The Amrutha/April Project.
The series: "Parks and Recreation"
First aired, 9th April, 2009, starring Leslie Knope, Ron Swanson, Ann Perkins, Ben Wyatt, Andy Dwyer, Tom Haverford, Donna Meagle, Chris Traeger and Jerry Gergich. And of course, April Ludgate, the woman who taught me to breathe sarcasm and to put on a deadpan face during the process. It's sixteen years later and no one can touch her.
The Challenge: 1,095 days. 1,608 questions.
The Contender: Amrutha.
Student of psychology by day, serious consumer of dark humor by night.
Risking her fast muscle fibers, her future job and her laptop's well-being, she has signed on for a deranged assignment. How far it will go, no one can say.
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30/12/25
1. ಕತ್ತಲಲ್ಲಿ ಕರಡಿಗೆ ಜಾಮೂನು ಯಾರು ತಿನ್ನಿಸಿದರು? (Who fed jamoon to the bear in the night?)
2. Did Bheem love Chutki or was he a gold-digger for papa ki pari Indumati?
3. What supernatural powers did she acquire after fifteen years of involuntary act of standing under sometimes hot sun, sometimes corpse cold winds in an activity called ‘school assembly’?
4. Will humanity be actually erased if she wears a shirt or kurti above the waist?
5. Will her Downtown Abbey get struck by famine and drought if she doesn’t let the tadpoles in, soon?
6. Are kids in Africa still hungry because she deprived them of food by wasting her own lunch?
7. Who let the dogs out?
8. In what way did Drake started from the bottom – whose bottom?, has he finished yet?, why didn’t he start from the top?
31/12/25
9. Would it be a lost battle if LGBTQ flag colour was white because white colour = 7 colors of rainbow?
10. How is a vegetable fresh if it is 80 years old?
11. Does Superman wear another chaddi inside his pant which is inside his chaddi?
12. Does fart has color?
1/1/26
13. Isn't an ≥18 year old Indian female's egg like the Saturn and her family/society like the space? Like, they put a ring of dicks to constantly revolve around the egg?
14. Where did my thoughts from 4:30 pm today go?
15. Guy, isn't it fascinating that Stephen Hawking also had 207 bones in his body like you which preceded a nine month period, thrice?
17. Albert Einstein, Frankenstein and Jeffrey Epstein. United by Jewish roots, divided by body count?
2/1/26
18. Why is the 'white house' called 'white' house? Why not call it by any other color? Like Don Black?
19. Who prints stripes on zebras, squirrels and tigers?
20. Whitefield - who is white? where is the field?; Hopefarm - where is hope? what farm?; Richmond Circle - where is Richmond? why is the circle shapeless?; Tin Factory - what sells better: tin or traffic? at what time of the day is this factory visible?; Cox Town - why isn't A. R. Cox ever in town?
21. Which is the odd one here: cherry, papaya, orange, peach, apple?
22. Why is being gay a sin if Jesus was also nailed?
23. Has anyone found the woman who bled blue on her whisper sanitary pad?
24. What might be of interest for this evening, good sir: a hymenoplasty or a white sheet test or a two-finger test?
4/1/26
25. Will I weigh less after pooping?
26. If Google Maps doesn't show the way, ask Will?
27. While Jeb Schrute is harvesting worms in California, you see Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. As a junkie, what's your go-to?
28. With great power, comes great responsibility, but they look pissed. Oh, they both broke up on 20th Jan, 2025?
29. What's the male equivalent of girlie?
30. Nosy-aunty/uncle-matchmakers, let her pick whatever fly she wants for her penis fly trap, yes or yes?
31. Why is everyone on the internet offering cookies? How is this not reducing world hunger?
5/1/26
32. "Cleanliness is next to godliness". But why do I see garbage next to cow? (cow hears, approaches and moos a conversation) The cow moos that I'm having visual hallucination. Because the garbage is not next to it. Garbage is in the cow and cow is in the garbage. Who do you think is hallucinating: you or me?
33. Ariana Grande cries in 'The Wicked' after she told the world that she has 'no tears left to cry'. Sukhwinder Singh claimed allegiance to Anarkali's disco club by pledging "dil mein mere hai dard-e-disco" but then was secretly singing 'chal chaiyya chaiyya, chaiyya chaiyya'. Andy Samberg 'threw it on the ground' except for the mic. Drake's all 'money in the grave' but he got a gambling lawsuit. The Weeknd told he was in 'Sao Paulo' but his IP address was found in 'the hills'. Michael Jackson claims he did the moonwalk but Neil Armstrong denies this. Who is the greatest liar here?
