Fun cover of Goyte’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” (in Hebrew!) … musically impressive, but must admit - the way-too-serious facial expressions distract me quite a bit.
You can’t blame the little guy for trying ;)
This is the cutest video I’ve seen in a long time. Made me laugh so hard after a long day at work. Enjoy!
A lot has changed since the 1970’s. Lapels have shrunk. Mustaches have gone from cool to pervy to ironically cool but actually kind of pervy. Disco was murdered to death and then sort of came back to life again…
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| — | Great opening from Jezebel article “What’s Changed For Working Women Since 1972? Not As Much as You’d Think” |
Interesting interview with NYU professor Eric Klinenberg, the author of a new book about being single and living alone.
He’s certainly right about there being a shift of thought in academia - for years, there were books (one, as he mentions, called Bowling Alone) written about the decimation of civic groups and community activities. It seems that now the tone of the discourse is beginning to change and that singlehood is actually being looked at as something positive.
Of course, this is not a black and white kind of issue - obviously there are many positives to the “traditional” community-based society we used to live in and there are also many positives in the new independent-minded modern society we live in now. To me, it’s just cool to see this topic being explored in a new light.
Love this video. It tells the story of a 9 year old boy who keeps himself busy as he works in his father’s auto part shop by creating a full-fledged arcade out of cardboard. He gets creative and builds games, gets tokens, creates a pricing system for customers, etc.I love the sparkle in his eyes as he explains his ideas and creations. The story goes on to show how this little boy’s world is blown by a really cool surprise. Watch it. It’s quite a treat.
I, too, love Seinfeld, but is there not a problem when the show is cited as a referent for one’s Jewish identity? For many of us, being Jewish has become, above all things, funny. All that’s left in the void of fluency and profundity is laughter…Despite having been raised in an intellectual and self-consciously Jewish home, I knew almost nothing about what was supposedly my own belief system. And worse, I felt satisfied with how little I knew. Sometimes I thought of my stance as… an achievement, but there’s no achievement in passive forfeiture.
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| — | Excerpt from an awesome article in The New York Times about Passover written by Jonathan Safran Foer. |
It is now well known that people are generally accurate and (sometimes embarrassingly) honest about their personalities when profiling themselves on social networking sites…In fact, the mechanized medium of the Internet causes not concealment but disinhibition, giving us both confessional behavior and ugly brusqueness. When the medium is impersonal, people are prepared to be personal…Arguably, the Catholic church has long recognized this, which is why the confessor is separated from the priest by a grill or curtain. To get people to open up about themselves, psychoanalysts used to ask their patients to lie on a couch looking away from the doctor. Most of us have experienced this phenomenon whereby we talk more freely about something intimate when walking or driving with a friend, facing forward parallel.
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| — | Matt Ridley explains the Online Disinhibition Effect in an awesome Wall Street Journal article. |
So sad to see such talent leave this world. Feeling the same sinking feeling I felt for Michael Jackson, but even more so. Whitney was my music idol as a kid and I can honestly say her beautiful and powerful voice changed my life.
“I’m Your Baby Tonight” was one of my favorites. Sounds just as good today as it sounded the first time I heard it as a little girl.
