tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post3107969358698515463..comments2024-03-28T15:05:10.372-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Flashback 2007: Dorothy Goldberg is mad at the BullsNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-50454116818259163472020-11-17T16:07:29.305-06:002020-11-17T16:07:29.305-06:00If anybody cares, Skiles went on to coach in Milwa...If anybody cares, Skiles went on to coach in Milwaukee and Orlando. He did all right.<br /><br />TomTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-43830581064357196602020-11-17T14:24:34.660-06:002020-11-17T14:24:34.660-06:00First a great story about Caren's grandmother ...First a great story about Caren's grandmother and now another one about Neil's sons' grandmother. In each, you could sense their persona.Leshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16679840606511726447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-17114568724041950452020-11-17T14:05:15.699-06:002020-11-17T14:05:15.699-06:00In "Portnoy's Complaint," the narrat...In "Portnoy's Complaint," the narrator mentions that his family, while almost always keeping kosher, would occasionally indulge in pork at a Chinese restaurant:<br /><br />"Suddenly, the pig is no threat--though, to be sure, it comes to us so chopped and shredded, and is then set afloat on our plates in such oceans of soy sauce, as to bear no resemblance at all to a pork chop, or a hambone, or, most disgusting of all, a <i>sausage</i> (ucchh!)"Bitter Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04645909858616987997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-78570559816922457222020-11-17T13:18:09.251-06:002020-11-17T13:18:09.251-06:00It was more a slip of the tongue. I'm sure I k...It was more a slip of the tongue. I'm sure I knew, intellectually, that basketball teams had coaches not managers. But my indifference to sports is not a pose. When I ran into the editor of Michigan Avenue magazine and she asked me if I was interested in profiling Joakim Noah, I told her enthusiastically that indeed I am, having no idea who he was.Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-50394395053351515022020-11-17T12:57:00.175-06:002020-11-17T12:57:00.175-06:0013 years and several coaches later and they still ...13 years and several coaches later and they still don’t throw the damn ball in.J. Pabsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11566801024154623288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-91483771911133262802020-11-17T12:26:29.609-06:002020-11-17T12:26:29.609-06:00I think it's interesting that in 2007, you kne...I think it's interesting that in 2007, you knew neither the Bulls' coach's name, nor that they're called coaches, not managers. Then, I don't know how long after that, you and your family adopted watching the Bulls as a family activity yourselves. <br /><br />Nice that you had such a wonderful relationship with your mother-in-law, and that you were in a position to bring more attention to her grievance than a letter ever could have. <br /><br />I've never heard of the candle idea, but I like it. And Grizz's comment about his experiences with them was charming.Jakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-52188390582539582032020-11-17T09:51:15.606-06:002020-11-17T09:51:15.606-06:00My mother lost her father to cancer when she was f...My mother lost her father to cancer when she was fifteen. My father lost his father when my parents were both in their late thirties. So I grew up with yahrzeit candles. They last for 24 hours, so they would burn all night long on the kitchen countertop. <br /><br />The flickering candle flames cast long shadows on the ceiling in the hallway, and in my bedroom (for some strange and unexplained reason, we always kept our bedroom doors open). Very much like a Halloween pumpkin. Made me think of ghosts and of death. Scared the hell out of me when I was young.<br /><br />I think it was the glass in the yahrzeits themselves. The glass containers were not smooth, so they amplified the flames and the shadows. They were actually wax-filled juice glasses (No...not Jews' glasses...juice). My frugal Russian-born grandmother would clean out the wax and re-use them as drinking glasses. My sister and I knew what they had been. That creeped us out, too.<br /><br />The funeral homes in Florida gave me yahrzeit candles (with smooth glass) when my parents died, but I've never burned them. Not because they still creep me out. My parents could leave candles burning because we had a dog. But I have cats. Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-26955031392288420882020-11-17T09:08:43.462-06:002020-11-17T09:08:43.462-06:00You can't make this stuff up. Not only amusin...You can't make this stuff up. Not only amusing but heartwarming as well. I'm reading Little Women now that I'm "un machista en recuperacion" (heard on NPR from an Argentinian Jerry Springer), and I think that Dorothy Goldberg was as close to Momma March as it is possible for a genuine human being to be. <br /><br />john tatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-82397773369404617952020-11-17T07:04:02.672-06:002020-11-17T07:04:02.672-06:00When asked what Jewish people did on Christmas, My...When asked what Jewish people did on Christmas, My grammar school friend Ben used to joke that Christmas was the day he was allowed to eat pork, but only if it came from a Chinese restaurant. Cultural sensitivity was very different in the 60's.<br />Paul Fedrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04384556977324071639noreply@blogger.com