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Here is the 844th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, April 2, 2022. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Guests: cabaret performer Tamar/Tammy Faye Starlite; theater critics Leslie (Hoban) Blake and David Sheward
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews musical performer Tamar (aka Tammy Faye Starlite); Today/Yesterday Trivia Quiz (April 2 w/ Tamar, David Sheward, Leslie (Hoban) Blake); Greeley Crimes & Old Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Mountain Village, CO); My Sick Mind (Will Smith); Inside Broadway (Plaza Suite).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (the slap) 00:48:00 MY SICK MIND (Will Smith) 00:59:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Tamar 01:33:00 TODAY/YESTERDAY TRIVIA QUIZ (April 2 w/ Tammy Faye Starlite, Leslie (Hoban) Blake, David Sheward) 02:50:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN (soursop, Mister Softee) 03:02:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news & Plaza Suite review (03:09:00)) 03:22:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 03:43:30 Friends of the Daverhood 03:53:30 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Mountain Village, CO) 03:56:00 DAVE GOES OUT
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Here’s the 843rd episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook Saturday morning, March 26, 2022. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Guest: musician Peter Noone; actress Vicki Quade; theater critics Leslie (Hoban) Blake & David Sheward.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Herman’s Hermits musician Peter Noone; Greeley Crimes & Old Times; Rabbi Sol Reads the Papers; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Cheyenne Wells, CO); Today/Yesterday Trivia Quiz (March 26 w/ Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Vicki Quade, David Sheward.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (Russia) 00:34:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 00:54:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Peter Noone 01:40:00 TODAY/YESTERDAY TRIVIA QUIZ (March 26 w/ David Sheward, Vicki Quade, Leslie (Hoban) Blake) 03:03:00 Friends of the Daverhood 03:13:00 RABBI SOL READS THE PAPERS 03:40:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Cheyenne Wells, CO) 03:41:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Peter Noone
David Sheward
Leslie (Hoban) Blake
Vicki Quade
Rabbi Sol Solomon
Cheyenne Wells, CO
The Today/Yesterday gang (clockwise): Dave, Vicki, David, Leslie.
Topics include: Herman’s Hermits, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones
Segment airs March 26, 2022 as part of the 843rd episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with filmmaker ROSEMARIE REED
Topics include: Playing in the FM Band: The Steve Post Story, film, Ravensbruck, Lenny Bruce, Russia
Segment airs March 19, 2022 as part of the 842nd episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for St. Patrick’s Day, 2022.
As the saying goes, everyone’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day! Italians, Hispanics, African-Americans are Irish. Well, Black Irish. Jews, too, identify with our Celtic brethren, because we suffered oppression, we love literature, and just as the Irish swallow their ale, Jews wallow in our ailments.
I can think of no better way to celebrate Irishness than sharing poetry by James Joyce, who is, notwithstanding Agatha Christie and George R.R. Martin, the most important writer to have two first names. Here’s a little verse from 1904 called “Silently She’s Combing.”
Silently she’s combing, combing her long hair Silently and graciously with many a pretty air. The sun is in the willow leaves and on the dappled grass and still she’s combing her long hair that goes down past her ass.
No, I’m kidding — it’s “before the looking glass.”
I pray you, cease to comb out, comb out your long hair. All you’re doing is getting lice everywhere.
No, kidding again. I’ll spare you the rest of the poem; it’s just a guy worried that his girl is a skank.
Let’s try another verse, this one with a Jewish cadence: “All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters.”
All day I hear the noise of waters making moan. Sad as the seabird is when, going forth alone He hears the winds cry to the water’s monotone.
The grey winds, the cold winds —
See? This is why Jews move to Florida.
I hear the noise of many waters far below. All day, all night, I hear them flowing to and fro.
Basically, the guy needs a space heater and some Prozac. But James Joyce is clearly using nature to reflect the psychology of his characters. Much as Yiddish-Irish poet Shmuel O’Malleystein did when he wrote, “Toilet’s backed up again. Ruining the floors. Guess we go back to pooping outdoors.”
Let me close my scholarly examination of James Joyce with this passage from Finnegan’s Wake, which I think is the key to his work, if not all literature:
The spoil of hesitants. The spell of hesitency. His atake — is it ashe, tittery-taw tattery-tail, Hasitense hump-on-a-dimply, heyhey-heyhey a winceywencky.
I couldn’t have put it better myself.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York. Slainte’ (slant-cha) and L’Chaim!
Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with author GARY BOHAN, JR.
