What's the best song to have sex to?

"The Lonely Goatherd" from The Sound of Music. If you don't have The Sound of Music-shameful!-then "If Momma Was Married" from Gypsy.

i was walking to work thinking about how to describe rebecca and sorelle's wedding to my goyishe coworkers and thinking about how weddings are generally described: oh it was beautiful, the service was beautiful, it was innovative it was this it was that. and really none of that makes sense for a traditional jewish weddding. the service is the same ( Read more... )

hey
i'm flying out of logan on air tran this saturday and wondered if anyone had on the ground reports on how nuts security has been this week. any experience.

i cannot believe it's been 10 years. i was a baby banned from going to the support demo at government center and now i'm an old burned out tired out geezer whose a veteran of my own battles and organizing drives ( Read more... )

Red November, black November,
Bleak November, black and red.
Hallowed month of labor’s martyrs,
Labor’s heroes, labor’s dead.

Labor’s wrath and hope and sorrow,
Red the promise, black the threat,
Who are we not to remember?
Who are we to dare forget?

Black and red the colors blended,
Black and red the pledge we made,
Red until the fight is ended,
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What do we think of the city buying a large chunk of coney?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/nyregion/12coney.html?_r=1&bl

What do you do with the chicken after you swing it around your head 3 times and kill it ( Read more... )

For me and many of my friends who were born and raised in Massachusetts but currently live far way we found ourselves reaching out to each other and to folks back home today as we worked through the unique feelings of loss for those of us from our great commonwealth. For us whose entire lives have been lived while Teddy was a ( Read more... )

Anti Busing sign from a September 1974 demo at Boston City Hall Plaza "SWIM FOR YOUR LIVES KENNEDY IS DRIVING THE BUS!"

oh teddy

Hello all
I'm a graduate student in the U.S. writing a paper about recent Irish immigration and I'm looking for folks who emigrated to the U.S. between 1975 and 1995 and would be willing to fill out a quick survey about your experience here. I'm writing about the experiences of the "new Irish" (or whatever you want to call yourselves) relating to  ( Read more... )