WHOLE LOTTA BUBKES!
WHOLE LOTTA BUBKES!
To paraphrase and fracture the old Jerry Lee Lewis song (and
sorta/kinda a Led Zeppelin one, also) . . . There's a
whole lotta bubkes going on.
My friend Steve Lewis, living the expatriot life in Sofia, Bulgaria, has posted anew to his long dormant blog.
Steve is quite the savant, has a great sense of humor, and a voice that
should get him narration and TV voice-over work for the rest of his
life. And that's no bubkes.
He and I are also thinking of publishing a series of podcasts,
whereupon we would jointly do commentary, essay, politics, and most of
all, comedy. We share a mutual sense of mordant New York-inspired
humor, and have a bunch of stories that tend to converge, yet remain
independent. As converged or integrated stories, we weave some
hysterical tales. From time to time we have e-mail exchanges that
are too funny to read during the workday.
An admission: I was on a very serious call with an
associate. The associate, a lovely person, but one given to often
being rather a droning bore, was pontificating over some minutia, and I
knew it was going to take a while.
So be it, life goes on.
After about three minutes of this drone I was fearful of falling
asleep. It never being wise to snore in the ear of one's
associates, I thought I'd better do something to stay awake,
alert. I decided to quietly check and see if any e-mail had
come in since the associate began his droning rant. This is the
sort of thing one can do silently, without offending the person on the
other end of the phone line.
So there was a post from Steve, in response to something I'd
sent. Oops, what a mistake I had made. Steve's e-mail was
so drop-dead funny, so side-splittingly hysterical, that I burst out
laughing. I almost fell off my desk chair. It truly was, as
they say (whomever "they" may be), a scream.
The humor, however, was lost on my associate, who thought I was amused by the subject matter of their lengthy drone.
Honesty being the best policy, I explained what had happened, and told
the associate that it was all in-jokes and that I couldn't forward it
on. Both good taste and matters of confidentialty, I explained,
kept me from sending it.
Now this new post from Steve isn't going to send you reeling off your
seat in a fit of giggles. But anything Steve posts is well worth
a few moments of your time to read. Check it out!
And think of it this way: how often does someone tell you of some good Bubkes that will enhance a moment of your time?
