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

[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.