procrastinating

by marjorieingall on March 4, 2013

More fun and seriousness at SorryWatch.

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yay! jewish gay dads in picture book form!

by marjorieingall on February 26, 2013

The Purim Superhero is, as far as I can determine, the first LGBT-themed Jewish children’s picture book. I wrote about it for Tablet magazine. And believe me, this is a definite DON’T READ THE COMMENTS situation. (Ha, like I listen to myself.)

I’ve been trying to think of other children’s books with gay and Jewish characters.  [click to continue…]

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50 Shades of Oy Vey?

by marjorieingall on February 14, 2013

50 Shades of Star-K? 50 Shades of Haimish? 50 Shades of Beis Yaakov?

Tablet magazine ignored my title suggestions for this piece on Yael Levy, America’s only Orthodox Jewish romance novelist. Probably for the best.

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separated at birth?

by marjorieingall on January 28, 2013

So I’m searching on NetGalley for a bunch of books I maybe want to review for Tablet. I’m looking for Better Nate Than Ever  by Tim Federle, which looks absolutely adorable, though I suspect I’m vainly hoping there will be some sliver of Jewy in there because it looks so delightfully gay and New York-loving and show-tune-obsessed. I type in the title, and thanks to NetGalley’s search engine that brings back every book that shares a word with the book you’re looking for, this is one of the hits I get: 

I am HYPNOTIZED by those abs. Not in a good way. Those abs do not look human. Those abs remind me of this:

I mean, I appreciate a slab of fine man meat as much as the next girl, but those abs do not look mammalian. They look CRUSTACEAN. I feel alarmed, not aroused. I’m going to go not google bedbugs now.

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Lance Armstrong SorryWatch

by marjorieingall on January 20, 2013

We read the transcripts so you don’t have to. And crunched the numbers and rated the apology elements. Because we SorryWatchers are mathy like that. And we join in your hope never to hear from this dick again.

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civilize your own damn self

by marjorieingall on January 15, 2013

More ranting from me about bad manners in Tablet magazine. Last time it was feral children; this time it’s raised-in-a-barn grownups.

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good manners among children and Republicans

by marjorieingall on January 4, 2013

What do small children and Fox News pundits have in common? [click to continue…]

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more from vaccine nation

by marjorieingall on December 27, 2012

In this week’s Tablet magazine, column, once again, I’m writing about vaccination. And once again, the comments are sort of breathtaking.

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In recent SorryWatch news…

by marjorieingall on December 10, 2012

There is such a thing as a funny rape joke, but this thing from the Oatmeal guy is not it. Mr. Oatmeal’s apologies/apologia are even less amusant. (Look for a future SorryWatch post on the difference between apology and apologia.) In happier apology news, when the Jewish parenting site Kveller ran a transgender-phobic post that ran afoul of LGBT advocates (and most sensate humans), it followed up by consulting with said advocates, taking the post down, and running an excellent apology. And in another noteworthy apology, a newspaper regrets the error of failing to cover the civil rights movement. (Hey, a 40-years-late apology, with lots of good reporting and soul-searching to back it up, is better than no apology.) In non-me-related news, I thought Susan’s post about the unfortunate HoboJacket (which I feel should have an exclamation point — HoboJacket! The Musical!) was particularly brilliant.

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the best jewish children’s books of 2012

by marjorieingall on December 4, 2012

My annual list, at Tablet magazine.

Everyone has different standards of “best.” [click to continue…]

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