3 on Thursday

Who's ready for the weekend?!  I'm heading into this weekend knowing it's going to be a biggie since I'll be running around New York City for Bridge's bachelorette bash.  I'm going to take tonight to rest up in preparation.

While perusing Hello Giggles, I discovered Diamond Gothic - the brainchild of Bethany Joy Lenz (of One Tree Hill fame) and two other actress/comedian ladies, JC Coccoli and Abigail Spencer.  Diamond Gothic is a rotating novel where each author takes a turn with a chapter.  When you receive the book, you have to work with whatever the previous author left you.  It's a familiar concept, particularly in improv theaters, but these gals take it to the next level by doing it online.  I would love to put this concept into practice myself (any readers want to join me?!), but if that wasn't enough to hook me, the novel's setting certainly was: Savannah, GA.  Diamond Gothic is all about Southern secrets - a topic I know all to well - set in what I [biasedly] believe to be the most beautiful city in the country.

Not sure if you caught it, but about two weeks ago Jon Lovitz tweeted a picture of his friend's doorstep that had remarkably been vandalized with swastikas, the word Jew written in syrup, and a bag of feces.  It turns out, the property defacers were three girls (driven there by one of their mothers) who go to high school with the victim (who happens to be Lovitz' friend's daughter).  Lovitz' tweet immediately gained national attention and the girls were permanently expelled from school since they violated school rules prohibiting racism and vandalism against other students.  Most people thanked Lovitz for bringing the behavior to light and for condemning the girls.  There were, however, several people who admonished Lovitz for "publicly humiliating" high school girls.  Those people disgust me.  These girls are 14 - plenty old enough to know better - and deserve their punishment and public shaming.  I applaud Jon Lovitz for taking a stand for what is right and using his platform of celebrity to encourage thoughtful discussion.  Bullying of any kind is disgraceful, but this act of blatant Antisemitism is UNACCEPTABLE.  The fact that this happened on the first night of Passover is not lost on me.  The fact that I just realized today is Holocaust Remembrance Day is not lost on me either.  Please take a moment today to remember.  Please take a lifetime to NEVER FORGET.  Few words are as profound as those of Elie Wiesel: "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.  The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.  The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.  And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."      

McClure's pickles now makes potato chips and they are a confusing delight.  Your tongue says pickle but your teeth think chip.  The spicy pickle flavor is actually not spicy so don't hesitate - pick them up off the shelf and give them a try.  I'm not really a potato chip person (though I dare you try to take a bag of white cheddar Pirate's Booty out of my grasp), but I could definitely snack away on these since they're not too greasy, have a good crunch, and come in a unique flavor.