Dave’s Gone By Interview (4/26/2014): JOE CORCORAN & Rabbi Sol Solomon

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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with producer Joe Corcoran

Topics include: Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding, Late Nite Catechism, lung cancer, Dr. Zhivago.

Segment aired April 26, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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More information on Rabbi Sol Solomon: www.shalomdammit.com

Dave’s Gone By #467 (4/26/2014): PUT A CORC IN IT

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Here is the 467th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, April 26, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with producer Joe Corcoran; Inside Broadway; Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later; Saturday Segue (Judy Collins).

Guests: producer Joe Corcoran, Joyce Weil

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce Weil (Jonesy, Agatha Christies, interviewees, The Sneaky Marmot, sneakers on)
01:05:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Judy Collins
01:35:30 Sponsors
01:39:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (01:40:00), review: Bullets Over Broadway (02:09:00))
02:25:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Joe Corcoran
03:13:30 Sponsors
03:15:30 Friends
03:25:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later
03:50:30 DAVE GOES OUT

April 26, 2014 Playlist: “Wild Rippling Water” (01:08:00), “Mountain Girl” (01:15:00), “Pretty Horses” (01:19:30), “Born to the Breed” (01:22:00) & “In My Life” (01:27:00; Judy Collins). “Weaver Song (Holly’s Song)” (01:11:00; Dar Williams). “Sugar Daddy” (02:20:30; Hedwig and the Angry w/ John Cameron Mitchell). “Hurricane” ({live} 03:26:30), “Union Sundown” (03:34:30), “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (03:40:00) & “Wedding Song” (03:42:00; Bob Dylan).

Joe Corcoran
Bullets Over Broadway
those sneaky marmots
Judy Blue Eyes

Dave’s Gone By Skit: RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #99 (4/20/2014): Utz vs. Butler

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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #99 (4/20/2014): Utz vs. Butler

aired April 20, 2014 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube clip: http://youtu.be/S8bUHv8TNa0

Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of April 20th, 2014.

Last Monday, Michael Utz, of Culpepper, Virginia, was awarded $5,000 in punitive damages from a former fellow employee. That coworker, James Carroll Butler, also spent a month in prison back in 1999 for a little prank he pulled on Utz at the office.

Butler was mad at Utz – in a way that only people who have to work next to each other 40 hours a week, week after week after week, can get angry at each other – so Mr. Butler grabbed the office coffee pot and took it with him to the toilet. No, don’t get ahead of me; he did not pee in the coffee pot. He peed in the toilet. But then he took the coffee pot and filled it from the toilet. He then waited – tee hee, tee hee – for Michael Utz to use the pot for coffee.

Luckily for Utz, he smelled something unpleasant in the pot before he went to use it. So instead of brewing a pot of Chock Full o’ Nuts – or, more accurately, chock full of pee from his coworker’s nuts, Mr. Utz brought the coffee pot to his superior who sent it to a lab. Tests came back positive for fecal matter, and Butler was arrested, charged with a misdemeanor and given a one-year sentence with 11 months suspended. As far as his job was concerned, he was, of course…relieved. Oh, and just for the sake of irony, did I mention they both worked at a waste-treatment facility?

As anyone who has labored day-in, day-out in a cubicle, offices can be fraught with tension, jealousies, grudges and disappointments. Surrounded by strangers you’d never bother with otherwise, you’re forced to put up with the aggravations of office politics. Either that or you quit, or you get yourself fired if you want unemployment, or you whip out a semi-automatic rifle and shoot anyone who jams up the copy machine. Which is pretty much everyone.

That, of course, is going too far, but let’s face it: revenge is a dish best served piping hot. Or in this case, fresh brewed. We’ve all seen the movie “9-to-5” where they tie up Dabney Coleman and improve the workplace in his absence. And who didn’t enjoy the pranks Jim and Pam played on Dwight in “The Office?” Well, Dwight didn’t, but he deserved them.

So I’m not about to delve into the moral equivalencies of crime versus prank punishment. I’m not here to ask: What would a co-worker have to do that would make you justified for crazy-gluing their telephone receiver to the hook? Or to their ear? What would a boss have to put you through so you’d get to the point of saying, “Yes, I deleted her hard drive and replaced it with a grilled-cheese sandwich, but in fairness, that was a good sandwich”? How badly would a superior have to piss you off before you offer them piss? We all have our breaking points and our tit-for-tat total tallies.

What I do not understand is why it took five years for this incident to be resolved – to the tune of $5,000. How many man hours, how many lawyer hours, how many other cases were pushed aside in order for this to come to trial? Were there clerks of the court sitting in front of their calendars going, “Okay, we have a guy who shot three people in a hold-up, and there’s this other fella accused of planting a terrorist bomb at the graves of Afghan vets at Arlington . . . But wait, no, stop everything! James Carroll Butler took a whiz in his co-worker’s Café Bustelo. Clear the dockets! Clear the schedule! And somebody sniff the coffee maker; I don’t like the looks of that intern.”

Half a decade of legal wrangling to find out that Butler did it. Why the delay? It should have been easy to find a jury of his peers. After all, being a pee-er is what got him in trouble in the first place. Couldn’t this have been settled out of court? Maybe Utz could have crapped in a bucket and made brownies. “You eat mine; I drank yours – we’re even! Let’s shake hands. Or maybe not.”

There should be a way to resolve small disputes – or, in this case, piddling ones – without tying up tax dollars and the justice system. I’m not saying discharging in the Dunkin Donuts is acceptable behavior. It’s just that you don’t need to turn it into the next O.J. trial. Unless someone pees in your o.j..

