just came back from the book store and really honestly I really really miss Davka

The intention was to just go in, buy the new ready made and be done. Give me something to read and think about doing project wise for the long weekend. I was walking amoungst the racks and saw that the new issue of Heeb has been released. Wow. Issue 5. Pardon the sarcasm and honestly while I feel like I can relate to their mission of provididng a magazine that is Jewish Centric with a little twist of modernity... I feel sad that Davka never made it.

Sure David Cross kvetching about some bands that no one really cares about other than the teeeeeensie tiny label that has put them out could have been really great (but he has done it so many times before I think he could do so much better) and Sarah Silverman going where she shouldn't in print (seriously I could give a rats ass if she is enjoying her porn or not... no one really thinks it funny, do they?) could be considered risky.

But shit Davka interviewed and profiled Annie Sprinkle and Al Goldstein during one of his many incarcerations for his misdeeds. Davka went below the surface. There were peices on Yiddish film and radio (if I remember correctly) Kabbalah before Madonna and Demi Moore got their hands on it... Israeli Hip Hop... Davka did a peice on religous tattoos that harkened back to the bc era... published Leonary Nimoy's pictures of women in tefilin (before anyone)... hell they even had Kathy Acker contributing before she passed away (I doubt Heeb could handle that, David Cross and Sarah Silverman just too mainstream honestly)... Heeb is just not that original. And its a shame. I am waiting for the Heeb cover with the Beastie Boys on it, it is going to happen.... I like their effort though. But wake up and realize that there are many more interesting people of Jewish faith and culture besides David Cross and Sarah Silverman and people in New York.

Maybe I am a generation to old for the magazine I think. Apparantly their mission is to reach the hipster 20 something person with Jewish faith and or background.

Where is my Jewish magazine? Huh? Alan Kaufman? Can't you make the magic happen again for a modern 30 something reader? I don't particularly care for what is out there now.... I will find people to fund it, promise... bring it back... puhleeeeeze. Or help me.

Maybe this is what I should do with my weekend. Its going to come back around. It has to I can't be the lone moderned up Jewish person on the planet that doesn't think a tattoo is a shanda, women can't be on top, reading the torah is a right, kosher isn't manditory, friday nights are alright for gallery hopping.

Oy. I could go on. I should have known that this was going to happen. It does every time I pick the magazine up... ok for the fifth time since it first came out. I should just be grateful that there are only five of these issues out there in the world. I really like the effort I just think that it is completely and utterly short sighted.

::jumping completely off my soapbox::