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Bollywood doesn’t play for Joe & Jane in podunk towns like Peoria & Poughkeepsie.

For all the hoopla about Bollywood’s world-conquering feats, it’s rare that the kitsch offering from Mumbai touches the life of the average Joe and Jane. When you get to a multiplex in some podunk town like Peoria or Poughkeepsie, there’s no sign of Bollywood.

Forgive me for being grumpy because I have nasty cold and a cough which in turn blew out my fragile back, but this is beginning to annoy me. Screw Bollywood. Does anyone really care about India’s film industry? Not I. But I do care about my fine city.

I know, Billy is going to claim I have a inferiority crisis about Peoria. I don’t know if that’s true or not. I do know that Barb Van Auken didn’t help our city’s reputation by showing up drunk at a frat house and insulting the BU police, and Aaron Schock is proving to be a bit of a jackass for paying back the Federal Government’s expenses incurred by President Bush’s private fundraiser, but refusing to pay back the City of Peoria.

I shouldn’t Google Peoria anymore. It pisses me off.

Now I will attempt to stand up and will likely scream in pain.

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6 Responses to “Bollywood doesn’t play for Joe & Jane in podunk towns like Peoria & Poughkeepsie.”

  1. YOOPER GUY Says:
    September 27th, 2008 at 5:55 pm

    Sorry if off topic, but if that nasty cold and bad back are still hurting you on Thursday I will be glad to take that playoff ticket you have off your hands. Sounds like big Z starts game two. Just let me know.

  2. PeoriaIllinoisan Says:
    September 28th, 2008 at 8:36 am

    Don’t worry, I’ll be just fine by Thursday.

  3. Cameron Says:
    September 28th, 2008 at 7:21 pm

    The fact that you think anybody outside of Peoria gives a rat’s a$% about Barb and her drunken frat incident does indeed prove that you have an inferiority crisis about Peoria.

  4. Billy Dennis Says:
    September 28th, 2008 at 11:16 pm

    You know what other types of movies do not find their way onto the screens of Peoria-area multiplexes? Snuff films. I was at The Rave last week, and not ONE snuff film was being advertised. Peorians are such rubes with unsophisticated tastes. I am willing to bet that multiplexes in the Chicago suburbs offer snuff films, right next-door to all those wonderful restaurants that Bradley University students pine for.

  5. Cory Says:
    September 29th, 2008 at 8:38 am

    Maybe they were talking about Peoria, Arizona. Did you ever think of that?

  6. postsimian Says:
    September 29th, 2008 at 9:54 am

    Bollywood was just compared to snuff films. My day is complete.

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