So I suppose the moral of this story is, well, don’t urinate in the Yuban. But, also, if someone hands you a cup of joe, and you can taste Joe, report it – but also don’t expect to hit the lottery. And if worse comes to worst, and you do take a sip, even then just remember: it will still taste better than Starbucks.

This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.

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Dave’s Gone By Interview (4/19/2014): DANIEL CURZON & Peter Fitzgerald

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Gay icon Peter Fitzgerald chats with playwright Daniel Curzon

Topics include: theater, Joyce Carol Oates, gay etiquette, Christopher Isherwood.

Segment aired April 19, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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Dave’s Gone By #466 (4/19/2014): IT OCCURZ TO ME

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Here is the 466th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, April 19, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Peter Fitzgerald chats with novelist & playwright Daniel Curzon. Plus: Inside Broadway, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Plagues, pt. 2), Saturday Segues (Iggy Pop, Fender benders), Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (Utz. vs. Butler).

Guests: playwright Daniel Curzon, Joyce Weil

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce Weil (marmots, publicity conference, My Unknown Son, dementia, Subways are for Sleeping, See or Skip, Visa Black Card, Muppet Christ Superstar)
01:18:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Iggy Pop
01:45:30 Sponsors
01:48:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (01:49:00); review (A Raisin in the Sun; 02:19:00))
02:34:00 GUEST: Peter Fitzgerald interviews Daniel Curzon
03:25:00 Sponsors
03:28:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Plagues, pt. 2)
04:02:00 Friends
04:12:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #99 – Utz vs. Butler
04:18:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Fender Benders
04:37:30 Weather
04:39:00 Upcoming
04:42:00 DAVE GOES OUT

April 19, 2014 Playlist: “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” (01:08:00) & “Superstar” (01:09:00; Christo Graham’s Muppet Christ Superstar). “Green Eggs and Ham” (01:13:00; Kevin Ryan). “Run Like a Villain” (01:23:30), “Some Weird Sin” (01:26:30), “Sell Your Love” (01:30:00; w/ James Williamson) & “Dum Dum Boys” (01:37:00; Iggy Pop). “I Wanna Be Your Dog” (01:34:00; The Stooges). “Let it Sing” (02:30:30; Violet 1997 off-Broadway cast w/ Michael McElroy). “Tiny Montgomery” (03:31:30), “Idiot Wind” ({live Hard Rain version} 03:34:30), “Chimes of Freedom” (03:44:30) & “Father of Night” (03:51:30; Bob Dylan). “Highway 61 Revisited” (3:53:00; Karen O & The Million Dollar Bash). “Steady Rollin’ Man” (04:18:00; Eric Clapton). “Little Wing” (04:24:00; Jimi Hendrix). “Peggy Sue” (04:26:30; Buddy Holly). “Barabajagal” (04:29:00; Donovan). “Southbound Again” (04:32:30; Dire Straits). “Rice Pudding” (04:44:00; Jeff Beck Group).

Daniel Curzon
Curzon’s book
James Butler
guitar

Dave’s Gone By #465 (4/12/2014): MARKO SHOWLO

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Here is the 465th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio April 12, 2014. Info: davesgoneby.com.

Featuring: Dave chats with theater journalist Joel Markowitz. Plus: Inside Broadway, Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Plagues, pt. 1), Saturday Segues (Tiny Tim, John Pinette).

Guest: theater journalist Joel Markowitz, Dave’s wife Joyce.

Note: Joel Markowitz passed in November 2017 at age 60.

00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (theater season, bum knee, Holocaust Week, drug-sniffing bunny, Joyce’s center book, fire and ice, El Touchy)
01:05:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Tiny Tim
01:21:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Jesse Winchester
01:38:00 Sponsors
01:43:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (01:43:30); review (Don’t Wake Me; 01:59:00)
02:08:30 DAVE SAYS BYE – Mickey Rooney
02:21:30 GUEST: Joel Markowitz
03:19:00 Sponsors
03:22:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Plagues, pt. 1)
03:52:00 Friends
03:57:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – John Pinette
04:17:30 Thanks
04:22:00 Weather
04:23:30 Upcoming
04:25:00 DAVE GOES OUT

April 12, 2014 Playlist: “Touch of the Pharaohs” (01:01:00; Luie Luie). “The Name Song” (01:09:00), “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” (01:10:30), “Fill Your Heart” (01:12:30), “Just a Gigolo” (01:15:30) & “Aren’t You Glad You’re You” (01:18:00; Tiny Tim). “The Brand New Tennessee Waltz” (01:25:00), “I Wave Bye Bye” (01:28:00) & “Snow” (04:26:00). “Biloxi” (01:31:30; Ted Hawkins). “Judy” (02:17:30) & “Nothing Can Stop Me Now ” (02:19:30). “Gonna Change My Way of Thinking” ({live} 03:24:30), “On the Road Again” (03:30:00), “Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum” (03:32:30), “The Ballad of Hollis Brown” ({live}, 03:37:30) & “Day of the Locusts” (03:43:00; Bob Dylan). “Musical Theater” (03:59:30), “Extreme Sports” (04:03:00), “The Toaster” (04:09:00), “A Gas Problem” (04:12:00) & “Toilet Paper” (04:14:30; John Pinette).

Joel Markowitz
John Pinette
Don’t Wake Me
Tiny Tim
Mickey Rooney
Happy Passover!

Dave’s Gone By Interview (4/12/14): JOEL MARKOWITZ

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Dave chats with D.C.-area theater critic Joel Markowitz

Topics include: theater, If/Then, Rocky, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Bullets Over Broadway.

Segment aired April 12, 2014 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.

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More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com