Chillin’ with My Homies

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I’m in my home eating BBQ chicken wings with my grandkids.

Grilled chicken wings tasting ever so sweet and spicy.

Grilled chicken wings smelling of honey and brown sugar.

Grilled juicy chicken wings melting in my mouth.

All of my fingers are smothered in barbeque.

And I can’t wait to lick off the sauce.

I know, I’m not much of an example for the grandchildren.

But these wings are “finger-licking-good.”

Then I look into Juliette’s  eyes and ask, “Are you ready to sing?”

She giggles and we jump into the song:

Chicken wings, chicken wings

Hot dog and baloney

Chicken and macaroni

Chillin’ wit mah homiiieees.

The whole table bursts out laughing.

And I taste a moment of normalcy.

A life filled with hot dogs and baloney

And chicken and macaroni.

A Kodak moment in a cell-phone age.

A hopeful moment when vaccines are being produced with a 90% effective rate.

A moment of sanity when a new man and a new woman get ready to move into the White House.

A new moment—when a bright yellow light can be seen at the end of the tunnel.

A tunnel that had been dark for oh-so long.

The light warms the dining room.

And I realize how much I missed chillin’ with my homies.

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November 26, 2020

Suicide by Covid

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I walked into the bagel bar, masked, socially distanced and ready to pay and get the hell out.

Glancing around, I observed about 15 noshers seated in the small dining room.

Most, if not all, of the patrons wore no masks.

Disturbing!

But then out of the corner of my eye, I spotted four bald landsmenall in their mid-70s, maskless and sitting right in the middle of the restaurant.

Sitting as casually, as if they had recently arrived from Planet X.

Four shiny headed, thin-skinned Jewish men schmoozing, sipping and munching.

I thought, “Those four round patches of naked skin atop their heads should be covered with embroidered blue and white starred kipas reading:

“Spread the Love—Wear a Mask.”

But these alte kakers were not allowing this invisible virus from stopping their enjoyment of a maskless indoor breakfast.

They acted as if they had been recently vaccinated.

I pictured them dipping their toes, bellies and heads in the cold waters of Lake Covid.

While singing, “Macho, macho man, I’ve got to be, a macho man.”

And I watched as these virile men tried to attract 50-year-old women with their maskless smiles.

But I was reminded of the tough guys in hospital beds, crying and dying on my TV.

“I thought it was a hoax.”

“I thought it was fake news.”

“I implore all you viewers, please wear a mask. Please socially distance. Please wash your hands. For G-d’s sake give a crap about your loved ones. The numbers aren’t lying.”

My eyes focused on these gentle old men, while my brain rattled off a bunch of questions:

Don’t you realize that we are now entering the belly of the Corona beast?

Did you just venture out of the group home for a breakfast experience?

Are your lives so sad that you came here find death on the menu?

Have you lost your zest for life?

Are you mentally ill, selfish scoundrels, intentionally seeking to get infected?

Do you have early stage Alzheimer’s?

And then it hit me.

They’re committing suicide by Covid?

Oh, how sad!

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November 12, 2020

How Borat Won The Election for Biden

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Breaking News — Fox News has just learned how the movie “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” swung the election in favor of President-elect Joseph Biden.

We have interviewed a former Cambridge Analytics computer expert to explain the methodology she used in swaying the voters in this modern-day election. Due to privacy and security concerns, this expert has requested and we have granted her anonymity. Therefore, her voice has been modified and her face obscured.

Reporter: Please describe for our viewers, how you determined that Donald Trump would lose the presidential election due to this ‘Borat 2’ movie.

Expert: Well, it’s a long process. So for your viewers, I’m going to start in the very beginning. First we determined what States in 2020 would be the “Swing States.”

Reporter: Well you didn’t need a computer to compile that list—did you?

Expert: You’re right. But then we compiled a list of all undecided voters or voters leaning in the direction of Joe Biden or leaning away from Trump in those swing states. Using their Snapchat, FaceBook, TikTok and Instagram pages, we collected over 5,000 behavioral points on each of those so-called “undecideds” in our effort determine what would persuade them to commit to Biden.

Reporter: I bet there were a whole lot of young first-time voters on that list.

Expert: Yes sir. You’re right about that.

Reporter: Well, so far that’s a lot of work you’ve done. Did you get properly compensated for this job?

Expert: Yes sir. We are one of the best global election management agencies. We’re handsomely compensated for our work. There aren’t many people smart enough to create the algorithms needed for this type of project. But please allow me to come to the point where we really earn our pay. We had to plant something in the minds of those swing voters that would be so outrageous that it would stop them for voting for Trump.

Reporter: So what did you do?

Expert: With our 5,000 behavioral points of light, we determined that if President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, could be caught on film, laying on a hotel bed, putting his hands down his pants in front of a beautiful young blonde that, that image alone would be so repulsive to these undetermined voters that they would vote Biden.

We also knew that Rudy would lie and say, “I always tuck in my shirt while lying in a prone position in a hotel bed talking to a hot blonde.”

What surprised us is that he didn’t say, he was looking for Hunter Biden’s laptop down there.

So of course we flooded the undetermineds internet pages with “Borat” commercials to make sure they’d watch the movie when it came out.

But getting Sasha Baron Cohen to unwittingly incorporate such a scene in his film also took some hard work on our part. Sasha is a pretty smart guy. But we convinced him.

But when Cohen released the film before the election, with the Giuliani scene in it, we knew our work was done. We knew Biden had the election in the bag. Hard work pays off.

Reporter: Aren’t you fearful what the President may do to Rudy after he learns that Rudy cost him the election?

Expert: Well there is an old saying in Kazakhstan, “When you sleep with big dogs you can expect to get  a whole bunch of fleas.”

Reporter: That reminds me of a New York City mob saying, “When you play in the big leagues you better be ready to swim with the fishes.”

Comments: Thumbs up.—Joan, Jonathan, Norman, and Bill

Fascinating—Rita

Thumbs up.—Eric

Hi, Mort, interesting. Still have to wait till Joe moves in and we pray for Ga to turn the Senate.—Joe

Joe, I totally agree. Mort

Ha-ha.—Aimee

Thumbs up.—Perry and Aimee

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November 9, 2020