I love everything you write. I just bought your book too and I'm excited to read it. I sound like such a fangirl right now, but whatever. Anyways, I really enjoyed this article. I've been to Amersterdam twice, and I wish I knew about all the monuments, etc. you mentioned. Obviously I knew about the Anne Frank house, and I also wandered around Jodenbreestraat but I would have liked to have gone to Sarphatipark and the Holocaust memorial too. I remember walking past the Hard Rock on my way back from the Vondelpaark but everything was kind of hazy by then so I guess I'm not too surprised I didn't notice the memorial...ahh Amersterdam.

I was reading this book last night before going to bed. I woke up this morning, opened firefox and there was this article. Funny. I'm reading the book not because I was particularly intrigued and picked it off the bookshelf myself, but because my mom wants me to promote it on campus for our town's Jewish Book Festival. I'm supposed to be the voice of the young, hip Jew or as Klug would say, the "heebster". I did want to like it. I was hoping this book would somehow make me even prouder to be a Jew and make me smile at all the cultural references that might only be familiar to young Jews like me, growing up today with our homepages set to Jewcy and our iTunes to Balkan Beat Box. Granted I've only read up to chapter "dalet," I feel it's just a big scrapbook full of "hip" Jewish Cultural icons such as Meshugga Nuts and JDub album covers, with little substance or new revelations. I really haven't learned anything new, except for that Diego Rivera had Jewish blood. My mom and her friends who have read it, however, loved it. They like it because they appreciate that now it's "cool" be a Jew, something which maybe their generation didn't get a sense of too much. I don't know if I'd agree with Friedman that this book spells the end to any "cutting-edge trendiness," but I probably wouldn't urge any of my friends to run and pick up a copy. However, it might be cute to read 20 years from now to remember the what it meant to be a "cool Jew" in 2008.

On another note, last Hanukkah I received Bryan Fogel and Sam Wolfson's "Jewtopia" from a family member and actually enjoyed reading it. It was funny, edgy, full of Jewish self-mockery, and I never felt they were trying too hard.

ew ew ew ew.

 

however, giving it a second look, i guess it could be kind of cute if it wasn't made out of bacon. like, if those big red pieces were lacy ruffles or something. but who am i kidding, i hate ruffles.

girls (but not all girls) usually get a little bit attached after fooling around with someone, especially if they like the person.

but these outfits kind of suck. and the blonde chick's makeup looks like she's supposed to be some kind of gothic fairy-princess.

parked outside of my house last week. it made my day and as soon as i saw it, and the sun seemed to shine a little brighter. but it did look kind of awkward next to the ford expedition.

can't he grow his own dreads? the idea of extension dreadlocks kind of freaks me out.

and holy crap, mateo, where did you find that guy?

oh my. i love the everything kind. i hope they'll still be making the white grape matzo. now that stuff is good.

 

like, more realistic looking? is that really a picture of her? going off helen's 'lars and the real girl' comment, bianca, the doll, was pretty damn realistic looking, and pretty hot, if i may so myself. i mean, zoltan can actually communicate (among other things) with this robot chick, but she still looks like something i could buy for 20 bucks at my local sex shop. what gives?

really? i kind of want one. i bet they taste pretty bad though, like absinthe itself. probably not as bad as maple bacon though, ewww.

 

my additions:

-charoset.

-noodle kugel

-black and white cookie (I guess more of a new york thing than a jewish thing?)