Tue, Oct 07, 2008

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Jewcy Book Club

Welcome Authors
Brian Frazer
&
Mike Edison
who are posting all week.
Coming up:
  • 10/13:
    Rabbi Levi Brackman and Sam Jaffe
  • 10/20:
    Jonathan Garfinkel
  • 10/20:
    Rabbi Robert Levine
  • 10/27:
    Danit Brown
  • 10/27:
    Joshua Henkin
  • 11/03:
    Craig Glazer
  • 11/10:
    Max Gross
  • 11/17:
    Seth Greenland

Yatzer Whadda?

Do you ever feel like saying fuck it about thinking?  Do you ever want to just say we should just carpet bomb any country that is remotely linked to islamic-based terrorism?

Just fuck the onion and its many layers.  Fuck being sympathetic and thinking of the children.  Just fuck it!

Just a thought?


Radiohead...yet another top ten

Radiohead made some top ten list on the NY Times for music this year.  Can you tell by the hidden dismissiveness that I don't care much for them.  What you question?  How can I not love and adore the Radiohead?

 Its simple...everyone else loves them, therefore I don't need to.  I admittedly am reflexive to wanton gushes of adoration towards a band or movie.  Which often I end up getting it much later and falling in love with it.  Hence my late coming to the Matrix.  Hype is what kills it for me though.


Shalom has set me free

No not another name for G-d. Shalom Auslander! I picked up "Foreskin's Lament" and finished it in two days. An amazing feat for a half-retard as myself. My life is nothing like, yet my experience feels very similar. I too have played on the mathematics of sin, and definitely have an affinity for porn...as any good Jewish boy should. Maybe it is that I'm a Levite as well? Maybe it is that my dad was not like his dad, yet still eternally pissed as he.


My Very Own Private 9/11 - The Towers of Faith Tumbled

I think I have come to understand the exact moments of when my faith in an omniscient being was loosed.

In September, I'm in a swank Vegas hotel for a conference.  Watching the news while taking a break from meetings and not doing well at poker...the story of a young girl molested and videotaped breaks locally.  This would go on to break nationally later that day.


Black Bar Mitzvahs, Mazel Tov, L'Chaim

...lyric from "Roc Boys" on Jay-Z's new album.  Classic!


Light

There is no joy equal to seeing the smiling face of my daughter as she locks the back door as prankster.  The light from the window shines down on her...laughing.


Fudgie the Whale

OK, I'm watching the Office and one of the guys says three words that are magic to my ears...Fudgie the Whale!

Most of you who live in the Northeast knows from whence it came...Carvel.  Until moving to Texas, I thought Carvel and his ice cream cookie greatness was all over.  Until, my wife-then girlfriend asked the most horrid of questions "What's Carvel?"


Yet Another Reason Pat Buchanan is a Douche!

OK, I'm sure most of you know the obvious reasons why PB is el douche!  Today on MSNBC, he showed that he's not just an enemy of Israel, he is an enemy of the environment. (OK, melodramatic I know).

 Outright denial that many of the world's scientists believe global warming will be harmful is pathetic. Malevolent is his extrapolation that a warmer planet is better because less people will die from the cold.  Like oh, it will be like a nice warm sunny day in more places...like a vacation.


When You Post Anonymous, You Post with the Enemy

I know there is some solace in being anonymous.  It allows you to say or do what you wouldn't do in front of your grandma..perhaps.  Unless you have that special relationship with grandma that is your little secret. 

The problem with the "anonymous" posting is that it allows people to act like morons without being actually able to put your finger on who that moron is.  When George Bush says something, anything...I get to to say, George Bush is a moron.  When Bill O'Reilly speaks...moron.  I can go on, but you get the point!


Jewish Atheism

The question I am currently asking myself:

 "Is it possible to be active in a Congregation without belief in G-d?"

The question itself is a contradiction since I affirm a higher power of sorts by typing G-d as G-d.  Nevertheless, I'm at a point where I view the Torah not as written by the Hand of G-d, yet I see value in living a somewhat religiously Jewish life.