My Homo Holidays

MY HOMO HOLIDAYS

For the past decade, I've been going to the CBST Yom Kippur services at the Javitz Center. CBST started as a gay synagogue and gradually expanded to include every misfit imaginable. Besides the LGTBQERSTUVWXYZ community, there are Black-White het couples. Arab-Jew het couples. Atheists with tradition... and those who hate the Pay-to-Pray requirements of most synagogues. 3000+ people... all welcome... pay only if you want.

I love CBST for Rabbi Kleinbaum, the little female rabbi who wears pink sneakers (favorite quote: I cannot believe in a God that requires you to believe in God.) ... and gets in trouble because she has such radical ideas as feeling sorry for the Palestinian children who were killed in the Israeli genocide war of the early 21^st century. 

One of the CBST social actions is to... EVERY Friday... come to the NYU mosque in near Washington Square... and stand with the Muslim worshipers.

CBST Members supporting the mosque

They are not perfect, however. Being Jewish and gayish, there are a lot of rich members. That means that some of their “special events” are not exactly to my tastes.

I wonder how much she's getting paid...

The 25-hour fast (No food. No Water/) starts at Sundown on Friday and continues to Sundown on Saturday, where I join Elena at Jody's for the BREAK FAST.

Then it's on to Brooklyn, where my pal, Martin S has invited me to see his homocore band LIMP WRIST at the Brooklyn Bazaar. From fast to feast, I'd say:

Great show, and the audience is younger, but a similar mix of genders and preferences, to those who were at CBST.

To top off the 2 days of Jew and Punk homotude is the subway ride back to Manhattan. The poster on the wall?

One of those fake BANK OF AMERICA RAINBOW PRIDE posters? Nope.

Just this unintentional tribute to homotude:

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Cup of Coffee?... or How Rich People Spend Their Money... pt 13607

Hey Buddy, can you spare a dime for a cup of coffee? Those days are long gone. Coffee can cost $5 or more ..now. It's cheaper if you make it yourself right? Even rich people need to save a buck or two.

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Syrians? It's the Belgians!

With all the hoopla around Syrian immigrants "changing the nature of America," we seem to be missing the REAL danger to our shores... THE BELGIANS! InBev, the Belgian owners of Heineken beer (and Budweiser) have just taken over AMERICA!! It's official!

How Rich People Spend Their Money... pt 1336

Yeah, you know, that cooler you bring to the beach or to those tailgate parties. How could you pass it up? Only a thousand bucks... well, a bit more if you want a big one.

How Rich People Spend Their Money---

In case you have to run out and buy a little something to wear to the beach...

PC in 1990 by Mike Royko

Just found this. I cut it out in 1990... it was an omen of things to come.

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In case you don't know Mike Royko... the great Chicago journalist... find out. He was a God among newspaper men. He stopped writing when he died. That's a shame.

Tat for tit? Not the Same!

I just found this among my papers. I have no idea where it came from (though it seems likely to come from a San Diego newspaper). I also have no idea WHEN it comes from, though the yellowing says it's not recent. But it expresses an idea so well, that... well, you'll see

Click on the scan to read the whole thing

Creativity in a Bottle

Not much of a surprise, I'd say. I think there was a famous Latin motto, "No poem was ever written by a drinker of water." I know. That isn't Latin, but you get the idea.

How Rich People Spend Their Money... Lesson Four

Of course, if you're rich you need the right place to rest your ass. There's the throne and THE THRONE. A thousand dollar chair, but of course!

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How Rich People Spend Their Money... Lesson Two

So, is there something the matter with a little home delivery? Is this any different than calling for Dominos during the Superbowl?

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I bet there'd be a correllation in DENTAL IMPLANTS too

but I LOVE sushi!

Now what's the story about correlation vs. cause and effect? Which is it in this case? Seems to me it's got something to do with raw fish!

Now More Than Ever President 2016

Ok, so the election is over. We've got to put up with another four years of Republicrat rule. I found this article that was printed in a 1995 LOOMPANICS catalog (a great company now, out of business). This is MY candidate for the next election... assuming Al Sharpton is not running.

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Going to the Dogs

See, they only wanted legal... and they got repression. What they SHOULD have done is ask for the right to MARRY! That would've brought support from EVERYBODY! 

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Book Banning Season? Ho ho ho!!

A children's book about marijuana that's reasonable, non-hysterical, and doesn't offer GOD as a solution? I can't imagine THAT one getting very far in Christian America!

I'd have high self-esteem too!

Take a look at this from New York Metro:

 

 

Of course! If I knew that there were hundreds of people looking at me and becoming so stimulated that they rush for relief... I'd have high self-esteem too! It's logical, but not Judeo-Christian-Muslim, so few people will be paying attention to it.

 

 

Pssst, hey bud, wanna buy a country?

Ok, there's got to be more than 26 of them! They are the 1% after all. (Don't you feel sorry for them if they have to pay more taxes... I mean, how can you live on only 3.3 billion dollars? You'd be out on the street!) (Click here for a close-up of the article.)

How the Rich People spend their money, pg. 199

Want to know how rich people spend their money? Why, they're just like the rest of us, right?

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Which came first? dept:

This was in the newsletter of the National Coalition Against Censorship. Animal-lovers?

How conservatives Think

This article from CNN talks about Higher education spending vs prison spending, but the idea is the same. Like higher education costs, conservatives want to cut welfare... either directly or by doing something stupid like making welfare recipients pay for their own drug testing. So what happens? The citizens quit welfare, turn to crime, go to jail where the cost is $50,000 a year-- more than twice what welfare would have given them. Makes sense, doesn't it?

What else is down this year?

Website magazine reports that the world spam rate hit a 3-year low. I guess other folks are like me and only read their facebook mail. Everything else goes in the trash! Spam killed email and now it's killing itself!