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perusing jewish astrologers for a side project and...wow that is a community strongly wedded to turn-of-the-century website design

suing a newspaper makes it rather difficult not to say that one got mad in said newspaper

ok, now yiddish novel adaptation edition:

the problem with many historical films of late is that they forget that the past is a foreign country, and the fact that they do things differently there often makes for a fascinating and entertaining film

TOMORROW I join Dr. Elissa Sampson and @annsplaining.bsky.social in a discussion on the rise International Workers Order, its work and its legacies, presented by the @workerscircle.bsky.social: Tues May 12, 7-8pm ET on Zoom

when the world’s smallest violin also happens to be a stradivarius

rewatching the first Devil Wears Prada and...it's more or less a royal court memoir: protagonist arrives, is briefly dazzled, intrigue ensues, they either stab or get stabbed in the back and have to decide whether to succumb to decadence or gtfo

Best adaptation of The Odyssey , wrong answers only

how your email finds me:

Some time ago (don’t ask when, I can’t remember), I giddily posted about a piece I was working on that I couldn’t wait to share. It finally pubbed today! For my @theatlantic.com debut, I followed opera diva and icon Denyce Graves in her final role before retiring from performance.

a nap is petit bourgeois

apparently the road to monticello was also paved with good intentions

a joyous matt b'omer to all who observe

please excuse my pedantry

Pleased as punch to announce next week I'll be joining Dr. Elissa Sampson and @annsplaining.bsky.social in a discussion of their chapters of "From Popular Front to Cold War: The International Left and the IWO, 1930-1954", presented by the @workerscircle.bsky.social: Tues May 12, 7-8pm ET on Zoom

this is actually an allegorical image of someone playing audio on public transit without earphones

Fact: The name Amadeus is derived from an ancient scribal abbreviation of an Augustinian prayer that began, "God, ask of me anything".

booth tarkington, never been surer of anything in my life

I’m not going to lie, I don’t think we should be having a Mets Gala this year. The team’s playing real poorly and they aren’t even in town for it.

it's all a bit much. i know that's the idea, but maybe we should get some new ideas

imagine shutting down half of the serene republic of venezia for your own damn wedding and then wearing this lol lmao

an entire relationship ended in part due to my vocal and sustained dislike of Moulin Rouge

the tiktokification of the modern marriage

this was superlative. one of the few series where, upon finishing it, I immediately considered watching it again

run an elaborate prester john scam

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

This upcoming @workerscircle.bsky.social event with @annsplaining.bsky.social @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social and Elissa Sampson looks great. 🕵️

a surprising amount of media, social and otherwise, seems to depend on the perpetual and deliberate production of material hovering at just about the point of utterly intolerable irritation

circa 2018, if you'd asked me what it is that I do (perennial question), I'd have answered, "Nu, 'kh'bin an arbeter in a yidisher kultur-fabrik", that is, "well, I'm a worker in a Jewish culture factory."

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Someone you know's going to be yappin' about Leonard Bernstein and yiddishkayt and bisexuality from the stage of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: www.aso.org/events/detai...

Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950) El Capitan, 1925. Coloured Woodblock.

not waiting around for this garbage press conference, i've got tickets to see mother mary. gurl bye

it's a shooting incident. it's a correspondent's dinner. apparently, it's now a combination shooting incident correspondent's dinner.

bette davis eye [sic]

behold the apotheosis of my callipygian appreciation

"discourse" is like Ellul's contention about technology, in that it exists merely to perpetuate itself

to the british lady who unironically posted today about keir starmer being married to "a jewess": ain't you got an agatha christie mystery you supposed to lurkin' about in the background of

memories

literally me as a music major with an emphasis in voice, RIP Holy Names University

Eartha Kitt performing in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1955

a lot of big feelings about a certain book adjacent to my particular little culture corner, watch me as I sit this one out 😶

In honor of Shakespeare's birthday, here's my setting of the song Full Fathom Five—in Yiddish, courtesy of Itshe Goldberg (1904-2006) youtu.be/hNp_P1_BrSM?...

growing up in the SF Bay Area, he was a one-man cultural institution; may his memory be for a blessing

watching Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark on the plane rn and they just recited Beh ana rachetz before opening the ark lmao

l'koved dem heylikn yontef fir hundert un tsvantsik youtu.be/OyERp5ck5dk?...

saw The Drama and...loved it?