by Adam | Monday 2 August 2010
Not that any of this sojourn has had any real altruism behind it, but I hope you'll excuse me for a few days while I explore Turkey and visit Dubai with an old friend, likely not having many moments to...
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by Adam | Sunday 1 August 2010
by Adam | Monday 26 July 2010
A couple articles of mine were in the Jerusalem Post today. The first piece is about how one of President Obama's friends from his days in Chicago (and a small focal point in the 2008 campaign) is now helping arrange...
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by Adam | Monday 19 July 2010
Forgive this brief break from blogging. brief break from blogging brief break from blogging brief break from blogging brief break from blogging brief break from blogging I've run away to the Negev Desert; mere meters from the grave of David...
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by Adam | Sunday 11 July 2010
Last week I attended a lovely little reading in Jerusalem featuring writers Jonathan Safran Foer and Etgar Keret. I've written a piece about it for the Jerusalem Post and I hope you enjoy it. JPost, Page 5...
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by Adam | Wednesday 23 June 2010
The people over at PresenTense do good work. The righteous kind. They also publish good work so be on the look out for the next issue of the mag featuring a piece by yours truly on Omri Casspi, basketball extraordinaire...
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by Adam | Friday 18 June 2010
My latest on TheGloss: opportunity to call all the women there sexist. Yes, this may have been written in the booze-addled aftermath of the U.S.'s improbable tie with Slovenia in the World Cup. You can likely pinpoint where the gin...
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by Adam | Friday 11 June 2010
Good customer service is afoot over at TheGloss....
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by Adam | Sunday 6 June 2010
If you know me (I think at least some of you out there do), you probably know that I'm finishing a book. I try to refrain from using it as an excuse for a lack of substantial posts on TFR,...
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by Adam | Friday 28 May 2010
by Adam | Friday 21 May 2010
A short work on why women shouldn't propose to men. And then some awesome hate mail written in response....
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by Adam | Saturday 15 May 2010
by Adam | Friday 30 April 2010
Today it's Sarah Jessica Parker. In the future, more things I'm not sure I'd ever finding myself writing about. Enjoy!...
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by Adam | Monday 26 April 2010
My touching *thanks Paul* column on handjobs was so well-received that over the weekend I became a top trending topic on thegloss. I am starting a weekly column for them, so be on the look out for that as I...
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by Adam | Friday 9 April 2010
I was pleased to receive a little note from a TFR reader all the way in Israel who accused me of forsaking my readership. And my response is yes and I'm sorry. Next week I'll be posting a link to...
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by Adam | Friday 19 March 2010
My week of adjusting to life in Brooklyn (yes, it's true), attempting to stay vertical while tending bar on St. Patty's Day, enjoying the blossoming spring, and writing consistent entries for this blog were all interrupted when I was interviewed...
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by Adam | Sunday 7 February 2010
Loyal Readers, I run for a number of reasons: --I am predisposed to chubbiness --Women love when I talk about running (especially when I casually mention the foreign places where I've run) --I hate the idea that my right knee...
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by Adam | Friday 5 February 2010
An awesome clip from last night's Daily Show elucidates why this blog is so much better than the others out there. The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThe Blogs Must Be Crazywww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth...
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by Adam | Thursday 14 January 2010
Dear TFR Readers: I've missed you since we've been apart. Since 2009, the site has been updated, expanded, no more truncations, no more sadness. I look forward to servicing you in the least sexual way that such a statement suggests....
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by Adam | Sunday 18 October 2009
Loyal Readers: As you well know, TFR has an overarching commitment to excellence. Our standards are so duty-bound to preeminence that not even the slightest inkling of the second rate can be afforded. It is in the spirit of this...
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by Adam | Monday 5 October 2009
http://www.jewcy.com/post/ahmadinejad_worlds_biggest_selfhating_jew...
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by Adam | Friday 25 September 2009
...I'm diversifying. I've now been entrusted to entertain and enlighten the already sparkling and brilliant readership of Jewcy. If you haven't strolled through their pages, you ought to. They are good people. Here is my first post. It's about the...
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by Adam | Monday 4 May 2009
I got to see all this at Radio City Music Hall and it was for AIDS charity. Here's a clip from the finale. You really must get 1:50 into this video to fully appreciate what happened....
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by Adam | Tuesday 20 January 2009
Updates from the road just as soon as I can catch my breath....
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by Adam | Friday 5 December 2008
Thanks to everyone who came out and heckled my subpar jokes. Here's the last piece I read. An oldie but a goodie. The Blue Man My house here in France is covered in spiderwebs, but I don't dare touch...
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by Adam | Sunday 16 November 2008
Fucking is an old instrument. Charlie Parker’s sax. Edith Piaf’s sauternes pipes. The hair strands on the back of your neck. The old standards play in regular time, they play at 4/4 speed. They are a tangle of feather. The...
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by Adam | Friday 14 March 2008
What compels a man to run 15K (9.3 miles) in the 32-degree starkness of a March Sunday morning? Is it the search for self? The spirit of competition? Love for his colon and others (and their colons too)? Likely...
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by Adam | Monday 3 March 2008
photo courtesy of Benjamin Schmidt TOMORROW!!! I will be reading at Cornelia Street Cafe along with a few other talented folks including Susan Orlean, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of several books including The Orchid Thief,...
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by Adam | Wednesday 12 December 2007
Come hear me read on Friday! And contact me for more details should you need them......
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by Adam | Monday 5 November 2007
I don't even know what a "Turkey Trot" is, I am leery of things that are one species/synonym away from "Goose Step", but I will be embarking on a 10K journey in Houston, Texas on Thanksgiving morning in the...
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by Adam | Friday 30 March 2007
We're going retro, almost twenty-six full hours back, to when you could comment on TFR without inciting a spam riot. If you keep digging back, you'll find Hakeem was once Akeem and the world was still right. Akeem The Dream...
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by Adam | Tuesday 27 March 2007
First things first...if your Saturday evening plans are in lack, I'd like to shamelessly plug the Festival of Chametz happening at the Knitting Factory. It's this Saturday night, and thus, your last chance to drink burr before Passover begins. That's...
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