Tonight is Erev Rosh Hashana – the eve of the Jewish New Year. In the Jewish calendar, days begin and end at sunset, so once the sun has set over the Greater Chicagoland Area, I will be off the grid for three solid days*: Tonight, tomorrow, Friday (the holiday is actually two days long for [...]
All posts for the month September, 2011
Rosh Hashana 2011 – a little grumpy, but I’m trying my best.
Posted by emilylhauser on September 28, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/rosh-hashana-2011-a-little-grumpy-but-im-trying-my-best/
No really. I kind of hate George Lucas.
Please note important comics-based update, below! So after all these years, and all those movies, and all that hype and excitement and fanguish (why yes, I did just coin that term), and prompted by the already-infamous-yet-still-brand-new Darth Vader “Noooooo!”, plus the recent viewing of Episodes IV-VI with my family — I have finally figured out [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on September 27, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/no-really-i-kind-of-hate-george-lucas/
I am so sick of being Israeli.
I watched the Netanyahu and Abbas speeches unfold at the UN this past Friday through the veil of Twitter. Unable to bring myself to watch them directly — My eyes! My eyes! — I let people like me report to me in 140 character bursts what exactly was going on. One woman was tweeting quotes, [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on September 26, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/iam-so-sick-of-being-israeli/
The internets & their bounties – I Really Kind of Hate George Lucas edition.
The internet, man – what doesn’t it have? I know a lot of bloggers do a regular round-up of cool links, but I never have before. History – IT IS BEING MADE. The back of the husband’s head at the Liam Finn show. Ok, it’s kind of really a brief video of the crowd singing [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on September 25, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/link-roundup-i-hate-george-lucas/
Writing/not writing about the Palestinian statehood bid + Good stuff: Liam Finn! Squee!
I had intended to write today about the speeches made this afternoon at the UN by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian President Abbas — the whole Palestinian statehood bid thing — and I just can’t. After a quarter of a century of living, studying, reporting, researching, and writing about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, my demoralization [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on September 23, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/palestinian-statehood-bid-liam-finn/
Random acts of kindness and senseless beauty thread.
I’ll be putting up a regular post later today, but it’s been a rough week and I’ve been thinking that I’m likely not the only one who would really like to ease my mind with happy things, good things, things that don’t make me question my faith in the better angels of humanity’s nature. But [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on September 23, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/random-acts-of-kindness-and-senseless-beauty-thread/
Live feed from Troy Davis vigil outside death row prison in Jackson, Georgia.
The Supreme Court granted Troy Davis a “temporary delay,” which is a thing that could theoretically last minutes or hours up to seven days — it’s not a stay of execution, it’s buying some time to make a decision. I’m watching a live feed from the vigil outside the death row prison, broadcast by Democracy [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on September 21, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/live-feed-from-troy-davis-vigil-outside-death-row-prison-in-jackson-georgia/
