Katrina
Word from: Mordy
My guilt over my tapering off in posts is tempered by good deeds. Mostly, I've been arranging a benefit concert for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. I feel I can announce it today as I have a tentative date. Thursday, the 22st, from 8:00-10:00. Blue Fringe and Midnite Remedy are booked to play. Now I just need to figure out how to convince apathetic YU students to attend a concert to benefit those suffering in New Orleans. (Random tidbit. When I first got to YU, only two people including me had very liberal listed as their political affiliation. Now there are 7.)
Call me ridiculously behind the times, but Beyond the Pale now has a podcast feed. So you can listen to your favorite radical Jewish politics show whenever you want, delivered right into your iTunes. (And if you've never checked out WBAI, I highly recommend it.)
I know it isn't my job, but no one else is spotlighting interesting poems. So I'd like to point out Dena's amusing, if not blasphemous, account of the destruction of New Orleans in our forums. Check that out here.
New Silver Jews album (Cheer!) New Rolling Stones album (Cheer harder!) New Disturbed album (Uh uh uh!) They respectively got 3 stars, 4 and a half stars, and 2 stars in the newest Rollingstone Magazine. Anyone who can get me David Draiman for an interview gets my undying love.
Rereading Grimms Fairy Tales, I noticed that while the Jews all look bad... everyone really looks bad. It isn't an indictment of Judaism so much as an indictment of humanity. Or at least that's what I tell myself so I don't feel guilty about enjoying it so much. Just like I don't feel that guilty for my lack of posting.
2 Comments:
At 2:17 PM, David Kelsey said…
Mordy,
Students like you at YU are always rare. Yet it is students like you who add a critical dimension to this insitution where liberal arts is a relatively weak link compared to other departments, say accounting.
Don't ever forget that you bring a lot to the table. Make them treat you very well, even if that means special permission for internships during Judaic studies hours.
At 8:18 PM, David said…
My, my, how you two have made up.
I fail to see the connection between being 'very liberal' (politically) and 'liberal arts.' Call it sour grapes because a friend and I tried to start a branch of Meimad (a left-wing Religous Zionist party) at YU. It did not go over too well-I got various threats and lost some friends, and didn't have the strength to keep it going. Still, at least I tried engaging the student body rather than one's affilation on some unknown (to me) list. Hopefully this concert will happen and then you really will have something to brag about.
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