30 November—On the subject of the Litchfield Chabad klavern’s relationship with the Borough, creditors, and me going downhill all the way after Chanukah 1996, I learned only yesterday that the ceremonial lighting of this year’s Chanukah menorah in front of the Chabad-Methodist church on West Street was held at the very same time as Litchfield Park and Rec’s ceremonial lighting of the Christmas tree on the Green. Within earshot of one another.

The menorah is supposed to be lit at sunset and I doubt the Christmas tree lighting was planned to conflict with it. So it was a coincidence. But why did the Chabad people insist on playing their music so goddamn loud that it drowned out the more sedate Christmas tree ceremony? God forbid the Chabadniks should have shown any consideration for the gentiles.

Reminds me of when Goldie the bus had been parked in front of the former Wilderness Shop before becoming a mouldering rust-bucket in the driveway of the decaying never-to-be “Future home of Chabad-Lubavitch community center”: