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SONG: Stupid Pupil
(c)2024 David Lefkowitz
(sung to the tune of Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield’s “Stupid Cupid”)
Stupid Pupil you’re a real disgrace You don’t contribute; you just take up space You go to college on your parents’ dime But you ain’t learnin’, you’re just wastin’ time. Hey hey, brainless punk Stupid Pupil, get ready to flunk
Can’t do your homework and you can’t think straight Too busy watching TikTok while you masturbate Sitting through classes with your earbuds in Looking so dead they call your next of kin Boo-hoo, throw your fit Stupid Pupil, your pronoun is “it.”
You mixed-up little twerp, with your protest sign upheld But you can’t read or write, so the words are all misspelled
You think you’re curing social-justice ills But meanwhile mom and dad are paying all your bills You’re chugging Red Bull and you’re vaping weed the only things you learn are from your Twitter feed You don’t work, you don’t pay rent Stupid Pupil, come out of your tent
Your hair is greasy and your armpits stink You think that other people really care what you think And if you graduate, then you’ll be through `Cause you’ll be serving burgers to the likes of you Hey hey, don’t you see You just crapped on your Bachelor’s Degree
Hey hey, higher ed Stupid Pupil, I wish you were dead.
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Podcaster JESSICA TAGHAP interviews Dave Lefkowitz
Topics include: radio, Miracle of Long Johns, Rabbi Sol Solomon, theater criticism.
Segment was recorded Nov. 10, 2015 for Jessica Taghap’s “Spotlight” podcast and rebroadcast (with permission) May 18, 2024 as part of the 944th episode of the Dave’s Gone By radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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More information on Dave’s Gone By: davesgoneby.com
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Here is the 944th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, May 18, 2024.
Featuring: Jessica Taghap’s 2015 podcast interview with Dave; Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Agate); Dave’s Big Dictionary (lucrative).
Guest: podcaster Jessica Taghap
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (raining in Baltimore, free coffee, spicy chip, fox family, King Charles on canvas) 01:10:00 GREELEY TIMES 01:32:30 BUNION WATCH 01:45:30 GUEST: Jessica Taghap interviews Dave (Nov. 2015) 02:51:30 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: lucrative 03:01:00 Friends of the Daverhood 03:12:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Agate, CO 03:15:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with cabaret singer CAROLYN MONTGOMERY
Topics include: Rosemary Clooney, American Songbook Association, life change, religion
Segment aired May 11, 2024 as part of the 943rd episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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More information on Dave’s Gone By: http://www.davesgoneby.com
More about Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com.
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Here is the 943rd episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, May 11, 2024.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews singer Carolyn Montgomery; Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Adena); StoryTime (Sam, Bangs, & Moonshine).
Guest: cabaret’s Carolyn Montgomery
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: vanishing books, grey weather, Repticon, Mission BBQ, wildlife 01:02:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Carolyn Montgomery 01:49:00 GREELEY TIMES 02:16:30 STORYTIME (Sam, Bangs, & Moonshine) 02:43:00 Friends of the Daverhood 02:56:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Adena 03:01:30 DAVE GOES OUT
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Here is the 942nd episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, May 4, 2024.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews comedy writer Bruce Vilanch and offers his Rabbinical Reflection on the NYPD; Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned; Bunion Watch; Dave’s Big Dictionary (agrarian).
Guest: humorist Bruce Vilanch
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: dentist, producing musicals 01:07:00 GREELEY TIMES 01:36:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Bruce Vilanch 02:31:00 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: agrarian 03:01:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #185: Three Cheers for the NYPD 03:07:30 Friends of the Daverhood 03:22:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Acres Green 03:26:00 DAVE GOES OUT
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with comedy writer BRUCE VILANCH
Topics include: The Oscars, Bette Midler, Johnny Carson, Dolly Parton, Judaism.
