My Name is Potato

I think I have found my song. And Rita Pavone is my new favourite singer. Had a tough 24 hours and was so glad for the arrival of Shabbat. After dinner, we turned on the TV and watched a quiz show where the contestants had to rank the top ten theme tunes of Italian children's tv shows of the 1970's. And they showed 5 seconds of this song:  My name is Potato. My beloved L agrees, it's totally me (except perhaps for the moment of dated cultural insensitivity of 1977). 

As my regular visitors may know, I have a great interest in potatoes. And now I have a song.  Shabbat shalom a tutti.

translation here.

Breathe in, Breathe out

Shabbat shalom!

Inspired by my friend, Rabbi David Mitchell (see his Thought for the Week here), I thought I would have a go at saying something instead of just writing it. It is under 4 minutes, but still too large a file to upload directly to Blogger, so here it is via YouTube:

random moment

friday night, three o'clock in the morning, standing in astor place. i am with two new friends, a football-loving brazilian jew from sao paolo, and her g/f, a ladino-music-loving serbian jew from beograd. we are surrounded by the orange street light of the night, and are trying to remember our favourite versions of the kabbalat shabbat song 'lecha dodi'.

shabbat shalom

ok, i know it is a video from chabad, and i am not endorsing them, but i am appreciating their use of the i-pod ads and enjoying a bit of yiddishkeit on shabbat. i hope you do too. gut shabbes!