Monthly Archives: January 2008

Give Me The Pudding And No One Gets Hurt

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Luke Ford

Lewis Fein’s brother Barry has a blog: barryrides.blogspot.com. There’s a poignant photo of young Lewis with his brother. "I think my brother was showing me love in the same way Lennie would show a rabbit love." Barry writes last May: … Continue reading →

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‘Married Life’

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Luke Ford

I caught this comedy of manners at Sony tonight. Tagline: Do you know what really goes on in the mind of the person with whom you sleep? Plot: A 1940s-set drama where an adulterous man plots his wife’s death instead … Continue reading →

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Hillary’s Last Best Hope

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Luke Ford

New Entry for the 2008 Dictionary: Electile Dysfunction: the inability to become aroused over any of the choices for president put forth by either party in the 2008 election year. The last best hope for the Clintons is to hone … Continue reading →

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The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them) by Peter Sagal

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Luke Ford

Publishers Weekly says: "NPR host Sagal (Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me) offers a hilarious, harmlessly prurient look at the banality of regular people’s strange and wicked pleasures. In the wake of the late-1990s obsession with other people’s fun, notes Sagal, … Continue reading →

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Kashrut Alert

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Luke Ford

Dear friends, I am extending my moral leadership to questions of kashrut. As you may remember, a question arose a couple of months ago concerning the status of the non-glatt kosher meats being produced by the Rubashkin company. (These are … Continue reading →

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