Marvelous Happy Things

If you haven't seen this new clip celebrating Hanukkah and boy bands, you should watch it before continuing to read. (Search for Boyz II Menorah and the Late Late Show, as I'm currently unable to link the video.) All of the actors featured are either practicing Jews or grew up in Jewish culture . I like boy bands, Josh Peck, and the Late Late Show as much as anyone, but I'm not Jewish. I started thinking, is it okay to celebrate another religion by listening to popular music? (Yes, I've seen Fiddler on the Roof .) I would expect the writers of this song to want to expose people unfamilar with Hanukkah to its traditions. Listening to that song gives me more of an affinity for Jewish culture. I choose whether or not to listen to that song. The artists can't make me act one way or another. No one is "forcing this music down my throat." As an American Christian, I see Judaism as a safe, sister religion. I don't know any Jews personally, but if I did, ...

Season 4 Episode 9 The following post contains spoilers. The plot moved extremely quickly during this episode. It was difficult to keep up. The writers are dropping clues about Jughead's book and the overall storyline of the show. Will any of the fan theories be right in the end? Only time will tell. In the beginning of this episode, Jughead's story mentions a boy in the river. Could that be Jason Blossom from season 1 (the original plot)? At first, I thought that Polly Cooper was crazy. Then, I thought that Chick was hypnotizing her. Actually, Edgar Evernever's wife was triggering her to attack "Betty", using the word tangerine. Weird! Veronica is not playing games in her ongoing fight with her father. I wish we would have seen more in the scenes between Hiram and his mother. She disapproves, but does she truly care about him? I was glad that Cheryl was not actually trying to take her own life. Though this show has been dark at points, that would be extre...