Joho the Blog » christmas http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger Let's just see what happens Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:48:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Getting past the self-reflexive beginning http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/01/04/getting-past-the-self-reflexive-beginning/ http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/01/04/getting-past-the-self-reflexive-beginning/#comments Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:50:15 +0000 davidw http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/01/04/getting-past-the-self-reflexive-beginning/ A tweet from Jeff Jarvis:

My son says his problem with Twitter is too much Twittering about Twitter. Judging by today, he’s right. And I just added to it.

That used to be the case with blogging when it first started. Every other post (including mine) was about blogging. Blog blog blog blog.

If you want to get out ahead of the curve when the next new social writing phenomenon happens, be the one who never writes about it.

(BTW, I’m dweinberger at Twitter.)

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]]> http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/01/04/getting-past-the-self-reflexive-beginning/feed/ 4 Christmastime for the Jews http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/12/24/christmastime-for-the-jews-2/ http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/12/24/christmastime-for-the-jews-2/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:22:27 +0000 davidw http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=7684 I love mornings. The hour before my family gets up is so quiet and calm. No phone calls. Just a cup of coffee and a keyboard. Ahhh.

That’s how the days before, during and after Christmas feel to me as an American Jew.

Oh, I could do without the cultural assumption that we all celebrate Christmas. I could do without the decorations in every mall and in most towns. I could do without the endless cycle of Christmas jingles. Most of all, I could do without the secret belief that Jews really do enjoy all that Christmasy stuff. The truth is that this Jew does not.

But, at least it all culminates in a couple of days of quiet and calm. Christmas is a lovely time of the year for Jews in America, not because of all the decorations and the ho-ho-ho’s, but because it takes the Christians off the streets and shuts the whole place down. While Christians focus on the sweetness of their faith and deal with passive-aggressive fruitcakes, our calendars are empty and our cellphones are mute. Beautiful.

(PS: NBC has carefully removed the perfect SNL short, Christmastime for the Jews, by Robert Smigel, from YouTube for copyright reasons, thus immensely benefiting NBC’s bottom line. I couldn’t find it anywhere. Jerks. (And if NBC has in fact posted it, I hereby preemptively apologize.) [Ten Minutes Later: See Comments 1 and 2 for the apology])

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]]> http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/12/24/christmastime-for-the-jews-2/feed/ 9 Just when you thought there was no sheen left to wear down http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/12/18/just-when-you-thought-there-was-no-sheen-left-to-wear-down/ http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/12/18/just-when-you-thought-there-was-no-sheen-left-to-wear-down/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:23:10 +0000 davidw http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/12/18/just-when-you-thought-there-was-no-sheen-left-to-wear-down/

Oh please oh please oh please go away oh please oh please oh please

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