Well, not really. Maybe he wishes he was but I just thought the phrase would make for a great subject title. Speaking of which, do we really need titles? We're writing brief comments, not the great American novel...

So yeah... I think Marty was a tad disingenuous in this otherwise amusing article. ROI participants were not uniformly happy go lucky rah! rah! Jewy types (not that there's anything wrong with that). Serious issues were discussed - not all related to the manufacture and care of Jewish babies. ROI was a brilliant networking opportunity for people doing cool shit and the crowd was anything but homogeneous. I mean friggin' Marty Beckerman was there! We had 120 participants from all over the world and only 40 of them were North Americans.

There were hippies and Professional Jews but there were also writers, musicians, artists, activists of every stripe and persuasion, geeks, freaks - you name it - a broad cross section of young Jewish innovators. Some aspects of the program worked better than others of course but overall I dare say the vast majority of participants enjoyed it.

And in that assessment I include Marty, who despite what he has written, I know for a fact loves Jews. Loves them! Can't get enough of them! I know what he did last night - and it involved hanging out with Jews. Marty also loves Jew hippies. I swear! And given the opportunity to rub shoulders with us again, he'll do it - even if it means having to hear me talk about blogs and YouTube. That by the way was a total mis-characterization of what we spoke about - and Marty may have been able to present that more accurately had he not been obviously hung over. Now, when I get to New York Marty, I am going to kick your scrawny diaspora Jew ass. But first we're going to get really, really drunk so that you have a fighting chance.

Love ya babe - and I know you love my Jewish ass too. Thanks for making me laugh really, really hard you bastard.