I rode down on Saturday night with a Craigslist rideshare, accompanying a guy in his early 20's along with the 50-something owner of the car. Exactly six hours later, we pulled up to the beautiful home of the driver's friends, a warm and generous Rabbi and her husband. They graciously put us up for the night and insisted that I not hesitate to call ( Read more... )

Ricardo Montalban died today, aged 88

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIL3fbGbU2o

Belated Elvis birthday greetings, in the form of a truly masterful Elvis/Bollywood mashup on youtube. Shahrukh & Aish feat. Elvis. This is several kinds of awesome ( Read more... )

In honor of which we pay our annual visit to the Cavalcade of Bad Nativities:

http://www.goingjesus.com/cavalcade/

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I am sick ( Read more... )

At times, it seems like everything that is cool and special and unique to Hartford is specially targeted for removal or destruction. It's like the people who call the shots are hell-bent on establishing a baseline of homogenous mediocrity, when in fact highlighting and supporting the people, events, organizations and businesses that make this small ( Read more... )

An attempted carjacking of a VW Syncro Adventurewagen camper in a Whole Foods parking lot in Berkeley, CA was foiled when the 54 year old woman driver administered a beat-down to her armed assailant. I especially liked the part where she grabbed his gun and threatened to shoot his balls off. In case you had any residual doubt, this proves that we ( Read more... )

It took me four hours to file for unemployment yesterday ( Read more... )

I was borrowing J-Hi's car this past rainy Tuesday morning, dropping Sister Cofi's daughter off at daycare and stopping by the high school so she could give something to her son while her upstairs neighbor watched the baby. I felt a sense of a sort of inner-city domesticity in this ragtag extended circle of children and adults finding ways to ( Read more... )