34. Are those seeds inside papaya pepper seeds' twins?
35. KSRTC vs BMTC Electric buses: In which are you more likely to be played around like a ping pong?
8/1/26
36. Veridis quo or very disco?
37. Man with ejaculation disorder or woman with orgasmic disorder, you have a temporary condition and can finish what you started. Unless your name is 'Ejipura flyover', why worry?
38. Gopi bahu is here. Can someone call a whambulance?
9/1/26
39. Who wiped out the entire dark forest? What will the guests eat?
40. Why is beating eggs legal?
41. Isn't it cannibalism if you eat a brownie?
42. Who can do it all day: Captain America or Captain Underpants?
43. Wasn't it tragic how Robbins melted Baskin in the sun?
10/1/26
44. Why did the drummer with the drumsticks who had a tree of drumsticks eat a bucket of drumsticks?
11/1/26
45. Does Shani know about the murder of crows?
46. Where do clouds go?
47. Where to book the next train of thought?
12/1/26
48. Why do Gringos never stop whitewashing?
15/1/26
49. Uncle, how hasn't a male foetus fallen off from my 21 year old uterus because I broke the coconut into "ತೊಟ್ಟಿಲು ಕಾಯಿ"?
50. Many men demand women to birth kids. Why don't we save their ego and fit uteruses under their dicks?
51. Why do some find their true calling while others get junk calls?
52. Can women get paid for their rants? Like male Indian politicians?
53. If I eat oxygen then will my fart also have oxygen and will breathing that fart help an asthmatic?
19/1/26
54. What's darker: the presidementia taking Nobel Peace Prize or substantia nigra?
55. Why does USA want Greenland when they have too much ICE already?
56. Why wasn't Alphaville forever young?
57. How dare you say you have no friends when Queen clearly told, "you're my bestfriend"?
58. How dare you want to die when Beyonce clearly told you to "be alive"?
59. Did you know that lovelyday is the 8th day of the week in Bill Withers's calendar?
60. Is Marty Supreme a burger?
61. Is USA the new synonym of autoimmune disorder?
62. Have you heard that Todd Lyons is remaking 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly'?
22/1/26
63. Do nails suck in nail polish?
64. Is it a miniature desert in the iris of the eye?
65. Is Dead Sea the sea of the dead?
25/1/26
66. Does 'S' in KSRTC bus stands for 'Supersonic'?
67. Who decides the order of the rainbow - VIBGYOR?
68. Where can I buy Philsosophy?
69. Did you know that Raymond Holt sentenced someone for eating cheddar cheese?
70. Does blue feels blue?
71. Who invented "yellow yellow dirty fellow sitting on a buffalo"?
72. Why did he use my fingers to eat ramen while I was playing chopsticks?
From fellow thinkers:
10/1/26
(From NMS)
1. Chirst and Hell together? Only in the university.
2. Is Parle G
amrutha? If so who is the god? Peter pan or Parle G girl?
3. Is the race always happening at the race course road? If so who decides the winner?
4. Who is amul and why does he make milk?
5. Does lux stands for luxandhra (Lakkasandhra) or luxembourg?
6. Are flat earthers secretly aliens?
7. Why doesn't santoor fix men's aging problem?
8. Is Ejipura flyover really a UNESCO sight? If not, why isn't anyone listing it?
9. Is Santoor allergic to men? If so how?
10. Do you have to be into MILFs to play in Santoor ads?
11. Did a spider really bite Peter Parker or is he secretly a gymnast?
12. Is Robin Hood's circus past a lie? Was he a pole dancer?
13. Samsung? Is it available on spotify?
14. Are congress leaders in karnataka pro players of musical chair? Where is the coaching centre?
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Context: The style of this blog draws inspiration from Julie Powell's blog, 'The Julie/Julia Project' and the content of this blog is an admiration of April Ludgate from Parks and Recreation.
