Savage Kitten and I are heading to Vancouver. We'll be back on the twenty-fifth of February. There will be no new posts here untill then.
THIS BLOGGER IS GOING ON VACATION!
THIS BLOGGER IS GOING ON VACATION!
I'm sure that my coworkers, whom I distrust, will make a concerted effort to locate my red stapler and steal it. Good luck, boys, you'll never find it.
THIS BLOGGER IS GOING ON VACATION!
THIS BLOGGER IS GOING ON VACATION!
I'll return and start posting again on the twenty-fifth.
In the meantime, read everyone on my blog roll. Avidly and repeatedly. Be sure to visit the Yeshiva and the Manga section. Eat some vegetables.
THIS BLOGGER IS GOING ON VACATION!
THIS BLOGGER IS GOING ON VACATION!
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AND NOW FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT: BRUGES PUSTULES
I also wish to mention a recent incident in Belgium.
Marcel Kalmann, a 64-year-old American academic, was chased out of restaurant Le Panier d'Or in Bruges after a waiter saw his kippah and yelled at him that they didn't serve Jews ("wij serveren hier geen Joden, ERUIT!"). Shaken, he went into a neighboring restaurant, where the staff was extremely upset to hear what had just happened, and called the police, who requested that he report the incident at the station.
When he got there the police functionary refused to believe him, and her colleague started screaming that he could only make his statement in Dutch, and that such a thing could not have happened in Belgium.
I shan't editorialize. The facts speak for themselves.
All I'll say is that it really doesn't matter that most people are decent individuals, or that there are protocols in place to discourage such incidents. All it takes is one s.o.b. to ruin your day.
There are more than just one or two s.o.b.s in the Benelux.
At least three of them are in Bruges.
I also wish to mention a recent incident in Belgium.
Marcel Kalmann, a 64-year-old American academic, was chased out of restaurant Le Panier d'Or in Bruges after a waiter saw his kippah and yelled at him that they didn't serve Jews ("wij serveren hier geen Joden, ERUIT!"). Shaken, he went into a neighboring restaurant, where the staff was extremely upset to hear what had just happened, and called the police, who requested that he report the incident at the station.
When he got there the police functionary refused to believe him, and her colleague started screaming that he could only make his statement in Dutch, and that such a thing could not have happened in Belgium.
I shan't editorialize. The facts speak for themselves.
All I'll say is that it really doesn't matter that most people are decent individuals, or that there are protocols in place to discourage such incidents. All it takes is one s.o.b. to ruin your day.
There are more than just one or two s.o.b.s in the Benelux.
At least three of them are in Bruges.
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By the way, did I mention I'm going on vacation? So there won't be any new posts for a while..... sorry.
9 comments:
I vaguely remember what a "vacation" is - usually something relaxing and exotic, taken by people with no children... sound right?
Enjoy your vacation, you lucky SOB. :)
Ik wens u en Savage Kitten een hele prettige vakantie toe!
Have a sweet vacation.
In the immortal words of Doug and Bob MacKenzie: "Take off, you hoser!"
Yo B, enjoy Vancouver! - D.
Dang. The blog is a bleak and desolate place without you. Relax, have fun, and come home soon and entertain us. Because OUR needs come first.
Okay, at random, the three Greatest Canadians in the World (a flatfooted tie):
Alice Munro, Steve Nash, Leonard Cohen.
Dag
I do not think US citizens get as much vacation as they deserve.
Nonetheless Vancouver has had lots of US tourists before
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-348-1932/conflict_war/draft_dodgers/clip9
Today is the 24th of February 2008/18th Adar1 5768. Already home? Enjoyed your vacation? We all hope so! Fallen on your knees for Savage Kitten?:-)
Tomorrow is the 25th of February 2008. The 19th of Adar1 5768. Then our blogmaster will be back. And we'll have our posts again.
By the way, did I mention that our blogmaster will be back on the 25 of February 2008, tomorrow?
WELCOME BACK, BLOGMASTER. ENJOYED YOUR VACATION?
Thank you all for your kind wishes that I should enjoy my vacation.
Which I did.
One the last day in Vancouver I looked at the weather report, and saw that all flights out of La Guardia were cancelled till mid-afternoon because of the weather back east. Seeing as a dozen co-workers were in New York for the trade show (all from the wrong side of the office), I enjoyed that last day even more. And I am not ashamed to gloat. I'm glad I was not at the trade show.
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