Recent Comments

  • NG: Don’t know the film, but if you still haven’t gotten Advil by mid-April, let me know.
  • Ben-Yehudah: B”H It must have been frickin’ freezing out there (Mr. Bigglesworth – name that film!)...
  • Eric: The reason people arrive early to get into Costco when it opens, I believe, is because they run restaurants or...
  • NG: You can of course do the open collar, as long as you’re wearing something under it or over it.
  • Vicki: I love the Israeli dress code. I wish I were a guy just so I could do the open collar.

External Comments

@natges

    America in 140 characters or fewer

    Last month I went to visit America for a couple weeks and I recorded the entire trip on the Twitter. Here are all my tweets, from the minute my vacation began to when I got back home. Sorry they’re in reverse order – I can’t find a tool that will export them from first to [...]

    Skatalites

    I took this picture when the Skatalites came to Tel Aviv in September. I never thought they’d come to perform in Israel, so it was a special treat to see them play at the Barby. I was not so surprised that they put on a fantastic show, since I’d seen them also in New York [...]

    Reggae Reviews

    Whenever I need this site, I can never remember what it’s called, which makes perfect sense because it’s called exactly what it does:Reggae Reviews.

    By linking to it here, I hope that everyone I know will go to it and read through it, and then recommend it to their friends, who in turn will recommend it [...]

    Top 10 Best-Selling LPs

    Of the top ten best-selling records of all time, I own none (but I do own the 11th). And that’s out of about 40 gigs of music. How many do you own? Do you know anybody who owns all ten? It’s my personal opinion that these ten are crap.

    Tamar Violining

    Making yourself dumb

    Very much in line with my belief that everything in life looks cooler when graphed, which led me to Graph Jam, here are two of the coolest little websites I’ve seen in a long while: Books That Make You Dumb and, for people who don’t like to read, Music That Makes You Dumb. The idea [...]

    Beatboxing

    I will always admire MC Squared for showing me some amazing beatboxing:

    But in all the years that I’ve been occasionally telling people to check out the video of him at the Apollo, I never realized even what other kinds of beatboxing were out there. Did you know that there are people who beatbox and play [...]

    Autotune the News #4

    There was an article in Slate back in, I think, April that mentioned this guy who’s making autotuned cable news mashups and putting them on youtube. He’s awesome and his videos are hilarious, and even just bad enough (eg, fake mustache falling off) to be even funnier than if he’d had a tremendous budget.

    Check out [...]

    Some new music

    Thanks to the power of Le Torrent and to the advice of some friends, I’ve obtained some new music recently. Here’s what I think of it:

    Asher Roth’s Asleep in the Bread Aisle and The Greenhouse Effect. Well, he’s pretty good. I say that in the sense of having a certain appreciation for hip hop and [...]

    America, part 1: at a glance

    Ever wondered what I do when I go to America? So have I. Here’s a step-by-step breakdown of how I spent my winter vacation.

    Day 1: JFK, Reagan, AT&T, T-Mobile, Chipotle, Costco, CVS, Lenscrafters, chicken tenders, cookies, Benny Lava

    Day 2: pancakes, online glasses shopping, Kohl’s, Popeye’s, Goodwill, AT&T, Buca di Beppo

    Day 3: Costco, Pizza Hut, At&t, [...]