Pirke Avot, verse six: three together
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In Which Your Humble Blogger is back for more.
Pirke Avot, verse six: the scale
In Which Your Humble Blogger winds up talking about a movie again.
Pirke Avot, verse six: friend
In Which Your Humble Blogger fails to relate all the stories and sayings about friendship, and all that, because, frankly, it’s a bit obvious, isn’t it? Although I should probably mention Honi the circle-drawer (who is awesomeness itself), who was presumed to have been killed because he refused to side with either the Pharisees or the Sadducees, but actually slept for seventy years, and when he awoke and found that all his friends were gone, said “Give me friends or give me death!”
Pirke Avot, verse six: teacher
In Which Your Humble Blogger doesn’t talk about Amy-Jill Levine at all. I mean, except in this pull quote, of course, but that doesn’t count.
Theater news!
In Which Your Humble Blogger introduces a topic that (if all goes well and the creek don’t rise) will occupy much of January’s thought processes.
Book Report: Komarr
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In Which Your Humble Blogger manages to fill a virtual page or two, without knowing quite how.
Who wouldn’t like a fairy tale city?
In Which Your Humble Blogger spoils the movie In Bruges, although it is still unspoiled in the larger sense.
State of the Blog
In Which Your Humble Blogger goes on about something, I wasn’t really listening.
Book Report: The Crime at Black Dudley
In Which Your Humble Blogger gives away who did it and why, and who didn’t do it and why not, and what the witness saw.
Pirke Avot, verse five: the Wise
In Which Your Humble Blogger gets all cranky about the Wise.