Best moments of my very very Jewish family vacation
– my 8 year old cousin running around flapping her arms like a duck screaming “farQUACKte”
– me sitting down with my grandma and showing her my art for my comic and her telling me how much she loved my use of Jewish characters and culture
– my cousin warning me there was a wasp (as in the bug) in the house so I pointed at my dad, the only WASP on the trip, and asked “is it over there”
– my grandpa: so do you consider yourself religious
me: yes
grandpa, who promised our rabbis that he’d show up to at least five services a year just bc he wanted to prove he can do it, and holds up fingers for however many he’s been to so far whenever he sees the rabbis: I don’t see you going to as many services as I do
– my sister just got her learners permit and whenever she drives with our grandparents in the car they call her a meshugenah at least once
– my grandpa laughing after I told him the Extremely White Goy name of the boy in my history class who wouldn’t stop calling my Magen David a “jew star”
– “should I buy this hat” “no it looks like a fucking hamentashen”
I know Black Mask can genuinely be an intimidating villain (which I hope he is for the Birds of Prey movie) but the #1 version of him that I’ll always love is him in Under the Red Hood when he just has one banger line of dialogue after another. Also his beady little eyes are so fricken funny.
someone: The Roman gods are just taken from the Greeks wholesale me: Actually, the gods we know as the Roman gods existed for at least several centuries—-and likely longer—-before their Greek equivalents were superimposed over them. Take for example Mars, who was not just a god of war, but also agriculture. In edition, he was extremely important to the pre-Roman Italians, being second to Jupiter and being an integral member of the Archaic Triad, alongside Jupiter and Quirinus. He even has a Roman-only consort in Nerio, or “Valor”, and his relationship with Venus came much later.
Some of you know this already. Some of you don’t. But this song was almost the theme for Star Trek: The Next Generation.
No, I am not kidding. I’m serious. It really was. They almost used this as the theme to TNG. It’s even on the first soundtrack, the one with the music from the pilot “Encounter at Farpoint” if you don’t believe me.
Yes, this song was almost the TNG theme.
Seriously.
I mean it’s not horrible horrible, right? But it’s… it’s not the TNG theme, you know?
It really is very 1980s though. I mean, you’d have to do 80s visuals with it, you know? Not just text. Picard would have to come on horseback galloping over the top of a hill. Riker would have to do one of those half-turn-and-smile manuvers. Troi would have shake her hair like a shampoo commercial. Worf would have to do a toothy growl as he chopped wood with a bat’leth. Beverly would have to be fixing Wesley’s uniform collar or something before turning to the camera. Geordi would do the two-handed point-and-grin like Guy in the end opening credits from “Galaxy Quest” and Data would totally be painting a portrait of spot before spot knocked over the paints…
Fair warning, you’re going to have to sit through about half the intro before it actually becomes different.
Man Installs Night Vision Camera To Catch Whoever Keeps Bringing Him Newspapers
Last week, something strange started happening to James Eubanks. Inexplicably, newspapers began being delivered to his North Carolina home — newspapers he did not request.
Some days, he’d find just one paper; other days, as many as 10.
Eubanks was perplexed. Then the mystery grew deeper.
As if the unsolicited newspaper deliveries weren’t enough, Eubanks then began finding something else being dropped off at his place. The haywire paperboy had started delivering phone books, too. One day, Eubanks found nine — far more than he would ever want or need.
That one pushed Eubanks’ curiosity over the edge.
He decided to set up a motion-sensing camera in his yard to catch his tormentor red-handed. And sure enough, he did.
“Mystery solved!” Eubanks exclaimed in a post on Facebook.
Turns out, the overzealous paperboy was actually a gray fox — or, rather, a group of gray foxes.
“Without the pictures no one would believe it. I assure you,” Eubanks told (coincidentally enough) FOX 8 News in Winston-Salem.
The perpetrators have been identified, but other questions remain — namely, why do these foxes keep bringing newspapers and phone books to James Eubanks? Well, that’s anyone’s guess.
Chances are better than not, however, that he’s not the only one being affected by these unwanted deliveries. After all, the foxes’ papers have had to come from somewhere, and that somewhere is presumably the porches of paying subscribers.
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