Segment aired May 4, 2024 as part of the 942nd episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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More about Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with playwright and director DAVID WILLINGER
Topics include: Bring Them Back, teaching, Theater for the New City, Judaism.
Segment aired April 27, 2024 as part of the 941st episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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More about Rabbi Sol Solomon: http://www.shalomdammit.com.
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Here is the 941st episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, April 27, 2024.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews writer-director David Willinger and offers a Rabbinical Reflection Passover Prayer; Greeley Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Ackmen); Bunion Watch; Dave’s Big Dictionary (assail).
Guest: writer-performer David Willinger
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce: no filter, defunct things, films 01:01:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews David Willinger 02:02:00 GREELEY TIMES 02:25:30 BUNION WATCH 02:30:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #184: A Passover Prayer 02:35:30 DAVE’S BIG DICTIONARY: assail 02:50:00 Friends of the Daverhood 02:59:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED: Ackmen, CO 03:02:30 DAVE GOES OUT
RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #184 (4/27/2024): A Passover Prayer
airs April 27, 2024 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube video:
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for these last few days of Passover 2024.
A zissen Pesach my friends, and I hope you are having a fun holiday, with maximal contemplation and minimal constipation. Actually, this year is less likely to afflictus with intestinal binding than gastric reflux: we want to throw up at everything around us.
That’s why I’ve written this little prayer that you can append to your Haggadahs this Passover. It’s an appeal to God to get off his lazy tuchas and help us, just as he did in Egypt. He doesn’t have to show himself as a burning bush; he could set Ilhan Omar’s public hair on fire: same thing.
Anyway, here is a Prayer for late Pesach:
Blessed art thou, Oh Lord, our God. King of the Universe. (Or Queen, He can be gender-ridiculous). Blessed be He who sanctifies us with a holiday that deprives us of bread yet consoles us with Joyva Ring Jells; where we are scourged by horse radish, soothed by charoses, and confused by putting them together; and where we learn morality by letting a child hide the Afikoman and then rewarding him for thievery and blackmail.
Dear God, in these times of woe, when the land of Israel rages and Jew-haters have slithered from their cages, we implore thee to restore righteousness in the world. To vanquish our foes, as you did the Amalekites and the Canaanites, and sometimes the Monday nites. Oh Lord, protect the tiny nation of Eretz Yisroel and smite our enemies. For example:
May Hamas fighters see their tunnels turn to caskets, their caskets turned to dust, and their dust hoovered up by your ugliest cleaning lady.
May you lift the Palestinians up, up, up out of Israel and deposit them in a galaxy far, far away. Or at least Kuwait.
May Iraq get so fed up with Iran for being only one letter different, that the two blow each other to bits, which will be especially amusing to Jews named “Ira.”
May the United Nations vote to sanction itself out of existence and have to relinquish its New York headquarters to a Judaica superstore.
May every Western woman who supports the Arab world actually have to live, as a woman, in the Arab world.
May the marching students of Columbia and New York Universities be boiled in acid and then, ironically, fail their chemistry exams.
May the idiots posting anti-Zionist misinformation on TikTok be forced to use Dos dial-up just to get WiFi.
May the members of “Queers for Palestine” be bent over and their assholes stuffed with razor wire. And AIDS.
May every troglodyte who scrawls “Death to Israel” in graffiti on a public edifice be given a 1972 station wagon and forced to circle the building eternally looking for parking.
May every Arab who danced a jig on October 7th have their legs hacked off and fed to starving woodchucks, and may those marmots come back while the cripples are sleeping and vomit in their mouths.
May every Jew who betrays Israel in favor of “Palestine” be forced to eat matzoh made of ground glass and soaked in rat poison. In thy mercy.
And may whoever becomes President of the United States live four more years — and that’s a stretch right there — to see Israel triumph, her children multiply, her enemies divide and die, and her friends figure out a way to make even a bacon cheeseburger Kosher for Passover.
V’yimeru, Amen.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.
