Passover Sermon
by Adam | Monday 29 March 2010
Spend three minutes with Bradley Burston over at Haaretz for a poignant treat....
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a metaphor for the the last decade.
by Adam | Saturday 27 March 2010
If you haven't seen this, wait until about 45 seconds in. Mindblowing shit....
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Thoughts while cleaning my room after a two-drink lunch
by Adam | Thursday 25 March 2010
Some storefronts on my new block: Bail bonds (two), attorney's offices (two), French restaurant, science lab for children, paper store, Halal meat shop, printing press, soul food to go, toy store, cooking class kitchen, nail salon, fine arts gallery, Vietnamese...
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Staged: The Problem with “Palestine”
by Adam | Monday 22 March 2010
“I grew up a Jew in New York City,” Najla Saïd declares early in her autobiographical one-woman play “Palestine.” Saïd describes herself as a Semitic-looking girl who was raised on the Upper West Side in a politically left-leaning apartment...
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
by Adam | Friday 19 March 2010
I'm in the middle of Amos Oz's autobiography which is quickly becoming one of my favorite books. Oz ends an early chapter by asking and answering a question about S.Y. Agnon, a family friend and one of his favorite writers:...
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Clearly I've been very busy...
by Adam | Friday 19 March 2010
My week of adjusting to life in Brooklyn (yes, it's true), attempting to stay vertical while tending bar on St. Patty's Day, enjoying the blossoming spring, and writing consistent entries for this blog were all interrupted when I was interviewed...
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Rodeo: Part I
by Adam | Saturday 13 March 2010
It was exactly a week ago on one shining, mild and temperate Texas day—a Saturday—that friends and I embarked on the Mengele experiment in sociological wire-walking that is the Rodeo Houston. This beginning sentence is not adequate, but I’m...
It's True
by Adam | Monday 8 March 2010
that I spend more time apologizing for not writing on TFR than I spend actually writing on TFR. I'm onto you perceptive types. I was in Texas at the rodeo this weekend and one of my charges was essentially to...
A Moment
by Adam | Tuesday 2 March 2010
It's a busy week before I head to Texas to write an exposé about the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, so I'd like to ask you a quick favor. As you know from that last unhinged-sounding/insomnia-produced post, I built a...