I could say
I could say something about the tsunami. I could say something about American imperialism. I could say something about Susan Sontag (apparently she was very illuminating and is about to become posthomusly famous to me, among many others). I could say something about the first season of M*A*S*H, which I am in the process of […]
Read MoreGood Morning, 2005
If the rest of 2005 is anything like the first 24 hours of it have been, then I can say that it’s going to be a very good year. It began with a very great party. It was the kind of party where everyone talks for so long about so many interesting things that the […]
Read MoreHeavily Suburban Interfaith Christmas Experience, Days 2 & 3
Christmas passed rather smoothly. Though all my blood relatives are Jewish, some of my relatives by marriage are not, and so we celebrate Christmas. Besides Christmas, another thing non-Jewish people have thankfully brought into my family is drinking. Christmas begins with a champagne toast and shrimp cocktail hors d’ouvres and continues through a lovely lasagna […]
Read MoreHeavily Suburban Interfaith Christmas Experience: Day 1
I knew this would happen. The rest of my family is asleep and I’m wide awake here in the weird little room that used to be my brother’s bedroom, until I went to college and we switched rooms, so now it is my semi-old bedroom but really my dad’s office and also a kind of […]
Read MoreShout-Out!
Check it out, people. Beloved SuperLefty friend and confidant Avi Salzman at the top of www.nytimes.com!. His journalistic integrity prevents him from participating in such partisan events as the FUCK YOU movement, but enables such fine reporting as this.
Read MoreLong-Lost Lefty
I am sorry to have abandoned you, my darlings. I understand that without my postings you have, as one disgruntled reader writes, “nothing to read when you come home late and drunk.” My excuses are many. I have been visited by medical students and law students and wanted to impress them by cooking such delights […]
Read MoreTell Me I’m Being Naive
I heard on NPR today that the Iraq war has the lowest fatality rate of any war. This is because of the incredible speed and efficiency with which wounded soldiers are evacuated to hospitals in Baghdad, Germany and eventually, the United States. Only 10% of casualties are deaths. So for every soldier killed in Iraq, […]
Read MoreSmall Pleasures
In the last week I have experienced two of life’s great pleasures. # 1: Being Covered With a Cozy Blanket While You Are Already Sleeping It was Holly’s birthday and we had eaten a lot of pumpkin cheesecake after a large meal during which we were given a free chocolate dessert. We had been playing […]
Read MoreA Convergence of Two Things I Love: My Anti-Bush Button and My Eight-Year-Old Cousin
Sometimes I think I shouldn’t wear an anti-Moron Puppet button on my bag everywhere I go. It has occured to me that overtly expressing a political opinion in the home of someone who employs me to teach their child math might be overstepping my bounds. But then I think, “I don’t want the filthy money […]
Read MoreTheorizing My Sweater
My flecked green sweater is two sizes too big. I believe the proper term for it’s flecked-ness is heathered. It was on sale after Christmas in 1996 and despite (or perhaps because of) its odd size and color, it spoke to me. This was a time of frequent sweater-purchasing at such purveyors of East Coast […]
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