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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Another Jewish Figure Skater? Um...Sort Of.

While we're on the topic of the Jewishness of Olympic figure skaters, check out this little vignette from an article in the Washington Post on showy mens' figure skater Johnny Weir:
Johnny Weir says he is very spiritual. It is true that he adores the celebrity rag Us Weekly and that he's currently reading a book by too-thin, too-blond starlet Nicole Richie. But he also has a deeper side. He says he's been obsessed with the Holocaust since he was little and considers himself "a little bit" Jewish, although he isn't, not technically. He says he's had his past lives read and found out that most recently he was a Jewish girl from Poland during World War II.

"I mean, it makes sense if you think about it," he says. "Like, what 4-year-old gets into learning about how 6 million people were exterminated?"

Around his neck, Johnny wears three chains with a knotted mess of pendants, including two Stars of David, an Israeli army dog tag, an Italian horn to protect him from the mal occhio , or evil eye, a miraculous medal of Mary, and the letter D, which stands for the Christina Aguilera song "Dirrty," because Christina Aguilera is his role model.
Ooookay.

8 Comments:

Blogger Robbie said...

I feel like I would be friends with this person.


Or really want to punch him. Hard.


(can't decide yet)

4:53 PM  
Blogger Ezzie said...

Christina Aguilera, US Weekly, Nicole Richie, and... the Holocaust. Which of these doesn't fit?

4:55 PM  
Blogger Robbie said...

oooh! oooh!


US Weekly!

5:33 PM  
Blogger MUST Gum Addict said...

Which one of these is not like the other... (bobbing head from side to side)

6:52 PM  
Blogger Pragmatician said...

So now crazy people get a weekly spot in the Washington post?

11:10 AM  
Blogger StepIma said...

Yes. S/he was born in the little Polish town of Lutz.

oy.

12:15 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Still on the topic of skaters... did anyone notice what looked like a 'red bendel' tied around Sasha Cohen's wrist? (assuming you were able to look away from the outfit that looked like it was about to 'malfunction')?

4:23 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Feeling very stupid. Just noticed the links about the red bendel.

As you were.

4:25 PM  

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