This past weekend was Passover. W00t passing over the first born children of the Israelites and smiting the heathen Egyptians. I understand that the Egyptians were enslaving the Jews but is it just me or don’t you think that celebrating an incidence where an entire generation is slaughtered because they believed in the wrong god is a bit morbid?
Aside from that, it was another year of stale matzah. I’m pretty confident they just reuse the same stuff year after year. I mean, if it tastes stale fresh, it probably won’t taste any staler when it’s stale. That feels like a bit of circular logic. Anyway I brought the misses to meet the other half of the family. Over Christmas she met the excessively rich side, now it was time to meet the excessively intellectual side, which does not imply a mutual exclusivity. I’m not kidding I’m pretty sure my family has more masters than some universities PHD programs. The service was pretty fun lots of singing about fifty percent in a language I didn’t know. The food was meh, but with no bread or dairy there’s not a lot you can really do.
I’m not sure if anyone else has ever heard of this, but my Aunt lived in what you call cohousing. It was actually pretty neat; it was sort of like a fraternity for adults and families. Basically, there were all these townhouses, and there was only foot traffic allowed. Everyone knew everyone; in fact they sometimes ate communally. It was really neat, but very unnerving. I am definitely not used to so many people smiling and saying hello to me as I walked past. My natural urge was to punch them in the face, but thankfully I suppressed that.
Comments:
1) The Egyptians were slaughtered because Charlton Heston said so, not because of religion.
2) The morbidly rich side is NOT the same as the morbidly intellectual side? Usually those qualities are found on the same side of the family. And are you sure “morbidly” is the adverb you want there.
3) Does everyone in this cohousing wear a white robe. If so, then it’s probably a cult. If they’re all naked, then it’s probably a nudist colony.
Posted by Mills at 12:05 PM on April 22, 2008
Why not fantastically rich and fantasically intellectual? Morbidly for an adverb is just plain dumb.
Posted by anonymous at 10:52 PM on April 22, 2008
ugh who the hell really cares, if it will make everyone happy exchange the word morbidly with excessively
Posted by halfcent at 11:26 PM on April 22, 2008
Kidwell and I were talking about getting to DLD between 8 and 9. The lines start forming pretty early, but I’ve heard from people who’ve attended in the past that you can buy and drink non-DarkLord beer while you’re in the line waiting for DarkLord beer. And yes, my cell is the same.
I think I’ll exchange the word “morbidly” with the word “peachy”
Posted by Mills at 09:55 AM on April 23, 2008
Wooh DLD ’08 Rocked! We’re planning to do it again next year. WOOH DLD ’09!
Posted by Mills at 09:22 AM on April 29, 2008