Crazy Uncle Dani's Rant

As of 6:30 this morning I am now officially crazy uncle Dani. My sister in law Elana gave birth to a healthy baby boy. The bris will be next week friday morning in Skokie.

Side Rants

-I just wanted to welcome my good friend from yeshiva Matthew Karlin to the blogging world (or blogosphere but I really hate that word). You can find his blog over here. Of course he gets some link loving over on the right side.

The Jewish Hogsmeade

So tonight the camp went to Woodburne which is like Hogesmeade from Harry Potter except it’s for Jews not wizards. There a whole bunch of random Jewish shops. There’s a bakery, a grocery, two pizza places, and of course a kosher Chinese place. What caught my eye was the eye glasses store that advertised that they had Chasidish frames.


Intrigued I walk in and ask what Chasidish frames are. They show me a pair of boxy black and white frames. I ask “what makes them Chasidish? Do they make your eyes go to heaven? Do they block out Pritzus (inappropriate things, i.e.: women!)?” To which I got the disappointing answer of “no they just like them.” Oh well.

Side Rants

-Look at me! I’m posting twice in a month! Dani’s Rant is back in business!

-Visited TMR this past Tuesday. They were ready to offer me a job on the spot as a trek leader/climbing staff guy. Maybe next year if I can somehow work out the kosher food issues. Amazingly it pays better then my current job even though my current place charges 3X as much to send a kid here!

-I just realized that I completly forgot about my Dani's Rant 1 year aniversery on May 2nd. In celebration take a look back at some of your favorite Dani's Rant posts. I'm taking nominations for favortie post. I think my favorites are: Fantasy Poskim, Lipman at the Bat, and I Visited a Brothel... (and all I got was...).

Summer Side Rants

Side Rants

-I went to Hershey Park with the camp and was very disappointed. Not that it’s a bad amusement park or anything but that other then the factory tour ride and that they sell chocolate in the gift shops nothing makes it HERSHEY Park. It’s just like any other amusement park. I expected more of a chocolate theme to the rides and everything.

-Satellite internet sucks! At camp it’s the only “broadband” connection available to us. It’s twice the price of cable and DSL and about a quarter of the speed! And if it rains or gets cloudy it gets even slower!

-So Keyon Dooling of the Orlando Magic came to camp today and he brought his father along for the trip. So Keyon is in the shower and his father is in the office with a bunch of the counselors. He calls us around him to huddle and the following ensues:
Mr. Dooling: Now you guys are men right?
Us: Yea!
Mr. Dooling: You’re real men right?
Us: Yea!
Mr. Dooling: Alright then, now go out there and go get some pussy!!!
Most random thing ever! Even better then the time when Curly Boo Johnson of the Harlem Globetrotters walks out of our office bathroom and says: “Consider this your warning: no one go in there for the next two hours!”