Chappy Chanukah!
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In Which Your Humble Blogger let the sun go down.
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Trouble and Avail
In Which Your Humble Blogger has always assumed it was “avail ye naught” rather than “avail ye not”, but it works either way, doesn’t it?
Film Report: Yiddle with his Fiddle
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In Which Your Humble Blogger points out that the Barry (nee Bagelman) Sisters, as is traditional, sing English versions of the two great songs that aren’t so much translations as an entirely new lyrics that scan to the old ones.
The eponymous one, with the number stamped on the cover
In Which Your Humble Blogger somehow can never keep in mind that it’s Eric Clapton doing that amazing guitar solo on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”.
Shabbos Frivolity: Dzhankoye
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In Which Your Humble Blogger concludes that the collective farms were vanity and chasing after wind. Unlike offshore wind farms, which, oh, never mind.
Uno! Dos! One, Two, Tres–Fly Me to the Moon
In Which Your Humble Blogger is frustrated and annoyed by technology. Surprise! This time it happened on a Tuesday.
Shabbos Frivolity: The Witches of Lublin
In Which Your Humble Blogger asks around, plus a bonus application of dire economic whatsit.
Shabbos Frivolity: Klezmatics Live!
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In Which Your Humble Blogger has a favorite band, or did you know that.
Shabbos not so much Frivolity: Psalm 137
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In Which Your Humble Blogger presents a musical question that pretty much answers itself.
Shabbos Frivolity: When Rebbe Elimelech gets…
In Which Your Humble Blogger disapproves of translating freylich as merry or cheerful, although it clearly means a happy drunk (as opposed to a sour or angry drunk), it means drunk, and that’s the Divine’s wine he’s knocking back.