Fairytale In The Supermarket

[koganbot]

Yesterday my girlfriend and I heard, piped into the King Soopers supermarket on Speer and 14th, near where I work (serves a Hispanic neighborhood to the west, downtown to the east, Auraria Campus to the north), Television's "See No Evil." I'd certainly never heard anything like it - classic Velvets-Byrds-Wagner derived avant garage from the first

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happy new year dude!

[dubdobdee]

for some (ignorant: i just googled it) reason i'd always imagined the surname "kogan" to be irish! mine is also almost certainly east european jewish -- on facial feature my sister and i both get the assumption now and then, her more than me -- tho if it is an ancestor (probably in liverpool) assimilated so rigorously that no word ever trickled down... my dad's father used to insist (a bit too often; a bit too defensively) that it was an old anglo-saxon name: but surely if it were we'd occasionally encounter other sinkers who didn't turn out to be second cousins? anyway, it's left us both without a trace of heritage except a vague sense of affinity (for jews but for immigrants generally i think

Re: happy new year dude!

[koganbot]

Hogan, Cogan, and Coogan are all Irish. But Kogan is what happens when the Jewish surname "Cohen" is transliterated into Russian. The surname contains the claim that I'm descended from Jewish priests at the time of the Temple (Wikip reports that "Kohen"/"Cohen" is the Hebrew word for priest) and that I'm directly descended from Aaron brother of Moses.

From "Squeezed From The Tube," originally published in Why Mildred Skis #5, though you might also recognize it from Part 6 ("Fuck Machines And Razor Blades") of Real Punks Don't Wear Black:

Once, when my mother worked for the Massachusetts Housing Authority, she went to see the mayor of Springfield. He boomed out across to her as she entered his office, "Mrs. Hogan, you don't look Irish, but I'm pleased to meet you."

They did business with this firm that my mother called "St. Louis Hit and Run" (real name was St. Louis Screw and Bolt).
["They" being the Housing Authority, not Mom and her nonpaisano in the Springfield city government.]

Re: happy new year dude!

[belecrivain]

Sometimes I feel sorry for my kids, who both have a Scottish first name and an Irish last name (technically they both have Hebrew names, though that almost never comes up), in addition to an atheist dad and an ambivalent mom, and they'll have to run around going, "No, Jewish, really(My mother's father's family emigrated from newly-independent [IIRC] Hungary in 1920, in a spot of really fantastic timing; the understanding of my mother's mother's family is murkier but we think they came over from what is now Latvia in the 1880s or so

All K-Pop is temporary K-Pop?

[davidfrazer]

I looked up the quotation on HyunA's t-shirt from that performance, and it's an installation by artist Robert Montgomery. It occurs to me that it could be interpreted as a comment on the ephemeral nature of pop music, pop stardom, etc. etc...