Urban Kvetch: Bathroom Attendants
Bathroom Attendants
It's one thing if a guy goes and picks up your car for you or carries your luggage to your room, but it's entirely another when he's solely turning the water on and off. Is there some human...
Urban Kvetch: Fleas
Fleas
My cats Mookie and Cleo had fleas this week. I really felt for the cats, because they had bugs biting them and shit, but I felt a lot worse for myself. Turns out a single flea can lay about 30,000 eggs, ...
Online Seder: A New Way to Avoid Your Family Through Technology
Israeli social networking site Merkusharim offers an alternative to choking down bubbe's gefilte fish this Passover: a Jews-only version of the Sims. Their "virtual seder" will include an unlimited...
USA Today Wonders Why Smart Jews Hate Palin and I’m Uncomfortable
A spat among the "media elite" has spiraled out into mainstream news, and some awkwardly dirty Jewish laundry is now spread out all over America's largest paper.
It started with Jennifer Rubin's explosive Co...
Predictions for the Future: 2010-2020
We're all wondering where this next decade will take us. What more can happen? And what cute nickname will it have? (The Tensies?) Between wars and meltdowns, the future seems bleak, sure, but to give you, our ...
Chosen Comix: Graphic Novel Gift Guide
Anyone bored by the culture's current crop of coming-of-age stories and romantic comedy DVDs should consider graphic novels for their gift-giving needs. Comics aren't just for dorks anymore. Even hot chicks rea...
To Cut or Not to Cut…
Sure, maybe we're biased, but we've long extoled the virtues of the mushroom-capped, kosher sausage. Even lesbians can agree here, or at least Sandra Bernhard told us so. New York magazine most-clicked article...
_Schmatta_: The _Heeb_ Review
(Watch Trailer After the Jump) HBO's Schmatta: Rags To Riches To Rags starts off a nostalgic dream: clean-cut men in hats, hard-working immigrants at sewing machines, dames in sharp outfits strutting down cobbl...
Link Round Up
Lactose Intolerance (The Daily What)Jew named Chief of Walt Disney Studios. Israel in Epcot by 2012? (Celebrity Jihad)Jack 'Ass Lantern (Agent Bedhead)Robert Rodriquez Whips His Pianist Out (FilmDrunk)Move over...
Link Round Up
Pee-Wee Ree-turns! (The Daily What)The Rock vs. Tooth Decay - can he defeat it before it spreads to his career? (Agent Bedhead)The Mamas and the Papas and the Children They Had Sex With (Warming Glow)Werner Her...
The Upper West Side “Singles Crisis”
The new documentary Unattached explores the predicament of aging 20-year-old single women in the Upper West Side's Modern Orthodox community failing to find a match. This "plague" is causing major anx...
Daily Links
Best Advice From a Commentor comes from swing-atcha on Street Boners's "Ask Barf: How Do I Not Be A Creep?" What I do when I feel this way is I go to all-black strip clubs (like Babydolls) ...
