Kleene Star

And she had a friend who had once gone on a tourist trip to Iceland and brought back a volcanic rock. So she borrowed the rock and took it with her on the hike, and after two randomly picked up "hey dad what rock is this", she presented the volcanic rock, in the same fashion as all the others.

3 minutes later there are five middle-aged and older men circled around this mysterious rock, all agreeing on what it is, but not why it is. They keep asking her questions, where did she find it? Were there any other rocks around there that looked like it? Was it like this on the ground? People walking past the group try to stretch their necks to see over the geologists' shoulders to see what's the source of such amazement.

Framing our best picture 

Eventually a hockey player tossed their 12 year old on the roof and he wiggled through an open second story window. It was the most fun shabbos dinner I’ve had to date

It was sushi Shabbat night so there were 15+ college kids standing around on the lawn eating sushi off paper plates at 9 at night and watching a 6’4” hockey player, a rabbi, and a 12 year old discuss the proper force needed to launch the 12 year old onto the roof without chucking him face first into the side of the house

And by discuss I mean

Hockey player: I just don’t want to break him

12 year old: It’ll be fine!

New comic for POMEmag! For all the Gideon kins, butches, and himbos :)

“The King of the Hares in Counsel with his Subjects”, Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna, second quarter 16th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Islamic Art

The Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Alice Heeramaneck, 1981 Size: Overall: H. 12 ½ in. (31.8 cm) W. 8 7/8 in. (22.6 cm) Average text size: H. 8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm) W. 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm) Medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

Checking the kitten crop