Well, folks… Another year has come and gone. It’s time for this kosher samurai to head on up to The Heart of the Old World. [1] (Tekiah Gedolah!) Wishing everyone a gutten un a gezinter yor… a gebensht un a zisser yor! [2] Buon anno a tutti! [3] Shana Tova! [4] ____________________________________________________________________________________________ [1] A Jewish neighbourhood [...]
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Rosh HaShana: Happy (Jewish) New Year!
Posted in Culture, Jews/Judaism, Kosher, Life, Modern Culture, My Life, Personal, Toronto, tagged Culture, Jews, Judaism, Life, Rosh HaShana on September 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Heart of the Old World: My Toronto Jewish Neighbourhood
Posted in Culture, Family, Food, Friends, Jews/Judaism, Kosher, Life, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, Personal Observations, Religion, Thoughts, Toronto, Uncategorized, tagged Books, Food, Jewish, Judaism, kosher, Life, Lifestyle, Neighbourhoods, Thought, Toronto on September 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
What I call ‘The Heart of the Old World’ is a Jewish neighbourhood in Toronto located along Bathurst Street between Lawrence Avenue West and Wilson Avenue. My particular little section of that neighbourhood is a kind of wide ‘H-shaped’ area with Ameer Avenue as the left side of the “H”, Bathurst Street as the right [...]
Oh no! I think I’m allergic to wasabi!!
Posted in Cooking, Culture, Food, Health, Humour, Japan - Japanese, Modern Culture, My Life, Thoughts, tagged Health, Humor, Japan, Japanese, Wasabi on September 23, 2011 | 4 Comments »
O cruel fate with all thy spite with false dreams and fake delight I shake my fist and frown at thee for all the treacheries given me. (L.E. Conley) (ワサビ - Wasabi) I can deny it no longer. Though it breaks my heart to admit it, I can’t keep lying to myself. I think I have [...]
The Bumblebee Bat (aka Kitti’s Hog-nosed Bat)
Posted in Chiropterology, Culture, Education, Fun, Humour, Kids, Life, Musings, Nature, Personal, Personal Observations, Research, Science, Thoughts, Travel, tagged bats, ecology, Education, Fun, Kids, Life, Musings, Nature, Research, science, Thought, Thoughts on September 21, 2011 | 23 Comments »
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls… I present to you… (drumroll)… The Bumblebee Bat (aka Kitti’s Hog-nosed Bat)! (Craseonycteris thonglongyai – a big name for a little bat) The smallest mammal in the world is the bumblebee bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai), weighing in at just barely 2 grams – about the weight of a penny! – and [...]
International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Posted in Culture, Entertainment, Friends, Humour, Life, Modern Culture, My Life, Personal, Personal Observations, Silly, Thoughts, tagged Culture, Funny, Humor, Life, Pirates, Random, silly, Talk Like a Pirate Day on September 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today, September 19th, is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! (Avast, ye swabs!) Aarrrr!!…. Sorry. Just had to get that one out. I’m OK now. As per the Gospel According to Wikipedia… International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD) is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol’ Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap’n Slappy), of [...]
Quo Vadis: An Annual Ritual
Posted in Culture, Life, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, Opinion, Personal, Thoughts, Uncategorized, tagged Culture, Life, Musings, Opinion, Personal, Thoughts on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The other day, I picked up my new 2012 Quo Vadis Agenda. I prefer the Trinote edition. I’ve already begun what is, for me, an annual tradition. (Quo Vadis Trinote Agenda) I’ve been using a Quo Vadis Trinote ever since 1985, the year I started law school. Ever since then, it’s been an annual ritual for [...]
Kamikaze Ants: They Blow Themselves Up Real Good!
Posted in Entomology, Humour, Insects, Musings, My Life, Personal Observations, Science, Silly, tagged Humor, Life, Nature, science on September 14, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Just when you thought insects just couldn’t get any wackier, along comes… Kamikaze Ants!! (The south-east Asian Camponotus cylindricus) Johan Billen of the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), Belgium and his team researched a kind of ant that’s especially evolved to kill itself in order to save the nest. Several south-east Asian species of ant [...]
Why 9/11 Isn’t In My Mind
Posted in Family, Israel, Life, Musings, My Life, Personal, Relationships, Thoughts, tagged 9/11, Family, Israel, Life, Opinion, Personal on September 12, 2011 | 4 Comments »
On the morning of September 11, 2001, when I heard the news, I tried to log on to CNN.com but could not do so because of all the heavy traffic online. The site simply jammed up. After work, I drove home, listening to National Public Radio out of Buffalo, NY. I do not own a [...]
Bat-Frogs: An Odd Fascination
Posted in Humour, Life, Modern Culture, Musings, My Life, Parody, Personal, Personal Observations, Rants, Relationships, Science, Silly, Thoughts, tagged Bat-Frogs, bats, creative zoology, Crocoduck, faux fauna, frog-bat, frogs, fur fish, Jackalope, Llamhigyn Y Dwr, North Pacific Fur Fish, Welsh Water Leaper on September 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Over the years, there have been some mighty kooky critters invented by man. The Jackalope… fabled varmint of the Wyoming grasslands… the North Pacific Fur Fish… mystic creature of the Alaskan Panhandle and Canadian West Coast (there are unsubstantiated claims that a species of fur-bearing fish inhabits the frigid waters of Hudson Bay)… the Crocoduck… [...]
Damsels in Distress: A Whit Stillman film
Posted in Entertainment, Friends, Humour, Life, Modern Culture, Movies, My Life, Personal, Philosophy, Relationships, Reviews, Silly, Thoughts, tagged Entertainment, Film, Humor, Life, movies, preppy on September 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Oy, I’m on shpilkes! [1] I just found out that Whit Stillman, the man behind Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco, has a new movie which premiers this coming Tuesday (September 13, 2011) at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Visa Screening Room at 6:00 pm. (Damsels in Distress – cast) I [...]
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