MORNING UPDATE, November 18, 2012

Good Morning, peeps! Happy Sunday! The weather is very nice for a November day in New York - yay! One of my many prayers for the day - protect us from holy idiots! My main prayers remain with the Holy Land and our country. My yummy niece was just singing Adon Olam to me over the phone (with Israeli accent, no less). Benny's old roomie was visiting yesterday; her new project - Russian Jews and the way they arrange their living space. So, yours truly was photographed next to her cassette decks and her Barbie collection - despite the repeated disclaimers that the vast majority of Russian Jews do not share my passions. 

Channing Tatum is trending at #2 right now, because he is facing the backlash over being the sexiest man according to People - my heart bleeds borsch for him and for the disappointed audiences on both sides. Then there are seven signs of great bosses - where was that list 11 years ago? My old bosses at OU, who thought is was OK to emotionally abuse us after 9/11, would have benefited from it. Good Housekeeping magazine was testing 22 olive oils before pronouncing the winner - I could have saved them the time: the winner is the one with the lowest price tag! Martin Scorsese is trending at #8 because of his 70th Birthday - happy Birthday! There is also a video showing how to make "yummy veggie burgers" - but as the guys showing the process look very much like a homosexual couple, I am skipping it - or I won't have an appetite for any kind of burgers for a while. 

Coffee this morning in my Chanukah mug that Debbie gave me a while back.