by Adam | Friday 20 July 2012
My long-suffering readers... Apologies for the delayed absence. I've taken a new job at Tablet Magazine where I edit The Scroll, blogging obsessively and semi-convincingly about topics that I used to limn about here at TFR. It's a great gig...
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by Adam | Sunday 1 April 2012
As always, my little blog here is taking some neglect as I pursue my dreams of artistic greatness alleged financial solvency. For Salon, I interviewed Kirby Dick, a filmmaker whose documentary on the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system...
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by Adam | Friday 16 March 2012
My most recent article for Tablet, about a group of non-Israeli IDF vets, is up. OMG check it out here! Some of the members also interact with Israeli-born IDF veterans who have since moved stateside—but again, their experiences are not...
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by Adam | Friday 17 February 2012
It was published here, but here's the original version. Shortly before leaving his native Tennessee, Davy Crockett--Texas’s most venerated adopted son--famously told fellow statesmen, “You may all go to hell, I will go to Texas.” Crockett’s departure for Texas in...
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by Adam | Thursday 2 February 2012
My latest piece for The Atlantic just went up and I am pretty thrilled about it. The thrust of it is a looking-back at Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange as the film turns 40. I had the good fortune of being...
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by Adam | Friday 18 November 2011
My latest up at Tablet is a profile of Ean Seeb, who is (amazingly) both a marijuana dispensary owner and a machar in the Denver Jewish community. Read here: Seeb is a third-generation Jewish Denver native. Ean, his first name,...
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by Adam | Friday 7 October 2011
Or at least loves my most recent article. Get your mind out of the gutter. I was honored to have my Occupy Wall Street dispatch featured on Andrew Sullivan's blog on the Daily Beast, which you can check out right...
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by Adam | Saturday 24 September 2011
I've got a few new things to share up on Tablet's website. First things first, my very first (and probably last) podcast is up. In it, I interview Nathan Thrall who is the Middle East analyst for the International Crisis...
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by Adam | Sunday 18 September 2011
Wrote a profile of TFR friend Jeffrey Yosokowitz, a kosher kid who started a site called Pork Memoirs. Check it out here: Though drawn heavily from Jewish themes and settings, the stories are not all tales of rebellion against a...
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by Adam | Friday 26 August 2011
Here's my first feature for Tablet on those curious three Jewish cemeteries in downtown Manhattan. Check it out here, it's been leading story on the site all day. Of Shearith Israel’s three historic cemeteries, it’s the third that is the...
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by Adam | Thursday 25 August 2011
I started a new gig at Tablet Magazine, which does great work. My first piece for them is a little newsy thing for the blog. You'll never guess what it's about. (If you guessed Middle Eastern strife, you are correct.)...
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by Adam | Sunday 31 July 2011
On a serious note, today's New York Times front page article about two star-crossed teenage lovers in Afghanistan has to be one of the most insane and heart-breaking things I've read in a while. You should read it too. On...
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by Adam | Friday 29 July 2011
Extraordinarily honored to have an op-ed running in Haaretz today. It's currently trending on the front page. Check it out! For the many whose priorities have shifted away from Israel, now is the time to focus on specific issues. The...
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by Adam | Friday 22 July 2011
of Canada honored me recently, by reprinting my latest gem in the Huffington Post in their paper and on their website this week. Check it out if you haven't read it. If you have read it, then thank you....
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by Adam | Friday 18 February 2011
Author's Note: The first half of this is for people who don't use Twitter; the second half is for everyone. Perhaps because I've been so resistant to Twitter that when a friend recently implored to me to see it for...
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by Adam | Monday 3 January 2011
In the spirit of shameless self-promotion, I went to the veritable fountainhead of self-promotion for artists everywhere, my Jewish mother, and had her pick her top ten favorite articles from 2010. Of course, they all ended up being written by...
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by Adam | Friday 3 December 2010
I was fortunate enough to witness last week's Texans/Titans game in person and wrote this little piece about the non-suspension of Houston Texans receiver Andre Johnson following his beat down of Titans provocateur Cortland Finnegan. When helmets come off and...
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by Adam | Friday 19 November 2010
Here is something I wrote for the Huffington Post in the haze following my trip to Oregon. It was composed in a fever dream and the sentiment died upon awakening. ENJOY! Thus, if offered the chance to finally dispel the...
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by Adam | Wednesday 27 October 2010
There is nothing happening in my life outside of The Huffington Post. Here is my latest piece. It's about Iran and the WikiLeaks scandal. Enjoy it! Few in the liberal HuffPo readership did. :o)...
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by Adam | Wednesday 20 October 2010
My most recent on the HuffPo. I promise my life exists outside of the Huffington Post as well. I'll tell you all about it soon!...
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by Adam | Sunday 10 October 2010
Dear TFR Readers: I've started my new life as a Huffington Post blogger. Do check out my first piece here. Comment, repost, mention how handsome my headshot is. All traffic helps. Fear not, I will continue to flood this site...
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by Adam | Monday 27 September 2010
I was pleased to find, among the spam-laden bots that leave ads all over my well-kempt site, that Christina Hendricks (of Mad Men fame) is now a reader of TFR. She left a comment on a post written in...
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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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