Like usual for Evan and I the holiday was a marathon. The season, as always, kicked off with my mom’s birthday on the 24th. Family dinner, holiday and b-day presents and the happy mayhem you get with 7 adults and 2 munchkins. Xmas morning Erin and I do the potato latke tango, frying up 20lbs or so of crunchy potato goodness. Then its shower off the grease and spend the day catching up with a pile of family, eating a pile of lox and bagels (and of course latkes), and finally heading home and collapsing into a coma. Friday I [...]
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Dec 292008
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So I need some help. This year has pretty much sucked (really I haven’t bitched about half the shit, just so I am not whining ALL the time) – and at this point I am giving it up for lost. But I am determined that next year will be better – with this in mind, I intend to perform as much voodoo as possible at new years to give me a boost into the upcoming year. (and yes I am serious, and yes I realize this is vaguely ridiculous) (and no this will not include passing on chain letters, I [...]
Apr 292008
Originally posted at on my personal blog here: Passover 2008 Haggadah About 10 or so years ago, my friend Colleen and I decided to write our own Haggadah for passover. She had come from a very unique religious background, I was raised jewish and at the time was a pretty active practicing pagan. But each for our own reasons still felt a strong affinity for passover. We started talking about it, and over time and a lot of discussion decided that we could craft a seder that worked to satisfy our desire to observe passover and many of its rituals, [...]
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Mar 072007
I swear, I have met house pets that are smarter than those boys. One boy’s brain is in his pants One boy’s brain is in his fists One doesn’t appear to have one at all . . . and the “smart” one thinks that taking on all of the syndicate crime in the city is the right solution for keeping the family out of trouble . . . I’ve met aquarium fish with better reasoning skills
