Some of my relatives send me joke emails that have made the rounds, like relatives do. This one actually made me laugh out loud:
Jewish Ice Cream ( Read more... )

Thank this rabbi!

Well. Turkey has recalled its ambassador from Israel over Israel's raiding of a humanitarian aid flotilla, which has so far resulted in the deaths of nine (or ten, depending on which report I'm reading) people and the injuring of at least seven more. The diplomatic repercussions are quickly rippling outward. It's looking bad. Really bad ( Read more... )

Me: bwahaha. http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/MY-SISTER-SAID-IF-I-GET-ONE-MILLION-FANS-SHE-WILL-NAME-HER-BABY-MEGATRON/333067975442Read more... )

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Last night's conversation over seder dinner included explaining the distinction between the categories "kosher" and "pesadich" for those who were unsure of the difference, as several of the guests did not grow up Jewish. Then someone asked whether brains are kosher l'pesach, and the proximity of Pesach to Easter led someone else to make a joke ( Read more... )

Happy new Jew year to fellow members of the tribe! :)

No deaths, illness, injuries, or crises this year for the people I care about, pls.

Also, happy Eid al-Fitr!

Trowa has a theatre work day tomorrow afternoon/later today. Earlier I thought perhaps that would be a good time to go to the gym...until I remembered that it would be Easter Sunday. Then I thought maybe it I could go for a walk and find people to go with me...until I realized that many of the people likely to want to accompany me probably had ( Read more... )

* Fucked-Up Jewish Thing

Reading this article about Israel's increasing recalcitrance over accepting American Jews as "real" Jews made me so angry I swore out loud and flipped the bird at my computer screen ( Read more... )

One of the memes floating around at the moment is for one to comment in someone's post in order to be asked to explain seven items from one's interest list. For supergee and classics_cat:

Chindogu (both of them asked about this one)
Chindogu is sort of a Japanese Dadaist concept. It's the art of taking something useful and making it useless in a way that's ( Read more... )