TV Party Tonight

From the package of thank you notes sent by a history class at Spingarn High School in DC that I received yesterday, it's the best part of donating -- or right below catching a whiff of Lauren Bush on the drink line at a charity benefit.

Donors Choose Campaign Update: To my grand surprise, someone donated over $1000 through the YM Challenge yesterday. C'mon folks, dig deep and often, we're gaining ground on the big shots. I can smell the butt of Racked.com now!

Doree Shafrir, doing a little drum fill on the Culture beat at the NY Observer, observes Alex Ross's observation that Wagner, pioneer of gas chamber music, has topped the charts of Amazon's new mp3 download service. The top ten is rounded out by similarly antisemitic gall bearers, like the Beach Boys. I won't give specific examples for each but let me make the case for Pink Floyd, since I was once subjected to a detailed analysis of Animals while futilely trying to fall asleep on the floor under a bunk bed in the summer of 1988 in Ocean Pines, MD. It certainly felt like death camp...

On that flatbed Jew note, Happy Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah everyone! (Your office is closed today and tomorrow, right?) Go check out The Tribe on iTunes.

The Weakerthans - "Our Retired Explorer (Dines with Michel Foucault in Paris, 1961)"