seagulls ate our sins, we walked tape-legged
Sep 19, 2009HOWDY’DO!
Shana tova everybody! That means “happy new year” in Jew, by the way. To celebrate this new year I blew my shofar and ate brisket & homemade chicken soup (with a gigantic spoon) at my great uncle Paul’s house. It was good, but so good, I felt sick afterward. Laying on my back in the grass made it feel better, though. Other than that… apples and honey are yummy. Did I mention we like food? While reclining? With wine? Cheap wine?
We “threw our sins” into Lake Michigan today, which were then eaten by seagulls. I wonder if sins are hard to digest. HAAAA just kidding.
My Jew-friends and I, feeling “too clean” after throwing bread into a lake, then taped one of our legs (how do you say that? one of us’s legs?) together. OH SHENANIGANS.
In the morning we went to high holiday services at our temple, where our rabbi gave a really, really moving speech. Somehow, I had no clue that the synagogue we go to (which shares the building with a gay+lesbian temple) was the target of a hate-demonstration by the Westboro Baptist Church this summer. Eight of Fred Phelps‘ followers flew to Chicago (yes, eight people took a plane here to hate other people) and stood by our synagogue, apparently, with “God Hates Fags” signs and a disgusting amount of bigotry. But the awesome part is our congregants, and the neighboring Christian churches, and Muslim mosques, came out and sang folk songs and preached love in spite of the certain people who would spend time traveling to another state with signs that say “thank God for 9/11.” Yaaay love.
Oy vey. That Fred Phelps and his crowd. Why not live and let live? I linked a video to my name of this Australian TV show that sent a film crew to one of the WBC’s protest sites and the reporter acts like he’s coming onto one of the church members and they flip out. It’s pretty funny.
Love the seagull pic: I swiped it for my new desktop. Hope you don’t object :-D
Lastly, one of my favorite Joni Mitchell lyrics, from “Song to a Seagull”:
Out of the city
And down to the seaside
To sun on my shoulders
And wind in my hair
But sandcastles crumble
And hunger is human
And humans are hungry
For worlds they can’t share
My dreams with the seagulls fly
Out of reach out of cry
Spencer,
La Shana Tova! I saw the Blisters play several years ago at Lolla, and we were all impressed! Last week I stumbled upon your blog via Tavi, and am once again impressed. It’s nice to see that there is hope for the younger generation. It’s so awesome to see that teenagers can be intelligent, sweet, free thinking and creative people. Keep up the good work, I’m already addicted to your blog.
I can’t wait to see what you have in store for everyone, as you continue on this road :-)
L’shana tovah!
Those people are disgusting. What do they have against your synagogue, or is it just Jews in general?
To change the subject, is Macatron gone? I notice the feed stopped updating.
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That’s a REALLY nice picture of the seagulls.
The main thing to remember about life is that there is always more good than bad. That will get you through almost anything you will ever face. Happy New Year. :)
i love seagulls.
Happy new year,
at my synagogue are rabbi enlightened us on the Book of Life and how that God decides who will live and who will die in the following year and i could not help but to think about those crazy rumors about the health care plan (^_^)
LoL @ Jeff – and raccoons
I heard the Phelp’s crowd are only in it for the law suit money (most of the menfolk are lawyers): 1.) Pick controversial topic; 2.) take it to the religious right extreme; 3.) taunt people at their most vulnerable (like a funeral for a fallen soldier); 4.) wait for someone to either remove you from your protest area or kick your butt for being a complete jerk and, finally, 5.) sue for having your right to free speech violated or your butt kicked. They were here in Minneapolis a few years ago pulling the same crap at the Basillica Block Party and tried to sue because people were pulling their signs down.
Fred Phelps is such a jerk. I live in Kansas City and he’s over here all of the time pulling his tricks. He has babies out on street corners holding up signs for things they could never possibly understand. It’s a total cult.
Doing some research on young bloggers for a documentary I’m going to make. Very funny, insightful stuff here. Keep it up!
Fred Phelps and co. are in NYC now. It’s awful. They’re skitting around Brooklyn protesting Yom Kippur services, it’s disgusting. They were at my friend’s old high school earlier this week.