I love Norwalk!

I've been sitting here at the Starbucks at 11790 Firestone Blvd for two hours and - glory be! - I have been completely free of sexual temptation.
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Mad

"You're unbelievably crude," she says, "and rude to so many people. You take no care over your appearance. Your life is a mess. And the worst thing about you is that you are religious."
"I bet we both trash each other to our therapists," I say.
"I don't say anything bad about you," she says, "except that you're mad."
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She won't date him

I try to comfort a friend who just got fired.
"Do you have a woman in your life?" I ask.
"I'm in love," he says, "but she won't date me till I'm sober. That means no pot, no alcohol, no coke."
"When did you last talk to her?"
"Last night."
"Oh."
"We talk every day."
"Oh."
"She'll f--- me. She just won't date me."
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Leah Kleim Hurt In Car Accident

Leah emails: I did a three day stunt on a morphine drip in the hospital
had my nose reconstucted and sewn back together .
have a few staples in my arm, I was "ejected" from a car
flying down the BQE, a few CT scans later nothing broken
doc's in shock Im sewn back together and home sweet home.

Connecting

Here's a problem I've had in a lot of my relationships:

Sometimes when we get together, I feel like you want to connect with me and get close.

Sometimes when we get together, I feel like you are shutting me out.

I enjoy getting together with you under the first circumstance and I do not enjoy getting together under the second circumstance.

I know that a lot of the time you tell me you need to be alone. And that's ok, because I prefer for you to tell me you need to be alone, then to be with you and yet feel very alone myself.

She decided to never fight with him again

As her words only ended up in his fiction. (Blake Bailey)
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For years I worried I was on the verge of doing something horrible

That I was inch away from spinning out of control. I have not felt that way for months. I feel like my life has settled down. I feel in control. I credit therapy, Alexander Technique and yoga (cold showers every morning, etc).
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It had all begun very innocently as a writing exercise

"Why don't we go to yoga and write dueling versions?" He suggested via Facebook.

Oakland goes one better on SF and NH

From Stephen Steinlight:Hi, All:

Check it out below! Oakland has introduced a new twist on the municipal id for illegal aliens: the elimination of gender identification. Now the transgendered illegal alien need not fear being hatefully misclassified in any way whatsoever! Is that way cool or what?! To think San Francisco didn't come up with it first.

To which I can only add: God bless America, or, in the immortal words of our First Lady, "This is the FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE I've felt proud to be an American."
Who can now say we are an uncaring nation?
It's just that beautiful.

Oakland proposes ID card for undocumented
By Matthai Kuruvila
The San Francisco Chronicle, May 27, 2009
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/27/BAN217RDG8.DTL

Oakland wants to offer its residents an identification card, a move that would primarily help undocumented immigrants engage with - and, some lament, blend into - broader society.

That, by itself, would be enough controversy. But Oakland officials are debating much broader uses than what other cities, including San Francisco, have done. In particular, they propose including:

-- A debit card function, allowing poor people to avoid exorbitant fees of check cashing shops and to be less vulnerable to muggings by carrying less cash.

-- Eliminating gender identity, which they say would allow transgender people to more comfortably avoid discrimination.

The details have yet to be worked out, and they will be up for discussion June 2 at the city council meeting. The council will ask acting City Administrator Dan Lindheim to come up with a plan for implementation, which the council would need to approve.

The city's finance committee, which includes four council members, unanimously and enthusiastically approved sending it to the full City Council Tuesday.

Don't you remember what you done to me on the floor?

Didn't you mean it?
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Cheever: A Life

I am in Norwalk drinking pink lemonade and enjoying this new book by Blake Bailey. Anybody want to party?
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God and Torah

Here I am, the greatest writer of my generation, reduced to running errands for a boss in Norwalk, when I'd much rather be thinking about God and Torah and sex with shiksas and how very wicked that is.
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The greatest writer of my generation

Without a doubt, I am the greatest writer of my generation. Yet here I stand at Target in Norwalk calling my boss with the bad news that Target chewable multivitamins for children are available only in 60 tablet packs and there are only three of them.
I tell my boss that bottles of Flintstones multivitamins (150 tablets) cost $11.89 while the Target 60-tablet packs costs $4.49 and he is calculating out the price per tablet while the greatest writer of his generation stands waiting for his decision.
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Yom Yerushaliam (Jerusalem Day)

We are davening hallel with musical instruments at Louis Kemp's home in Pico-Robertson. About 100 hundred happy Jews, mainly young.
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Fw: meir kin

Regarding this:

Morris emails:

In response to your recent letter from jeremy stern from Ora, please post:

Dear readers

Jeremy Stern continues to mislead every bit of the way. There are no new developments in terms of Meir issuing a new Get. Rather the reason the rally is being cancelled is because the community rabbis are 1)seeing the truth stare them in their eyes, as the overwhelming evidence previously submitted is hard to ignore, as it paints a picture of a vicious woman who has tried all the tricks of the trade and now Feigns as AN AGUNA. 2) the community at large is outraged at ORA and the RCC for ignoring the truth and employing mafia-like tactics. Additionally, Jeremy Stern has written a lie in the meirkin.com website. He states that no rabbi will marry her off with such a GET. Suggesting that no rabbi will honor his GET, is ludicrous as suggesting that Cheerios has pork as an ingredient. Let it be known that Rabbi Abraham and Rabbi Gestetner from NY, and 2 Rabbi Kins from LA, would be available to officiate her Kiddushin whenever she wishes to remarry, and this is just a partial list of Rabbis who will attend her Chupa. The time has come to stand up for the truth and STOP THE LOSHON HORA. Ora is a political wing of Y.U who promotes a feminist left wing agenda, reflexively attacking men in all circumstances. It should be noted that like all seasoned politicians, Jeremy Stern is quite skilled at trying to spin the facts to suit his agenda. While it is true that recent positive developments have led to the cancellation of the rally,those developments are positive for Meir and for the side of truth, and not for ORA.

I am in the Imperial Cafe at the LA County Recorder's Office in Norwalk

Crazy good times!
This no place for a Torah Jew.
I didn't bring my wallet. Maybe some nice girl will buy me a drink.
I have a new job driving a friend to and from Norwalk every weekday.
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