{"id":31253,"date":"2024-01-03T09:20:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T14:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=31253"},"modified":"2024-01-09T17:30:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T22:30:49","slug":"a-sensitive-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/03\/a-sensitive-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"A SENSITIVE GUY"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nCharlie Chaplin<\/strong> <\/span>brings tears to my eyes. And I adore \u2019Trane and Beethoven. T.S. Eliot — yeah, I know he wasn\u2019t thrilled about Jews, but who can deny him and his line \u201cHumankind cannot bear too much reality.”<\/p>\n

Yes, reality \u201cblows\u201d — as we used to say in junior high. For instance, I need to check with a welder right now. He\u2019s supposed to pick up some ribbon sheets for a fire-escape repair job. That certainly blows. Fire escapes — they need to be painted almost every year in Cleveland, or they rust out. Don\u2019t put salt on fire escapes. Calcium chloride is OK, but no salt.<\/p>\n

I once was vainer, younger, shallower and more facetious. Now I\u2019m all that, and older. I wake up, eat a bowl of prunes, brush my teeth and think about getting elevator shoes. A couple inches might change my life.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m all in on the slogan \u201cDrive away loshn hora<\/em>,” which is Jewish-talk for \u201cDon\u2019t repeat gossip.\u201d I’ve got to work on that.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t<\/span> <\/strong>like ferrets. Who does? I know a ferret named Bubbles. I\u2019m going to kill him. OK, indict me. And put me in jail for this, too: Anglophilia, Jewmania and prickliness. I loved The Crown, <\/em>except the last part.<\/p>\n

Are you Jewish? I spend a couple minutes a year discussing whether Brubeck was Jewish or not. And I spend a minute a decade on whether Chaplin was Jewish. (Chaplin and Brubeck weren’t.)<\/p>\n

Yesterday I cut off a man at Dave\u2019s supermarket, Shaker Square, and he went ballistic. It could have been a racial thing. I was the only white guy around. Or maybe I was simply a jerk. My cart was in front of his in line, and I went to another line (sans<\/em> cart) to see if the second line was shorter. When I came back, the guy went nuts. \u201cWhat you doing?”<\/p>\n

\u201dI\u2019m ahead of you,” I said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, you ain\u2019t!\u201d<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t give in. Then I did. I’m mellow. I’m interested in love, but also rubble, swine, nudniks, landlords, klezmer musicians and Snickers.<\/p>\n

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The candy man, John Lokar (1981).<\/p><\/div>\n

I don\u2019t take criticism well. A klezmer violinist in California called my band \u201ccrappy,\u201d\u00a0 This was years ago, online. I need to to find out what part of California he lives in and do something.<\/p>\n

A rabbi was disbarred (disrobed?) for soliciting a prostitute. I like gossip. Can\u2019t help myself, Chabad.<\/p>\n

I ruffle feathers. Ruffle, ruffle.<\/em> People don’t like me. At least some<\/em> people. I could name a couple but I don’t want to give them ink here.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sensitive. Please don\u2019t comment on any of this.<\/p>\n

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  Charlie Chaplin brings tears to my eyes. And I adore \u2019Trane and Beethoven. T.S. Eliot — yeah, I know he wasn\u2019t thrilled about Jews, but who can deny him and his line \u201cHumankind cannot bear too much reality.” Yes, reality \u201cblows\u201d — as we used to say in junior high. For instance, I need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31253"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31331,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31253\/revisions\/31331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}