I am way behind on e-mail, and am likely to remain so for the remainder of the month. On top of that, as I mentioned in another thread, I just discovered that GMX has been shunting a bunch of messages directly into the Trash folder.
Not Spam. Trash.
No clue why, but I’m going to have to do some virtual dumpster-diving.
Please rest assured that no e-mails are being ignored, even if they’re not getting responses.
WordPress just informed me of about 15 moderated comments going back to the beginning of July. Only one of them seemed to have gone into moderation for cause.
Your guess is as good as mine.
… but when I saw an article titled Caviar And Hummus, my first thought was of a little Russian malchik and his pet tigr.
… to somebody named Ashlee, probably anybody over 30 seems elderly.
“Give Your Daughters Difficult Names” was spelled out in lights on the underside of the canopy covering the stairs leading up to Manhattan’s High Line. In other words, this took some serious work.
Nobody, though, was entirely sure what it meant (though it did serve as a conversation-starter among strangers, which if nothing else is a good thing).
Okay, so… if you don’t get the joke itself, are the “squirrels” in the first panel really going to help?
And I’ve been wondering… does that first panel always run with this comic, or is it a throwaway panel like we see on a lot of Sunday strips?
I know there are a number of Israelis who visit here regularly, so perhaps somebody can provide some answers.
Saw The Band’s Visit yesterday (which takes place in Israel). Granted, my Hebrew education ended fifty years ago (almost to the day), so I know this will seem presumptuous, but a sign referring to cellphones as פלאפונים just looked very wrong to me (and when I got home, I couldn’t find any such translation).
And continuing my pickiness, one of the songs referenced “like a deer in the headlights.” Is this really a phrase in Israel? Do they have deer in Israel? Honestly that question had never occurred to me before yesterday — but even if they do, “deer in the headlights” just seemed awfully American.
(spoiler: the score was written by an American)
…beginning 24 hours from now.
Believe it or not, there’s a chance January’s fiasco might have screwed it up a bit, but… I’m pretty sure everything’s going to go online like clockwork.
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