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I wonder what they taught you in your PPE degree
I have slept in the sense of napping in the middle of my day. At this rate I might be awake for the eclipse if it isn't rained out.
I called both of my senators and my representative to thank them for writing and signing on to the letter calling for the release of Rümeysa Öztürk and answers in the matter of her Constitution-testing detention. This op-ed from Tufts alumni making a call of their own on their alma mater is urgent and clear. This administration keeps pushing the far-reaching fast-tracked xenophobia of the last of the Alien and Sedition Acts. John, on that one, you really should have sat down.
If I see one more article referring to Chaim Grade's Sons and Daughters (2025) as the last great Yiddish novel, I am going to start demanding that one of my friends write the next great one instead. On that front, if demographically relevant to you, please tell the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston to get their heads into a sharper statement than that sand.
Recent conversation has reminded me once again of just how much of Babylon 5 (1993–98) lives rent-free in my head, often soundtracking the politics I have found myself living through. The heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots never does seem to go out of style, but it looks like the latest diamond-tipped needle-drop is "It doesn't matter if they'd stop! It doesn't matter if they'd listen! You had an obligation to speak out."
I called both of my senators and my representative to thank them for writing and signing on to the letter calling for the release of Rümeysa Öztürk and answers in the matter of her Constitution-testing detention. This op-ed from Tufts alumni making a call of their own on their alma mater is urgent and clear. This administration keeps pushing the far-reaching fast-tracked xenophobia of the last of the Alien and Sedition Acts. John, on that one, you really should have sat down.
If I see one more article referring to Chaim Grade's Sons and Daughters (2025) as the last great Yiddish novel, I am going to start demanding that one of my friends write the next great one instead. On that front, if demographically relevant to you, please tell the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston to get their heads into a sharper statement than that sand.
Recent conversation has reminded me once again of just how much of Babylon 5 (1993–98) lives rent-free in my head, often soundtracking the politics I have found myself living through. The heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots never does seem to go out of style, but it looks like the latest diamond-tipped needle-drop is "It doesn't matter if they'd stop! It doesn't matter if they'd listen! You had an obligation to speak out."
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I am sorry they broke those links! I would love to read your Great Yiddish Novel. The doikayt levels would be ass-kicking. My grandparents who were first-generation in this country would still speak it occasionally with one another into my childhood, but did not teach their children for what I have always assumed were standard assimilation reasons, although the transmission of lullabies was faithful enough that when I began to teach myself Yiddish, I could tell that the family version of "Oyfn Pripetshik," which of course has different vowel sounds from YIVO standard, had variant lyrics as well. Do you mind if I ask where your grandparents were from?
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I grew up saying "Russian-Polish Jewish" and nowadays it's mostly Ukraine. If you see me and
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I always thought I was Russian-Polish and then I went to Ukraine and found out Galicia was there. So now I get to claim stolen Ukrainian valor.
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Yeah, and look what happens when you hang around to elocute.
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...I can let myself out the back.
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(Someday, maybe. I don't write with any facility in Yiddish outside, like, a letter about summer vacation. But of all the accolades, what a limiting one, even if he did deserve it, which, no.)
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It's been a very face-breaking kind of
weekmonthyear! Intermingled with whiplashes of loveliness so the cortisol doesn't even know what to do.(Someday, maybe. I don't write with any facility in Yiddish outside, like, a letter about summer vacation. But of all the accolades, what a limiting one, even if he did deserve it, which, no.)
Right? What a thing to say about a language! I still think you should start with flash fiction and work your way up.
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So, so agree with that quote from Babylon 5.
(And thanks for sharing the op-ed)
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I'm certainly going to pester the chances I know!
So, so agree with that quote from Babylon 5.
Once it clicked into recognition, it hasn't left.
(And thanks for sharing the op-ed)
Thank you for making me aware of it.
*hugs*
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Babylon 5. Best show I ever saw.
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I watched it as it aired from about the second season on. It was the first television show I ever followed. It glommed itself immediately into my brain. As God is my witness, I thought it was normal to have queer Ashkenazi Jewish women being awesome in space on American TV.
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I did not know that about Claudia Christian until now, but yes, yes it was normal for a time.
I started watching partway through the first season, and caught up on borrowed videotapes, and mourned O'Hare's departure. And then when I learned more of what happened (JMS opening up because O'Hare said to tell the story once he was dead), mourned again.
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I do not know that the actor matches the character in every particular, but Ivanova was an entirely unmarked category for me and I didn't think about it for years, except for the awesomeness, which was even then galactically evident.
I started watching partway through the first season, and caught up on borrowed videotapes, and mourned O'Hare's departure. And then when I learned more of what happened (JMS opening up because O'Hare said to tell the story once he was dead), mourned again.
I was glad to know what had happened. I still hate how many of the cast have been lost.
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Babylon 5 lives in my brain as well.
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Your icon!
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I love Bester so much, and Koenig did such a good job on him.
Londo and G'Kar also are deep loves, and we recite a lot of their lines back and forth.
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He's who Walter Koenig always looks like to me.
Londo and G'Kar also are deep loves, and we recite a lot of their lines back and forth.
Coming around eternally on the guitar: "Arrogance and stupidity, all in the same package! How efficient of you."