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Matisyahu’s Youth: A New Jew’s Review
Matisyahu’s third album, Youth, while weaker than revolutionary Shake Off the Dust…Arise and the electric Live at Stubb’s, still firmly establishes the genre of Hassidic Reggae and Matisyahu and his band as one of the most exciting musicians today.
Matisyahu at the Paramount Theater, 2/28/06
Matisyahu played the Paramount Theater in Denver this past Tuesday. He was fantastic. The Paramount is a 2000+ person venue, possibly the largest indoor venue in Denver next to Pepsi Center (where the Denver Nuggets/Avalanche play). He sold it out at least three weeks ago. Hi set included many perennial (don’t know if you can call anything a guy who.. Read more
Dada-ismb: The New Neuroses
So went to the Doctor last week for the regular, monthly checkup. All was good, but Marni had to take a quad screen . The quad screen is conducted during the second trimester (15 weeks to 22 weeks) to identify pregnancies at a higher risk for Down syndrome, trisomy 18, or an open neural tube defect. It’s a simple blood.. Read more
Dada-ism
So, I’m going to become a father! Sometime shortly after Marni and I did the NYC marathon , we conceived. It had been a relatively long haul: We’d been trying since about March 2005. While we weren’t concerned, we were starting to look at it. Well, sometime in November, bada-bing, bada-boom, little Z was conceived. It’s really cool but also.. Read more
Marni is the best
And she’s great
The Loss of Stability
Is it a good thing that our economy (especially our tech sector) continues to churn its workers over and over again? I’m in this predicament right now: My company, Maxtor, is being purchased by Seagate. It is all but expected that I will be losing my job in the next 6 months. While I think the transaction makes sense from.. Read more
