I Believed in Santa Claus

The 2009 Blogger Christmahanukwanzaakah Online Holiday Concert Sign-Up Sheet
Happy Thanksgiving.   Tomorrow, Santa Claus will make his first appearance at the Thanksgiving Day Parade, which means only one thing — Macy’s is open for business!    Uh, I mean its the start of this special Holiday season. To me, nothing says “holiday” more than song.  And nothing brings more joy to the children of the world than the annual Blogger Christmahanukwanzaakah Online Holi

The Free Turkey
My mother doesn’t like to waste money, and similar to many other Jewish mothers of her generation, she can sense a sale at Loehmann’s from miles away. Which brings me to Thanksgiving. Recently, a new supermarket took over in the space across the street.  At first, everyone in my apartment building loved the shiny new store because it was clean, had a brightly-lit produce section, and the check-

Too Small, Too Big, Just Right
“Does your wife or girlfriend think you are too “big,” too “small,” or “just right” in the bedroom?” asked the dude with the glasses, trendy t-shirt, beard, and clipboard. I had just left the 42nd Street Library and was walking down the street, passing the headquarters of a major pay-channel cable network. “Huh?” I asked.  I’m used to tourists a

The Great Interview Experiment – Week 2
Welcome to the second week of completed GIE interviews! Do we we learn anything new about our community this week by reading about their lives and dreams? Absolutely!   The blogging community is comprised of a bunch of weirdos!   Well, not all of them, but clearly bloggers are an odd bunch if characters, mismatched in the same way that the A-Team was hobbled together as an elite military team. But as with the A-Team, bloggers are somehow able to work through their individual biases in order to solve each case and stop the bad guys. What specifically did we learn this week?   Well, we  learned that: Ann from “Ann’s Rants” is a

99 Billion Served
“God, inspire me,” I say as I look up at the stars in the night sky through the window inside McDonald’s, where I sit on the hard, bright yellow plastic bench typical of the fast-food chain, sipping my small, tepid coffee, which cost me only a dollar during a promotion running for the month of November. God says nothing. Cindi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” plays on the s