So, you know how ck recently had a post about the UJC Community Heroes?  I’m over it. You know why? A certain Genia Brin. Not only is she the mother of Sergey Brin, who I totally could have married and now been Beemin’ up and down Mountain View, but also she decided to spearhead HIAS’s MyStory project, which is a social network for ex-Soviet Jews to share their immigration story.
She does not know that she has led me to drink and despair (and Nutella binges)
This network totally ruins my chances of writing the Great American Novel about how Hard it is to be all Russian Jewish and immigranty and angsty, when thousands of other people have had the same experience, and can now chronicle it ON A SOCIAL NETWORK. They are giving away all my trade secrets of immigrant sorrow. I mean, it’s true that there’s Gary Shteyngart and Emil Draitser and Eugene Mirman and Sana Krasikov and Mark Budman , but whatevs! If I wrote a book, wouldn’t you be shocked to know that, for example, my earliest memory is of my mom breaking my shovel on a frozen lake in Yaroslavl, Russia? I cried for at least forty minutes. Well, that’s touching and all, but HOW CAN I TOP BEING IN A GHETTO IN MINSK? I can’t.
Time to accidentally hike into Iran or something. I gotta up my game.
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Yes, but does Nabokov write about Nutella?
I think Nabokov beat you to it with Pnin, anyway.
Vote or die, eh? I voted.
Roberta: Obviously we’re all pulling for Rabbi Yonah (currently #4 on the leaderboard! click here to vote: http://tinyurl.com/lkynm6 ) but I voted for Genia also because I am pretty convinced that her son has Google tracking the votes and if I don’t vote all my Web sites will be dropped from Google and when you search my name the only page that’ll come up will be something unnatural involving farm animals. So uh… yeah. Go Genia!
Vicki — We’re waiting for you to vote for Genia as a UJC Hero — nu??
Vicki,
That’s ok, now you can write a novel about your personal experiences, based on the entire website. You only have to reveal that yours are “shared” memories after you win several awards and then they accuse you of plagiarism.
Depends on what kind of baseball bat. If it’s bat fight, it might not be so bad. http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/426608ab8c/bat-fight
Hiking into Iran sounds like it would be as much fun as getting hit with a baseball bat.