okay kiddies just a few things
first of all
ptown is still fabu
had a great dinner with my old pal Lizita
and walked the town
watched her documentary
which was quite amazing especially being shown on a laptop computer
man
i am so behind technologically its frightening
but id like to take a break from ptown for a moment
and talk about a true rebel
with a cause
you will note that i have added the hasidic rebel to my list of links
long long overdue sorry rebel
im as i said technologically retarded
ive talked about the rebel before but i really must
talk again because as far as im concerned if you looked up
Brave in the dictionary
you would read "see the hasidic rebel"
if you looked up idiot you would read "see the jerks who are bashing him"
the rebel is a chasid, a lifer born and raised into ultra orthodox chasidim
in his community were it to become know that he watched
regular movies in the regular world
he would be ostracized by his peers
shame would fall on him and his family
where it to become known that he wrote a web site
telling the world what it was like under the protective
black veil of chasidus
he might come to bodily harm
or worse
yet he does plow on
he writes
and he does not write with anger
so much as love
and faith in his heart
its amazing to read what he has to say
because here is a man who grew up as cut off from the outside world
as someone on a desserted island
and here we are
as cut off from his inner world
as he is from ours
until now
and yet he reaches out
to teach us
to share his pain
to let us know what it feels like to spend a life
in the black coat
not believing or accepting everything around you
having lived amongst the chasids
read "Kingston Avenue" over in memoirable
if you havent already
i know all about the wonder and joy
and also the hypocracy and cruelty that can be found here
there is good and bad in all people
even amongst my own
recently "The Village Voice" discovered the rebel
and although this did of course bring tons of traffic his way
they have also brought the hate mail
the death threats
the curses
the calling him a traitor to jews
the whole shebang
well im here to say
that i am a jew
and i have lived amongst the ultra orthodox
and half my family is ultra orthodox
and i do not see the rebel a a traitor
but as a hero
he has made me feel more understanding of the chasidum
and helped me to find some love in my heart for the same people
who treated me so terribly in my formative years
read him
he really is a mensch (hmm not sure if i spelled that right)
oyyy
meanwhile back to provincetown
i just i picked up a copy
of "The Secret Life of Bees"
oh my god that book is amazing
i can not put it down
which is why
while lying on my stomach on the beach
reading the bees book
i got so engrossed
i burnt the $#%^& out of my back
ouch
i know skin watch
guardians
that was my bad
as buffy would have said
ah well
today
its loose cotton
and the shade
and now back to your regularly scheduled program
