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I can’t help myself. I try not to be mean and snarky but – but – but just read this: Victoria Beckham, who just last summer admitted she had never read a book in her life, is allegedly starting up a Hollywood book club. A source tells the Daily Star: “When Victoria told Katie Holmes…
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My son turned three on Friday. When we asked him earlier in the month what kind of party he would like, Jungle Book or dinosaur (his two obsessions), he chose the Jungle Book. My wife decided we should make large foamcore cutouts of the Jungle Book characters and place them around the house. We even…
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Inspired by the heavy metal covers that frightened me in my youth: The Iron-veiled Moses. It’s not too obvious that while I love the Pentateuch I find it very weird, is it?
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One of the many things I learned from reading Wisdom from the Batcave is the origin of the word Rabbi. Rabbi Friedman explains: The Hebrew word “rav“, from which the English equivalent “rabbi” is derived, is etymologically related to another Hebrew word, “reev“, which means “struggle” or “battle”. Get it? The idea is that a…
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I once was a teenager with aspirations of becoming a comics artist. Above my drawing table, against the wall I would stare at blankly when I didn’t know how to draw what I didn’t want to have to draw, was a collage of Batman images meant to inspire me when I was feeling least inspired.…
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