Tikkun Olam

A very funny comedian currently featuring a one-hour show in New York has recently come on the scene. Born Chris Campbell, now Yisrael Campbell and living in Israel, the former lapsed Catholic and teenage alcoholic druggie who converted three times to Judaism (Hassidic in his final incarnation), is getting big laughs for his one-man show " Circumcize Me " now at the Bleeker Street Theatre. The video is long (no pun intended), about 46 minutes, but worth it. This guy is FUNNY (it's all in the delivery), so sit down with a nice, hot cup of chicken soup, and vatch :

Okay. This has got to 'take the cake.' Thanks to my illustrious, industrious sister-in-law's sister-in-law (thanks, A.!) in sunny Flawriduh, you are privileged to view this video news report (as seen on WeJew) about Kosher Gasoline, er--Gefilte Fish with Gas (as in, "I'll have some gas with that fish , please). What's really cute, is people in the know can see immediately that the "reporter" (yeah, right) hasn't a clue of what she is reporting about. Unfortunately, the interview-ees don't seem to, either. But, hey--just geeve ah keek , and enjoy. (let's hear it for Borough Park!)

What’s all the ruckus about in articles I am reading regarding the font called “ Comic Sans MS* ?” It seems that everyone is railing against it, vilifying it, and advocating banning it. This is starting to make me nervous, because I myself can not understand what all the fuss is about. Does that mean that I am not ‘with it?’ Not ‘cool?’ Have pedestrian tastes? Unintellectual? Or just plain stupid? I was afraid to think about it, because I sensed in myself leanings towards--horrors— liking Comic Sans! I use it to email readers of my blog, for one thing. I mean, it seems like a friendly font to me. So I did what any person would do--I quickly researched the history (it’s short) and origins of Comic Sans Serif, to see if that knowledge would enlighten me as to all the brouhaha. Here goes: Comic Sans was invented by Vincent Connare , a former Microsoft font designer, and was released by Microsoft in 1995: Kelson writes "The Wall Street Journal profiles Vincent Connare, de...