movies, show biz, books, internet, comedy, philosophical discussions; history, religion, politics, etc
Humor -> jokes
Music - all kinds
Big time Howard Stern fan!
Music
all music
Movies
all movies
Best movie - CITIZEN KANE
Television
HBO Series - Deadwood, Sopranos, Rome
Law And order
Boston Legal
The Shield
Nip-Tuck
Howard Stern
About me: Older Toledo, Ohio area man.
Actor and stand up comic, poet, and philosopher
Varied interests.
See my site at http://www.kingsolomon.com
Politically middle of the road with very few prejudices.
Religiously ambivalent !!!
MySpace or YourSpace?
by Rabbi Ramon Widmonte
Facebook and the essence of Passover.
The phenomenon of Facebook, Twitter and MySpace has swept through our world like a (seemingly) benign tornado: uprooting traditional methods of communication and allowing people to connect. As the great Prophet Zuckerberg [1], hallowed be his Blackberry, has taught us, before the Facebook, people were islands unto themselves, but now they can connect and make friends. Amen.
On Facebook, you can make friends by just sending an invitation to someone and then, if they accept, they are your friend. Beautifully simple.
Last I checked I have 734 friends on Facebook. I've broken 700! I've made it socially! Who would have guessed that the bookish yeshiva student would one day be friends with Mosiuoa (a.k.a. 'Terror' [2]) Gerard Patrick Lekota, ex-Defence Minister of South Africa and enfant terrible of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress? But after the initial endorphin-high, product of a now very excited ex-hermit's endocrine system, I simmer down a bit and I think to myself, is 'Terror' really my friend? I could casually drop his name next time I bump into an arms dealer, but is that all there is to it? What does that mean, 'friend'? Yes, he can write on my wall, see my photos and download my videos, but is that friendship?
The Jewish nation began their life as a people in response to this question, "How do you turn a stranger into a friend?" We had been "strangers in the land of Egypt" - we had been "others," "those people," "them" -- and it was not pleasant. So the question of how we relate to some "other" person, some stranger, becomes critical for many reasons but none more important than that it informs how we connect to that Great Other, that Mysterious Stranger Who is so different from us, of whom even the angels ask, "Where is the place of His glory?"
