Tom Delays Hates Creativity

Hey, you! You know, that novel you’ve been working on for years? That beautiful work of art you threw your blood, sweat, and tears into? That business you built with your BARE HANDS? Continue reading

Zach Braff Plugs YU For Some Reason

Have you seen this? It is a video of Zach Braff doing an ad for YU. It is very odd. How did this happen? Why is this here? Is there a God or the universe as random and capricious as we thought it was?

Not satisfied with “because Internet,” Tablet did some digging:

Yeshiva University hasn’t taken credit for it, but it looks like they or one of their supporters contributed $500 to the Kickstarter campaign for Braff’s upcoming movie. The prize offered by the actor for such a generous donation? “I’ll say or do pretty much whatever you want for twenty seconds. I will send you the mpeg file so you can upload to YouTube, play at parties, or send to friends. I will be your dancing monkey.” Or in this case, mascot.

Episode 18 Live!

omgfeb20-1OMGWTFBIBLE is live on February 20!

This month, Ari Mandel (aka Rachmuna Litzlon) will join me as we read about Yehudah’s sexual misadventures in Timna and Yoseph’s sexual misadventures in Egypt.

OMGWTFBIBLE Episode 18 Live
A Gathering of the Tribes
285 E. 3rd Street, 2nd Floor
February 20, 8PM
$PAY if you want to

New York Not So Into the Bible

The American Bible Society has put together a list of the most and least “Bible-Minded” cities in the country. Topping the list is Chattanooga, Tennessee. The study also found that the Bible isn’t so well-loved in bigger cities. Only three of the top 25 Bible-loving areas encompassed more than a million households.

What about New York, where OMGWTFBIBLE happens? That’s all the way down at 89, only slightly more into the Bible than hedonistic Las Vegas. But you wouldn’t know it from seeing OMGWTFBIBLE live!

<h/t: Andrew Sullivan>

OMGWTFBIBLE Episode 17

Behold! Episode 17 of OMGWTFBIBLE with guest Matthue Roth is now available!!

This episode was recorded at the Stanton Street Shul.

There are so many ways to listen to Episode 17!

You can listen using the video above or here.

YouTube link is here.

You can also: subscribe in iTunes, subscribe via RSS, or listen via Stitcher!

Episode 17 Live!

omgblehblehblehblehOMGWTFBIBLE is live on January 22!

This month, Matthue Roth will join me as we read the original version of that whole Joseph story.

OMGWTFBIBLE Episode 17 Live
Stanton Street Shul
180 Stanton Street
January 22, 8PM
FREE! FREE DRINKS!

Join the Church of Yeezus

Took long enough.

There is now, and has been for a whole month, a religion founded in order to worship our Lord and Savior, the one True Deliverer, his Worshipfulness, Yeezus West. For real. Yeezianity exists and you can join it simply by believing the five precepts:

1. All things created must be for the good of all
2. No human being’s right to express themselves must ever be repressed
3. Money is unnecessary except as a means of exchange
4. Man possesses the power to create everything he wants and needs
5. All human suffering exists to stimulate the creative powers of Man

Oh, and you gotta believe “that the one who calls himself Yeezus is a divine being who has been sent by God to usher in a New Age of humanity.”

Ok! Read more about Yeezianity in an interview with its anonymous creator here. Or check out the religion’s website. But don’t expect me to profess my faith or not. As the website says:

Our membership is entirely anonymous. We insist that all of our members do not disclose their beliefs to anyone except those they know also to be members. There is no differentiating trait or clothing or behavior that we use to identify ourselves. We could be anyone you know, from your mailman to the mayor of your city. Only a member possesses the ability to identify another member, and all members immediately know every other member once they have entered our Church.