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Carry on, Tylenol, Ziploc bag.
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Eli and Shahar trekked in Nepal together.

I just uploaded a recording of an hour-long interview I gave Israel’s Channel A radio. You can listen to the recorded radio show here.

I was invited by Israel’s Channel A radio, to be a guest on the program ‘Writing for the Drawer’ hosted by Rona Gershon. It is an hour-long one-on-one chat following the recent publishing of my book named ‘Almost Finished’.

The broadcast date is was Wednesday, September 5, 2007 - 13:05 (repeated Saturday September 15, 2007 - 18:05) and can be listened to live (via radio or online).

You can listen to the recorded interview here:

Click here to get a copy of my book:

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You might be interested in some of the information that was mentioned during the broadcast, and so following are links to get you started.Music that was played:

Artist	Song	Album	Links
Dori adar, AKA Le Domestique	Irrelevant Answer	Jewish Delights
Pink Martini	The Gardens of Sampson & Beasley	Hang on Little Tomato
Yafit Reuveny	Sweet Night Blindness	Sweet Night Blindness

Texts that were read (Hebrew):

I read an interesting poem by Kirsten Anderberg, a Seattle-based activist, titled 'Ode to My Armpit Hair'. To tease you to read the whole poem, here's the first stanza:

I've never owned a disposable razor
I haven't shaved since '78
Prepubescent armpits are not natural on grown women
I see shaved armpits as body hate.

The full poem can be found here.

I always thought women were tricked into all this self-maintenance work, including bra wearing, hair removing and nowadays plastic surgeries. The initial taunting was probably done by men, but after awhile women started shaming one another, progressively demanding more and more work to be done before attempting to show their faces in public. Female author Ariel Levy calls these women 'Female Chauvinist Pigs'.

I first read about this here.