'Just Rewards (2)'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
D'oh! You're going to open an entire district?Well, just the Wyly Theater part of it, but both new facilities are opening at the same time, and both are owned by the same company (not the one I work for), so at times, it will feel like I am opening the whole new Performing Arts Center.
Is this, perchance, because they know that you can rock?
I had to Google this.
Happy end-of-b-day omnis!
Happy b-day, beth's DH
Happy hamster, Seska! (Well, you know you'll get one, in the end).
Now, after the whole "would like to hear more about Israel through your posts" from you, I heard this on the news when I woke up. Unfortunately, they still didn't translate it to English, so here's what happened:
We have here the Acco Festival for Fringe Theater [link] which has the main theme of co-existence, etc.. A lot of Israeli-Arab groups are also taking part of this in Acco, which is one of the big mixed cities in Israel (along Haifa, Jerusalem and others such as Lod). As a background, I should say that a year ago there were very rough riots in Acco between Jews and Arabs, which almost caused the festival to cancel, and eventually, to take place is a very reduced scale.
A show which tells the story of the occupied territories based on the testimonies of Gidon Levy [link] and machsomWATCH [link] won the second prize. The manager of the festival read a letter that a 95 year old Israeli sabra [link] wrote, saying that he does no longer believes in Zionism and no longer wish to stay in this fascist country, and about how it's the time to talk about peace and reconciliation.
Given that all of the other shows which won prizes and all of the shows with political statement were from the left side of the political map, it raised a lot of criticism.
I'm surprised any of this is news. This is how this festival has always been. I don't understand the reaction to it. But it sure doesn't help all of the "the media is biased!" screams we hear here everyday. And that's from someone who hardly watch the news.
New hamster! She is called Hamish! She is a grey dwarf hamster. I'll take a picture as soon as she stops digging up sawdust and peeks her head out enough.
Shir, the Arab-Israeli arts festival sounds interesting. At least it inspired debate.
Yay Hamish!
At least it inspired debate
That's the thing. There's always that debate in the background, and I'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing anymore.
Because once it's always on, it fades into the background, an it seems normal to have that debate - it seems part of the normal lives.
And the whole point is that it isn't normal to have this situation in the first place, and the whole debate makes it look normal.
I don't know anymore.
Aww, bless! Hamster for the win!
On the subject of winning: I won the Fancy Dress Competition! Go Team Me!
Go Team Fay!
Hamish! [link] Hope you can see that photo.
Shir, I guess it's like The Girl says: "Three Israelis, sixty opinions" (or something like that). She's at the point where she just won't discuss the Arab-Israeli situation. I think that, like you, she feels that debate isn't working at the moment. At the same time, though, unacceptable situations can seem more acceptable the less they are debated. So I don't know.
Awwww! Hamish is a one good looking hamster.
I agree with The Girl. We need more doing, and less talking about optional doing. This just got old.
Sincere discussion lets you know dissent is alive, especially in the times where you can't do, or can't see what's being done. I guess I'd always rather know there are two sides to a problem than think I wandered into a monolith. It can be really scary when the silence sounds like it's against you, and everyone sympathetic is too busy to pipe up.
A week's worth of posts in another window because I have been absurdly swamped. Sucked this thread, there was a couple thousand posts in Natter so that was a big ole skip. meara later
Happy Belated Birthday to omnis!
I won the Fancy Dress Competition!
Woot! Well done.
Cute Hamish.