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Jewish Wisdom

Dear Aron & Josh, Someone in my frat is making me fast for a week. I really don’t want to drop out of the frat but I don’t know if I can make it a week with just water. Help?

by Aron Wander, Joshua Leifer on October 18, 2014October 19, 2014

If I Have Been Honest

It has only been for lack of trying anything else.

by Aron Wander on November 14, 2014November 16, 2014

You Can’t Sing

Coming to grips with bad pitch.

by Aron Wander on February 14, 2015

We Could Be Heroes

The legend in question began with a Lego figure of Anakin Skywalker. When your family doesn’t use electricity on the Jewish Sabbath, there is not much to do. You play Risk. You play monopoly. You play Magic: The Gathering. Most of the time, though, you play Lego.

by Aron Wander on October 11, 2014October 13, 2014

This Is Not A Love Poem

I don’t know how I know that but I do. The way turtles / Return home to give birth. Not really like that.

by Aron Wander on October 3, 2014October 5, 2014

During Fire Drills

my teachers wore the same face they did

on 9/11.

by Aron Wander on February 28, 2015February 28, 2015

This Is How God Walks the Playground

Two fists and a bruised knuckle. No lunch money. No school bus. He wears his soles out each morning, drops them at the back of the courtyard, and goes to class barefoot. Doesn’t say much. He sits alone some days and other days he doesn’t. Always the same thing for lunch. Carrots and men.

by Aron Wander on October 11, 2014October 12, 2014

Grandkid Cudi

The following is a blow-by-blow of my impressions of the songs on the album, with some comments from my step-grandmother, who admits that she is a Kid Cudi neophyte.

by Aron Wander on April 19, 2014April 27, 2014

This is what I’ll remember about being a kid:

huddling under the covers and knowing

that if an elbow or toe peeked out,

whatever passing gods there were

would steal it before midnight…

by Aron Wander on August 11, 2015August 11, 2015

The Decline of Marshall Mathers

To my parents’ horror, I discovered Eminem at age twelve when my uncle gave me a copy of Encore for my birthday. I was enchanted; I loved the tenderness of ‘Mockingbird’ and the humor of ‘Puke,’ and the unbridled rage and violence that riddled the album were more visceral and real than any emotions I had ever heard in music.

by Aron Wander on December 5, 2013December 8, 2013

Nom de Guerre

My father chose the name and my mother chose the spelling. My father—for the High Priest Aaron of the Israelites, Moses’ fallible brother who leads the priestly order of Levites but is forever tainted by his participation in the building of the profane Golden Calf.

by Aron Wander on November 14, 2014November 16, 2014

Jewish Wisdom

Love, lust and etsah in the bubble.

by Aron Wander, Joshua Leifer on February 21, 2015February 22, 2015


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