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Suddenly awesome
Doing a virtual bike-the-length-of-England thing with Google streetview and came across this https://www.theshorely.com/articles/write-2-read
These missions are awesome in helping me discover awesome things I'd never know otherwise. I think it's safe to say that if I were planning a trip to England in real life I'd probably not even think of ( Read more... ) -
Легко на сердце от песни веселой
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQF8yjkibHc
TIL that the original of that song is this one, Adelita. -
Playgrounds
Caught myself paying extra attention to playgrounds as I do a virtual! biking! mission through Italy. Because apparently my brain needs to know just where to take the kids if I'm ever in Badia Pataglia irl. -
So, anyone here like Novella Matveeva?
and doesn't yet know Ellie Turner? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki1bOAecuRo
Note the similar voice, face, and lyrical heroine :) It's a damn reincarnation.
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Hanukkah
Yes, I do have the kind of household where I can deliver 25 bags of Hanukkah stuff (gifts, dreidels, nut-free gelt...) to school on a moment's notice, even during a quarantine. Yup. -
That grandparents thing
My grandparents used to carefully note Jews in the news, especially culture and science news. I don't, or quite rarely (Wonder Woman is the only exception I can think of). But I do know Melissa Johns and Nadia Albina (that woman is just incredible, seriously) and Angel Giuffria (and many others, including males and non-actors) and have opinions ( Read more... ) -
Langston Hughes, again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU4_nS2YDLk
This is the kind of thing that activates the patriot in me. -
Piranesi
Seemed like a very well-written, very beautiful, but overall quite forgettable book up until the last two pages. Now I have to re-read the whole thing again. Awesome. -
Book nook
Wanted a book nook. Did not want to spend $250+. Spent $50ish. Made a book nook. Now I have a book nook that's pretty much exactly what I wanted, definitely more what I wanted than anything I could buy.
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