Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Another Post Shaved Off

Good day from our new old coffeeshop. As we write there is almost no foot traffic. The coffee is...okay. Better than the blonde roast at Starbucks. Two men, whom we recognize from the old place, are chatting amiably beside us. 

The war on Stroock's Books continues. Now this post has now been flagged and moved behind a warning. We put yesterday's post up at Substack and will do the same with today's post and all further posts. Guess we're expanding our Substack presence. Maybe we should start the talkies?

We have begun the formatting process for The New American Order. Queries have been made. Queries have been answered. Estimates have been given. 

An article of ours has been waiting a while to be published. We've queried the editor. We're not optimistic. 

We're cutting back on a Twitter activity. Ain't doing no good, anyway. 

Ah, the Haredi of Israel: 'Women of the Wall supporters, including Reform rabbis visiting from the United States, said they were spat on, shoved and verbally abused by the Orthodox demonstrators as they made their way to the Western Wall.' Push me, spit at me, punk. Fuck around, find out. Decorum prevents of us from using stronger language. Stroock's Books reiterates it is a supporter of Bibi and Likud, not the Haredi right. The judicial reform bill passed its first reading yesterday. Progress. 

Elsewhere, Ynet tells us: 'Israeli troops on Wednesday entered a major Palestinian city in the West Bank in a rare, daytime arrest operation, triggering fighting that killed at least 10 Palestinians and wounded scores of others.' As we've noted before, the Third Intifada has already begun. Exit question, why would the Israelis launch such a risky raid at daylight?

In Little Children, Patrick Wilson plays Brad, a 30ish stay-at-home-dad, former college quarterback, and JD grad who's twice failed the bar exam. His pretty wife, Kathy (well played by Jennifer Connelly), insists he take the bar again. We don't find Kathy pushy or degrading, she's just wrapped up in her own documentary film career. There is of course, a sex deficit. Brad goes to the library each night, but instead of studying, he sits outside the library watching a bunch of teenaged skateboarders; and remembering. Everyday Brad takes his son to the park where a gaggle of moms calls him 'the prom king'. One of them, Sarah (Kate Winslet) talks to Brad on a dare, and away we go. Brad and Sarah become fast friends...

We were on the exact same stay-at-home-dad track when we saw Little Children during the summer of 2007. We were living the life, man. Early mornings at a coffee shop, mid-mornings at the park before it got too hot. Very often we were the only dad in a park filled with moms. We too would see teenage boys being teenaged boys and watch with a tinge of nostalgia and regret. The end result was a novel. Instead of having an affair, during nap time we'd write magazine articles. 

Commercial break. One can tell this ad was effective, because we remembered it for damn near 30 years. We love shaving:


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