DaveTLV @Surasanji@social.cleverlibre.org

Hey there #QOTO ! It's time for another #ShareTheMusic

The band I'd like to talk about today is near and dear to my heart.

They Might Be Giants is one of those bands that a lot of people have heard without realizing that they know the band.

Maybe you heard them on Tiny Tunes as a kid, singing 'Istanbul' or Particle Man

Maybe you heard the theme song to Malcolm in the Middle, Boss of Me.

Either way, they're a fantastic band that has been pumping out albums for quite some time.

They've got too large a discography for me to actually share all my favorite songs- I do recommend you check them out.

Here are just a few of my favorites:

Answer: https://youtu.be/0cpawwRbSNY

Youth Culture Killed My Dog: https://youtu.be/_uejz92M-SM

And, of course, Particle Man:
https://youtu.be/3_mEctH8e4w

Enjoy and don't forget to #ShareTheMusic!

This emoji is called "Yoshi Happy"

But why is he happy? Look at his face- why? Why is he happy?

As it turns out I can post more than one of these at a time

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Hello #QOTO! Hope you're all having a fantastic day so far. A bit warmer than I prefer today, but it be a perfect day for the beach here in Tel Aviv.

Today's #RandomQuestion is as follows:

You've discovered a machine that will allow you to add or remove one evolved aspect of modern humanity. It would change everyone instantly, and no one but you would know that anything has changed.

As with yesterday's question this machine can only be used one time, afterwards it is broken and can never be repaired.

What do you change?

I would change the evolution of the eye to have more color receptors. I don't have any good reason why. I just think it be neat to see colors I've never imagined before.

Not sure if this is my favorite Emoji, or just wanting to make a meme.

So, before I go to bed, I thought I'd tell another story.

The story of the first time I went to the Israeli Holocaust Museum.

This was in 2006, January. I was on Taglit, or Birthright- a trip for 10 days that's subsidized to bring young Jewish people to Israel to visit.

The tone of the trip is, without a doubt, one of Zionism.

During the trip it is standard for a group of soldiers to join with you. It is also standard to visit Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust Museum.

Now, if you haven't been to this particular museum, I do recommend it, but it is *brutal*. Like terrifically, fantastically brutal. No punches are held, it's put together in a way to really draw out the emotion and everything is laid bare. Everything.

On my trip I'd made good friends with Ben, a religious paratrooper who was one of the soldiers we had with us. Really good guy- we share a love of dark humor. We made a bunch of your standard dark style jokes and bonded over it.

But, by the time we'd reached most of the way through the museum I'm brutalized. He sees it. I know it.

We reach a model of people scrambling to get out of a gas chamber. There are old, faded shoes under us with a glass floor between us. I've got tears in my eyes, on the edge of losing it.

That's when Ben looks at me. Kippah on his head. Tzsit at his sides and he leans in to whisper to me: "How many Jews can you fit in a Volkswagon?"

He never finished the joke. He didn't have to- it was enough to push me out of the despair. I laughed. I laughed in the most inappropriate place- he laughed.

We laughed together so we wouldn't cry.