not feeling like Tom Friedman
By Tom Teicholz at 16 April, 2009, 4:46 pm
don’t know why but the last two weeks (maybe longer, who knows), I have been having lots of conversations in my head but I have not been blogging them — it’s one of those ironies of feeling pressure to do other things when it’s all self-induced — maybe that explains it.
So for example yesterday I attended the Walter Kronkite awards for political broadcast journalsm at USC — as hosted by Marty Kaplan of USC’s Annenberg School. Lots there to discuss — Katie Kouric, Rick Kaplan, George Stepahnopoulos, some interesting thoughts about the future of TV, newspapers etc….. but didn’t do it and the moment moves farther away.
This morning I attended Ytizkhor, which reminded me that I never got around to blogging about the Birkat Hamacha, the prayer for the sun, the once in 28 year prayer, that I actually managed to observe and get my daughter to observe with me, and also as regards Passsover, my role at the Seder as the funny passover songs aggregator — but to get back to my point, this morning I read a little footnote explaining that in this portion of exodus God is referred to by an abbreviated form of his name just as Yah, as if “Praise Yah” and then it hit me that what the Rastafarians and when I say rastafarians I mean Bob Marley and the Wailers and The Harder they Fall, refer to “Jah” and Praise Jah, and Jah rastafari — well, that’s where the reference comes from. SO there.
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