February 2010
3 posts
Kalevala: Folks epos fun di Finen →
Kalevala: Folks epos fun di Finen
Yidish fun Hersh Rozenfeld
(1954)
Groundbreaking style
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No Surrender
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January 2010
4 posts
This is what you do in Boston
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The syntax, and I am the judge in 1988 who wrote... →
The syntax, and I am the judge in 1988 who wrote the mathematical interface on all 5,000 languages proving that language is a linear equation in algebra certifying that all words have 900…
Bathrooms can be black metal too
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Flaming Tusk releases their first LP, Old,... →
Most of you are probably familiar with my metal band, Flaming Tusk. In which it is probably old news to you that we have finally released our first full-length record, Old, Blackened Century, on the internet.
November 2009
9 posts
Is this vest too short?
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Pictures From The Metallica Show
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Full house
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Volbeat
I’m watching Volbeat now. These guys dress like modern-day Green Day and play a pleasing burly modern heavy metal with vocals that make you think of Elvis and Danzig before Hetfield. The place isn’t yet even half full but the floor is packed, the kids are responding well, and I can’t begin to imagine what it must feel to go from being a band that your humble correspondant had...
I am outside of a Metallica show.
I am surprisingly early and I’m waiting for my contact. I’m drinking a strawberry smoothie and eating small piece if rasberry cheesecake. Again surprisingly, considering the neighborhood, they were relatively cheap and I even saw her put real strawberries in the blender. The cake is a little dry, though. There’s a large number of Metallica shirts around, given the traditional...
Here's me in my free shirt from Aardvark.
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One leg up
Here’s a picture of the guitar player for this really douchey band Flaming Tusk played with a while ago. You can see that he’s got irregular chops scissored out of his shirt, and one leg up on his monitor, Creed-style. Later in his set, he was to hop down from the stage and solo very badly on the floor while a female friend of his awkwardly if pre-choreographedly tore his shirt off...
Another successful show
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Birthday cake for crux
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August 2009
1 post
For me, love was never feverish nor irrational.... →
For me, love was never feverish nor irrational. That was what always scared me the most: that at its deepest, animal core, my love was still calculating and self-interested; that my love was the…
July 2009
4 posts
Di Geviksn-Velt in Yiddish, oyf English, umzist. →
There was not nearly as much hubbub as I though there should be when, just a little while ago, The YIVO Institute For Jewish Research (Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut, for the true believers),…
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Back up? →
After a not-too-long period of moribundity it looks like Apodion.net might be back on its feet for good. I am running the newest long-awaited release of Chyrp, and I have restored to function my…
Not a Very Faithful Transliteration →
Commonly, the YIVO (nearly every other) system for transliterating Yiddish into Latin characters operates according to spelling, rather than pronunciation; thus האָבן remains ‘hobn’, even when…
June 2009
4 posts
Not a very faithful transliteration →
Commonly, the YIVO (nearly every other) system for transliterating Yiddish into Latin characters operates according to spelling, rather than pronunciation; thus האָבן remains ‘hobn’, even when…
Good morning! →
Well, I updated my Wordpress install to 2.8 this week, and it completely hosed my front page. I didn’t relish debugging that mess so I decided to jump ship. After playing around with Habari, …
Durak →
I think the finest element of Durak is the shaky, ad-hoc alliance between a player and the player sitting across from him. It is not fixed or a priori, as in Euchre and its many cousins; rather,…
A sketchy and clearly underthought-out opinion of... →
I think one of the reasons I am supremely uninterested in Dawkins et al.’s unceasing scornful attack on religion and non-rational belief is that, unlike them, I am not concerned with with how…
April 2009
6 posts
Untitled
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A visit to Dino’s →
The small pleasures of adulthood come piecemeal. There is, as we have all heard, no user’s manual for becoming a man; one mostly stumbles onto these things oneself. Thus it was that I found myself…
Apparently I spilled some blood on myself at the...
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Peste Noire is a black metal band from Avignon, France. It was founded by La Sale Famine de Valfunde in 2000 to express his hatred and despair and his passion for France in the Middle Ages.
History distilled →
I have always felt that if you are drinking an artisan distillation, you are drinking the history of a people, of a region, and of what they grow.
