Take advantage of me and I'll get too confused

[sovay]

I am incredibly tired, almost certainly because I slept as much as eight hours last night and my body's remembered how badly it misses that. Have some links.

1. Signal boost: nineweaving is trying to identify/translate some heirloom scrimshaw cutlery engraved in old cursive German. Anyone with familiarity in any of these areas, please check out her post!

2. Courtesy of humglum: Rachel Sermanni, "Pirate Song."

3. I had no idea Lovecraftian jazz was a thing: Reuben Bradley, Cthulhu Rising (2015). I am enjoying it on its own merits and also in the knowledge that Lovecraft hated jazz.

4. On the not uncomplicated question of Judaism and indigeneity: David Mevorach Seidenberg, "The Third Promise." The footnotes are worth not skipping.

5. Courtesy of handful_ofdust: Metropolis Reddit. There is a very specific audience for that joke, but it includes me.

Comments

[selkie]

Heeeeeeee.

[sovay]

Heeeeeeee.

I thought the audience might also include you.

[moon_custafer]

It included me as well.

[sovay]

It included me as well.

Continuing not surprised!

[thistleingrey]

Yay, the having of some sleep.

[sovay]

Yay, the having of some sleep.

Thank you! I have this fantasy of it happening more than once, even.

[thistleingrey]

That would be delightful! I hope for it.

[rosefox]

R. Seidenberg is one of my favorite current Jewish thinkers. Thanks for the link to that piece of his; I hadn't seen it.

[sovay]

Thanks for the link to that piece of his; I hadn't seen it.

You're welcome. This is the first piece of his I've read. What would you suggest next? ("Everything" is an acceptable answer.)

Re: Ah!

[rosefox]

Start at his website, neohasid.org. It looks a bit Timecubeish—I'm pretty sure he hand-coded it himself in 2005, and by the esthetic I'd have guessed a decade earlier—but everything on it is fascinating. He's got a plain-text mailing list as well and keeps it to one or two really interesting things a week. I've been on a couple of Zoom shiurim he's led and they were terrific. His focus is on environmentalism and ecology with a lot of Reb Zalman–style grounded mysticism, he writes his own liturgy, and he's got a great archive of nigunim just because. It's a very "hours of fascinated clicking" site, at least for me.

[cmcmck]

The indigeneity question is complex to those with Romani ancestry too.

I get both! Aren't I the lucky one?

[sovay]

I get both! Aren't I the lucky one?

You wouldn't be the person you are without it! You may be interested in this recent essay by Hilary Monahan: "The People You Only Think You Know."

[brigdh]

"Pirate Song" is excellent!

"The Third Promise" is also excellent, if in a very different way; thank you so much for linking it, lots of new ideas and perspective there for me.

And Metropolis Reddit - love it!

[sovay]

"The Third Promise" is also excellent, if in a very different way; thank you so much for linking it, lots of new ideas and perspective there for me.

You're welcome! See rosefox's comments for recommendations for the author in general. I'm glad you enjoyed the other two links as well.