“We’re talking about making a holiday record, with Christmas songs on one side and Hanukkah songs on the other. She’s got songs called, like, Kosher Kisses and Alone Under the Mistletoe. She was kind of f**king around, but I was like, ‘You have all these amazing records to play for Christmas, like Motown and Carla Thomas and the Charlie Brown Christmas, and unfortunately, us Jews have nothing that cool to listen to. So we should do something.”
[Read more →]
Tags: music
January 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Ah, yes, that recent Christmas party. Remember? It was so much fun, until it all fell apart at the end.
[Read more →]
Tags: signs
Happy New Deed!
Happy New Deer!
Happy New Beer!
Happy New Br’er!
Happy New Brew!
[Read more →]
Tags: language
Daniel Tashian, a musician I admire, posted this new Christmas song on his website yesterday.
[Read more →]
Tags: music
Banana, banana, banana.
[Read more →]
Tags: music
December 5th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Hatching a plot to get Bing’s girl under contract as Fred’s dancing partner.
Danny, Fred’s manager: “This is no time to be honest!”
Fred: “Well, what should I do?”
Danny: “All we have to do is to convince Jim that he’d be a heel if he stood in the way of a chance like this.”
Fred: “Oh, that’ll be easy. Like peeling a turtle.”
[Read more →]
Tags: film · language · Screenings
Concerned that he may not seem believable as an inebriated dancer, Fred Astaire got into character for a scene where he is supposed to drunkenly flail around a dance floor on New Year’s Eve by downing a shot of bourbon before each take. Most of the footage used in this clip is from the seventh […]
[Read more →]
Tags: film
November 28th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Form into balls and roll in sugar, flattening slightly.
Press a Hershey’s Chocolate Kiss in the top of each cookie.
[Read more →]
Tags: family · food