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December 21, 2004
Tale-spinning:
Bookish Jews get out of control at Joe's Pub
By Jennifer Snow
Don't expect your grandmother's bubbe mayseh at
the latest installment of "Heeb Storytelling," modeled
after popular tale-spinning event "The Moth," and
sometimes affectionately referred to as "The Shmoth." Here, Heeb magazine's
arts editor Shana Liebman has gathered a deliciously daffy
heeby-dweeby bill of babblers ( Peter Hyman, whose The
Reluctant Metrosexual could be an apt
profile of most boys my mishpocheh's tried to set me up with ;
Michael Portnoy, whose stunts and short stories rival any
I've heard on said dates), tunesters (One Ring Zero, for
whose literarily klezmical carnivalcade and smarty-pants
patter I've already professed my love; Jill Sobule, whose
songs really are neat, sweet little stories unto themselves),
and jokesters (Bex Schwartz, VH1's second-sexiest token Jewish
girl/quip provider; SNL scribes Slovin & Allen—who's
gonna argue with two-for-the-price-of-one?; The Daily
Show 's Eric Drysdale—of whom, obviously, the left-leaning
parents would approve; Becky Donohue, founder of girlcomic.net
and, like those the New York Times article on jdate.com "trespassers" scooped,
one smart shiksa) who would not only please my yenta, uh,
I mean, mom, if I brought them home, but would tickle my
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