We didn’t solve the problems of the Middle East at lunch today, but we had a good talk about our feelings regarding Israel, being Jewish, not being Jewish, and several other things — none of them being my possible upcoming oboe piece. I brought my oboe to the Contemporary Jewish Museum today, and even a … Read more
We’ll find out, as I’ll be doing my show Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews? at the 142 Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley on Aug. 6 and 7. Not sure whether the high-school-aged daughter of the owners will home-bake chocolate-chip cookies for concessions, as happened the last time I was there. That was a few … Read more
I’m honored to have a humor piece in the current issue of the great Tikkun magazine! In a caring universe, this will turn out to be the first of a series; at least, such is the plan. This one purportedly presents excerpts from the diary of a man who has been haunted for most of … Read more
Another brainchild from my pal Dan Schifrin at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco: starting on Monday, July 12, I will be meeting all comers at the CJM’s café and … well, chatting over lunch! If these things had been scheduled for Tuesdays, I’d been hoping for the title “Tuesdays with Joshie” — but … Read more