It’s been another wipeout of a week for me, dear readers. But I’ve got one of my 20-year high school reunions coming up this weekend, so I’m trying to enhealthify. Not that you care. You’re just here to see the latest collection of links that I think you sortamaybe should read. So just click “more”!
I’m kinda interested in this conversation between Andrew Sullivan and Ta-Nehisi Coates about conservatism, change, and oppression, and Coates’ follow-up post about it. This is one of those times I’m reminded that my first-gen status as a Jew in America — with parents who were children in Europe during the war — has left me with some peculiar perspectives on those aforementioned topics.
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Speaking of funny black people: Who Got My Natural Comb?
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Is this going to be the All-Jew / All-Black installment of Unrequired Reading?
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Nope! Here’s a beautiful set of photos of the wild terrain of NYC, by, um, Joel Meyerowitz. . .
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What’s in a cup of coffee? You mean, besides my very heart and soul?
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“We goin’ to Sizzler, we goin’ to Sizzler. . .” (Remind me to tell you the story of the Fried Shrimp Massacree sometime)
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Speaking of food fetishes (NSFW).
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They’ll probably do the same thing to my office if I have a heart attack and die on the job. However, this will not be out of reverence but because of the booby-traps I’ve set up. Oh, I can’t wait for the day they play “Uninterruptible Power Supply . . . or IED?”
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I. Am. So. Pissed. Off. (Now I’m going to have to hit a Clippers game when I’m in L.A. next month instead. Grr. . .)