Very cute! Sounds a like like my own Bubbe haha

hilarious... even to a gentile like me.

...makes this (pretty) good Catholic boy wish he had a bubbe to look after him.

Carla,

your Bubbe has a fantastic way with words. she should get her own column someday!

Better going to the drug rehab than not going to the drug rehab and just being on the drugs, my bubbe always would have said probably if it was on her radar screen.

Absolutely hysterical. Your writing style is perfect. Although...the premise that Amy Winehouse is or ever could be a nice Jewish girl is dubious. I remember receiving my national Hillel update with a link to some Washington Post article where she asked her dad, on behalf of her Gentile now-husband whether it was more offensive for him to be called a kike or a Yid. All I could think was, why is Hillel sending me an article where I'm supposed to be proud that a famous singer is tenuously Jewish when that article lets me know exactly how she feels about her Judaism (or lack thereof)? I'm all about letting the self-loathers not identify.

Even though she's been quite a wreck for a while, she still looked kind of alright in that skinny,strung out, Joey Ramone sort of way.  But the blond... man, it hurts to look at her now.  Say yes, yes, yes soon please. 

Brilliant. This is just the way people should NOT talk. Mixed messages. Strong opinion, but no authentic authority, and no clarity at all. Back and forth. "You're doing wrong, but bless you anyway, and don't yell at me". My attitude is, "if you're doing wrong, blessings can wait. Blessings don't mean much in an ambiguous context anway. And, it's your choice whether or not to yell at me. I know my motives are pure, so I am not scared." There. Fixed that for you. But great a piece. This is the kind of moral mush that creates paralyzing confusion. It is an abdication of leadership by the Elders.

BT.... i can't tell what you're saying here. you realize the piece was supposed to be a joke, ya know making fun of the "grandmother?"

I'm laughing, but I'm thinking too. The grandmother is too real to just be funny. I hope Carla Sosenko writes another play, a play that people identify with so much it makes them squirm in grief, about two young-ish Jews who want to marry NOW, not after fiinishing graduate school and establishing themselves. They will live in his Upper-West side one-bedroom, and YES, she's pregnant. He's not a big shot, and they only know each other two years, but it's going to be fine! Carla Sosenko could depict their screaming relatives to perfection. Naturally, an unpretentious, reality-grounded aunt, from the less successful side of the family, rents out her tiny house in a third rate suburb, and moves into a furnished room right across Broadway from the young couple, coming every day to help, cook and clean a little bit, do a laundry, baby-sit later and dispense baloney-free hugs. That way, the heroine gets to stay home with the baby. They lose most of their friends, but it's ok. The young husband works harder, gets more aggressive, and gets more business. He has to, now, so he does. And the wedding! It's at the local schul, organized fast, with a grand old thrift-shop gown with a train, and a horse carriage ride in Central Park afterward. Let the play expose the horrors of the anti-marriage, anti-baby attitudes of the parents... Let the final agony be: the parents lecturing a younger sister, and the other side's younger son, not to do anything so cockamamie! As actually marrying and having a baby. "Not yet. You're too young."Then, let some unmarried 39-year olds of both sexes creep on stage, behind the parents as they are saying this, with  murder in their eyes. Let them put their arms around the 23 year olds, and lead them stealthily away, telling them, "Don't end up like me......"

Carla would make it funny. I can't.

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