Comments on: Ever Feel Like You Are The Only One?

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:19:47 +0000

Middle– concur with your movie review. A ‘Bridges of Madison County’, with gay guys. (btw, new t-shirt for sale outside Fenway Park this week: ‘Brokeback Jeter’.)

By: grandmuffti

grandmuffti — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 23:26:36 +0000

hehehe…it’s a deal. Muffti just didn’t want his absence to go unexplained. Unforrtuantely, he just agreed to do a paper at a conference in france on a topic he knows nothing about so the work is severiously piling up. argh.

By: themiddle

themiddle — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 23:09:23 +0000

Muffti, get that thing done and definitely be disciplined about it. OR ELSE!

By: grandmuffti

grandmuffti — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:16:57 +0000

Sorry Middle! Muffti has no excuse other than that he must get his dis done within a fairly short time and is now regretting the cavalier ‘Muffti’ll do it later’ attitude he had, well, at all past times to now. (Muffti hopes his soon to be employers aren’t reading this). Thankfully, it is coming along at a rapid rate that so far has kept his angry advisors at bay.

By: Chutzpah

Chutzpah — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:11:02 +0000

Keepin’ it on the downlow for a change…love may be in the air…everyone please daven that I had my last Jdate (prayers in any denomination of any religion appreciated).

By: themiddle

themiddle — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:10:45 +0000

And Chutzpah, where have you been? Nice to see you back.

By: Chutzpah

Chutzpah — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:44:08 +0000

Sending some love Middle. You should know that here in the shtetl Peasach actually starts at 2:00 on April 7 when the kids get out of school and runs until 8 am on April 24th when they go back. The Jews in the Bible may have celebrated 7 days of Peasach, but for Mothers of kids in Yeshiva, it’s 17 days.

By: themiddle

themiddle — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:01:34 +0000

Dk, what kind of prediction is that? Everybody has a shot at it if enough time passes. It’s not as if Olmert was on anybody’s list as a true contender.

Laya, no excuse.

Tom, my man! I have seen Brokeback Mountain and (a) regretted the waste of time and money, and (b) was bored to tears. That movie sucked, while I still recall reading the original short story which I thought was really quite good. Some stories are better left on paper.

By: Tom Morrissey

Tom Morrissey — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:18:48 +0000

“I can deal with my enemies. It’s my goddam friends that have me walking the floor at night!” –Warren G. Harding

It’s OK to cry, Middle. (You’ve seen Brokeback Mountain, right?)

But a far, far better thing to do: drink heavily.

By: laya

laya — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:18:16 +0000

middle, there were only 2 days of plain chol hamoed in hutz la’aretz this year. For those who don’t blog on holidays or shabbat, and who actually have other things to do (paying jobs, families, holidays to prepare for), I’m sure it was slightly busy. Give it some time.

By: DK

DK — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:15:05 +0000

Don’t you worry. Mofaz has a shot at becoming Prime Minister one day. Just you wait.

By: kol isha

kol isha — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:03:18 +0000

Hey, I’d post except that I don’t have posting privileges… although after a day and a half in Israel I have enough slice-of-Israeli-life stories to fill several posts. Any takers?

By: themiddle

themiddle — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:54:47 +0000

Has nobody heard of chol hamoed?

By: Rabbi Yonah

Rabbi Yonah — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:33:51 +0000

TM
Oy such a paysach. Hope you had a liberating one yourself! Just finished yontuf, dealing with de-pesafication of the home and then on to important things like blogging.

By: themiddle

themiddle — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:29:35 +0000

MICHAEL!!! I missed you!

OMG, Kelsey, you want us to start pointing out all the times you folks have been wrong about Israel and the situation there? Apartheid state, anyone?

And what is this business about Sharon outsmarting others not being part of what has been said on this site? Are you wacky? In fact, if you go back to my original post which is the one you want to attack, you will note that I was sceptical that his new party could earn as many seats as he needed. My math about needing at least 30 seats is right on target with the key difference being that when that post was written, a number of key Likud members had not yet moved to Kadima and it looked as if they would fight over leadership with Netanyahu. In fact, you could argue that Mofaz made a mistake by leaving the Likud because it weakened the party further and he may now lose his Defense Ministry position and disappear into the middle of the party. Instead, he might have had a shot at becoming leader of the Likud at this time and well positioned for future tries at PM.

By: Cause once you go non-Zionist, you never go back!

Cause once you go non-Zionist, you never go back! — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:16:16 +0000

Rabosai, don’t listen to their lies! There are not two choices! It isn’t Zionist OR anti-Zionist! You don’t have to pretend you know the answer, you don’t have to choose! You can watch, analyze, and hope for the best! There is no duopoly on Jewish perspectives. You can be reasonably skeptical that the Geula has started, and still not be Neturei Karta. There, I said it. You can support the fence, and still not celebrate Yom Atzm’oot. You can watch with admiration (and love) at Sharon’s strategies (for he was no mere tactician), and still be unsure if anything will help. The only thing you know (at the time, for sure)is that he is going to outsmart the Likud and Labor. But did anyone understand that here? No. Tragically, only Jewschool had writers that could understand this. Because there are other paths. I realize I have offended many of you. I’m sorry I have blown your minds with these concepts.

By: michael

michael — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 03:49:22 +0000

Thanks! I’m also a pretty mean cook, a funky drummer and imperturbably modest.

By: cyh

cyh — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 03:36:50 +0000

Michael, you are one funny dude.

By: Cause once you go shtetl Jew, you futilely grasp onto a dead culture for identity!

Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:57:52 +0000

Jewschool is indeed bumping, with its fun new poster distracting from the many interesting and worthy Jewschool posts with an exciting brand of cookie-cutter posts bordering on blithe self-parody, like leftist Jewish madlibs! To wit: "We as Jews must take to heart the lesson of [Jewish holiday], because the weight of our tradition demands that we pay attention to the horrible plight of [miniscule proportion of Jewish people who expect people to pay attention to their 'alternative lifestyle choices' / brown people of the week], so here's an illuminating quote by [Jewish renewal figure whose opinion nobody outside of the Island of Manhattan cares about]: [MAKE UP SOME BLATHER ABOUT HISTORICAL RESPONSIBILITY] Until we as Jews have devoted our best efforts to [our Jewish brethren and sistren with vestigial third nipples who the Jewish community cruelly ignores / the separatist movement in Western Sahara], we cannot call ourselves true Jews, because true Judaism demands that we adhere to the lofty ideal of [cherry-picked, out of context Jewish ideal]." Ain't no party like a tikkun olam party 'cause a tikkun olam party never stops its windy self-righteous blather!

By: themiddle

themiddle — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:22:59 +0000

Esther, I MISSED YOU!

Non-Zionist dude, it’s not quantity that matters, it’s quality. It’s not as if the party ever stops at…oh, never mind, don’t wanna go there right now.

N, you are truly a great and wise person!