Perhaps marginal, but equally disgusting, Israeli skeeviness at Shireen Abu Aqleh’ funeral…
13 May
They tried to keep Muslims out of procession and funeral and only let Christians participate, since Shireen Abu Aqleh happened to be Orthodox and the vast majority out on the streets were Muslims, by sheer demographics, but she was a hero to all Palestinians of any faith––and to journalists the world over.
Palestinians have got to fight this already old strategy of Israel’s to split Palestinians on religious sects.
Fight back hard against this kind of shit.
Damn, who’s the new guitarist in Alcatrash from the Niko Moutsina show Καλό Μεσημεράκι (Good Afternoon)?
14 Apr
On left… Sorry for crappy quality
Actual video:
Solzhenitsyn, lying and the existential ridiculousness of Russian/Soviet life
9 Apr
So, Carry On and Shut Up.
Vanishing Yiddishisms
24 MarIt’s a little unsettling that the New York where gentiles freely used Yiddish words and terms is fast disappearing. I used the word “kvetch” yesterday with an early-thirties, Greek-American from Brooklyn, and he didn’t know what I was talking about.
Than again, we still have Sarah Palin using “chutzpah”, but pronouncing the “ch” like “church”.
(On a related note, you guys know that “nebbish” is not correct Yiddish pronunciation, but goyim couldn’t say the “ch” sound of Yiddish and Hebrew in what is properly called a “nebbech”?)
Oliver Jackson Cohen
15 MarI think OJC should be a choice for best supporting actor, and he should win, if only as revenge for the ten seconds of screen time Gyllenhaal gave him.
See older post:
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Child”
Gyllenhaal’s film is minorly brilliant, and unheimlich in the deep sense. But she only dedicated about 20 seconds of screen time to Oliver Jackson Cohen. What tf is that about? Why did she even bother with him? I think it’s prosecutable. Entrapment. Encouraging false expectations or something like that…
Olivia Coleman, of course, was incredible — as always. Along with a brilliant performance, she also projects a certain kind of archetypal Englishwoman, not always in a flattering manner.
SurvivorGR
26 FebThe producers of Greek reality series Survivor just flew in the the weekly winners’ food rations. All of it is Lenten food. This would’ve been inconceivable just a couple of decades ago.
Jadde: from Bosnia to Bengal 