Six years later, I still love this sketch. I think what most resonates for me (as a “half-a-Jew”) is that it highlights both ends of that experience of being “mixed”, how in the space of five minutes you can whipsaw from feeling like a Jew-weirdo-outcast to feeling not-Jew-enough. In a single convo you can go from feeling feel the cut of someone else’s bigotry to finding yourself voicing and breathing fresh life into that very same bigotry. #America!
There’s a folder on my desktop (which I don’t recall creating) labelled “for blogging.” It contains this file, with the filename “HowAnEclipseWorks.jpeg” and no further explanation or notes. Your guess is as good as mine.
This story from 2015 by Naomi Kritzer:
“So Much Cooking” by Naomi Kritzer
[ photo credit: “chicken soup” by seattleang is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 ]
(original for those unfamiliar, the medieval Xmas edition for classy mofos, a kinda boring new-jack swingy jazz version, and this one with a sorta fun Ani DiFranco vibe)
Good friend (and maven of Arbor Teas) Aubrey Lopatin recently shared this song with me and reminded me I wrote this novella for her and her hubbie roughly one-billion years ago: Expiration Date.
In honor of this Season of Joy and New Beginnings, I offer this free read and song to you, my all my Best Belovéd Readers.
Enjoy!
UPDATE: OMFG! In late December a frozen tardigrade became the first ‘quantum entangled’ animal in history (researchers claim). If you’re a child of the 1970s, you no doubt appreciate the fact that this is the first ever successful creation of artificial extra-sensory perception (ESP) in an animal!!!1!
(Meanwhile, if you are a scientist or someone who read the entire article, you more likely appreciate that these researchers “did not entangle a tardigrade with a qubit in any meaningful sense”—but it’s still neat that they took a tardigrade down to nearly absolute zero and successfully revived it. Hearty lil fellas, right?)
yeah, we’re back to involuntary homeschool again here in Ann Arbor, MI. *sighs*
This was presented by choreographer Sadeck Waff (in white) as part of the the closing ceremonies at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games (the 2024 games will be in Paris).
Another cut from the inimitable Clarence Carter. (And, yes, you smart cookies and Die Hard aficionados do indeed recognize that opening horn lick.)
