Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades launches chemical weapon at Israel?
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed that they launched a chemical weapon at southern Israel.
The group had recently claimed to possess about 20 biological warheads for the makeshift rockets commonly fired from Gaza at Israeli towns. This was the first time the group had claimed firing such a rocket.“The al-Aqsa Brigades have fired one rocket with a chemical warhead” at southern Israel, Abu Qusai, a spokesman for the group, said in Gaza.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said the army had not detected that any such rocket was fired, nor was there any report of such a weapon hitting Israel.
The al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade are the an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement.
Overheard in a Modi’in Cafe….
So I’m sitting at a nice little cafe with my friend Frankie watching the US-Ghana World Cup match.
This guy comes in, sits at the bar, takes a look at the screen and says, “Which team is Ghana?”
We don’t need no Roger Waters…
Roger Waters made a stop to the security barrier and spray painted “No Thought Control” on a section of the barrier that is actually a wall (less than 10 percent is actually a wall) near Bethlehem. “No Thought Control”? Pretty damn cheesy if you ask me. And absurd. Considering that Israel has a free press - and the Palestinian Authority does not.
Thanks for coming Mr. Waters, would you like to take a dump on my kitchen table?
I have a serious problem with his visit. First of all, he moved the venue from Tel Aviv to Neve Shalom, which is going to seriously affect traffic in my area tonight. Recommendations are to leave work early. The venue has a few small roads and can’t handle the traffic. It’s going to be a nightmare. (Update: The concert still hasn’t started because of traffic. It’s 9:25 p.m.)
Secondly, he’s getting mad bank for this show, I’m certain he doesn’t sell 35,000 55,000 tickets to his shows elsewhere in the world. So he’s invited over for dinner and basically takes a shit on our collective kitchen table.
It’s not like Pink Floyd is relevant without Gilmore anyway…
UPDATE: Let me just add that this fucker isn’t coming here for altruistic reasons and because he cares so much for Israel and wants to promote peace. If it was really that important to him it would be a free show and he would actually do something proactive rather than a lame photo op. What an ass. I hate him. And I hate the song Money. Welcome to the Machine is pretty cool though.
Chabon says Portman for Kavalier and Clay movie
My dear Natalie Portman (she’s pretty) is a “strong likelihood for the part of Rosa” in the movie adaption of one of my most favorite novels ever - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - according to author Michael Chabon.
Good casting.
Golems = Awesome.
Birthright Mega-event Weirdness
I attended the birthright mega-event at Latrun the other night. At times I felt I was either in a dream sequence from a bizarre comedy or a Fellini movie. Lot of strange costumes, bad beards, drum circles, an insane actor playing Ben-Gurion (I think!) and a lot of people on stilts. I was actually surprised that there weren’t midgets in jester costumes. Funniest moment however was seeing Immigrant Absorption Minister Ze’ev Boim signing this huge board they had set up for all birthright participants to sign that said “For Me Israel Is…”
I saw the profanity early on and when I saw Boim approaching I felt this sudden feeling of shame. I was praying that he didn’t notice - and it appeared that he was oblivious to it.
Devendra in Tel Aviv
Promotional poster for avant-garde folkie Devendra Banhart.
I always knew Ramle was a tough town…
Enjoying the melodic sunshine…
Summer for me means great pop music. I’m all about pop and have rarely met a hook I didn’t like. I got into a discussion of great power pop with Jessica Hopper, one of the journalists who came on the media trip that I worked on a few weeks ago, said she would send me the Yellow Pills: Prefill (Power Pop Obscure Classics 1978-1982) compilation.
Got it yesterday in the mail (Thanks Jessica!) and spent last night sitting in my backyard taking in the melodic riffage, harmonies and general atmosphere of fun and teenage love.
It’s a bizarro experience hearing all these bands that sound so damn familiar (haven’t I heard that riff before?) yet I’ve never heard of any of them…
Who is this Randy Winburn fellow and why haven’t I heard him before?!?!?!
This collection is a must for all power pop fans…buy it now.
I’ll leave you with a track by a more contemporary power pop band. The aptly titled International Pop Overthrow by one of my favorite bands of all time, Material Issue.
International Pop Overthrow - Material Issue (MP3)
Introducing Tel Aviv Cowboy
Came across Tel Aviv Cowboy’s blog and I fucking love it.
I’ll cut to the chase. The web is full of information about Israel that is either written by- Psychotic anti-semites and Pro-Jihad types
- American flag waving right-wingers
- Israeli flag waving right-wingers
- Israelis trying to promote tourism (badly)
- Western left-wingers who want to boycott anything IsraeliMost of these people couldn’t tell you much about Israel’s nightlife, or the honest reality of politics here (which, like all Western politics are a laughable farce). Nor could they provide photographs of hot Israeli girls, nor could they tell you about the quality and availibilty of local mind-altering substances.
Check it out here.
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