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9/30/2006
Which Sandman Character Are You?
9/29/2006
You will not see a weirder picture this week
It’s like a deleted scene from Gregory’s Girl.
Friday Kittenblogging: Say Goodbye
This is the last edition of Friday Kittenblogging. Next week, I unveil….TA DA!!…Friday Catblogging. That’s right, the Gang of Two will be one year old on October 5th. The little monsters.
So without further ado, I present
Belly flap
Pretty much the minute she stopped looking like a kitten, Fanty developed El Gato Belly Flappo, the fat furry bit that flaps back and forth as she walks.
The other day, I noticed that when she lies on her side, it sorta POOFS up. Photography was mandatory.
9/28/2006
Cute Adorable Sales Pitch
I just upped my bandwidth, which also ups my monthly fee. No big, but I thought it was a good time to remind you:
Thanks.
Jews on TV
Via Roberta, I find this short (not very short) history of the portrayal of Jews on television on the wonderfully-named blog Jew Eat Yet?.
The author speaks my heart. My experience of Jews on television, for most of my life, was that Jews are okay as long as they are Woody Allen. A proper Jew is nebbishy, funny but vaguely unpleasant, and preferably short. A Jew must! Not! Be sexy!
And then along came thirtysomething.
A girl can get slammed pretty hard for admitting to thirtysomething love, but I’m brave. The first episode I ever saw was the season 4 opener. As soon as I saw the episode title, Prelude to a Bris, I knew I was in for something different.
As the show opens, Hope (Mel Harris) gives birth to baby Leo. Michael (Ken Olin) is Jewish, Hope is not.
Michael. Is. Jewish. He is tall, handsome, nice, doesn’t wear glasses, isn’t a nebbish, an accountant, or particularly funny. He’s a human being. I am, in short, stunned.
The episode revolves around Michael’s decision to circumcise Leo (the ceremony known as a bris). Michael barely practices Judaism and, like about 50% of American Jews, he has married outside of his religion. He wonders if it even makes sense to go through the ceremony, and he wonders if he can bear to forego it.
This is a real dilemma for many modern Jews, a poignant and complex one, but I had never seen it mentioned on television before. I had never seen drama speak dramatically about the experience of being a Jew.
In the final moments of the episode, Alan King, as Michael’s mother’s boyfriend, plays a role in the ceremony. He dons a prayer shawl as I have seen a hundred Jewish men don prayer shawls—but never on TV. I got a chill, I swear to God, seeing this secret, invisible world, the world of Jews-as-real-people, suddenly become visible.
Plus, y’know, it was brilliantly written and acted and filmed and I was totally hooked and Roberta had the past three seasons on video and I was home with a baby so I watched them until my eyes bled.
But that’s not the point.
The point is, Jews: They’re not just for comic relief anymore.