Eric Umansky

Doing the Lena Shimmy

Little (Niece) Lena getting very excited about...I'm not sure what:

It was a dark and stormy sentence

Any big storm inevitably brings a flood...of overwrought writing. The NYT seems particularly skilled at this. Today's entry, courtesy of Robert D. McFadden:

The day was, in a way, like great theater: the drama of the approaching storm, the searching wind at the panes and rain dancing on the pavement, the smudged sky, the iron-gray day like a movie in black and white. The overcast was solid, great plates of corrugated iron fused from horizon to horizon, and the streets glistened in the rain: a metallic futureworld.

A metallic futureworld! Save us!!!!

Girls Gone Wild

My two nieces...celebrating at last night's Seder: