by danya | Jan 29, 2007 | Blog
And there was a pigua in Eilat. Baruch Dayan ha-Emet.
by danya | Jan 23, 2007 | Blog
…when you spend four hours trying to make two paragraphs work.
by danya | Jan 23, 2007 | Blog
Chicagoans take sports very seriously.
by danya | Jan 21, 2007 | Blog
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...
by danya | Jan 21, 2007 | Blog
Why do I find this hysterically funny?
by danya | Jan 17, 2007 | Blog
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...
by danya | Jan 15, 2007 | Blog
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...
by danya | Jan 14, 2007 | Blog
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial...
by danya | Jan 13, 2007 | Blog
Butch is a Noun author S. Bear Bergman is an extraordinarily talented writer and performer, and this flyer is too cute not to post. If you live in the area, you should definitely go.
by danya | Jan 10, 2007 | Blog
Yesterday I had an errand to run towards the city center, so I decided to nip over to Mea Shaarim as long as I was in the area. Dressed in a long skirt and such, I wound my way over to that one street where I always buy books (I forget what it’s called–the...