Steve McCarthy, The Pursuit and…
Today’s most creative interpretation of the... →
Sieghetnar (that’s German for “Victoryhetnar”) are a Depressive Black Metal band from Germany. “Despite writing their band name in hebrew alphabet, the band claim they do not wish to spread…
March 2009
2 posts
The third evening.
Tampa - New Jersey is the douchebag corridor. I know this because on Sunday there was a blizzard in Atlanta, GA. The effect of it was that Stolas and I sat in a stationary plane on a Tarmac for six point five hours, while icing, then deicing, refilling, and all of the other things that a plane does that don’t include flying. We weren’t coming from Tampa, of course, but our neighbors...
The second morning
More farting. I’m thirsty. I wanna go home. We did the metal fest. For now I won’t go into the musical specifics, as my thoughts thereon might end up appearing in other places, but I will say that it was awesome. I am mostly impressed with how well the whole thing went off. With the exception of one (1) unruly Nazi kid, one (1) cancelled band (scurrilous rumours which I will not...
February 2009
6 posts
The First Morning
I am underslept and lying on the couch of my Atlantan contact. I woke up just fifteen or so minutes ago from a combination of the dozen bottles of cheap beer I consumed last night draining from my bloodstream into the surrounding tissues and boiling into the open air, and the absurdly loud and repeated farts of my traveling companion, who is defiling the sleeping blanket that it will be my turn to...
Atlanta! O, Atlanta! →
Fucking dodgy vim plugin ate my post, so this one will be quicker. Going to Atlanta today. Tonight is Mice In Cars, tomorrow is Scion Rock Fest. Read my twitter and the Apodion Dispatches…
Shocking
This guy: http://twitter.com/heavypennies - TWEETED me last night at the bar. He said he was a “photojournalist of [his] life.” I _knew_ I should have asked to see a press pass. I’m too fucking trusting. Sent from my tiny software keyboard. Posted via email from The Apodion Dispatches | Comment »
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I don’t have any beliefs; I have hobbies.
—Red Paige
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It is incumbent on the unfortunate to be at least cheerful in manner.
—Ambrosius Amatus Faber
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January 2009
7 posts
Æsthétique →
Love, it seems then, is seeing beauty in the absence of novelty.
—Jean-Marie Pigeon
Colemak →
11 days ago, on Jan. 19, 2009, I made the switch to the Colemak keyboard layout. I had actually made the decision at about 0:00 that morning, and had spent a good couple hours before sleep (my…
A notice
The apodion dispatches would like to extend a warn and heartfelt thanks to the security staff at the Pratt Institute, who recovered and provided the beloved hat owned by yr. correspondent, though he is in all likelihood entirely undeserving of it, having lost or displaced it, along with his gloves, more times than he can count, or, certainly, than is proper. Sent from my tiny software keyboard....
Sully, my man!
Like most New Yorkers, I’ve been pretty thoroughly interested in the plane that went down in the hudson this week. And I feel something of a personal sense of gratitude to the pilot of that plane, who everyone bow knows is Sully. A real crash of that magnitude, at this time, would have been ripping off the scab of a pretty touchy wound and salting it. Not to mention a pretty harsh kill of...
Falta envido →
Falta envido is like a weapon whose size decreases as the game proceeds. In the beginning, when both of you are young and small, it is like a man’s sword wielded by a child: massive, clumsy, and…
Combined Apodion Feed →
For your convenience, I’ve created a combined RSS feed using RSS mix that aggregates the anaphora.apodion, apodion.net, and apodion dispatches feeds into one. [Just copy this link into your web…
More on Christmas →
In the Jesus-Hell-It’s-Over Department, Derek Powazek gave a brief run-down last week of the whole Christmas Thing. A good bite-sized expression of doubt with the whole ‘But Christmas is totally…
December 2008
3 posts
Apodion Anaphora →
So I spent some of today setting up an install of Asaph, an image microblogging application. It’s pretty cool; you put it on your server and then any time you want to grab something from the web,…
Welcome to the Apodion Dispatches
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Having an opinion →
The problem is, somewhere down the line it was decided that one had to have an opinion on everything. And somewhere down the line, that having an opinion means choosing one thing that is…
November 2008
4 posts
Softwares, teyl tsvey →
A good while ago, I wrote a blog post called Softwares, where I laid out my basic workflows for a lot of different applications and why I liked them. I figured I’d revisit that topic now, more…