The fact that the Nazis want the Ark of the Covenant but don't like that it's Jewish feels like the most potent metaphor in the film

Mr. Wonderful: What do you have for Shark Tank? Me: Chum! (Throwing bloody fish segments at the judges) SO MUCH CHUM! A megalodon: (One of the judges for some reason) I will buy that for one million dollars!

I barely remember Hollywoodland except for the scene where Ben Affleck, in Superman costume, must talk down a child with a real pistol who wants to see if bullets bounce off him. Apparently a true story.

Cream: (their revised first draft) She's some kind of demon messin' in the glue Demons like glue if I say they do

Tevye: If I were a rich man Me: He would be very wasteful with money, good grief

60 percent of more Reform rabbis were former Jewish summer camp songleaders. I can’t confirm this number, but it feels right.

What a week for new beginnings

Watching Romero’s The Crazies, often represented as a sort of viral Day of the Dead but actually explores the idea that the worst thing you can do is send the military into an American town

Michael Jackson: I don't care what they say, I can't live in a world without glove

Me: Frankenstein was the real monster. You: Ah, Victor. Me: What! No! William! He basically shouts, "Do you know who my father is?" anytime things get stressful. Ugh. Pure privilege!

I believe that Islamophobia is just as odious and deserves just as much attention and condemnation as antisemitism, and people who are hateful to my Muslim cousins are not safe for me as a Jew either.

Very little studio interest in my pitch for an extreme slow TV sitcom, Dead Sheldon

I'm not exaggerating when I say the Talmud is about 10,000 times more concerned with palm trees than Jesus

Prince: (suffering at summer camp) Nurple pain, nurple pain

The semiotics of this campaign fascinate me. Here they use an ecstatically optimistic rock-gospel song by Jewish songwriter Norman Greenbaum, who was raised Orthodox, s song that borrows from Native spirituality, a Johnny Lee Hooker riff, and Porter Wagoner.

God, we really are all just dust in the wind. Kerry Livgren, you were on to something.

Me: (Election Day) I’m waiting to see who Mechagodzilla endorses

This is framed very oddly. ”Faith“ is an extremely Christian way to phrase it, and atheist Jews pray all the time, there’s a whole nontheistic movement in Judaism.

Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam George Martin won't finish The Game of Thrones

Me explaining that dogs can change size at will

Godzilla represents a desire in all of us for our reputation to shift from being seen as a villain to a good guy while changing our behaviour in no way, shape or form.

Percy Bysshe Shelley: So pleased my wife's novel is remembered in so grand a manner as this, what is it called, photoplay? I wonder how I fare in this world of the morrow? (Opens BlueSky) What the f

Take my tears and that's not nearly all --

I want to give my dog a Bark Mitzvah, but he's really struggling with his haftorah.

Ezra Pound

Me: (approaching the open mic with a violin) I'd like to play some Vivaldi. (Leaning into the microphone) VIVALDI, WHOA OH WHOA OH CANTARI, WHOA OH WHOA OH

Consummate pro. Dan can write a story like "Man gets mud on boot" and it will be read by 30,000 people.

Bruce Springsteen wailing on an unreleased track:

If I were a doctor and I owned a mansion, I would call it Good Bedside Manor

Me: What's this flavor? Cook: Eye of newt. Me: Must be the seasoning of the witch.

Watched Grey Gardens last night. Fascinating film from several perspectives, not the least is Little Edie's almost avant-garde representation of herself as an undiscovered theatrical sensation -- which proved to be true, as people are still fascinated by her.

I guess if I were rich, I would not have a party based on a book whose theme is "rich people are oblivious, destructive mobbed-up creatures of unearned privilege, boundless cruelties and bottomless racism whose money protects them from consequences."

So today I found out that MTV has basically become endless rebroadcasts of one show I have never watched or heard of, consisting of clips from the internet, and they have cancelled it

My dog: (staring at playing cards, tail wagging furiously) Me: Fold

An oversized tub perfect for languishing

It’s not intrinsically Jewish. Jewish surnames were often administrative, and so Jews simply grabbed common names from the region. This is a German/Czech name.

I forgot how weird The Bad Seed is on the topic of adoption

Linkedin really isn’t set up for people with ADHD who started college in 1986, returned every decade for a year, and will finish their degree next May. It looks like they went to school continuously for 40 years.

Watching Bake Off even though Jasmine is unbeatable

I watched Radu Jude’s Dracula last night, a 3-hour Romanian film that pretends to be a series of incompetently made AI shorts about the vampire but is instead a series of outrageous metaphors for Marx’s claim that capitalism is vampiric.

Leftists: There is no antisemitism on the left. Also leftists: Spend 24 hours screaming at Jews that Christians get to be Jewish.

I have a dislike button, it’s called “block”

This is not a multiple of 18

You: Remember El DeBarge? Me: (faking it) Sure, the the barge.

Wenis flytrap

🎃Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash. The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash! Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast - Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!🎃

(Sadly) I'm not sure that removing the hyphen from antisemitism is helping

LL Cool Beans

Ozymandias Time destroyed his statue Yes YES The statue is just feet

As an Celtic who was adopted by Jews, I really don't understand when people are like, oh, the Jews should know better, how are their fascist Jews. How are there fascist Irish-American or Scots? And there are a lot of them! They both experienced genocidal colonialism!