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Topics include: trained seals, Sharkey, Higher and Higher
Segment aired March 5, 2022 as part of the 840th episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 839th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, Feb. 26, 2022. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with choreographer Liza Gennaro; Greeley Crimes & Old Times; Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Bountiful); Dave Goes Off (emergency room); Today/Yesterday Trivia Quiz (Feb. 26 w/ Liza Gennaro, Leslie (Hoban) Blake & David Sheward).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (Rica!) 00:27:30 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Liza Gennaro 01:08:30 TODAY/YESTERDAY Trivia Quiz (Feb. 26 w/ David Sheward, Liza Gennaro, Leslie (Hoban) Blake). 02:25:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 02:43:00 DAVE GOES OFF (emergency room) 03:21:00 Friends of the Daverhood 03:27:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Bountiful, CO) 03:29:30 DAVE GOES OUT
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Here is the 838th episode of the long-running radio show/video podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired live on Facebook, Saturday morning, Feb. 19, 2022. Info: davesgoneby.com
Guests: musician Judy Collins; actress Vicki Quade; theater critics David Sheward and Leslie (Hoban) Blake
Featuring: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews singer-songwriter Judy Collins; Rabbi Sol’s Rabbinical Reflection on Poems for Valentine’s Day; Today/Yesterday Trivia Quiz (Feb. 19 w/ David Sheward, Leslie (Hoban) Blake, Vicki Quade); Colorado Limerick of the Damned (Model, CO).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (space heater, Gerri Curls, masking rules) 01:00:00 GUEST: Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews Judy Collins 01:35:30 TODAY/YESTERDAY Trivia Quiz (Feb. 19 w/ Vicki Quade, Leslie (Hoban) Blake, David Sheward) 03:25:00 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 03:49:30 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #174 (Poems for Valentine’s Day) 03:59:00 Friends of the Daverhood 04:13:00 COLORADO LIMERICK OF THE DAMNED (Model, CO) 04:17:00 DAVE GOES OUT
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with musician JUDY COLLINS
Topics include: tattoos, suicide, Spellbound, songwriting, Spotify, Joe Rogan.
Segment airs Feb. 19, 2022 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #174 – Poems for Valentine’s Day
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a special poetical Rabbinical Reflection for Gingold Theatrical Group’s Virtual Open Mic Night on this Valentine’s Day, 2022.
You know, poetry is central to the Jewish people, from biblical psalms to Leonard Nimoy’s “Warmed by Love.” Since poetry expresses love, I wish to share with you some classic Jewish poems of romance and arousal. For example, Rabbi Tseitlin of Detroit gave us this most appetizing sonnet:
Shall I compare thee to a hot knish?
Thou art more tasty and much cuter
With boobs as plump as gefilte fish
And scrumptious nipples on each hooter.
A knish is square, but thou do curve
With far more spice than hot pastrami
Thy sexiness makes me a perv
When thou dost swallow my salami
Thou art chicken soup for my soul
and matzoh farfel for my heart
Your kugel makes me lose control
In a good way — not like when I shart
So long as Jews can shlep and kvetch and daven
I eat you up and give you all my lovin’.
Is it any wonder Rabbi Tseitlin has restraining orders in twelve different Michigan counties?
Let us consider this poem from the great Rabbi Vogel of Omsk:
Roses are red, violets are thrilling me
I love you so much,
but my prostate is killing me.
Inspired by Rabbi Vogel, I, too, have written short verse, many in the haiku form. For example, this Chanukah-ku:
Dreidels made of clay.
When they’re dry, it’s time to play.
Women? The reverse.
Of course, not all poems about love are so refined. For an earthier exploration of desire, we turn to Rebbetzin Meyrowitz, widow of the great Estonian Rabbi, Leroy. Here’s a gem from her shocking blue period, shocking because it was her first period since her thirties.
There was a young girl from Tiberias
whose horniness made her delirious
They found her in Gaza
Undressed in a plaza
Her pregnancy ain’t that mysterious
In her latter years, Rebbetzin Meyrowitz became more audacious, disgusting even, as when she wrote:
In order to brighten his sukkas
Reb Mendelsson hired three hookas
They pulled on his payess
and sat on his fayess
and jammed an etrog in his tukas.
My friends, somewhere in the Torah — I’m not sure where — it says “Love Thy Neighbor.” — not possible. But we can still aspire to love, if only as a poetic ideal.
My hope for all of you during these times is that you receive love. And when you do, may you have enough money to pay the girl and her pimp.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York. Happy Valentine’s Day.
