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Most hated word: "Alternative"
When I was about 14, I started getting into "alternative" music, but within a couple of years I hated the label and started avoiding its use. The trigger was a conversation with a friend of my dad's, who shared my obsessive love of music but whose taste was dramatically different (barbershop and 1950s film soundtracks, I think). He was interested ( Read more... ) -
Yom Kippur: why I fast
About an hour ago, the sun set, not that anyone here in Seattle would have known the difference in today's unusually stereotypical weather. This marked the start of Yom Kippur, for which I will be fasting until sunset tomorrow ( Read more... ) -
Shana Tova
Well, the fiery sunset this evening ushered in the Jewish New Year, 5771. There are a lot of customs associated with this, of which I've only ever kept a few.
( the ones I do at least some years )
