tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7397350.post460993795231177234..comments2023-10-06T12:08:56.879-04:00Comments on 3W: Re: Stuff White People LikeZevhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02174266905866513724noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7397350.post-56666634358100692182008-03-24T11:09:00.000-04:002008-03-24T11:09:00.000-04:00I guess I'm 1 for 91 on account of my polisci degr...I guess I'm 1 for 91 on account of my polisci degree. I suppose I should have realized I wasn't white when I was by far the best athlete in my high school class.<BR/><BR/>ShmuliAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7397350.post-50203557579238029382008-03-24T00:13:00.000-04:002008-03-24T00:13:00.000-04:00His stuff in the New Yorker is pretty good too, bu...His stuff in the New Yorker is pretty good too, but you do have to read it in that dead-pan sort of way that Sedaris trademarked. <BR/><BR/>TAL is basically the Best Thing Ever.Zevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02174266905866513724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7397350.post-6516384036139747492008-03-23T20:15:00.000-04:002008-03-23T20:15:00.000-04:00As someone who likes most of the things on that li...As someone who likes most of the things on that list I'm happy to vouch for David Sedaris, Yehuda. My advice: skip reading his books, and listen to him read them as audiobooks -- much better that way. Or catch his segments on This American Life, which as far as I'm concerned everyone should really be listening to anyway...ginsbuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00955725617381815930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7397350.post-83390123449260532712008-03-23T11:53:00.000-04:002008-03-23T11:53:00.000-04:00Well, yes. Ortho or Orthodox is generally a term r...Well, yes. Ortho or Orthodox is generally a term referring to American Jews, whereas in Israel the terms are more mesorati or da'ati le'umi. <BR/><BR/>I'll have to think about it. Israelis can be rather 'crunchy', so many things on the list can also apply to them. The cultural markers (eg Devid Sedaris, Ira Glass, the Sunday NYT) do not. So while many of the values overlap, the language is distinct. Which I guess is kind of obvious.Zevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02174266905866513724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7397350.post-64207730493063124322008-03-23T03:10:00.000-04:002008-03-23T03:10:00.000-04:00By "Jews do not like . . ., " I presume you mean "...By "Jews do not like . . ., " I presume you mean "American Jews do not like . . ." Israeli Jews do like many of those things (the only one I can't vouch for is David Sedaris, because I never heard of him).Yehudahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04472453413892018818noreply@blogger.com