Today’s Kaddish is for the ninety-two killed by a Christian fundamentalist in Norway on Friday, and it combines Kogan’s “Kaddish” with the Norwegian national anthem, “Ja, vi elsker dette landet.”
daily kaddish: for the space shuttle program
I asked Mira for special text, and she knocked it out of the park. I’m over the moon for this one.
daily kaddish: again with the Wagnertube
I’m trying to get this thing to sound decent on Wagnertube, and so far that darned instrument is living up to its reputation of orneriness.
daily kaddish: on Wagnertube again
Mira’s text acknowledges the sad house—a house sad with upheaval and division in the wake of my divorce.
kaddish, pain, and ascension
I was very moved by Erin’s kaddish for the old Bay Bridge — which, of course, wasn’t about the bridge at all. And I thought, oy, what a can of worms this kaddish has opened. Daily kaddish may well be harmful to the health, I thought. Every day you are in mourning, focusing on that…
daily kaddish: on Wagnertube
A Jewish prayer performed on an instrument invented by the famously (perhaps conveniently) anti-Semitic megalomaniacal genius of an asshole Mr Richard Wagner.
daily kaddish: the old Bay Bridge
You might start to think we’re getting a bit grumpy here at k2ph. Chalk it up to divorce, moving chaos, and Bay Bridge lane closures.
daily kaddish: what a difference a collaborator makes
I whined to Mira, “Oh, shit, I have to make a Kaddish, what a bummer.” She looked at me in horror and said, “Well, then you don’t get to do it.”
daily kaddish: for J.K. Rowling’s mum
On this, the opening weekend of the very last Harry Potter movie, a kaddish for the woman whose death inspired it all—at least according to Mira.
a kaddish for harry potter 7.2 — and the mum who inspired it all
The very last Harry Potter film ever opened today. And yes — I saw it. And I’ll see it again tomorrow. The ritual of seeing HP movies on opening day with friends is apparently sacred. And I blew it saying yes to one friend and oops to the other. My attempt at a save is…