{"id":13825,"date":"2011-09-03T13:13:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T17:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2011\/09\/03\/13825.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:00:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:00:02","slug":"shabbos-frivolity-the-witches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2011\/09\/03\/shabbos-frivolity-the-witches\/","title":{"rendered":"Shabbos Frivolity: The Witches of Lublin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do any of y&#8217;all know about <a href=\"http:\/\/thewitchesoflublin.com\/index.html\">The Witches of Lublin<\/a>? It&#8217;s an audio drama by Ellen Kushner, Elizabeth Schwartz and Yale Strom, with Tovah Fledshuh and Simon Jones leading an impressive cast. Mr. Strom is the eponymous leader of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpstromi.com\/index.html\">Hot Pstromi<\/a>; Ms. Schwartz is the vocalist with that group and others. I assume that many Gentle Readers are familiar with Ms. Kushner, either from her radio work or her specfic writing, and this of course is both. I came across the companion album, which is perfectly good, although it didn&#8217;t totally knock me out. The show itself, though, looks fantastic.\n<P>I guess it was broadcast last April, at least on some NPR stations, but either the local station didn&#8217;t pick it up or I didn&#8217;t hear about it. They are selling a CD (entertainment on a physical medium! Like wild animals in the wilderness!), but I am reluctant to shell out for something that only seems like it might be good. I&#8217;m incredibly cheap about entertainment, in case Gentle Readers hadn&#8217;t figured it out, mostly because there is <I>so much free stuff<\/i> that if I pay for something and only watch\/listen\/read it once, I feel like a sucker. So if some GR out there happened to hear this thing, and could let me know, that would be great.\n<p>&#8230;and because I like to imbed something funky for y&#8217;all, here&#8217;s Daniel Kahn and The Painted Bird with their version of the Arbeitslose Marsch, which he calls the March of the Jobless Corps.\n<p>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger asks around, plus a bonus application of dire economic whatsit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-music-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19409,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13825\/revisions\/19409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}