I AM happy! It's weird, but nice. I have felt very cut off from the internet
Murk: But you're a God! The Sacred Glorificus! Glory: I'm a God in exile. Far from the Hellfires of Home and sharing my body with an enemy that stabs my boys in their fleshy little stomachs!
'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Strix - May 23, 2009 5:07:38 am PDT #10722 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Strix - May 23, 2009 5:11:41 am PDT #10723 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Yeah, I know, Brenda!! So weird. But it was funny. He was all "Er, I'm meeting my internet friends doyouwanttogo? I SWEAR this isn't freaky."
I was all "Weeelllll, lemme tell you a little secret..."
Calli - May 23, 2009 5:35:47 am PDT #10724 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
That's great, Barb!
And yay Erin!
It's a good morning/timely in Buffista land.
Laura - May 23, 2009 5:40:00 am PDT #10725 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Yay Erin! Lovely to see you.
Good to hear that Hambone has reunited with his parents.
It is pouring rain. I like it.
d - May 23, 2009 6:46:08 am PDT #10726 of 30000
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.
Packing SUX.
Hooray for Erin and bf and internets! Hooray for Hambone.
sumi - May 23, 2009 6:59:47 am PDT #10727 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Hooray for Erin and the BF and for Hambone finding his people.
Hil R. - May 23, 2009 7:02:53 am PDT #10728 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Interesting. The newest American Girl doll is Jewish. [link] Looks interesting, and even managed to not offend Abe Foxman, who's offended by pretty much everything in the world. I kind of wish they'd picked an earlier time period than 1914, though -- the first Jewish community in what would become the US was in New Amsterdam in 1653, but I can think of barely any popular culture depictions of Jews in America before about 1880.
Barb - May 23, 2009 7:17:43 am PDT #10729 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
My guess, Hil, is that they chose that time period to coincide with the rise of the union organizations. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was in 1911, so I wouldn't be surprised to see something similar occur in one of the subsequent books. Or to have her father risk his job with involvement in a union.
It's definitely interesting. I suspect Abby may want one for her birthday.
askye - May 23, 2009 7:23:29 am PDT #10730 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
I skipped! SLNRLBF is here! His flight was non eventful and with no delays !YAY! Yesterday while I was at work he put new memory into my desktop and made dinner for my aunt and I. It was very good!
Then last night we had a wonderfully amazing dinner at this small local place I've never been to before. It's only open for dinner Friday and Saturday (and lunch Tues-Sat) and the owner/chef made our wondeful dinner and came out to make sure everyone was enjoying things. (We beat the rush so it was only us and a four top). The dessert was the best, Peach Crisp topped with ice cream made in house. YUM!
Now SLNRLBF is trying to see if he can put in a new video card, and it looks like the answer maybe no...that my desktop is too old.
Hil R. - May 23, 2009 7:24:27 am PDT #10731 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Yeah, they do mention the labor movements in the article. I guess I just feel like this has been done so many times before. (What I'd love to see would be a story about a Jewish kid in the south or midwest in the 1870s or earlier. Because there were plenty of Jews there then, and those stories are almost never told.)
There's an anecdote in Joan Nathan's Jewish Cooking in America cookbook about a Jewish Union soldier during the Civil War, who was in a small southern town during Passover, and had almost nothing that he could eat. While walking around town, he noticed a little Jewish boy sitting on a front porch eating matzo, and asked if he could have a piece. The boy ran into the house shouting, "Mama! There's a damn Yankee Jew out here!" The mother came and gave him some food.
Actually, what I'd love to see, though not necessarily as a children's book, would be something that somehow involved Asser Levy. [link] One of my favorite Jewish American historical figures, and he'd practically never mentioned anywhere.