Wowza. Pretty good web traffic today. Not bad for a four day old site (though I hasten to add that at a certain level, I could care less).
Thanks for visiting thyca/Yahoo ladies. I sincerely hope you come again soon and let your voices be heard.
Last night's post was fairly heavy, and I've had a 13 hour day, so today so we'll keep things on the lite side.
First and foremost, I will have you know I am at this moment enjoying a glass of perhaps the finest scotch known to man: 16 year lagavulin. Nectar of the g-d's (any of you note how I continually hyphenate that word? I can't help it -- it's a holdover from my Hebrew school days. Non-Jewish readers: let me know if you'd like an explanation).
About three years ago, Lagavulin casks started to run dry and there was a massive increase in price stateside. I simply couldn't rationalize the price, especially when there were other fine scotches out there such as Oban 14, MacCallan 12, Talisker and others.
So, I was at my local liquor/wine joint the other day and was thinking about how I hadn't had a glass of scotch since going hypo (it literally acts like poison to the system when you're highly hypo, and one half cup would make me completely nauseous) when I spotted it in the corner: Lag, on sale, $65.00.
(That massive thud you folks in Northern New Jersey just heard was my old man hitting the ground. I don't think he's spent $65 on alcohol in the aggregate over the course of his life.)
Anyway, it was worth every damn cent and I am enjoying it immensely. A nice upside to cancer. It empowers you to spend lots of money on completely frivolous things and not really give a shit.
On a separate note, my Soprano's post the other day seemed to be quite popular. So -- let's discuss another favorite pop culture topic: Entourage, aka The Most Enjoyable Half Hour of My Week.
I think this has been the lamest season thus far, but even a bad (perhaps a more apt description would be "marginal")Entourage is better than 99 percent of the TV out there.
So, two questions for you all:
1. Ari Gold aside, who's your favorite character and why?
2. What's been your favorite scene of the current season?
Let's hear it, people.
For me, it's ano brainer: Johnny Drama, and the scene with Lloyd, Ari and that prospective client dude at the gay bar.
"You're my hero, Ari Gold."
Priceless.
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I too am a big Drama fan, Howie. That guy just cracks me up. My favorite scene this season has to be when Drama was standing in front of his billboard trying to see who would recognize him. His narcissism is just classic.
I do have one major complaint with Entourage - a half hour just isn't enough. Every Sunday I find myself feeling just a little unsatisfied.
Turtle is my favorite. He's not out for his ego (except with the ladies) like the other characters. He realizes how fortunate he has it and is just there to enjoy the good times. Favorite scene - Ari and the producer in synagague on Yom Kippur; and the producer yelling right before break-fast "I haven't eaten in 10 hours!" Hilarious.
The season's been weak so far. Vince neds to score a movie soon b/c every opportunity has gone against him for the past 2 seasons and it's getting tired. I do wish they'd bring Martin Landau back - if only to hear Ari say again "What if I told you I have a 10" dick; would that interest you Bob?"
By the way, 2nd best HBO show -- The Wire.
favorite character including ari: drama.
but i have to say they've been seriously underutilizing his potential for hilarity this season. an entire story arc about him buying a horse? i can think of a million other things that would have been far more entertaining, like soemthing having to do with his new tv series.
favorite scene this season: my memory is too bad for this. how bout favorite line i can remember?
ironically, it involves said ridiculous horstoryline:
vince: "why don't you just get rid of him johnny?"
drama: "i can't vince. i love him."
also, i've been wondering about that hyphenated g-d thing since your first post. what's the story?
us catholics would never dare. we were raised to feel guilty even if we just forgot to captialize that word.
ANy *real* Jews out there that explain the hyphen thing in detail to my man Beno? Gary G??
My Hebrew School record notwithstanding I think I can provide a meager explanation. Basically, us Jews are so awed by our main man G-d that we can not even fully spell his (or her) name as it is an affront to the main dude. It basically is an acknowledgment of G-d as the almighty and us as meager servants not even capable to fully announce his name. And I think there is an example of how G-d is spelled in Hebrew. Isn't it some contraction or combination of generic vowels so that it is basically an acknowledgement that "here should be the word G-d but since we're so puny this identifier will hve to suffice." Trust me, I was the worst Hebrew school student ever - but I think this is pretty accurate.
Puh-leeze. Favorite character - E's girlfriend. Drama my ass.
good to see you here, Kid. How's training coming along? Agreed that E's girlfriend is hot. I'm gonna catch some flack for this, but another great secondary character, without doubt - Lloyd.
Sorry for the long post, but here's an explanation on the use of G-d. Please note the "Please note" below. I'm guessing that it is ok to use God on the computer as long as you do not print out or delete it.
Please note: This page contains the Name of God. If you print it out, please treat it with appropriate respect.
Writing the Name of God
Jews do not casually write any Name of God. This practice does not come from the commandment not to take the Lord's Name in vain, as many suppose. In Jewish thought, that commandment refers solely to oath-taking, and is a prohibition against swearing by God's Name falsely or frivolously (the word normally translated as "in vain" literally means "for falsehood").
Judaism does not prohibit writing the Name of God per se; it prohibits only erasing or defacing a Name of God. However, observant Jews avoid writing any Name of God casually because of the risk that the written Name might later be defaced, obliterated or destroyed accidentally or by one who does not know better.
The commandment not to erase or deface the name of God comes from Deut. 12:3. In that passage, the people are commanded that when they take over the promised land, they should destroy all things related to the idolatrous religions of that region, and should utterly destroy the names of the local deities. Immediately afterwards, we are commanded not to do the same to our God. From this, the rabbis inferred that we are commanded not to destroy any holy thing, and not to erase or deface a Name of God.
It is worth noting that this prohibition against erasing or defacing Names of God applies only to Names that are written in some kind of permanent form, and recent rabbinical decisions have held that writing on a computer is not a permanent form, thus it is not a violation to type God's Name into a computer and then backspace over it or cut and paste it, or copy and delete files with God's Name in them. However, once you print the document out, it becomes a permanent form. That is why observant Jews avoid writing a Name of God on web sites like this one or in newsgroup messages: because there is a risk that someone else will print it out and deface it.
Normally, we avoid writing the Name by substituting letters or syllables, for example, writing "G-d" instead of "God." In addition, the number 15, which would ordinarily be written in Hebrew as Yod-Hei (10-5), is normally written as Teit-Vav (9-6), because Yod-Hei is a Name. See Hebrew Alphabet for more information about using letters as numerals.
I hope it isn't disrespectful, but here is my take on Entourage. The season is missing Vince's good luck and success. Normal schmo's like me/us get a fuzzy feeling when he gets what he wants because of his star status (ex: designer painted sneakers for Turtle).
Nice, Rabbi Scooter! ANd good shabbos to you and the family
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