Aasif Mandvi was born Asif Mandviwala in Bombay, India and his family moved to Bradford, England when he was a toddler. When Aasif was 16 his father relocated the family one more time to Florida. His father was a small business owner without a head for business and his mother was a stay at home mom who couldn’t cook as well as her husband. Despite having an arranged marriage Aasif was raised in a loving, supportive family. Aasif dreamed of being an actor from a […]
“Oh, and if you are reading this on a computerized reading machine, F@*& YOU!!!”
I really enjoyed some parts of Rainn Wilson’s biography — tell me more about The Office, and the criminally underrated good/bad movie Sahara! — although some of the navel-gazing, actor-y stuff got a little old. Overall, it’s worth the read to see how many different ways he can insult his own head-size. For real. “I was terrified, lost. Like most moments of intense personal tragedy, it was both heartbreaking and a little bit ridiculous.” Rainn had an…interesting upbringing. His parents separated when he was a toddler, […]
The Ruth will set you free.
I read three sort of meh mysteries on my trip, but my plane ride home was rocked by this biography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A well-written (and funny! and interesting!) book about a fascinating (and funny! and BOLD!) woman. Every one of you needs to go read this book. “The pedestal upon which women have been placed has all too often, upon closer inspection, been revealed as a cage.” Inspired by a tumblr page (which lends a few great images to the book), Notorious RBG: The Life and […]
Way better than that Jim Carrey movie
I went out of town for a week on business and read like, six books and have not written any of them up yet. Apologies for the incoming flood! My “interactions” with Shonda have always been limited to Grey’s Anatomy, which I love dearly and have watched all the way through several times (I like to leave shows on when I’m cooking and cleaning, and pretty much rotate through Grey’s, Gilmore Girls and Scrubs). I’ve never gotten into her other shows (I’m a lazy TV […]
Confessions of a Planet Killer
“Pluto was part of their mental landscape, the one they had constructed to organize their thinking about the solar system and their own place within it. Pluto seemed like the edge of existence. Ripping Pluto out of that landscape caused what felt like an inconceivably empty hole.” On August 25, 2006 the International Astronomical Union met in Prague and voted on what a planet was and whether or not Pluto met those qualifications. I was about a week into my freshman year of college where […]
Bon Appétit
More like 3.5, but since that isn’t an option, let’s go with three. This is a lovely little book; I just had a challenging time really getting into it. It has everything I love: food, France, humor, even liberal political leanings, Surprisingly though, I had to force myself to finish it, but I am definitely happy that I did. I believe this book served as the basis for the “Julia” part of the film “Julie and Julia,” where a blogger takes on the recipes of […]
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