PORTLANDIA

As you may or may not know there is a current TV series on the IFC Network called PORTLANDIA. What the series does, and does very well, is to satirize the city of Portland Oregon. The funniest thing is that the city does a much better job of unintentionally satirizing itself more than the TV show does. For example the city is currently holding honest-to-goodness real live hearings as to whether or not it should join a Federal Government sponsored ant-terrorist network. The city "leaders" and the population are seriously trying to decide whether it is better to not join and have as many terrorist acts in the city as possible, or join and have to deal with reality. That ladies and gentlemen is Portland's real dilemma should it grow-up and act like an adult or should it just live in the made-up world of fairy tales and hob-goblins?

Club Mordecai

Since the Jewish holiday of Purim is coming up, it occurred to me that Jews are always trying to make this into a "happy" holiday, maybe they should start a Club Mordecai Comedy Club. The Club Mordecai would fulfill two purposes, it would give Jews and Non-Jews a place to laugh at and with each other, and it would give guilt-ridden Jews a place to expunge their religious demons in public. Actually the first stand-up should be Woody Allen, notoriously ambivalent about his Judaism, he could do at least two or three hours of one-liners about how his non-stop psychiatric analysis could have been prevented had he just be given the opportunity to tell one-liners at his Bar Mitzvah instead of having to read the Torah.