by danya | Aug 30, 2006 | Blog
There is an increasingly long list of things that I need for this project that are not found among the 120 lbs of books that I brought back with me from America. Some of them can be found online, but not all of them, and there’s a limit to how much vague...
by danya | Aug 29, 2006 | Blog
Despite trying to market themselves as a hip, sweatshop-free haven for social justice, it’s really a union-busting org with skeevy advertising practices and an unapologetically sexually harrassing CEO, with a habit of trying to intimidate media sources critical...
by danya | Aug 29, 2006 | Blog
There are some days you plan to work, and discover that all you got is sleeping instead. Dunno if it’s a low-grade bug or what, but it’s knocked me right out the last two days. Yesterday I slept most of the day until 4pm, and would have kept going but I...
by danya | Aug 27, 2006 | Blog
I got my second book of Etgar Keret short stories on Friday for the 2-hour bus trip each way to Haifa (people are pretty much back to the regular routine, though some still understandably quite rattled), and have been enjoying them so much I thought I’d post...
by danya | Aug 24, 2006 | Blog
The internet (or at least a section of it in which I occasionally dwell) is all abuzz with response to Forbes’ little ode to neanderthal dumbistry, Don’t Marry Career Women. (Note that they had to QUICK! find a woman to respond). The fact that women (as...
by danya | Aug 24, 2006 | Blog
It’s Elul. Can you believe it? I can’t, quite. I mean, it always comes as a surprise–hey! Tisha B’Av is over! We can play, now! Uh. And this year, with the heat and the summer and the relief of having a break from war (though the post-game...
