Efrex
@efrex.bsky.social
Father of 4, Orthodox Jew, Liberal Zionist (probably doesn’t mean what you think it does), ADHD, straight musical theater queen, tired. Posting barbershop quartet content until the timeline improves…
I’m not much of a churchgoer (check the profile), but I can certainly appreciate the effort, love, and pride that goes into something like this.
November 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I’m not much of a churchgoer (check the profile), but I can certainly appreciate the effort, love, and pride that goes into something like this.
Not at all surprising, given the source material and the chorus’s composition. To me, this is cultural exchange at its absolute best: respectfully combining musical & storytelling styles across continents without diluting either.
November 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Not at all surprising, given the source material and the chorus’s composition. To me, this is cultural exchange at its absolute best: respectfully combining musical & storytelling styles across continents without diluting either.
per capita was expected, and if that wasn’t acceptable, decapita could be arranged… (also working from memory; that Terry could write a memorable phrase or two, couldn’t he?)
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
per capita was expected, and if that wasn’t acceptable, decapita could be arranged… (also working from memory; that Terry could write a memorable phrase or two, couldn’t he?)
So many possible things might prevent this technology from being a viable treatment, but the idea that we might even have a theory for one is amazing. So much suffering from this horrible disease…
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
So many possible things might prevent this technology from being a viable treatment, but the idea that we might even have a theory for one is amazing. So much suffering from this horrible disease…
… can still brag over finding AGUEWEED over the board and impressing Joel, so I’ll have that to tell the grandkids…
November 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
… can still brag over finding AGUEWEED over the board and impressing Joel, so I’ll have that to tell the grandkids…
… I had some familiarity with the Scrabble world (I was a Rocky Horror attendee in college and met Sal Piro then), and after bantering with Richie for a few months, dropped by club 56 for a while. Kid #1 being born put the kibosh on that endeavor…
November 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
… I had some familiarity with the Scrabble world (I was a Rocky Horror attendee in college and met Sal Piro then), and after bantering with Richie for a few months, dropped by club 56 for a while. Kid #1 being born put the kibosh on that endeavor…
A friend of mine designed Anil Gupta’s website (in exchange for a tattoo of Seurat’s “Sunday Afternoon” on her arm), and Richie was featured liberally in the gallery section. It remains the mist random connection I’ve ever made with anyone on first meet…
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
A friend of mine designed Anil Gupta’s website (in exchange for a tattoo of Seurat’s “Sunday Afternoon” on her arm), and Richie was featured liberally in the gallery section. It remains the mist random connection I’ve ever made with anyone on first meet…
Dangnabit! Can’t make this one. Any other NYC events?
Speaking of Astoria & Scrabble: Richie Lund was a Con Ed ChemLab colleague of mine Back In the Day (we bonded over my recognizing his tattoo artist’s when we first met, but that’s a story for another time).
Speaking of Astoria & Scrabble: Richie Lund was a Con Ed ChemLab colleague of mine Back In the Day (we bonded over my recognizing his tattoo artist’s when we first met, but that’s a story for another time).
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Dangnabit! Can’t make this one. Any other NYC events?
Speaking of Astoria & Scrabble: Richie Lund was a Con Ed ChemLab colleague of mine Back In the Day (we bonded over my recognizing his tattoo artist’s when we first met, but that’s a story for another time).
Speaking of Astoria & Scrabble: Richie Lund was a Con Ed ChemLab colleague of mine Back In the Day (we bonded over my recognizing his tattoo artist’s when we first met, but that’s a story for another time).
Jealous of you. Those of us who read Word by Word when it first came have been waiting on this for years now…
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Jealous of you. Those of us who read Word by Word when it first came have been waiting on this for years now…
*You*’re surprised that you took an extreme minority position without being pilloried for it?! Have you forgotten the last 2000 years?
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
*You*’re surprised that you took an extreme minority position without being pilloried for it?! Have you forgotten the last 2000 years?
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a haggadah that illustrated the משלחת מלאכי רעים before. How cool is that?!
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a haggadah that illustrated the משלחת מלאכי רעים before. How cool is that?!
Where *do* you go?
a teddy bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a tie .
ALT: a teddy bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a tie .
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Where *do* you go?
Love it, but good Lord — Jerry Garcia would say that that was too trippy for him…
November 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Love it, but good Lord — Jerry Garcia would say that that was too trippy for him…
Conflating Western History and World History is a pretty common phenomenon in these parts, from what I’ve seen.
November 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Conflating Western History and World History is a pretty common phenomenon in these parts, from what I’ve seen.
Nope. Very standard framing in Western Civilization curricula to this day, and Western Civ is often the focus of world history curricula.
November 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Nope. Very standard framing in Western Civilization curricula to this day, and Western Civ is often the focus of world history curricula.
Barefoot! Uphill! Both ways!
November 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Barefoot! Uphill! Both ways!
I adore Rochester (if that’s what you’re referring to), but get through your first winter before over-extolling it…
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I adore Rochester (if that’s what you’re referring to), but get through your first winter before over-extolling it…
THIS. Thisthisthisthisthissetythis. It’s also, IMO, the single biggest embarrassment of contemporary American Orthodoxy, whose practitioners have, for the most part, zero connection to their Israeli counterparts because they can’t talk or correspond with them…
November 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
THIS. Thisthisthisthisthissetythis. It’s also, IMO, the single biggest embarrassment of contemporary American Orthodoxy, whose practitioners have, for the most part, zero connection to their Israeli counterparts because they can’t talk or correspond with them…
I don’t know, but you might take some reassurance in knowing that this episode is no less wonderful than the earlier ones.
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I don’t know, but you might take some reassurance in knowing that this episode is no less wonderful than the earlier ones.