Powell began her blog to challenge herself to finish at least one thing that she started and that one thing was what she loved dearly: cooking. Cooking recipes from her favorite chef, Julia Child. She cooked 536 recipes from Child's (plus Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle)
book, 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' across 365 days and wrote about her experiences online regularly. Her blogs ranged from merry to disappointments, however, she completed what she started. The format of this blog is adapted from her blogging style and you can compare the format with hers from Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia (2009) movie. Her original blog's introduction is a bit longer than mine/film's. You can also check her original Blogspot account here! Although I am not a fan of cooking, art of any form is worth my attention span. So, I guess am not an alien in her world, nor she in mine. And any popular art is the result of many consistent attempts, which both Julia Child and Julie Powell prove to you. On another side of art is dark comedy by April Ludgate, a "lively and colorful" character played by Aubrey Plaza in Michael Schur and Greg Daniel's Parks and Recreation. As a 15 year old watching her (me) first American sitcom, the Pawnee Parks and Rec Dept was successful in exercising her Duchenne's muscles so much that she would rewatch all the seven seasons through adulthood, even gag reels and deleted scenes. A 19 year old Ludgate joined the department as a dispassionate intern and was promoted to a full-time position as Ron Swanson's dispassionate administrative assistant within a month. Like Ron, her sincere determination to work is second to none. Among many instances that I would love to share to prove that right, a few are: when she rescheduled appointments of a Mr. X on June 50th or when she declared that national parks deserve funding because they are the best place for full moon werewolf transformation or the time when she was "regionally directing the Midwest whatever of who cares". In any case, you are lost in editing some speech, take her tip (seriously): "You should lose the first line, the last line and all of the other lines and instead just walk up to the mic and meow really loudly for 8 mins".
Before you might judge April Ludgate as emotionless, lazy and mean, would someone like that randomly make a marshmallow figurine of her boss/unrelated dad (Ron Swanson)? or would a meanie give the best job advice ("I'm going to tell you a secret about everyone else's job okay, no one knows what they're doing... deep down everyone is just faking it until they figure it out and you will too because you are awesome and everyone else sucks") to her lover (Andy Dwyer)? would an emotionless and lazy person be chosen by Leslie Knope (who said this: "April Ludgate is beautiful (stop), you are talented (no) but most importantly you're passionate about animals (that's true, it's because I'm half wolf)") to head Animal Control department? N-O.
For those of you who haven't met her in the sitcom, Sarah Todd beautifully sums April Ludgate in her blog,
'How to be Awesome Like April Ludgate': "...
still snarky and sarcastic and a lover of all things weird, and fundamentally good-hearted too". There's a microblog, 'Fuck Yeah, April Ludgate' created by another fan.The Boring Part - A New Publishing Style: This write-up embodies a style of publishing, that I believe, is only exclusive to Google Blogspot due to certain features. And these are simple. When you publish a blog post here, it allows you to reopen it and edit then re-publish this edited piece while either retaining the same original date the blog was published on or change it. What's the use of this? The way I see it, one could keep readers updated on their progress or development of 'something' regularly within a single space. These could be in the form of small notes or microblogs or anything insignificant to be published from time to time as multiple blogs. This way, the blog could be alive in some sense because it is being built regularly? rather than the usual: "publish a blog and don't touch it again" (even though you tried, you just can't re-edit it). But, without integrity, I think this style of writing is profoundly idiotic. What's the point if one adds in new content to the existing blog but also revises the old contents repeatedly to refine/perfect it? It would be like reading countless drafts of a gonna-be-done-but-don't-know-when blog. So, you could trust me or your own memory or use an AI tool to ensure that I only update the blog with new questions while leaving the existing contents untouched.
Rationale behind this blog: As my perishing humor is predicted to reach the end of universe faster than light, I reckon a fearsome possibility of growing as a young adult (I don't know, let's say three years?): PJs, failed impressions, fake laughter and non-silly/raunchy jokes. So, to preserve the quicksilver wit and deadpan sarcasm introduced to me by April Ludgate, I have decided to run this blog: 'The Amrutha/April Project' from today, 30th December, 2025 until 30th December, 2028. Instead of recipes, I would be writing deeply and HUMANLY (AI could never) thought questions about everything which even April might want to ask. As Powell cooked Child's 536 recipes across 365 days, I plan to ask 1,608 questions across 1,095 days (don't question these horrifying big numbers, I 'just' multiplied Powell's numbers by 3 for 3 years). Unlike other blogs that I have posted so far, this one shall be alive in some sense because it would've grown by a question or two every time (or at least some time?) you come back here. You can also contribute to this stupid project by commenting or mailing me illogic/bizarre/out-of-the-norm/silly/nonsense questions but please do not care to see your question alive if it is generated by AI or by common sense.
Disclaimer: On a serious note, kindly consider this blog only as a creative output rather than a mockery or work of disrespect towards either the late Julia Child or Julie Powell or Aubrey Plaza's character or any other community or people. Their works have been used as an inspiration. There is no intention to offend or demean anyone here, only silliness. Please reach out to my mail if in case anything upset you.
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