Halloween has a rhythm where I live. At about 3:05, the toddlers arrive, all monkeys and princesses and lions and so on — cute as buttons, only smaller. They can barely make it up the stairs, though one year, one had to make it all the way up the stairs and into the house, because [...]
All posts for the month October, 2011
Good stuff: Halloween in Small Town America.
Posted by emilylhauser on October 31, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/halloween-in-small-town-america/
Good stuff: Metric – “Gold Guns Girls”
A few days back, Ta-Nehisi posted the following as his “Morning Coffee” video. The song hadn’t even ended before I was calling my record store (Val’s Halla, baby! Holla!) to order the disc. I picked it up on Friday afternoon, and am currently (Sunday, 11 am) in the midst of Listen #4, if I’m counting [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on October 30, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/good-stuff-metric-gold-guns-girls/
The time I tried to stop writing.
Well, among the times. Early in the summer, I wrote that I was essentially going to try to quit writing. “I’m tired,” I said, in the face of the world’s gigantic, shoulder-shrugging, years’ long meh in response to my efforts to actually pay bills with my skills. That was only the latest time I tried [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on October 28, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/the-time-i-tried-to-stop-writing/
What the hell kind of Jew am I?
I feel pretty strongly that I shouldn’t have to defend my Judaism in order to have my opinions about Israel taken seriously. I feel pretty strongly about it, but that doesn’t change the fact that I am often called upon (just today for instance) to defend my Judaism anyway. And I often go ahead and [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on October 27, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/what-the-hell-kind-of-jew-am-i/
I am (apparently) a Public Intellectual!
The extremely interesting and very respectable The Public Intellectual has asked to occasionally reprint my posts. Whoot! Today they ran my first Occupy Wall Street post; tomorrow they’ll run what I wrote about Oakland. Very nice! Please show them some love (click here, if you haven’t clicked on either of the other links already) and poke [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on October 27, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/i-am-apparently-a-public-intellectual/
For fear the other will topple over from the weight – here’s an Open Thread.
It looks like Ta-Nehisi is traveling today, too and that yesterday’s Open Thread is meant to last us for two days. It’s like he’s never met us! That thing is freakin’ monster! So, just in case, here’s a thread for those who don’t want to slog through/past something like 500 comments (as of this writing!). [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on October 27, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/for-fear-the-other-will-topple-over-from-the-weight-heres-an-open-thread/
Good Stuff: Being Elmo.
When I discovered who was behind the voice of Sesame Street’s Elmo a few years back, I was flabbergasted. I cannot tell you how much I’m looking forward to Being Elmo, the documentary about the puppeteer. Just the trailer left me with a big ol’ grin, and a smidge bit lump-in-the-throaty, and if it doesn’t [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on October 25, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/good-stuff-being-elmo/
Good Stuff: Black Women in Advertising.
Well ain’t this just the ding-dang truth. * by the clearly very clever Alexandra Dal, who can be found on deviantART (and who might have added “And whenever I’m not smiling knowingly, I’ll laugh in a near-maniacal fashion! Silently!”); h/t BuzzFeed
Posted by emilylhauser on October 24, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/good-stuff-black-women-in-advertising/
Come on in! Make yourself at home!
Dear one and all: A) If you would like to continue to chat in the Open Thread over the weekend, please feel free! But bear in mind that I won’t be around during Shabbat (sundown Friday to just after sundown on Saturday) — if you happen to get stuck in moderation, I will fish you [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on October 21, 2011
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/come-on-in-make-yourself-at-home/
