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America: Back!
divYes, I am back in the States. Got in on two Sundays ago and have been spending time with the family. This included a Halloween thing at Disney with my niece who was, and this is not conjecture but based on empirical fact, the most adorable Snow White ever. For the record, I was some sort of... Read more...
Published 11 months ago

Ukraine: Nearing the End
So life has been pretty interesting in the month or more since I last posted. I've visited a number of other cities, from really antisemtic Lviv in the west (covered in swastika grafitti and some 80 percent of people interviewed on the street had something bad to say about Jews) to... Read more...
Published a year ago

Ukraine: Documentary, July 28
Left Odessa last night after four days of filming and four nights of partying.br /br /Odessa started off badly. My main reason for going was to film the new mass grave they found last month. More than 11,000 Jews had been executed and buried there, only discovered when workers were digging to lay... Read more...
Published a year ago

Ukraine: Documenary, July 22
The film finally has a working title:br /br /Black Earth: the Holocaust and Antisemitism in Ukrainebr /br /"Black Earth", of course, refers to Ukraine's famed black earth, but possibly people won't know that. I like the associations with the sins and the mass graves, but I can also see someone... Read more...
Published a year ago

Ukraine: Documentary, July 17
Two things happened that made me decide to stay until September: One, the rabbi of Zhytomyr was attacked. Again. Secondly, a company I worked with last summer on my climbing camp has greatly expanded themselves and now own a television channel and set themselves up a production studio. They have... Read more...
Published a year ago

Ukraine: Documentary, Jul 3
Life has picked up considerably. Spent two days interviewing warsurvivors and some of the stories are really heartbreaking, althoughfew are related to the Holocaust (even though the survivors areJewish, they survived because they fled as the Germans advanced; theirmemories are of living in... Read more...
Published a year ago

Ukraine: Documentary, June 27
The film is coming along in interesting ways. The Jewish school wanted one of their students to present about the holocaust in the little museum they have, buthe kept nervously moving around and I had to keep moving the camera tokeep in in frame (in retrospect, I should have just said "fuck it"... Read more...
Published a year ago

Ukraine: The Documentary
I am in Odessa right now, about to finish an interview with a Holocaust survivor. I have decided to start updating the blog again in regards to the documentary. Filming has been going really well despite some hiccups, and I finally feel like I will have an end product worth watching, and so feel... Read more...
Published a year ago

Balkans: What I have been doing
For the past week I have been travelling around the Balkans (for the most part). This is what I have done:br /br /I was taught traditional Hungarian folk dances by two girls from a troupe at a party overlooking the Danube, swum beneath waterfalls in Krka, free climbed cliffs to enter an... Read more...
Published a year ago

America: As of late
People keep asking me when I'm going to update my blog. This is strange to me: I assume no one reads it. Originally I was really into it, updating it daily, because it was what I had meant it to be: a chronicle of my Peace Corps experience. But now that I'm back in America and teaching and not... Read more...
Published a year ago

America: Credit
In general, I don't believe in debt. To finance a house, yes, but when it comes to cars, furniture and everything else, I say if you don't got the money, don't buy it.br /br /I didn't go into debt for my undergrad or my Masters, and half of my Masters was paid out of (my) pocket. I had a... Read more...
Published 2 years ago

America: Spiderman (Pics)
Okay, that really cool Vegas story will wait... Some 600 Wal-Marts all across the country today had a promotion for the Spiderman 3 movie using 600 guys in Spiderman costumes. I was one of them...br /br /Took a lot of pictures, signed a lot of autographs, gave a lot of high fives. Other than the... Read more...
Published 2 years ago