting, evelyn--i just hadn't been reading this thread.

my first time reading this thread in more than a year. best wishes to all those dealing with difficulties, personal or to near and dear ones.

hold the metal lid to the flame on your stove. do it before joe biden takes your gas stove away from you.

you need to turn up the heat on your boiler. that tepid drizzle isn't going to get the job done.

next you're going to tell me you don't have a sabre on hand to deal with the most recalcitrant lids.

god, you people are weak. also, none of you know to hold the metal lid of a jar under very hot running water in the kitchen sink just long enough for the metal to expand a little?

there are so many people whose current whereabouts and doings i wonder about.

has he published his long-threatened opus on indian food yet?

or tax the rich a little more and make public transportation free for all.

but the microwave cooks the fish as it thaws it. don't get in the way of progress, i mean david chang's bank account.

to think we got in on a friday evening with ease in 2019 before all the recognition.

bombay bistro (in the west village) doesn't deserve a thread of its own so i'm sticking the link to my review of dinner there in may in this newly created catch-all thread. i was in ny/nj for a hit and run trip and for complicated reasons ended up at this place i'd never heard of before for dinner with an old friend. the menu is ye olde curry house classics but the food was not bad. it was packed on a tuesday evening.

sorry to miss it! my timing was off by just 3.5 weeks.

does wilfrid know how to drive?

it's actually "the preacher likes nicole".

god, i thought this movie was utter shit. and boring shit, which is the worst kind. the acclaim it's gotten in so many quarters (not least from wilfrid) completely mystifies me.

meet the new sneak. same as the old sneak.

sneak, i am so sorry to hear your news. maison rustique: i hope your sister pulls through and that your husband's doctors find a med combo that works for now.

i had appreciable side effects for the first time in december, when i took a booster 3 weeks before leaving for my off-campus program. i put it down to the fact that it was my first moderna shot, after god-knows-how-many pfizers. also had the nastiest site soreness across all the shots. thing i will soon be annoyed about: side effects of my second shingles vaccine. it is due. the first was innocuous. i'm told the second is usually much worse.

i ask because at our lunch at indian accent in delhi in march, a card listing the group's restaurants that came with the check included a koloman in new york. what are the odds there are two? you can see said card in the last pic in the slideshow of my review.

this restaurant is also from the indian accent group, right?

six, yes*, ten, no. *not anymore, but once.