So on March 10th- which I think was sometime last week.... right? I participated in this event called "Heeb Storytelling". It was a spoken word kind of event- consisting of a bunch of people that Heeb magazine selected to tell funny Jewish anecdotes. I love Heeb- if you don't know what it is, it is a comedic Jewish magazine.... it embraces and pokes fun at Jews, which you can appreciate if you are Jewish or not. Almost six years ago, Heeb did a "top 100 Jews" article, and put me in there.... AND they put me on the cover for that issue. It was the first magazine I was ever on the cover of.
I never told you guys this story- but originally that cover was supposed to be me and Triumph- the insult dog. It was supposed to be me on a pole on a stage, and Triumph handing me a dollar bill. When I was first informed I was going to be on the cover- I was so excited. I generally run late to everything, but I showed up like a solid 7 minutes early to this shoot. I got there, I got my makeup done, and then um... sat around for about 4 hours getting to know the members of the Heeb staff. They were about to just call it off and reschedule the shoot- and just as I was packing my bag to leave.... the whole Triumph enter age showed up. The dog was in a suit-case, the guy who puppeteer ed the dog carried the suitcase, along with a manager, a publicist, a stylist, and an agent. Triumph and his crew didn't know about the nature of the shoot until they got there- and they were PISSED. The crew kinda huddled, and then they all left. I don't know if he... wait...is a puppet dog a "he"? I don't even know...um, I repeat... I don't know if it was offended that it would have it share it's spotlight with someone else, or if the insult dog doesn't like porn, but whatever it was, it just wasn't happening. So instead, it became a magazine cover with only me, snorting horse-radish. Josh Neuman (the editor of Heeb) told me that to this day, Triumph and his crew has not forgiven him.... and won't let Heeb write about the him- or it or whatever.... at all.
That was a long time ago.... it was pretty silly.
But anyways, I had a really great time being part of this event. It helped me get in touch with my dorky Jewish side more. Someone from the event filmed it and put it on Youtube.... so I thought I would share it with you guys. They inter-cut it with funny dirty pictures of me.... it was very clever. Anyways, here it is.
