two quotes and a link

[cellio]

Heard tonight at a lecture from Rabbi Joseph Telushkin (who was quoting, but I didn't catch whom): "Holding a grudge is like letting the person you hate most in the world live in your brain rent-free".

Because I didn't want to post just that (but also didn't want to lose it), have some other things from browser tabs that I've been meaning to point to:

From Yesh Omrim: "Also, in response to “would you want a Muslim living next door to you?” I should have said “Have neighbors who follow a religion requiring them to abstain from alcohol? I would bake them a frigging cake. If there’s some hadith that also forbids pissing off a balcony, I would bake them two cakes.”

Not a quote per se, but: the introvert's lexicon, link from shalmestere.

Comments

[caryabend.livejournal.com]

If there's some hadith that also forbids pissing off a balcony, I would bake them two cakes.

OK. I want to hear that story.

[cellio]

So do I, assuming there's a story rather than just a general crappy-neighborhood problem. :-) (I mean, back when I lived in studentville, this wouldn't have surprised me terribly...)

[sethg]

We live in studentville. If we stay here long enough I hope that Harvard University and Boston College will get into a bidding war over our house.

At least it's a step up from the basement apartment we lived in before buying the house, where I once walked out our door one fine Sunday morning to discover that someone had vomited out a fourth-floor window that overlooks our walkway.

[ginamariewade.livejournal.com]

I am too, too amused by the Muslim comment.
In my younger days, I lived next door to a frat house.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

That blog post from Yesh Omrim made me cheer. [Inserts one of several stories about the incredibly sweet Muslim students at my school here.]