It's funny how music can jog your memory.  I was just talking with a friend of mine whom I haven't seen in a while.  She told me she was on a bus Saturday night, and her iPod played a song I had recommended her, after which she couldn't stop thinking of me.  It was very flattering, but it got me thinking about how certain songs bring me back to ( Read more... )

On the 3 train last night, some girl was practicing her pole dancing moves for her friends across the aisle from me.  I was in too much shock to move, so I took out my chumash and started learning last week's parsha just so I wouldn't have to see some obnoxious girl shaking her fat behind and kicking her feet up in the air.   They got off at the ( Read more... )

The King of Fighters Wing


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Did you watch the baseball game or the debate last night?

Neither.  I listened to the debate on the radio and rooted heartily for the Dodgers.

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Rosh Hashanah was great this year.  I davened with Yossi, Gershon, and Menachem Eliyahu at 770.  It was very crowded, but for the first time in my life, the davening was literally enlivening.  I finished Sefer Tehillim over the course of both days, also for the first time, and the farbrengen at the end of the yomtov was surprisingly emotional.  It ( Read more... )

I wonder why some of this footage never made it onto Video Days. NB Jason Lee's frontside airs and that kickflip 50-50. And, of course, his 360 flips. Mark Gonzales and Danny Way are also rad, but I'm too tired to go into it.

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Haven't been able to update as much as I'd like, but fortunately it's because my friend Roma hired me to do some part time data entry on his jewelry website.

Went to the Crown Heights branch of the Brooklyn Public Library today with Leah and Menachem.  I needed to print out a bus ticket, but there was a two-hour wait for a computer.  Some girl ( Read more... )

Turns out that lady who gave me a hard time outside of Kol Tuv has a reputation for being difficult.  I know a couple people who've had trouble with her.  She once told my friend's wife that she wasn't helping to bring the geulah because she didn't give her enough money.  I forget if that was the first or the second time she yelled at my friend's ( Read more... )

Shacharis felt like it took forever today.  It was only an hour or so, which is not bad considering we heard krias hatorah today, but lately I've become impatient with my davening.  Davening has become like a race for me.  I can't get it out fast enough.  I have friends who really take their time and daven with kavana, but mine is more of a "knock ( Read more... )

What is the scariest experience you've had with Mother Nature?
Submitted by jacolily.

I'm going to channel Rabbi Yosef Wircberg and tell you that Mother Nature is really Father Elokim!

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