I’m in America for the next couple of weeks so blogging will remain light.
I’m looking forward to flying domestically this afternoon. I can’t wait to experience American airport security. I hear it’s over the top.
I wonder if they’ll make me take off my shoes…
When refuseniks are our friends
Let’s ignore the latest undemocratic politicized nudnicks who are refusing to serve in the territories and instead focus on the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and reservists who put their lives at risk on a daily basis to ensure the survival of the Jewish state. Because when it comes down to it, that’s what it’s really about.
Personal message to my friend who refuses but who is at least somewhat pragmatic in his refusal….You know I love you like a brother and I would visit you in jail if need be but I completely disagree with your ideological stand.
At the very least we can agree on three things: 1) More people should be eating Ikra. 2) Tanks are actually fun and 3) Kool Aid is the nectar of the Gods.
I always thought it was pretty cool that the JNF and the Jerusalem Municipality give Christmas trees for free to anyone who wants one.
If you are celebrating Christmas in Israel this year click here to learn when and where you can pick up your tree.
I just spent the last twenty minutes throwing sufganiot (jelly donuts) at the mouths of Sharon, Fuad and Mitnza. Virtually of course. You too can have as much fun as I have been having all morning by clicking here.
Latkes are few and far between here on Hannukah. It’s all about the donut.
Chabon! Chabon! Chabon!
I have learned to embrace and not shun away from my nerdom past.
I freaking love comic books. Always have. I have also always loved to read. I’m also a Jew. So when Michael Chabon published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay I was in heaven. Yes, thousands and thousands of people all over the world read the book but how many of them knew that Chabon was alluding to the Fortress of Solitude when Josef Kavalier was in an ice-infested environment? Not many I suppose.
Anyway, two super cool Chabon news items.
The first is that the trailer for Spiderman 2 is online. Chabon of course scripted the movie. He also wrote a treatment for the first X-men movie but the studio wasn’t into it. You can check it out here on Chabon’s website.
Dark Horse comics will be releasing “The Amazing Adventures of The Escapist” which was the comic that Kavieler and Clay wrote in his novel. The comic will be released quarterly and according to the article in the Forward, “each adventure in the first 80-page anthology is illustrated in the style of a different comic-book era.”
Two words: KICK ASS
Mad, mad props and kavod to Steve at Protocols for linking to this article. You made my day.
I just learned via Dave from Israellycool that Israel is discontinuing the production of the UZI submachine gun. It’s very rare that you see these on the street anymore. By that I mean being carried by soldiers. I knew a guy who was in the Military Police who was given an UZI. He was so embarrassed by it that he would carry it around in his backpack.
This is a truly bizarre story.
A couple of days ago we had a huge 50 million shekel lottery draw. A bunch of people won including some guy who won the lottery three previous times. He and a business partner bought over 30,000 shekel worth of tickets.
Of the seven people who won, one dude is accussing some of associates of his of trying to extort him. This isn’t so strange, I am assumming it happens fairly often.
Here is the kicker…
The winner Yefim Yatskayer states in the Ha’aretz article:
Yatskayer said that his alleged partners had forced him to sign the memorandum of understanding with regard to sharing the prize under threats that “they will chop of his hand” if he refused to sign.
“I don’t need the money,” Yatskayer said, adding: “I am a drug dealer and money launderer; I have enough money, and my life and the lives of my family are more important.”
And you are also a moron for telling a newspaper reporter that you are a criminal.
This op-ed piece from the Jerusalem Post might be one of the most absurd items I have ever read.
It attacks the show “24″ for it’s negative Jewish stereotypes. What? You didn’t know that the evil Nina Myers is Jewish?
This dude is totally looking for something that doesn’t exist.
Read this:
But the deeper he investigates the conspiracy, the more he is forced to confront the coworker who is his ex-lover. Is she the reason the investigation does not run smoothly? In the end, it turns out that she is indeed an impediment, the deliberate cause of his problems at work as well as at home. And this seductress, the one who threatens our hero’s family stability and manipulates him into a position of undeserved guilt while she herself is the real guilty party, is a dark-haired woman named Myers.
First of all, Nina is way too pasty to be Jewish.
Does the naming the serial killer from the Halloween movie series Mike Meyers foment anti-Semitism and promote Jew hatred?
The idiot continues to grasp at straws…
In the large cast of first-season characters, Myers is not the only one with a Jewish name. There is a also a brief appearance by a character named Kofell, who is a sleazy international financier.
Yes, there was a character named Kofell. He was SERBIAN on the show.
What he also failed to mention was the character of Milo Freeman, a computer programmer who was called in after someone on the inside (a latino woman) betrayed her country. I’m assumming with a name like Freeman he is a member of the tribe.
Evildoers on 24 have included Arabs, Wasps, Serbs, Germans, American soldiers, a first lady and more.
Mr. Levinson, you are a fool and a conspiracy theorist who shouldn’t be allowed to watch television much less think.
First of all, 24 kicks ass. Except of course for Kim Bauer’s silly experiences (running away from a mountain lion?) . If you want to criticize the show, mention the fact that most of the woman on the show are either devious or helpless. Anti-Semitic, what are you joking?
I got stoned.
I got stoned this morning on the way to work.
No, I wasn’t pulling tubes in the front seat of my Honda civic. Not even close.
I was driving to work on Road 443 bopping my head and rocking out to Matthew Sweet’s Girlfriend album when I caught out of the corner of my eye a football sized rock coming over the hill to my right. When you are driving 120 kpm it’s not that easy to evade object without losing control of the vehicle. I braced myself for impact as the rock came crashing down right in front of my car. Luckily, it missed me, slammed into the ground into a bunch of pieces and I drove right over it. It was quite a surreal moment. Everything slowed down and it took me a couple of seconds to realize that the rock was thrown and hadn’t just fallen from the hill. While the rock was in the air it was quite apparent that it was volleyed over the hill. It wasn’t just a loose rock. I reported it to the soldiers at the roadblock about ten minutes up the road. Road 443 goes through the territories and is no stranger to rock attacks and shootings. For awhile, it was pretty much a shooting gallery. There was a time that no one really took the road because of the danger. I think it was the newspaper Ma’ariv that dubbed it “The Road of Death.”
According to Barak’s Camp David plan the road was supposed to be the border of Israel/Palestine. The Geneva Plans gives 433 to the Palestinians. Road 443 is a parallel route to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, not just any road. It’s a main artery and cuts the trip to J-town in half. They recently built a new bypass road and put up huge cement blocks to protect commuters from shootings and stonings.
Oh, and check this out. The song on the disc that was playing was “Divine Intervention.”
Believe it!
Wowsers. With all of the press surrounding the capture of Saddam Hussein what is a lonely blogger like myself who pretty much has nothing to say that isn’t being said better by others supposed to do?
Well for one thing I can post another photo of a scantily clad lady who wants to be an “erotic presenter” on the Israeli Playboy channel!
oh, and she’s an Australian immigrant! Oh my!
Wow! Now with war, the mafia, bank robbers, prostitution, corruption, and our very own American Idol and now Playboy we have finally achieved normalcy!
Theodore Herzl would be so proud!
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