oren falk

a gentleman, my daughter says, is someone

who can play the bagpipes

but chooses not to.

kids these days. sheesh.

reupping this from @duncanchisholm.bsky.social. happy #InternationalBagPipeDay!

it’s from the bad place (3 years ago) but too grand for it to be lost.

x.com/duncanwchish...

השפיץ של מדינת ישראל

or, even more explicitly,

m.youtube.com/watch?v=NcWG...

also proof that i should be able to delete other people’s postings b/c this hits tooo friggin close to home right now

בהינתן שאין לנו כנראה שום יכולת ממשית להחליף את הממשלה הזאת — הכלים הקלאסיים פשוט לא עובדים, כלים חלופיים טרם הומצאו/נמצאו/נוסו, וגם אם תוחלף זה יהיה מן הסתם ע״י תאומתה מימין (בנטלפידגנץ ושות׳) או מימין עוד יותר — איזה agency יש לנו לפחות לבדל את עצמנו מהם?

גם זה דיון ׳לא נח׳ אבל אולי לא פחות דחוף

100%

ובהתאמה, ביבי והציונות הניצית (והצינית; מחזיק את עצמי בציפורניים לא להגיד פשוט ציונאצים) כופים זהות מוחלטת בינם לבין ׳ישראל׳ (כולל בתגובות לשרשור שלך), כך שביקורת על התנהלות המדינה תחת הממשלה הזאת נתפשת, גם ע״י רב הציבור הישראלי וגם ע״י המבקרים מבחוץ, כביקורת/האשמה/התקפה על ישראל

מעולה (ומדכא)

ירוק עד

“All I know is that we have no input … public opinion means nothing at this point. Haven't you heard? Ours is not to reason why.”

ha that’s really interesting! not sure how they haven’t thrown that funding at you already many times over

[i’m guessing that lebanese bodega in århus was operated by *checks notes* immigrants from wisconsin?]

שאגת הארי פוטר

The Northern Medieval World: On the Margins of Europe | Medieval Institute Publications | Western Michigan University

congrats!

just gonna put this out here:

Northern Medieval World series
wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
book proposals welcome!

having one time in denmark been subjected to the hate crime of falafel with MAYONNAISE i don’t think i could stomach any more scandi-middle-eastern cuisine. this whole globalising the intifada schtick has gone waaaay too far.

ha det bra with your proposal though!

not sure whether this is a ‘??’, a ‘?!’, or just a ‘sigh whatever’. not sure i care deeply about finding out either.

guess ill play it safe & go w ‘wtf wrong w you’ then.

i mean…

not a ministry, foreign or otherwise, just s citizen of israel (& the us). could i sign on as well?

judy you are trolling now. everyone knows that danes are just norwegians w very bad laryngitis

no no no please don’t. i’m completely underwater w all of the reading i already have to do and every time you casually toss together some of your thoughts i end up w a new reading list (or worse: a to-ponder list. aaaagh) as long as my dragon’s tail.

have an idea? keep it to yourself. thx v much

had precisely the same sensation w precisely the same collection just the other day. the doctor in whose waiting room i was reading was disappointed to see me reading for work but i assured him it was pure pleasure

מה בלגי בניו יורק

reading this alongside christopher crocker’s “what we talk about when we talk about vínland” (2020) makes for both head-spinning and heart-aching

never interacted w her in person but spent many a productive hour w her in the toronto library — enough to splurge some of my grad student budget on actually buying the book. a higher compliment has neer been dreamt up.

RIP

the nw hook of that swastika is just precious. like, you can practically *see* the twerp realise he’d got it wrong, pause to consider, then decide ahh can’t be arsed, they’ll just have to figure it out.

ACAB > AZAB is a nice touch tho. z stands for ‘zealots’ i’m sure, right?

heads up @greenleejw.bsky.social

i may know the answer to this jeopardy question (by my late great senior colleague)

www.historytoday.com/archive/stra...

ah yes. another “too many frickin jews around” voice from the ‘left’

nicely done bloch family

it all begins w the personal (which is another way of saying that the personal is always political i suppose):

“grief has a way of calling attention to assumptions and choices as much as it encourages an often hazy nostalgia.”

fascinating find. menstruation is one of my go-to exx of aspects of medieval everyday life that are likely to remain opaque to us no matter what

this is terrific and perfectly timed — i was just teaching my students the exact opposite (well, sorta)

now you’ve given me an excuse to link your blog under the heading Everything Oren Told Us Was Wrong. doesn’t get much better than this, as pedagogic wins go :)

also spotted in the new-book-smelling Vikings: Enquête sur les femmes des terres gelées (companion piece to a recent France 5 tv show…?)