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Concentration At Its Finest

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If I ever need to hire either a night watchman or someone to look after something, I will look for someone who has “Olympic Ping-Pong Player” on their resume. See the pic below:

Table tennis players at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, clockwise from top left are: USA’s Ilija Lupulesku on Aug. 14; China’s Zhang Yining on Aug. 22; Shu Arai of Japan on Aug. 14 ; Italy’s Yang Min on Aug. 14; Sweden’s Jorgen Persson on Aug. 15; Hong Kong’s Leung Chu Yan on Aug. 16; Germany’s Jorg Rosskopf on Aug. 17 and Ryo Yuzawa of Japan on Aug. 14. At center is Laura Negrisoli of Italy on Aug. 15. (AP Photo/stf)

Thanks go to the the Digital Journalist for posting the pic.

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J-Date Profile Gets Mad Hits

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Recently, “KnowtheScore,” a single guy in NYC who has been posting about his relationship to J-date.com totally revamped his J-date profile. He took the picture which is attached to his real J-date profile and created a completely fake profile to match the same picture. He did this because his real profile has received only two responses over six months and wanted to see what a little fiction could do to his response rate.

In embellishing his profile, he said he made a lot of money doing something telecom related and alluded to owning a boat. Big deal to our jaded NY women right? Well, this fake profile got 22 responses and they are all funny. He has posted the history behind this idea as well as all of the responses he received – its friggin’ great and it just made my day at 4:21 PM on a slow, Friday afternoon. Enjoy.

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The King in NY!

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This is why Erik Neu is part of my ka-tet – he bought me a ticket to this event while I was away on my honeymoon:

Conversations with Charlie Rose: Stephen King. Boo-ya! In my old hood no less – I’m beyond psyched, I need to invent a word to describe how I feel…

Here is some background info provided by the 92nd St Y web site:

The most anticipated book in Stephen King’s career, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower is the final installment to the best-selling author’s epic series. The end to a saga hailed as a “hypnotic blend of suspense and sentimentality – a sprawling, eventful tale of demons, monsters, narrow escapes, and magic portals” (The New York Times Book Review), The Dark Tower promises to be the most exciting publishing event of the year. Stephen King is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

If you’d like to buy tickets, they are unbelievably still available so click here and get some tix!

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On Terrorism

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From Paul Krugman’s Op-Ed piece entitled “Cult of Death” from the Tuesday, 9/7/04 edition of the New York Times:


“Three years after Sept. 11, many are still apparently unable to talk about this evil [i.e. terrorism]. They still try to rationalize terror. What drives the terrorists to do this? What are they trying to achieve? They’re still victims of the delusion that Paul Berman diagnosed after Sept. 11: ‘It was the belief that, in the modern world, even the enemies of reason cannot be the enemies of reason. Even the unreasonable must be, in some fashion, reasonable.’ This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. this is what makes it so frightening. This is what scauses so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don’t want to confront this horror. so they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.”

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“…And Knowing’s Half the Battle”

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FROM EBAUMSWORLD:
“Remember how at the end of every G.I. Joe Cartoon they would have some short educational segment and it would always end with the line “And Knowing Is Half The Battle”? These clips are dubbed over with new dialogue and even some of the animation is changed and remixed. The result is so hilarious that I almost wet my pants the first time I saw them. Watch the videos closely to catch it all. If you don’t get it, don’t worry. It is meant to be random and goofy. We want to thank Fensler Films for creating these videos.

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Sacreligious? Maybe but they still are awesome!

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Inspired by the MC Paul Barman lyric, “I couldn’t stay calm because/ she revealed a bra made of two yarmulkes,” designer KS turns the fantasy into a reality but lauching Yarmulkebra.com. This site made me think of Jessie’s “shana punim” T-shirt which is put out by the Rabbis Daughters clothing line.That then made me perform a google search on this subject and I found the following at ABCNEWS.com:

Kosher Culture
Chutzpah Alert: Jewish Culture Gets Hip

Dec. 24 [2003] – It may have started years ago when Adam Sandler released his “Hannukah Song,” a laugh-out-loud ode to being Jewish during Christmastime with the refrain, “Put on your yarmulke, It’s time for Hannukah.”

Lately, Jewish culture is being put on the map with features in recent editions of Time and Time Out New York. Both magazines spotlight clothing that proclaims Jewish pride, or as one company seasonally puts it: “Chanukah Chutzpah.”

Web sites, including rabbisdaughters.com and jewcy.com, are targeting Jewish youth with pride T-shirts bearing mottos like “Jewcy” – a play on the popular designer brand, Juicy, which says it celebrates”kosher-style fabulosity.”

Rabbi’s Daughters sells T-shirts that say “Oy Vey,” which means woe is me and “Shiksa,” which refers to a non-Jewish female. The Rabbi’s Daughter line is now in more than 100 stores, and non-Jewish people are buying too.

Then there is The Hebrew Hammer, a new film modeled on the “Blaxspoitation” films of the ’70s, like Shaft. It features “an orthodox stud” who is a “sexy and powerful Jewish action hero,” the publicity material says.

It’s all for laughs.

But why all the attention now?

Julia Lowstein, who put a Jewish spin on J. Lo with her company Jewlo.com, says it is a way for Jewish to show off their identities.

“Younger Jews are accepting their Jewish identity and looking for ways to ‘represent,'” she told Time magazine. “With the alarming rise in anti-Semitism on college campuses, as well as in the national consciousness, young Jews are feeling that now is an especially important time to be forthright and proud of who they are.”

Even fashionistas and non-Jewish celebrities are getting into the act. Christina Aguilera and Kelly Osbourne have been spotted with Jewish pride T-shirts.

(thanks to Jessie for the yarmulkebra.com link which inspired this post)