- If the Challah Doesn't Fit...Poor Yosef Baron, manager of Cheskel's Shawarma King in Borough Park NYC. Well, seems he sent a non-Jewish employee out for more Kosher chicken weiners and the worker came back with the wrong kind. As in totally NOT Kosher. A long time patron noticed that his frank was too big to fit the challah bun and called Mr. Baron on it. A melee ensued and Mr. Baron ended up being punched in the face, spat on and fending off the ensuing irate crowd with an electric carving knife. The local volunteer crime patrol (sorry, here they're called "vigilantes") showed up and restored a semblance of order to the situation, "however the ultra-Orthodox community continued to boil over the roasted weenies, with talk of protests lingering all week."
(Probably not kosher either)
This is what happens when people live in a bubble. They've nothing better to do than sweat the small stuff and hold ridiculous grudges. They wouldn't know what to do without a feud of some sort; insular communities thrive on them. I understand the importance and significance of Kosher but it was a mistake. It happens. There are bigger problems in the world and the reaction of these people was disproportionate, inappropriate and downright appalling.
- Students of Sutton Grammar School in the UK spelled out "cock" with bricks on the school's roof and it was picked up by satellite photograph in a Google Earth image. Nice. You can't see toilet-papering from space. I have no worries about the resourcefulness of today's youth. Fresh, ballsy pranks are an integral part of human society: people can't cram into phonebooths or run underwear up flagpoles forever can they?
- Facial reconstruction of a Central-European woman from the Last Ice Age (the maximum extent of that glaciation was about 18,000 years ago) and; a reconstruction of a 5,000 year-old man from Verona Italy. Is it just me or are people gettig uglier? When did European teeth start going so wonky? Seriously, overbites galore: much of Western Europe could eat a cob of corn through a picket fence.
- Cinematical is all cranky about the American Film Institute giving Michael Douglas a Lifetime Achievement Award. Well, "Falling Down" was good and so was "Fatal Attraction" but as far as Douglas advancing film art overall, uh, no - I agree with Cinematical's assessment. He's old, he could keel anytime, his father was the over-actor Kirk Douglas, and he bangs Catherine Zeta Jones. At least the AFI would be keeping it real by giving him the award on that basis. If anybody should be giving Michael Douglas an award, it should be the makers of Viagra. Also, I'm thinking he and Martin Sheen see the same plastic surgeon and hair-plug guy.
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