Earning the Hebrew accent

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Afghanistan – touch down in flight from Augustin Pictures on Vimeo.

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Refusenik

Hebrew lessons, Leningrad, 1980

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It’s always Independence Day in Russia

Last night I was a little too happy about having the holiday off, spending time with friends, and enjoying life, so I decided to watch a Russian movie to ground myself.

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What are White People complaining about today?

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Working Lion and Stay-At-Home Lion

Mr. Lion had just gotten home from killing a hyena that was threatening the pride’s territory when Ms. Lion met him at the door to the cave where they slept.

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Goodbye, Pixar. I loved you.

In the dim, dim recesses of my  early childhood memory, I remember sitting with my parents late at night, marveling at the television they’d just bought, an amazing accomplishment in the late 1980s in the Soviet Union.  I couldn’t have been more than three or four years old at the time, but lasered in my brain even today are two lamps and a ball in the darkness. Why or how these lamps were let into the Soviet Union, I have no idea, but ever since then, Pixar and I have had a beautiful friendship.

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This one deserves a full-screen watch:

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Heat hallucinations. And then, a Scottish miracle.

Yesterday, I ran a 5k, the same one I ran last year.

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So I found this smartphone with Instagram on it…

When we were in New York a couple weeks ago, I found this phone in Brooklyn.

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A letter of concern to my neighbors

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A lil’ bit of rhapsody for your Friday.

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Why do I do this to myself?

Because I hate free time and love pain and misery, I’ve started working on my summer project, which is my second book.

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How a real show about nothing would go

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