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Me vs. 21.7%
OK, 78.3% done with this draft. I need to tinker a bit with the last section and put footnotes in a form recognizable to anyone but me, but dangit, I have to move on--by next Monday at the latest. February is the Official Month of Chapter Nine. I have two more...
Tu B’Shvat Hegia
In honor of the approach of Tu B'Shvat, I'm going to make a point of recycling--Torah, that is. Here's something I wrote a year ago for Radical Torah; I know some of you have seen it, but perhaps not everyone has? I'm cranking hard to get Chapter Eight out of my life...
Damn damn damn
And there was a pigua in Eilat. Baruch Dayan ha-Emet.
and then there are the days
...when you spend four hours trying to make two paragraphs work.
Civic Pride!
Chicagoans take sports very seriously.
Free and Spendy.
I've had a little voyage into the bowels of socialized medicine recently, and it never ceases to amaze me. The amount of paperwork and forms and things that need to be faxed back and forth is dizzying (but then, oops, the thing is classified as the wrong kind of...
Today’s Photograph
Why do I find this hysterically funny?
Time Flies When You’re Writing a Book (and Checking Email a Lot).
This is the first year in many that I haven't been on an academic schedule--ramping up at the beginning of the semester, beginning to work hard, buckling down seriously with papers, midterms, etc., digging in to finals, then having a break, switching gears (to work,...
MLK Day II
Sort of, anyway. AKMA dug up one of these pieces recently, and it got me thinking about the other. Here's some thinky-funny-thinky-maybe-a-little-too-poignant viewing from the archives of classic Saturday Night Live for your Monday. First, the eternally relevant skit...