Today my sister texted me about some Israeli chef drama.
She didn't say much about it, and other stuff and other conversations went on in my life.
While gardening and getting most of my blood sucked out from mosquitos, I listened to one of my favorite podcasts: Ashamed to Admit
It's Australian!
And Jewish!
On the episode I listened to this afternoon, Tami Sussman interviewed the popular Instagrammer JewishMemesOnly.
After listening to the podcast, I went to look at the JewishMemesOnly account, because I rarely run into it in my feed.
(The thing is, I follow a shitload of people but try not to go on Instagram too often, so I miss a lot of posts)
When I went to the account, I saw that there was a video clip of the podcast episode I had just listened to.
I saw a comment from Tami Sussman. I followed that to her account and started following.
Because although I've been listening to the podcast for a few months, I hadn't thought of seeking out her Instagram account...or an account for the show.
Anyway....an hour or so after this happened, I get a text from my sister who shared some more thoughts about the Israeli chef drama.
My sister told me she started following the chef.
What's the chef's name?
I went ahead and followed her too. Of course.
Anyway, I thought that was fun synchronocity.
And also...it brings me joy when Jewish/Zionism and Australia intersect. (I mean when it's in a positive way...not when it's a one-of-my-favorite-Australians-turned-out-to-be-antisemitic way)
Another also: I now know for sure that my special interest in Australia is not dead. Because my sister told me that my nephew liked the song "Big Jet Plane" by Angus and Julia Stone, and I was overly excited and spent the next hour or so hyper-fixating on making a playlist for them with all my favorite Australian songs.
Unfortunately several of the songs were by a singer who has turned out to be anti-Israel.
But...such is life.
It's fine.
I was getting kind of tired of his songs anyway.
I don't mean that in a defensive-insulting way. His songs are great. It's more the fact that I tend to love songs; listen to them repeatedly; and then as time goes by...listen to them much less often or not at all.
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