Hey, posts on three straight days! Could I be finding my mojo? If the answer is yes, I probably downloaded it on Limewire, along with 8 bajillion Madonna songs in preparation for tomorrow night’s concert. With her obviously doing more than visiting the Kotel and sitting in her hotel room all day, I honestly can’t [...]
Archive | August, 2009
Move Over, Chumus and Techina: It’s Facebook and Blog!
Just a couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how I’m finding it tougher to crank out blog posts when it’s so much more immediate and easy to post a one-liner on Facebook (or Twitter). Yeah, that hasn’t changed. Anyway, I thought I’d post some of my recent status updates here to spark some conversation, [...]
Apparently ‘Supersize Me’ Never Made It to the Middle East
Hello, my loyal readers-hope you all had a nice Shabbat. So I recently stopped by McDonald’s at Ben-Gurion Airport which never ceases to be interesting. I know I’ve been here three years but I still can’t help but notice differences between the Israeli employees and their counterparts in America. I wouldn’t say it’s the right-off-the-boat [...]
I Guess We’re a Bit Cynical About Politics in This Country
Yeah, so it’s been two months since Michael Jackson died and I’m still listening to some combinatzia of “Off the Wall”, “Thriller”, “Bad”, and Jackson 5 stuff roughly 487 times a day. As opposed to before when I listened to “Thriller” periodically over a span of fifteen years or so. But hey, can you blame [...]
Israeli Food: It’s Not Weird as Hell (Contest!)
I love Israeli food. LOVE IT. It’s healthy, it’s delicious, and have I mentioned the vegetables? Holy falafel balls, I ate SO MUCH GOOD CRAP my last few weeks in the States and finished every other meal with some combination of regret (“What have I done???”) and hangover (“Whooooooooooaaaaaaaa (hand on stomach)…..I am NEVER doing [...]
Baseball: Why I Created the ‘Israelis Make Me Laugh’ Category
No idea what’s with the crazy spacing here….I think Blogger is haunted (as if I needed any more reasons to move to WordPress…) My first post back in Israel. To be honest, I’ve had a tough time sitting down and forcing myself to write. Anybody know the feeling? It can’t be writers’ block, there’s never [...]
Holy Crap, You Start a Blog and Next Thing You Know, You’ve Been Living in Israel for 3 Years
Anybody know where they were three years ago this moment? I do-on a chartered Nefesh B’Nefesh flight from JFK Airport to Ben-Gurion, not really knowing what was in store for me. And if you had asked me on August 9th, 2006 where I saw myself in three years, I don’t know what I’d say. I [...]
