Thank you for the support, and right back at you. I am sorry your dad has such a bigoted attitude, ignorance can run deep. Two things from me to you: First: you have a great attitude, your dad is absolutely the one missing out. How is other family reacting? I hope no one is siding with him. In my case, my daughter’s…

It would be genuinely awful to believe that, I agree, and religion can screw people up that way. My college roommate’s mom told me with such sincerity “my mother and I are such wonderful people, she truly hates the thought of us burning in hell.” But I never know how much is that and how much is just not wanting her…

Yeah it’s quite a mystery why so many of us have cynical outlooks and dark senses of humor; the 80's were somehow both really dark and really neon

It was only hinted? It’s been so long, I thought I remembered that it was clear that it was due to electroshock therapy. It was the original Suckerpunch!

Thanks for that, I couldn’t imagine I was alone, and terrified is exactly the word, but it’s nice to know for sure there are others out there. That was a messed up movie to aim at kids. They needed to leave all dark children’s movies to Jim Henson

What a day, I need a drink. Anyway, we’ve been married a decade this year. The religion thing is hard because they teach members it’s their job to bring lost sheep back to the flock. She just refuses to acknowledge that my daughter actually cares about being Jewish, which hurt my daughter On her Bat Mitzvah. I don’t…

So I’m not alone? Awesome. My mom loves Wizard of Oz and was so excited to take me to see it, and then the horrors began. We had heard it was a little dark, but I loved Dark Crystal so I thought I knew what I was in for. I was wrong.

You were already petrified of aliens beforehand? That was a bad idea then, did they think since it was a comedy it would help get you over it? How scared are you, like can you handle wacky alien material or still no? I think a lot of us had movies that terrified us that maybe shouldn’t but because of how young we were…

Thanks, I always appreciate a good mazel tov. The dislike comes from the fact I’m not a member of her church and that she thinks I forced her daughter to convert (like it was a shotgun conversion, I just want to tell her it’s not the easiest thing to convert to Judaism, it takes real showing of commitment). She used…

I’m with you. I’m spending a day with a mother in law who 60% hates me (it’s down from 100%, yay incremental progress!) and was hoping for a bitchy article that expressed the thoughts I’m forced to internalize.

Such a fun movie

Rock hard jokes are the low hanging fruit on that one

That’s interesting, I was also raised Conservative (which always amused me because we’re talking some of the most liberal people you’ll ever meet) and Tikkun Olam was a focal point, but the shul was really socially active (interfaith work, LGBT support) which may have explained that. Kabbalah is funny to me because to…

My wife got that same book on amazon and began laughing hysterically because while scrolling through the golem-related options looking for it there was a sexybook about a golem. That led to about a month of golem sex jokes, like I’d pour a nice glass of wine and turn on some music, and then when she thought I was…

Starred just for knowing I meant tikkun olam when I said repairing the world (and because it seems one of my favorite commenters is a member of the tribe). I was very much raised with the concept, it’s why I do what I do professionally, although I guess if young me had been pulled aside by a mysterious Rabbi and told…

I guess I am just happy that someone with no personal Jewish ties (don’t even know how she met one, spending so much time in the film and record industries as she did) can look at my culture and faith and look past our the core beliefs in community and repairing the world and cut to the real heart of the matter, the…

I believe the ceremony consists of first telling her the story of the Gollum, and then an intensive process where they tie a string around her wrist, followed by wine. All of which is proceeded by putting on ancient robes and her writing a check. Mazel tov, you’re Kabbalah now sucker...no...sucker is ancient Hebrew…

This campaign has made me appreciative of my extended family, Democrats all. When I call my grandma and it starts to get...difficult, I just change the conversation to the election and she transforms from sounding weak to getting lively. At 95 she is still volunteering for Clinton and cursing “that weasel-faced shit!”…

I hear the storm troopers Republicans would send to the homes of everyone even vaguely Hispanic are going to be super-friendly, of course it’s the Republican definition of super-friendly, which I think is comprised of a racial epithet and a joke about yo mama

Would you be willing to change the spelling of your last name to Katz? That will help