Days of Aw Yeah

Fifty more previously ignored pop culture references to check out and my year will be complete! I finally succumbed to watching the Obama Girl video yesterday, but only to get the joke behind Rosh Hashanah Girl starring Michelle Citrin. Good stuff.

Your Talmudic TV Guide. "On September 21, JewishTVNetwork will be the first broadband network ever to stream the holiest Jewish prayer, Kol Nidre, live on Yom Kippur directly from the Wilshire Boulevard Temple." YM's very own Jackson West, who once spent time during his first college stint in Jerusalem's Old City Christian quarter at the Episcopalian rectory across from Herod's fortress, pulls on long beards for his day job to get a reading on this irregularly scheduled programming.

Dear Book of Life, please put me on the waiting list. Randy and Lisa thoughtfully planned their wedding for Friday night, right at the Kol Nidre kick-off, to make us "only major holiday" observant Jews a little nervous. I mean, the reception promises to be an orgy of Maryland seafood and Texas BBQ and I'm supposed to repent in a rented tux?

What we need is more than this. Advantage (gulp): Brian Van. You never catch these commenter exchanges when they happen. Too quick, nimble, numbing and usually spread second-hand. While there's nothing Jewish about this, except maybe the lesson learned, it's still worth a look through squinting eyes and cringing hands.

BY BRIANVAN AT 09/14/07 04:10 PM

Awards are for people who need awards.

Assholes like me don't need recognition to be a smug hungover motherfucker who thinks you can all suck my dick in a clown suit if you really want to make me laugh. If I were in charge I wouldn't just execute all of you, I'd find your houses and shit in your pillowcases. And fuck your sisters.

Don't bother to give me an award, I'd just send an indian to pick it up.

BY CHOIRE AT 09/14/07 04:14 PM

@BrianVan: "Assholes like me don't need recognition to be a smug hungover motherfucker"

Wow, Brian Van achieved self awareness only days later than Britney Spears did. Mazel tov.

The lesson? It probably has something to do with Karl Popper and Plato's Cratylus but what the fuck do I know? I went to a land grant university. While it's way past expiration for Choire and the rest of Gawker to achieve the same, they can at least learn from Balk who wisely hides his dignity in one of those shit-filled pillowcases and wouldn't dare come out to acknowledge a pencil-stabbing detractor with subtle or sharpened points.