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Category Archives: Personal
Every Man Wants To Meet Helen & Monica
From my live cam chat: RussianDragon: hi leader RussianDragon: what is your moral advice for me today RussianDragon: I’d like to meet Helen and Monica RussianDragon: is that bad? RussianDragon: I want to discuss the Torah with them YourMoralLeader: keep … Continue reading
Spinning
Monday night. Fifty five degrees out. Too cold. Staying in. Running late. What’s the use of going to shul? Tuesday morning. Failure. Failure. Failure. I feel like a failure. I feel like I’m swirling down the toilet of life. On … Continue reading
Oy, The Shame!
I get a van Sunday afternoon to help a friend pick up a refrigerator and move it into his new apartment. As I start the van, it barely turns over. Oy, the shame! We drive to Western and Venice to … Continue reading
I’m Suffering From Post Yom Kippur Letdown
A cold Santa Ana wind blows outside the hovel:
I’m Entering A Blogger Treatment Center
Only now can the full story be told. Just before Rosh Hashanah, I drank too much manishevitz and outed some 18-year old seminarian blogger. Then I went to the Crowne Plaza on Pico and Beverwil and got into a fight … Continue reading
‘The Last Wave’ (1977)
I never got tribal stuff until I got into Orthodox Judaism. Living in the frum world, I understand what it means to belong to a counter-culture, to a group with an unpopular way of looking at important matters such as … Continue reading
A New Beginning
In the weeks ahead, expect me to blow up this blog. Transfer most of its content to PicoRob.com. Do most of my blogging on PicoRob.com. I will have two Orthodox Jews as my editors on PicoRob.com. My blog will literally … Continue reading
I Am A Bad Jew
I went for a walk Sunday afternoon and paused beside Elat market where kids had competing lulav/etrog stands. A nice young kid offered me a set for $35. I seized the deal. We were immediately surrounded by other kids telling … Continue reading
Don’t Go To Glatt Mart!
It’s erotic. Sunday afternoon, I’m shopping for some meager Succoth necessities (two bottles of vegetable pasta source, six apples and six bananas). I’m a simple Jew who wants to live by Torah and high speed internet. As long as I … Continue reading