Charitini

Network For Good Rachel's Charities:
Dec 31 2011 ∞
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changetheratio:

Last-minute charity top-off? 115 donors helped 2,856 kids - now that’s a ratio I can get behind! BONUS: Used the old-skool Gotham filter, for kicks. Pretty please & THANKS: bit.ly/LizzieRach

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2011 end-of-year karma!

My Email Signature, Explained

Dec 28 2011 ∞

In 2011, in some capacity, I am and/or have been an adviser to or otherwise highly involved with these companies: 

(I’m a proud mentor with TechStars; have been editor-at-large at Mediaite since we founded it, in a title chosen specifically for its flexibility, since I am no longer involved as I once was, by a long shot; worked for Hashable in varying capacities over the past year; I guess I should change “SBNation” to “Vox Media” now that they’re all fancy n’ blowing up n’ stuff; and if I can do even any small thing to help TeachAIDS make the world a better place then wow, am I honored. Oh and, of course, Change The Ratio - I’m the co-founder and I clearly live & breathe it every day. what can I say? I love the ladies.)
Dec 27 2011 ∞

THIS: Rick Webb on SOPA

rickwebb:

As a major donor to Obama’s last campaign, I get my regularly-scheduled call of them trying to get me to be a bundler. For the last couple months, whenever they call, I tell them that SOPA is a very big deal to me, and I will not donate until he takes a position against it, as written now.

“I…

Dec 27 2011 ∞
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Two fun things: (1) I attended a fantastic weekend event at the Ace Palm Springs wherein a bunch of Jews celebrated Chanukah, and (2) what amounts to my parents’ winter hometown newspaper, The Desert Sun, wrote about it and quoted me.

On Sunday, Rachel Sklar of Los Angeles recapped the weekend by singing a parody of Adam Sandler’s “Hanukkah Song.”“This was just a great weekend,” Sklar said.

(I am not of Los Angeles and I definitely said more than that, but why quibble.)

The adorable little moppet pictured above is Odessa, 5-year-old daughter of my friends (and fellow Rebooters) Craig & Rebecca. Related: She’s also my new style icon. Girl can rock a jeanjacket, striped stockings and hipster skirt like a champ.

Also there was hilarious comedy from Jason Nash, Moshe Kashen & Morgan Murphy, music from Brian Joseph & Terra Naomi (and my fab accompaniest, Adam Stern), and just a gret time with great people. Huge kudos to Jill Soloway, Julie Hermelin & Rebecca Odes for putting together an amazing weekend. I love Reboot.

Jews in Coachella Valley Gather for Hanukkah [The Desert Sun]

Also: Slideshow!

Dec 27 2011 ∞

Trailer for Episode 15 of “The Salon” on The Jewish Channel, which I co-host with the wonderful Forward editor Jane Eisner (I am Andy Richter to her Conan). Good show, incl. #Occupy Judaism, sex-segregated buses…in NYC, how hard it is for some Jewish women to get a Get (Jewish divorce, the specialty of “Women Unchained” director Beverly Siegel), Herman Cain & Steve Jobs (feat. awesome Verge gadget guru Joanna Stern). Also with the very cool Jo-Ann Mort. I do love doing this show.

Charitini’s back!

Dec 27 2011 ∞

Charitini’s back after! One person noticed - my mom. Backstory: For the past week, Charitini.com has annoyingly pointed to something called Accel Studios. The dude from Accel had no idea what happened, and his claim that he did not hack my wildly popular secondary tumblr was substantiated by the fact that his own website is itself defunct. My pal & helpmate Phil Bump fixed it for me. Something happened on Dec. 11th and either I was hacked or I clicked some weird link. In any case, going back over my browser history for Dec. 11th was harrowing. Do I really spend that much time on the Internet?!? Geesh.

Anyway, Ma, here is Charitini, for when you are bored of my Twitter.

Dec 26 2011 ∞
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#LAExodus (and my song) makes The Desert Sun, my parents’ winter hometown paper. They are proud. You can just make out “Rachel Sklar of Los Angeles” in the 5th para. Yay factchecking! (Taken with instagram)

(Source: changetheratio)

Um, something weird is going on with my tumblr.

Dec 16 2011 ∞

So this is a test.

Dec 13 2011 ∞
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Validation: Being written about in your university magazine. My time at U of T was such a petri dish of awesome.

Dec 13 2011 ∞
“ Imagine, if you will, a man who, as Speaker of the House, orchestrates the impeachment of a President for an adulterous affair with a White House aide twenty-six years his junior while he himself is conducting an adulterous affair with a congressional aide twenty-two years his junior, having earlier left the first of his three wives while she was hospitalized with cancer. Imagine a man who attributes these behaviors to “how passionately I felt about this country.” Imagine a man who, told he can’t sit in a front section of Air Force One, shuts down the government. Imagine a man who becomes the only House Speaker ever to be disciplined for ethics violations. Imagine a man who, in a country just staggering out of the worst recession of the past fifty years and facing the threat of worldwide economic collapse, proposes to hire small children to work as janitors, mopping floors and cleaning toilets in their schools (or their orphanages, perhaps). Imagine that man as Commander-in-Chief.
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Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker. (via langer)

I want this read out loud at the top of every newscast in the country.

(via capitalnewyork)