May 31, 2004

I just remembered something and thought I'd share it with you on this holiday weekend:

A few months ago I was watching television in the middle of the night (a bit of insomnia). I was watching, actually, on my computer using a TV tuner card. This is a neat thing to be able to do, though the picture is never as sharp as you'd expect it to be. I was flipping through the channels and I came upon a movie in which there was a guy who was in a bit of a tizzy about, I gathered, some bad thing that was going to happen, but nobody believed him. I hit the "info" button (digital cable) and saw that the name of the movie -- weirdly -- was "Jews." I was taken aback. But then I noticed that the guy in the tizzy was Roy Scheider who, if you can go by a name, is probably Jewish. So I figured maybe this was not the neo Nazi propaganda that, just for half a second, I thought it was. Maybe this was one of those socially significant dramas in which we're reminded of the scourge of bigotry that still threatens the free world. Maybe it was, like, about some guy who's, like, a proselyte for the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and then we see him get his comeuppance. I would have enjoyed seeing that. But it bothered me that such a movie existed without my ever having heard of it. I clicked info again and it said something about a beach resort town being terrorized by a killer...shark!?...oh yeah...JAWS!"

Note: While the story you have just read is true, both the intermittent insomnia and the comical paranoia described in this account are part of the author's own socio-familial heritage. The reader need not fear that this sort of thing could happen to a normal person.

-Jeremy

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