well kiss me in the morning and then just walk away.

yes, kids. i'm happy too.

Go You WhiteSox!

this is for josh.

hello josh. i know we said we'd carve pumpkins. and i know we've failed. but i think this might make up for it. just a little bit. i'm sorry.

just another morning in the rotten apple.

I got on the F train today, which went about three stops before it got stuck just before Bergen for about a half hour. Then it had an identity crisis and became a G train.

Fine.

So I got off the newly christened G train at Hoyt and got on the A. (already about forty minutes late, mind you) So the A starts going, gets past high street and through about three quarters of the tunnel to manhattan, and stops. for an hour and a half. AN HOUR AND A HALF PEOPLE. i was standing the whole time. in the last car. finally, they came on the intercom and told us that they'd been able to get one car onto the platform. so we all had to make our way to the first car of the train. which took another half hour.

now, i'm very glad this was all caused by a fire, and not a bomb, or even a fire set on purpose, but can we keep the disruptions for days when i don't have to get to work to pick up blood?

thanks.

i'm not picky but...

now, i don't have anything against prostitutes. not that i frequent them, or have ever felt the yen, but still, i'm all for the legalization, unionization, whatever, of sex workers in the eu, even in america.

but please. this is the scariest looking woman i've ever seen.

shouldn't they be represented by someone who's not, oh i don't know, terrifying?

yom kippur just isn't yom kippur without a little...

Johnny Mathis!!

yes, yes folks. Johnny Mathis (whose hits include Wonderful, Wonderful and Misty and who, according to his webiste, created the 'best-of' genre of albums) recorded a version of Kol Nidre.

For our non-jewy friends, Kol Nidre is the prayer that is sung on the night before Yom Kippur. It's sad. It's long. Did I mention that it's sad? Yom Kippur is also not complete without it. It's like a passover dinner without the gefilte fish. it's just not done.

So when Josh and I were planning our trip back to his house for Yom Kippur and I realized we'd be missing Kol Nidre I knew something had to be done.

That something was to purchase Johnny Mathis' version of Kol Nidre on iTunes.

I was also tempted to buy one of his many christmas and jewish-holiday-themed albums... but restrained myself. somehow.

it will be a wonderful, wonderful train ride.

now THIS is what i call avoidant behavior...

As I was scrolling through my.yahoo this morning, trying to find some info on the earthquake in Pakistan or, you know, NEWS, i came across this pictures of piggies.

pigs swimming.

now there's a news story i can really sink my teeth into. also, the reuters caption actually calls them "piggies". and, apparently, they have piggie sport competitions in China. wow.

Intelligent Design: part 3

Day 4:
"One word," said the Lord God, "Landscaping. But I want it to look natural, as if it all somehow just happened."
"Do rain forests," suggested a primitive tribal god, who was known only as a clicking noise.
"Rain forests here," decreed the Lord God. "And deserts there. For a spa feeling."
"Which is fresh, but let's give it glow," said Buddha. "Polished stones and bamboo, with a soothing trickle of something."
"I know where you're going," said the Lord God. "But why am I seeing scented candles and a signature body wash?"
"Shut up," said Buddha.
"You shut up," said the Lord God.
"It's all about the mix," Allah declared in a calming voice. "Now let's look at some swatches."

this is the part of the show where my mom calls...

and tells me she just met cindy sheehan.

apparently she's left her vigil at the ranch (which is understandable as bush is pretending to be president and is not on vacation anymore) and is now getting her hair done in an LA salon. good for her.

i'm sure she deserves a haircut.

and man oh man was my mom excited.

happy rosh hashanah, cindy sheehan. happy rosh hashanah. welcome to 5766. i hope this year is better than the last one.

well that makes me feel better. seriously.

in the spirit of new beginnings and rosh hashana, the new york times has published an article about abortions and roe v wade.
Don't worry, says the nytimes, even if the supreme court (with new party girl, Miers) overturns Roe v Wade, we've got mifepristone (misoprostol, Cytotec) now. So, instead of safe, legal abortions for women who want them, we'll have black market mifepristone.
Not that i'm not happy that there's a pill alternative to surgical abortion, because that's just awesome. but it doesn't make me feel all warm and fuzzy that, even if the right succeeds in overturning roe, we'll still have black market pills and we won't have to go back to knitting needles and clothes hangers.