with mia away for a few days, i got right down to business and watched me some ben-hur. mia questions my questionable leisure-time activities, which include running as far as possible and watching 3+ hour epics starring charlton heston as the toughest jew ever.

mia is jewish. mia doesn’t watch jewish epics with me (though is ben-hur a jewish epic? it does have some jesus, but that plot seemed ancillary to me). i am not jewish though i a) am circumcised and b) make the meanest batch of vegan latkes this side of williamsburg (the jewish part, not the hipster part, fuck the hipster part).

i tell her that i watch jewish epics so that i can understand what her people have been through, and if it takes charlton heston to show me that they’ve been through a lot, then awesome. unfortunately, i don’t think she’ll reciprocate by watching clash of the titans because she’s an anti-greekite.

dude, that ben-hur chariot scene was ill. i paid for the whole seat but i only needed the edge. i think i didn’t like charlton heston until i became a gun nut. now i like him. and guns.

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