1) Go to Google Translator
2) Set English > Yiddish
3) Translate “AIDS”
4) Copy the answer
5) Paste it back in to be translated into English
6) Set Yiddish > English and translate.
7) Panic
via @MandyPandy32 and blameitonthevoices.com (more…)
A thing about my family and the Yiddish karaoke at the Jewish museum in the Guardian. By Tanya Gold.
Here’s me on the Guardian’s Sounds Jewish podcast with Jason Solomons. We talked about Jews and boxing. I mostly did the Jews bit.

Springtime for Hitler. I expected similar results last night.
I’ve had a major breakthrough careerwise. Yesterday I showed an audience my pyjamas. It felt true, honest, edgy – though in retrospect maybe I should have washed them (they were toothpaste stains, ok?! Toothpaste!) (more…)
If you put “wanton self-indulgence” into Google it’ll probably come up with this post. So if you have anything better to do, please carry on…
That said… (more…)