"What is life, Richard? You get high, you write a few jokes, and you keep the goyim from chasing you.”
- Rodney Dangerfield’s life advice to Richard Belzer (from @RealGilbertACP #221, 8/20/2018)
Posts by eddy portnoy
Konstanzer khumesh, Bereishis in Yiddish, 1544, YIVO Archives.
nymag.com/intelligence...
Seems spurious, since they were given cover by thousands of rockets.
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so good to see social media's "I did my own research" crowd so hard at work solving the Middle East. I'm sure these dipshits will have it all figured out in no time
For a good time go to Kalustyan’s.
Photo one on the front flap, photo two on the back flap.
Nominally thrilled that The Guardian has avoided the Hidden German Standard™.
I'm all about the shnorers.
I'm eagerly awaiting replacement by tech!
Did someone call me shnorer?
"All night parties with 6000 Jews decked out in literary and artistic costumes, the Shnorer Balls must have been wild. One can only imagine the thousands of partiers cosplaying their favorite characters from literature and the arts all at the behest of the Shnorers."
Let's relive this please.
True, they are established, but their relevance is only to the outgoing generations and to the press, who doesn't know who else to ask. It's a problem that there doesn't seem to be any new general "Jewish" advocacy orgs to speak to current realities. There are many orgs, but they're all splintered.
These legacy organizations have largely become irrelevant.
Understandable...
You can come to YIVO and use ours.
La plus ça change...
“Rather than depending on Eddy’s memory or borrowing another scholar’s hastily scribbled index cards (or perhaps in addition to these time-honored traditions), we can let technology do more of the heavy lifting.” @zanykirz.bsky.social interviews me for @ingeveb.bsky.social link below ⬇️⬇️⬇️
I don't have spotify, but I do own a copy.
I shouldn't take it as a compliment?
Right when it was starting to feel real...
I often wonder whether or not I’m real.
Hey, it only took four months!