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Slightly overslept my alarm and am now baking a little frantically to make sure the cookies are done in time before it becomes necessary to make actual lunch-dinner food. Oops...

vegan sneakers of the day & passover

Finding vegan sneakers is kind of rare. These are "Palm" by J41 in charcoal and brown.



We had this whole conversation about how it's only necessary to unlock the door for the prophet Elijah, not actually open it, at the seder today. I said that it was a symbolic gesture, like inviting a vampire in. Of course, that led to a lot of jokes about how the prophet's wine was drunk by his vampire minions and/or possessees (with me advocating for the term "vessel", but before I could say "as in Supernatural", several someones suggested nuclear wessels).

conclusions from this week in tv

Not that it's not usually also offensive - but how sad is it that US tv treatment of Vudun/Santaría is typically less offensive than its treatment of the Roma?

Too bad, too, because the special 200th ep of CSI had an awesome guest director and absolutely gorgeous camerawork. At least it was mostly limited to offensive exoticisation in the "scary primitive people doing tribal dances" scene, as opposed to suggesting that they, for example, kill white parents and steal their babies (thx, Criminal Minds, for giving everyone else something to live down to).