Gotta hand it to my former Yeshiva buddy, avid commenter, fellow Floridian Yid Blogger and friend Chazarmaveth, who just had a baby girl!! Well, his wife did-- he just kvelled. Check out her first appearance in cyberspace. Then check out her second. I'll tell you what friends, having a baby gets blog comments a lot quicker than whining about not getting comments. So in that spirit, I am heading to Tel Aviv for some disco action.
So, just in case some folks (like someone whose initials are D.CDB) think that Chazarmaveth is just some other random dude on-line with whom I trade geeky and insider-elitist backscratches, here's the scoop:
1992. When I first got to BU, Mike Walsh (a/k/a DJ Mike Walsh) somehow got me emailing with his pal Jerry (a/k/a "Choad"). I had no idea who this guy was, but we had a bit of a correspondence, trading off-color jokes and information about Wookiees.
1999. Sevenish years later, when I was here, at the Bat Ayin Yeshiva, I met, among others, this wacky character named Jerry Silverman. So what.
That spring, a pack of us Yeshiva guys took a bike trip from Israel's far north, the Hermon, to the southern tip, Eilat. We were a convoy of bearded gents with kippot and tzitzit, cruising the Holy Land. Somewhere in the middle of the desert, Jerry and I were shmoozing, and, piece by piece, figured out- yes, he went to University of Florida; yes, he knew Mike Walsh; yes, HE WAS THE GUY WITH WHOM I HAD BEEN EMAILING.
Wacky.
2003- .So now, Jerry and his wife Sarah live in New York, in Riverdale (the Bronx). And we have hung out a few times over the past two years. He's got a blog, I've got a blog. It started on line, and now it's still on line, but in the middle, we are cuddly, squishy, real-time friends.
Mazal Tov, Jerry and Sarah, on your beautiful first child!!!
I was kidding about Tel Aviv. As Goethe famously said: Ich kann nicht disko.
4 comments:
This blog is very impressive - charming, warm and descriptive, but in my humble opinion, it needs more references to the "Erik" character whom you introduced early on in the series. What's he all about? He seems utterly fascinating, and, yet, he disappears after the first blog.
Also, does anyone else have a strange vision disorder occur to them when reading a webpage with a dark background on a cathode ray tube monitor? Or, is this yet another phenomenon which I'm doomed to suffer without misery's company?
The photographs of the people sitting on a colorful sheet on the grass, as though they might be at a picnic, have a nice, hippy commune vibe to them.
I may as well mention here that a certain someone is going to be giving guitar lessons begining this week (provided they're not all cancelled, as happened last week).
Unfortunately, the "Erik" character has not recently appeared in this blog or elsewhere on-line due to some contract disputes and other casting issues.
There are rumors that the "Erik" character will be featured in a new direct-to-video comdey series called Perdito en Nueva York, to be released this fall.
There are other rumors that the "Erik" character has been seen stalking Jason and Sara's apartment, waiting eagerly to play Star Wars Trivia. More on that later.
And congrats, "anonymous," on the guitar lesson gig. Next time post a phone number and maybe Dr. Blinderman will hire you.
Nice on the Jerry timeline. Will there be a future post on the "the missing years" of 1992-1999 and 1999-2003?
The second span, 1999-2003, often known as the "gettin' some" years to Jerryologists, comprise his courtship, marriage and domestication. The earlier span, 1992-1999, involve events, people and lifestyle choices too sordid to detail.
Love yer work, Mica
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