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Monday, December 04, 2006
AFRICAN JIVE
Slim Gaillard
Okeh : 1941
Available on: Laughing in Rhythm
Proper : 2003
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MATZOH BALLS
Stanley Adams and Sid Wayne
Chanukah Carols
Jewish Music Group : 2006
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A little known fact about me: I am a turtle-owner. It was a misguided attempt at satisfying my daughter's craving for a pet. The turtle lost its charm within a week of the birthday it was meant to celebrate and now, a year later, it's become a chore, a duty, like a senile great-aunt living in the back room.
But it's winter in the midwest: first snow, cars frozen shut, temps in the teens. Even before the cold snap I'd started burrowing. Most weekends I spend indoors wrapped in a blanket, curled up in my reading chair next to an electric heater. I can't get warm enough; I can't sleep too much. I eat little and talk less. In short, I've become a turtle.
My daughter complains, "Mom, it's like you're not even there." I know. I feel the same way. I try not to shell up when she's around, but I can't help it. It's a reflex. We were playing a board game the other night and I felt the metamorphosis come on. My mouth got heavier, my thoughts moved elsewhere; I suffered silently through the game and my daughter suffered through my puzzling silence.
Holidays don't help. It's too frantic. Winter doesn't help. It's too cold. And also, I have spent way too much time surfing for mp3s lately, getting ready for the moistworks Hanukkah klezmer special. I was going to start it today, but I went turtle.
These songs have nothing to do with turtles. Maybe they are anti-turtle songs. There's a lot of holiday in December, a lot of heritage: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa. Oh yeah, and my birthday, erev Kwanzaa or thereabouts. Turtles, let the festivations begin.Labels: holidays, megan
posted by Megan
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