12.03.2006
Have a holly, jolly...Sukkot?
One ante meridiem is a damned good time to inform you all, though, that the Christmas trees are back for sale on the streets of New York, and what means that I get to smell Sukkot whenever I walk by them! I anticipate that, at some point in the future, that lovely piney smell may become more associated in my mind with Christmas than with Sukkot, as the memory of evergreen schach recedes in my memory (replaced by those less-than-aesthetically-pleasing-but-less-labor-intensive bamboo mats). I rue the day in advance.
On an unrelated note, I went to AF's party in Brooklyn tonight, and, as happens every time I visit that fine borough, I ask myself why I don't live there. It seems quieter, saner, and much more neighborhoody.