April 2010
1 post
“There is evidence that maggots and carrion beetles, but not carnivores, fed upon...”
– New York Times line of the day.
May 2009
5 posts
Saturday Night in Tel Aviv
You know what really cool people do when they are in a notorious party city on a notorious party night? They do their laundry. Yup. At least I had dizi nearby. The joint has laptop rentals, sanwiches, coffee, beer and washing machines. I am a nerd.
Hula Valley
Spent Shabbat camping in the Hula Valley up in the Galilee. Nothing beats waking up to a plunge in the Jordan River. Made some new friends, including Mihael, who picked me up on the side of the road, and his tad girlfriend Na’ema. It was freezing at night, but I made up for that lack of sleep with a doze in the hammock the following day.
The ride back was great. Lara analyzed my...
Hit the ground running in Jerusalem today. I hardly slept on the 11 hour flight, but wanted to make the most of it so I dropped off my bag and went straight to the Old City where I just wandered around and befriended some kids in the Muslim Quarter. One of them shot me with a water gun and I think they were surprised when I laughed and squirted them back with my water bottle. So the took me to...
Tomorrow
I am taking this tumble to the Middle East. Join me.
October 2008
3 posts
Election night assignment
One ticket to Chicago, please. See you bastards on the other side.
“Hugh Hewitt: Now Governor, the Gibson and the Couric interview struck many as...”
– Thanks for the hardball questions, Hugh Hewitt! It must be very embarassing being asked what magazines you read. I’m thrilled about SP’s degree in journalism. It’s so nice to have someone in your field running for office. I would’ve LOVED to be in her journalistic ethics...
September 2008
10 posts
So, John McCain Wants Irish Taxes...
Tonight in the debate John McCain said we should tax our businesses more like they do in Ireland. Hey, I love Ireland! My boyfriend is Irish!
He said they tax businesses at 11% (OK, so it is actually 12.5%…who is counting?). That’s awesome. Ireland sounds great for my business. Sign me up. I mean, a country with less than 4.5 million people must have an economy totally...
My girl Martha is OK, phew! →
I’ve been worried. Very worried. No new posts from The Martha Blog have shown up in my Google Reader since September 4th. I was so worried about my girl Martha! I’d check for them every day…to no avail! Was she back in the big house? Was she checking Alexis into a home?
Then I remembered that you can actually, like…read blogs and stuff at their actual URLs. ...
You must never look at this video. Promise me. →
RIP Thomas Doerflein. You were an existential Timothy Treadwell.
The Podiatrist
Tomorrow morning I have to go to the podiatrist. Who goes to see a podiatrist? Old jews, that’s who. And they’re not even real doctors. Next thing you know I’ll be going to the chiropractor and an osteopath…like The Wrong Man.
“Elizabeth Brooks, Andrew Parks
…Mrs. Parks, 37, is a director of...”
– Hope the wedding was better than the week!
No Sunday Morning
I just moved. Tomorrow morning when I wake up I’ll have no way to watch the Sunday morning shows. I’ll just imagine a bunch of surrogates saying stuff about the economy.
I hear they are letting Douglas Holtz-Eakin talk again after his admission that McCain invented the Blackberry. Chris Dodd is back, too. Truth be told, I will miss Sunday Morning the most. They’ll be...
Burritos and Veuve Cliquot Ponsardin
Dinner of champions.