Urban Legends and Settlers Word from: Mordy

For Urban Legends not covered by Snopes (ie: the exclusively Jewish ones), my recent article in The Forward on the topic is a good starting point. "Decoding the Modern Jewish Urban Legend." There are still a bunch that were too edgy to be published in The Forward, so I'm on the lookout for an edgy Jewish outlet looking for Jewish Urban Legends about murder, demonology, sexual perversion and numerous 'cides (homicide, suicide, fratricide, deicide...).

Also have an article this week about a group of Lubavitchers in Crown Heights called True Peace, who are releasing animations and parody songs against the disengagement. They said they were inspired by the flash game Wild West Bank. The article is here.

In music news, Yidstock have started selling tickets. Piamenta, Blue Fringe, Beyond Eden, Moshav Band, Eden (a different band than Beyond Eden? Is Beyond Eden better?), Soulfarm and two other bands that I'm now too lazy to write. Hopefully this won't be anything like the last Woodstock. Or rather, hopefully it will be. That would breath some life into the Jewish music genre. Considering that Piamenta is a big Hendrix fan, can we hope for the Star Spangled Banner?

Liz Phair's new album is called "Somebody's Miracle." She'll be mine if she makes an album as good as "Exile in Guysville." She'll be a label exec's miracle if she does another one like the last.

And finally, seems Vendyl Jones is proposing to dig up the Ark of the Covenent before Tisha B'av. He, for all ye of little love for the famous trilogy of movies, was the real life inspiration for Indiana Jones. Someone should remind him to close his eyes when they open the Ark. Otherwise he'll end up like the Nazi's at the end of the movie. (Like, they totally got their souls sucked out their eyes).