#kuttithevangu

[vifetoile]

Do you remember the farmer’s markets, Mr. Frodo? It’ll be spring soon, and tourists will be crowding Hollywood Boulevard; and your actor friends will start handing out postcards for their shows at the Fringe; out on the Venice boardwalk Muscle Beach will be gleaming; and they’ll be selling everything mango flavored at Trader Joe’s. Do you remember the aloha shirts of Trader Joe’s? 

[elucubrare]

kuttithevangu replied to your post: a thing i’ve found, in my baking journey, is that...

the only kind of cupcake i think is a Wrong cupcake is the kind where the icing outweighs the cake

really and truly no one should trust my Cupcake Opinions because 97% of the time i don't think about them and the other 3% i crave really terrible, soft grocery store yellow cupcakes with the kind of buttercream that has a little hint of a sugar crunch on the outside 

[the-knights-who-say-book]

Do you know of any good nonfiction Judaism 101-type books? I'm writing a Jewish character (she follows Reform Judaism in the US in the 2010s, if that informs your advice) and I'm belatedly realizing I know less about Jewish theology and practice than I should.

sorry, i don’t have any personal recommendations for those kind of books, so i can’t help any better than a google search would. i know @kuttithevangu has answered something about introductory jewish texts before so i wanted to link to that list but i can’t locate it >:(

anyone else able to weigh in?

[darkhei-noam]

kuttithevangu mentioned you in a post

@darkhei-noam​ thank you for turning this BBC-based WTF moment into some neat exploration of sforim history I'm so delighted

My pleasure! I only need the slightest suggestion to derail my whole day into another side research project on Jewish book history and I’m off to the races. Interestingly, this ended up connected to something I had actually previously researched — this Mishnah translation was done by Willem Surenhuis, who relied on two other earlier translations (one in Latin, and another in Spanish), done by two Sephardi brothers, Jacob and Isaac Abendana. I had written a research paper on Isaac Abendana and his role as a Hebrew scholar vis-a-vis Christian Hebraists, so I had already run into this! Another link is that Abendana was connected with the Orientalist Edward Pococke, who in 1655 edited the first book in Hebrew characters printed in Oxford — Maimonides’ Judeo-Arabic commentary on the Mishnah, Porta Mosis.

Here’s the title page and the first page of Middot from the Amsterdam 1702 edition of the Mishnah with Maimonides’ commentary, Mischna sive totius Hebræorum juris, rituum, antiquitatum, ac legum oralium systema, cum Maimonidis & Bartenoræ commentariis integris:

[hypokeimena]

Classics Department Smell

Radiator That Doesnt Work

[gurguliare]

kuttithevangu replied to your post: is snuff bad? sorry i dont know things about a...

“Byatt also noted the "great deal of interest in bodily fluids, excretions and excrement” in the book. At the end of the review, Byatt called Pratchett a master storyteller, and said he was endlessly inventive" oh

Ok to be fair the interest in excretions is because Young Sam’s special interest is poop and I support Young Sam in that and everything he chooses to be

[eudaemaniacal]

One of my library classmates has the mug from your bookstore... she says she's never been there but she treasures it because it's the best for carrying tea around in

HGHHGHRG. A MYSTERY!!!!!!!!!

which one is it-- black with a neon silicone cup lid and logo, the one with the loon, or the basic travel mug with a black lid. i must know. i’m betting it’s the last they really are so good

[wagahai-da]

kuttithevangu replied to your post: at this point it feels like the only purpose...

makes me so angry!

yeah it’s so

fucking everything i look into everyday, every single field

is just so full of fascists and nationalist

everyday i am filled with incandescent rage