…gathered together last night. Was it a minyon? No, but it could have been.
It was Heeb Storytelling, hosted by Heeb Magazine at M Bar in Hollywood. Seven funny Jews, seven stories about being Jewish.
I’m a little sorry to say that one of the funniest people in the show was the MC. Why am I sad? [...]

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Today I took my tired Sunday ass to a Ray Bradbury play called The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, at the Fremont Center Theatre. Two things I loved about it: 
1) It was only an hour long. Does that make me an asshole? No. That makes me an ansy Jew. I loooovvveee to be entertained on Sunday- be it [...]

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For a year, Norah Vincent went undercover and lived her life as a man. She documented her experiences - from dating to infiltrating a men’s therapy group - in her book,  “Self-Made Man.” But in Vincent’s transition back to presenting herself as female, she became so depressed that she checked herself into a mental institution. [...]

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I’ve been trying to upload a picture to let you all know what I’m talking about here, but then I realized a) Wordpress hates me and loves Sara and b) you’ll know what I’m talk about about anyway. So the other night I’m out at Cha Cha lounge, which of course allows for unparalleled hipster-watching [...]

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L.A. is full of assholes like me: white folk with no day job, toting around Mac laptops from cafe to cafe and working on Very Important Shit. Mine, obviously, is this blog - which is way better than the guy’s blog who’s sitting next to me!
I’m at Solar de Cahuenga in Hollywood, in case you’re [...]

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I think I might have a short temper.
For those of you that know me, don’t laugh.  I guess I should have realized this sooner, but it just dawned on me.  Mostly because I almost smacked someone at the Eagle Rock Trader Joe’s tonight (and for those of you that go there you know that’s hard [...]

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