On my way back from Kol Tuv this evening, I stopped to give some change to a lady sitting outside on a milk crate.  Shnorrers are commonplace in Crown Heights, and they let us fulfill the important mitzvah of tzedaka.  Sometimes they bother me, though.  I had a couple pennies in my hand.  This woman did not want pennies; she said if I couldn't give ( Read more... )

I've been trading text messages all day with a friend whom I've gotten hook on TMBG's "James K Polk" song.made this to send him in a pix message.


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Comics related segment on NPR about the late Jackie Ormes.  Check it out here.

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If you could, which film would you un-watch or which book would you un-read?
Submitted by Kate.

Eh, probably Free Willy.

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We're in the last nine days of a 30-day period right now during which it's prohibited to listen to music.  Do you know how hard that is?  These last nine days are especially stringent.  I was pretty lax about it up until now, but I'm doing my best to refrain from prohibited activities during the Nine Days.  It ends with Tisha B'Av, or the Ninth ( ( Read more... )

We're in the last nine days of a 30-day period right now during which it's prohibited to listen to music. Do you know how hard that is? These last nine days are especially stringent. I was pretty lax about it up until now, but I'm doing my best to refrain from prohibited activities during the Nine Days. It ends with Tisha B'Av, or the Ninth ( ( Read more... )

Shneur lent me his copy of the Goonies recently.  Can I just say i haven't watched a movie that fun in a while?  And the commentary was just as awesome; I couldn't believe they were able to get the whole cast back for that session.

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I keep having these dreams about high school.  There's one girl in particular who keeps showing up, mostly as a peripheral character.  We were friends in middle school and high school, nothing romantic, which is how it stays in these dreams.  Last night I dreamt I was visiting the high school a couple years after having graduated and gone on to ( Read more... )

Just found out one of my favorite comicbook artists suffered a fatal heart attack last Sunday (Aug 12).  I was just rediscovering Wieringo's art via his internet presence, and perhaps even took for granted the diligence with which he kept his fans in the loop.  My friend Dan-David hipped me to Wieringo's artwork when he gave me a stack of ( Read more... )